Police Subculture

I was assigned to read the article, How Police Justify the Use of Deadly Force were written by William B. Waegel, and the article was published 1984. In the article, Waegel mostly discussed how police would do in danger situations and how they feel when they shoot, and subculture in their workplace. The questions for this assignment—“How does the police officers’ workplace subculture help the police? What factors help create the officers’ workplace subculture?” The answer for the first question—How does the police officers’ workplace subculture help the police?: “The police subculture contains interpretive schemes for addressing the practical problems of when to shoot first, who are the proper recipients of deadly force, and why and under what circumstances suspects deserve to be shot” (Weagel, pg. 341). What the author wrote, I interpreted that the police has to interpret the situation such as when to shoot, who to shoot, who is holding the weapon, and why the suspect has to be shot. I thought it was interesting because I never really thought about that--“Should I shoot the suspect or not…”. I watched a lot of criminal justice T.V. shows such as Law and Order: Special Victim Unit, and Criminal Minds, I often saw that the detective/police have to make
333). What I understood, he was saying that the police have belief and understanding about using the weapons against people. From my own perspective, I think the author was right because the police do have their own beliefs of using weapons against people. Though, the police have been recklessly shooting the citizen when they are afraid. I think they shouldn’t shoot recklessly because what if the suspect was just holding an object, not a weapon or suddenly turn toward to the