Essay On Law Enforcement Shooting

This paper is to discuss law enforcement shooting. We will be looking at what goes through an officer’s mind before and after an officer involved shooting, the public’s opinion of the shooting, are they ethical and what happens during and after the investigation of the shooting. We will also look into have there been more police involved shootings in the past year or are we just more aware of the shootings due to the coverage of the shootings by the media.There have been a number of police officer involved shooting of suspects over the past year that have gained media attention and public outcry over whether the shootings were justified. There have been six high profile incidents involving law enforcement shootings these are the Michael Brown,
Some of the issues that officers may face after the shooting include guilt, depression, and even suicidal thoughts. However, it may be that officers are more resilient than previously thought. One study has found that most suffer few long-term negative emotional or physical effects after shooting a suspect (Klinger, 2017). A study conducted of 80 law enforcement officers involved in 113 suspect shooting incidents were asked what they felt before and after the incident. Most officers reported that just before and as they pulled the trigger on the suspect, they experienced a range of psychological, emotional, and physiological reactions that distorted time, distance, sight, and sound (Klinger, 2017). Officers questioned in this study almost admitted that they didn’t feel fear during the shooting but did feel that the criteria were meet and that they were justified in the shooting because they believed they or others were in imminent danger. Most of the officers involved in this study also admitted that they had no long-term effects after the shooting due to support from friends, family and