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School Resource Officer (SRO) Ben Fields uses unnecessary force removing a fourteen year old female student from her seat who was “disrupting class by using a mobile device”. Ben Fields approached the student who was unwilling to move, refusing his orders to get up. Then, grabbing her and slamming her backwards onto the ground in front of all her classmates while one recorded the process on their phone.( Townes, C.).…
When conducting his sociological study on police, Westley faced several difficulties getting the police to cooperate. Most of the time the police officers ignored Westley and refused to talk to him, nonetheless sit down to have an interview with him. On one occasion Westley observed a patrol sergeant come into the precinct and spout off delightment with himself stating he had just helped a woman with carrying her packages to her car. Upon further analysis of officers’ field notes, Westley noticed that there were a series of miniature incidents where the officers expressed an excessive amount of pleasure in aiding someone. Westley quickly rationalized that these expressions of pleasure and delightment from police personnel was due to the fact…
A subculture is made up of the symbols, beliefs, values, and attitudes shared by members of a subgroup within a larger society according to our book: Criminal Justice in America 7e. Like a subculture of any professional group, police subculture is defined as a specific set of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors exhibited by those in law enforcement according to study.com. The subculture of the police helps exemplify the “cops world” and roles each officer plays in it. The dynamic of ‘us’ (the police) in contrast to ‘them’ (the public) can create both a positive and negative attitude for the police.…
This article talks about the relationship between passive and active representation for race in police departments. Interviews with police officers reveal that many would agree that police socialization may have a detrimental effect on the integrity of a department. They have found through research that African American police officers struggle with the pressure to be accepted by their community and this affects their ability to work. This article is unique in that they talk about the idea that with the presence of black officers there tends to be an increase in racial…
Jones is an Assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Economics at Virginia State University. Jones in this article reflects on the encounter between a black Arizona State University professor and a Police officer. He explains that it’s better to go home than end up in jail or even in the morgue. In the case of Professor Ore, she was forced to the ground and treated like a hardened criminal and it’s saddening to see that happen to a highly enlightened scholar like Dr. Ore. The story alone grabbed my attention and led me to further research the Professor Ore incident in Arizona State University. In choosing this article as a source I felt saddened about how deep the racial profiling is in America and this story somewhat enlightened me to the true horrors of profiling that take…
Researchers predict that exclusionary security measures are common in school where poor and non-white students attend. The research design used in this study was the nationally representative school - level data. The research method consisted of school surveys on crime and safety. The dependent variables in this study are police officers and the independent variables are racial/ethnic minority and low-income composition of schools. The dependent variable is operationalized is by having police officers in the school full time to make sure the enviornment is safe. The independent variable is operationalized by ethnicity/minority and low income to measure the total number of incidents and behaviors within crime. The population of this study consisted of 2,720 schools within various regions and various school characteristics. Researchers found that while security measures are ubiquitous in United States high schools, that are considered more exclusionary are contracted in elementary,middle, and high schools attended by non-white and poor…
In reading bell hooks' opinion about sexism and misogyny I had to admit to myself that I had no idea what she meant by sexism and misogyny. So, to accurately know what she was referring to, I looked them up on the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. For the word sexism, I found there were two meanings that support hooks' ideas: 1: prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially: discrimination against women and 2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex. The word misogyny, according to Merriam-Webster, is: a hatred of women. With these definitions, I feel that both words with their meanings truly expose what bell hooks is telling us what Americans, and it seems she talks about the black…
Police subculture is one that is questioned with police brutality, use of excessive force in administering order, cover-ups for fellow police officers, corruption, and other unethical issues in the police system. An efficient police system would mean a flawless one, where there is no corruption or any form of misconduct where recruitment and training would all be fair. The police have time and time again been on the frontline for assault against a particular society, such as the black community who continually are being harassed by the law-enforcement. The moment a police officer swears the oath, he also commits himself to serve all of mankind, regardless of age, color, ethnicity, social status, or race.…
The United States government and the police must have a relationship because the laws and how the American criminal justice system is set up and ran. The rights of the people are established by the government and in most cases have to be carried out and enforced by local police. The local police vary from size throughout the United States. As the government set out to make new laws, it is the police who have to make sure that laws are being followed. The police also have a professional obligation to the public and the first component of the Criminal Justice system is the police, and different levels of policing focus on different levels of crime. The United States government has policing on the federal, state, and local level. A local law enforcement agency can run from a huge local police department to a small local police department depending on the number of people living in the community or jurisdiction of that police department. Next, would be policing on the state level, this would be your state troopers. The state police are mostly seen on the highways, but they have other duties that go beyond jus t regulating our highway. Last would be federal police agencies, federal agencies have the responsibility to enforce the laws that are only on the federal level, but unlike state and local police, federal agencies have nationwide jurisdiction. Overall the Government makes the laws for these different police agencies to enforce, the relationship between the government and police seems to be an up and down situation. The police system is not perfect and at times those imperfections in the system show because of this it makes it hard for policing around the United States. Throughout the years because of the corruption and wrong doings in some police agencies for the most part the government has to take a neutral stance in the way they follow up on police misconduct and wrong doing within…
School administrators eager increased security measures, hired a new type of police officer known as "school resource officer," and applied strict zero tolerance policies.…
The School Resource officer program provides the use of trained full-time Police Officers who will work within the educational system. The objectives of the School Recourse Officer Program is to promote and assist schools in providing a safe learning environment which will also improve relationships between law enforcement and the youth of today. The program attempts to promote a better understanding of the Law Enforcement Officers' role in society while educating students, parents, school personnel, and the community on important issues such as gangs, violent crime, drugs, and other related topics. The program also provides a positive role model in the educational system. The Primary focus of this program is directed toward education, rather than enforcement.…
My essay is about what drugs can do to you. Drugs and the people who supply drugs do not care about you and what happens to you as a person. The people who give children drugs are not your friends! Drugs can take a healthy child and change them within a matter of minutes. Drugs can sometimes put you in a hospital never to return home to your family, pets, friends, or school.…
In the United States today, the average citizen is unaware of the corruption that goes on in our Criminal Justice System. Law enforcement and Police Officers are abusing their power. If this goes unnoticed it could grow larger and cause bigger problems in our country. The United States Criminal Justice System is one of the best in the whole world. In other countries there is little or no policing. Police officers in the US are well-trained and it is hard to reach their position without a strong education. A huge quality of a perfect Police Officer is a perfect control of temper because a quiet determined manner has more effect than violent action. But everyone isn’t perfect and there are Police Officers out there that abuse their power and create a dangerous environment for the people around them.…
“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it (Eastwood). Statistics are proving that we need to prevent gun violence and get rid of all access to all guns. In this country, anybody can get a gun, statistics prove gun violence is increasing, we need to prevent gun violence. Banning guns completely will make America safe again. Every day, 306 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention. Every day, 90 people die from gun violence: 31 are murdered. 56 kill themselves (Key Gun Violence Statistics). Private gun ownership should be banned.…