My plans are to attend college and become a law enforcement officer. I am enrolled at Culver-Stockton College to earn a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a minor in Criminal Justice. On completion of my bachelor’s degree‚ I will attend the Police Academy training program. In October of 2016‚ I job shadowed with a Cottleville police officer‚ Sergeant Jon Araujo‚ who gave me valuable insight into the job and encouraged me to pursue a degree in criminal justice as well as business
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The incidence of law enforcement officers contracting HIV/AIDS in the line of duty in the United States is often considered nonexistent‚ but a deeper look at some interplaying factors involved in this assessment points to a different conclusion. In order to gain insight on the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s on law enforcement officers‚ the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveyed every law enforcement agency in the United States about the occurrence and frequency of
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Law Enforcement has not always been in my mind as a career choice. As a child I wanted to be a Fire Fighter like alot of kids do. As I grew and became the man I am today‚ I have learnt something your heart desires one month may not be the same the next. What I lack in education I make up for with life experiences. I had an extremely poor childhood‚ filled with mental and phisical abuse. Though my past is filled with more stories then I could summarize into this essay‚ill do my best. My father abandoned
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ended any challenge or barriers that women have had to face based on their gender rights. Although women are supposed to be treated equal; they still our nowhere near their male counterparts. Women in law enforcement still face multiply challenges in the workforce. Not too many years ago‚ it was considered unusual to be a policewoman. Not only did women comprise a very small percentage of total officers‚ but their relative newness in the job meant that women were concentrated in the lower-ranking
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The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics on the IACP web page serves the same purpose as the comparable code of ethics for many other public servant agencies. Chiefly and principally I believe they are a set of values that are not just the stated policy of conduct expected of law enforcement officials. They are a set of values that the officers who swear their allegiance to not only abide by but should believe in out of respect for their predecessors as well as their profession. The main points I drew
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Corrupt‚ disrespectful‚ unethical‚ and criminal - these are just a few words society uses to describe law enforcement‚ but is society right? After the incident in Ferguson‚ Mo. the media has sparked more controversial outlooks upon law enforcement. Eliott C. McLaughlin from CNN states‚ “The headlines make it feel as if the country is experiencing an unprecedented wave of police violence‚ but experts say that isn’t the case. We’re just seeing more mainstream media coverage‚ and for a variety of reasons
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Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Response Throughout policing history women and minorities have gone through so many changes as they tried to become law enforcers. In the beginning‚ when women and minorities were allowed to become police officers they would be hired but given lighter duties or assigned to lower crime areas. They weren’t given much opportunity to go out and experience first hand how everything was on the streets since the majority of law enforcers back then were males. They
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Over the past several years law enforcement has been under the gun more than ever. Post Ferguson has awakened many agencies across the nation because the last thing that an agency needs is another action like Ferguson to occur again. For most of our society they believe police is one of the most corrupted occupations. With law enforcement trusted by just only half of the public‚ so it can be difficult to gain respect from both sides. As compared to nurses who are also for public safety they are
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After one hundred years when the Emancipation Proclamation was written‚ African Americans were still fighting for equal rights in their everyday life. Their first success during this movement did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was then followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests was the March on Washington. On August 28‚ 1963 more than 200‚00 people gathered together at the Lincoln Memorial in order to take part in the black
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Introduction: Global interconnectivity began when Columbus landed in the Americas thus the spread of colonization‚ and imperialism. Global interconnectivity or globalization transcends local and national boundaries and presents both positive and negative impacts to industrialized‚ along with ‘developing’ countries. Globalization is presented almost as a modern day utopia‚ whereas‚ the evidence suggests the contradictory. One of the main difficulties presented by globalization is the investment of multinational
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