Police Officers

... L.A. protestors in a peaceful manner. The camp, which resided in City Hall's south lawn, was the nation's largest Occupy camp before hundreds of police officers quickly encircled the demonstrators and peacefully arrested more than 200 demonstrators (Linthicum). Police used a new technique to gather protestors rather than their previously used methods of creating a single line and sweeping through the park to force protestors ... out as they got in their way. Just minutes after midnight on November 30th, police officers poured out of City Hall and surrounding streets and encircled the de...

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... 's heavy emphasis on eliminating gun trafficking, and New York's crack-down in general, eight of their own police force members were arrested and charged with accepting bribes in return for illegally transporting firearms into the state. The corrupt group was comprised of five officers currently on the force, three who previously retired, a New Jersey correction officer, a former New York City ... Sanitation Department police officer, and two other unidentified men. The majority of the men all worked at the Brooklyn station house sometime in ... stolen or counterfeit goods such as slot m...

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... decline in violent attacks in Salah ad Din to a more confident, proactive police force. The turn around in the area is contributed to the training of the police force and the active participation of its citizens. This is also happening in Diyala where Iraqi Police have been graduating since May. 704 officers graduated recently including 21 females. During the ceremony the newly graduated female ... police were able to show off their skills to those attending by quickly handling ... a civilian disturbance and handcuffing a woman in a truck. "This is a wonderful integration of what's nec...

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... but end up violating the rights of civilians. These actions and practices may not necessarily involve violence or injuries although in most cases these are the possible outcomes including death. Police officers are trained to control crowds and manage criminals without necessarily using force or causing injuries to victims (Onyemaobim, 2016). It is necessary to explain that in today's world even ... , they know that there is a constitutional provision that will cover up their mistakes and that is why they assault criminals or civilians with impunity. Poor crisis management tactics. Althou...

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... , disaster, accidents, and unspeakable crimes can take its toll on any officer.  (Bongar, 2002). It is estimated that there are 125,000 U.S. police officers that have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  For each and every police suicide (126 per year), almost 1,000 officers continue to work while suffering through the painful symptoms of PTSD.  PTSD is not the cause of suicide, however, untreated depression is ... other side of stereotyping. They are first on scene when a child dies, a woman is raped, a senseless homicide, a teenager's suicide, a car ablaze with victims trapped, drug ove...

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... perpetuates stereotypes. It is oppressive and alienating and prevents many from seeking help (Stigma, n.d.). The stigma that surrounds mental illness in society is even more profound within the police culture. Police officers are perceived to be invincible, brave, strong, unaffected and both physically and mentally fit. This perception leads to mistrust in talking about mental health issues; in fear that ... the early detection of PTSD and the onset of mental illness. Annual counseling will also create a healthy work environment, maximize occupational safety and improvement of psychologi...

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... entering any country. And sometimes, Arabs are not even allowed to enter other countries, just because they are coming from Arab countries. This indicates that police officers are stereotyping minority groups; like in the UK, France and Germany, police stop African Americans to search them, because the latter are assumed to be outlawed immigrants (Commission on human rights, 2003, p.2). Some policemen are using ... , you take him in a alley and slap him. If it's known in the street you can be stepped on you've got a problem" (Panwala, 2002, p.639). In addition, some police officers lack ...

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... PTSD (Adkins, 2014). Research has also shown that the combination of alcohol use and PTSD results in a tenfold increase in the risk of suicide for police officers (Violanti, 2004). An undetermined amount of police officers are expected to be suffering from anxiety and depression that fails to amount to PTSD but nonetheless seriously affects their daily lives (Adkins, 2014). Stress, ... , depression and other psychological distress fear that if the agency finds out it could result in reduced duty, lack of promotional chances and even losing their jobs completely (Adkins, 2014). Police off...

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... the assailants and filling out the proper paper work. (U.S. Department of Justice. (1994) An incident in the New York subway illustrates what (due to the public's level of fear) police officers are doing to suspicious albeit innocent citizens. July 1998 around 11 o'clock at night 18 year old Lani Soto was riding the New York subway train (Herbert, 1999). She had ... by these responses; both individual personality characteristics and organizational influences were identified as contributing to abuse of force. Following are the responses when psychologists were asked about the characterist...

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... example, their should be limitations on the use of hand-to-hand combat, batons, mace, stun guns, and firearms. However, limiting polices' actions will bring much debate, especially from police officers and administrators themselves. Many feel that their firepower is already too weak to battle the weapons criminals have on the streets, and limiting their legality of gun use will not ... review board be made up of strictly civilians, so that information and concerns remain honest, and not biased by those who hold only polices' interests at hand. Of course. police officers and their admini...

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