juvenile‚ Officer Mark Smith was a victim of a few crimes. When the police were handling the crimes‚ Officer Smith thought that they could have handled things better. It was then that he decided that he might want to become a police officer‚ so he could be a better officer then the ones that he had to deal with. As Officer Smith got older and started really looking into what he wanted to do with his life he weighed his options and realized all the benefits of becoming a police officer. There is job
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Police brutality is a phenomenon that has stood the test of time and it is the culprit to igniting many passionate debates across the United States. The term "police brutality" was in use in the United States as early as 1872‚ when the Chicago Tribune reported on the beating of a civilian under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station (1872)‚ and more recently when the CBS news reported that an officer was caught on video violently taking down a citizen (2017). The police have had an extensive
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My thesis police brutality is a result of structural racism that is cohesively entwined with social conflict theory‚ Laissez Faire racism and institutional racism and consequently stereotyping. In this paper I will discuss the validity and the long term effect of police brutality within the African- American community. Concluding with my hypothesis on a solution that may lessen the chance of police brutality within the African American Community. Police brutality is overstepping the use of force
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James Meyer shot John Busby in the face with a shotgun. John Busby was an honest police officer who had a family. He was working hard for the right reasons. Busby’s life was forever changed by this act of violence. This conflict created a different world for not only John Busby‚ but his entire family. In a quick moment the life of the Busby family was drastically changed. Their world was now full of fear‚ pain and uncertainty about the future. The other significant external conflict is John
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The Food Police by Jayson Lusk In today’s world we witness horrible epidemics and tragedies on a seemingly daily basis. There are groups of people out there‚ groups that Jayson Lusk refers to as the “food police” in his book so aptly titled‚ “The Food Police‚” who choose to focus their energies on creating pseudo-controversies by using false or flawed research and drawing conclusions based on emotion rather than on logic. The food police have managed to influence the thinking of our media
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Montgomery County’s Police Department‚ approximately 95% (94.1) of female officers were affected by killing someone in the line of duty had a 90% (88.2) impact on female officers to her male counterpart at 85% (82.2). The exposure to dead and battered children impacted female officers at almost 80% (82.0) to male officers at almost 70% (73.2). Responding to a felony in progress showed female officers at 70% (73.4) while there was no affect on male officers (Pendergrass et al.‚ 1984). Police stress: history
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would be police officers‚ prosecuting attorneys‚ and judges Police officers have a large amount of discretion. This stage of the crime is the most influential to a case. What a police officer decides to charge an individual for and whether or not they charge them at all can completely affect how a case is carried out. For example‚ let’s say that and individual was going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit and a police officer pulled them over for it. The individual breaking the law was speeding
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Checkpoint: Police Stress External Stress-This stress is produced by real threats or dangers‚ for example: gun runs and auto pursuits. I believe this type of stress would affect an officer’s job by carrying the fear of being injured or killed in the line of duty. This type of stress would possibly affect an officer’s social life and personal life because of the fear the family has to carry with them of their loved one being in danger on a daily basis. In order to manage or reduce these fears an
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road and a police officer pulls up right behind them. Not many of them would say that they feel safe or comfortable with the presence of an officer. They are also very confused why they were just pulled over. This happens way to often in the United States and the group of friends are not alone. Shockingly‚ The United states department of Justice states that officers fail to articulate sufficient justification nearly 75% of stops. We can attribute this one example to something called Police Accountability
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within the last several years‚ where police corruption has been brought into question. Situations like Ferguson‚ Missouri have shown our country that we need to question how those in blue behave when handling different cases. In December of 2015‚ the streaming service Netflix released a ten-part documentary series entitled Making a Murderer. This series follows the story of Steven Avery‚ and what happened in his life after being jailed for eighteen years for a crime he was later found innocent of. The
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