Veteran Scenario After being home from Iraq from only two months, I have not yet fully adjusted. I am currently living with my mom, in her small apartment. I recently went out to a bar and I had some drinks. Then all I remembered was that I was arrested. I was then later told about how I got into a brawl at the bar and witnesses saw it. Since I had so much to drink I couldn’t remember what happened. After I found out that I was involved in a brawl, I got more information and the person I hit was
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Command, began a shooting spree which lasted a little over 60 minutes and resulted in 12 deaths and several injuries. Alexis seemed to engage targets of opportunity and did not seem to target specific individuals. A report created by the Metropolitan Police Department’s Internal Review Team (2014) found that Alexis’ last exchange of gunfire was with a local law enforcement officer who was shot, but “was able to return fire, killing Alexis and ending his rampage” (p. 3). This incident was handled in a
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In cooperation to the mission of protecting safety of society, police officers actively take an action that is commonly called “stop and frisk”. This allows them to detain the suspicious drivers and pat them down to scrutinize whether they carry illegal contraband or drugs or weapons in their cars. The existence of racial profiling in police’s duty is accused as black drivers and hispanics drivers are more often to be pulled over than that for white drivers. Since blacks and hispanics have committed
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In the first case that involves Lowell Massachusetts the Chief came in to the position with a great understanding of the community policing model. The community did not look at this department in a positive image because of the past. Chief Davis not only had a strong understanding of community policing he had a very strong plan in how to implement it. Chief Davis held his management team accountable not only to him but the community also. Chief Davis opened a dialogue with the community as to the
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always respect. He had zero tolerance for officers disrespecting each other, and would quickly place officer who did not oblige were put on desk duty. Another rule that strongly enforce was officers coming to work late. The Captain and had a strong police against being. If you were late, and someone had to cover for you at least twenty minutes, they would receive pay for that day and not you. She said there were other rules such as keeping your radio on at all times, always filling out paper work in
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In our broken justice system policemen have power but some overrule that power. Policemen think just because they have weapons and wear a police suit, they can rule our streets and could do anything they like but no, we can’t let that happen because they are arresting innocent people and killing innocent people. In Ferguson what happened was a justice system out of control. Policemen found a way to arrest people because they were protesting for their rights and justice. People became angry because
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This week we are asked by the instructor to complete a compare and contrast essay. Since I have been a police officer for the last 12 years, I will write my essay about something that irritates me and that I wish the general public could get right. When people call into dispatch to report an incident, there are two call types that people get wrong all the time, and those are robbery and burglary. When speaking with people that are reporting their house or business being broken into and stuff
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Black lives matter, all lives matter. The Black Lives Matter movement has been expanding for years now. People in the movement believe that cops racially profile them and kill them for no reason. They have been protesting, starting fights, and even killing some cops because of this outrage. All of the protests turn violent very fast if they get big enough, SWAT teams are called in and end up throwing tear gas at the protesters. The protesters will push and punch back against the cops and SWAT team
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may be that these prevents don't spring from bias regarding individual officers, or even from the official techniques of the police divisions for which they work. Things being what they are, the estimations leave little instability that, whatever the wellspring of this conduct by police, it has a disparate and corrupting influence on blacks.
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Racism A tragedy happened on the evening of November 20, 2014. According to The New York Times, “the Chinese-American police officer, Peter Liang, whose ricocheting bullet killed an unarmed black man, Akai Gurley, in a housing project stairwell.” He was charged with a second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless endangerment and official misconduct. However, Peter Liang told his superiors that his gun had gone off unintentionally and the bullet rattling off a wall
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