My name is Edgar Ruiz. I was born and for 15 years lived in Mexico before moving to the U.S. After graduating from High School I started working as a test operator dealing with circuit boards, Testing and programming them. While at the same time attending Lakeland full time pursuing My Criminal Justice degree, since I’ve always been fond of law enforcement and admire their line of duty. At this time I’m currently working as a customer service representative and had to sign up for online classes because of my schedule times. Looking forward to online classes and hope for an enjoyable experience.
My general appreciation of law enforcement officers after reviewing the book is that this is a very sensitive and often misunderstood by the general public, because of how people perceive them in the media as a us vs them attitude. And the reason for community policing began not as an obligation but primarily to serve and cooperatively engage with the community and citizens they swore to protect. Police departments have come under heavy fire and criticism on recent decades for the so called “Police brutality”: taking for …show more content…
Policing was mainly politics. The book Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving states that “During this era, police were closely tied to politics. This was the similar to the situation in England, where the police were centralized under the king and the police chief had the authority to fire officers” (Miller, Hess, & Orthmann 9). On the other side of the world, in the United States there were some changes to this rule “the police were decentralized under the authority of the municipality in which they worked. The chief had no authority to fire officers: therefore, the police were often undisciplined”(Miller