recently has been kneeling during the National Anthem. More and more NFL football players join in on taking a knee each week. The main question is why? NFL football players are protesting by taking a knee because of their race‚ political beliefs‚ and police brutality. The majority of the NFL protesters are African American‚ which plays a major role when people’s opinions are on NFL players taking a knee.“According to the #TakeAKnee protests have always been about race. Period‚ some of the NFL football
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Kevin Gilmartin‚ hypervigilance is when officers feel the physiological and emotional effects of the job. They are very upbeat while working their shifts‚ but when they head to their life outside of the agency‚ they experience the humdrum feeling of police work‚ which causes them to feel extreme physical or mental fatigue‚ a lack of enthusiasm and concern‚ and isolated (The Unspoken‚ 2015). Groups officers belong to‚ inside or outside the organization‚ affect their
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Looking back on my eleven years of being a Memphis police officer‚ there has been several times in which I have been faced with an ethical dilemma. A police officer can encounter these types dilemmas on a daily basis. I remember one of the first ethical issues I faced‚ was during my probationary phase. We had been dispatched to a one car accident. The dispatcher advised the complaint was a motorist who observed a vehicle severe off the road hit a guardrail and split a pole. My partner who had relinquished
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most prominent of these individuals 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
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Working in the Criminal Justice field requires a proficiency in your ability to write. As a police officer/case worker filling out reports‚ conducting interviews and taking notes‚ and filling out assessment‚ search warrants and arrest warrants may not seem like a task that requires great communication skill but it does. In almost every profession where you are preforming a service calls for an initiation of some kind of permanent record‚ and this is especially true in Law Enforcement. Your writing
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I entered the 16th District Police Station through revolving doors constructed of metal poles and plexiglass. I first observed the wooden front desk that stretched from east to west of the lobby. Officers at the desk were wearing blue-collared shirts with brass name tags on the left and badges on the right with navy blue pants and duty belts with handcuffs‚ firearms etc. The four officers had hazel eyes; three male officers had chestnut hair but‚ the female officer had golden hair. They were amiable
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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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The Fine Line between Police Discretion and Corruption Abstract In today’s law enforcement agencies there is a fine line between discretion and corruption. Imagine that you are a police officer‚ you pull over a car that you suspect is driven by someone who has had too much to drink. Upon reaching the window you find that it’s an old friend from school. Do you take him to jail or do you take him home? Police officers have the power to make this decision. In the world of the officer this could
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Deviancy and corruption within police organizations has influenced public’s negative perceptions and attitudes‚ as well as negatively impact the social relationship between the two groups. Policing in America‚ was established to maintain social order by enforcing rules and laws‚ protecting citizens‚ and taking appropriate action to ensure safety and justice. Police officers are expected to exercise “power and authority” while preserving moral character‚ but it is not always the case. Individual morale
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