In 2009, according to the Officer Down Memorial website, 127 officers were killed in the line of duty. This doesn't mean that police work isn't dangerous. The nature of law enforcement means seeing people at their worst: in the middle of a domestic dispute, in street fights, or high on drugs. Police approach situations from which others would run away. Today’s law enforcement officers face a multitude of dangers in their everyday duties that rival the threat of getting shot.
A "profile" is a coherent set of facts - known conditions and observable behavior that indicate a particular individual may be engaged in criminal activity. The technique of "profiling" is a well-known and long-standing law enforcement tactic. In fact racial profiling can make us less safe. Multiple studies have shown that when police focus on factors such as race, they tend to pay less attention to actual criminal behavior. This is a dangerous trend that can inhibit effective law enforcement and ultimately endanger the lives of all persons who depend on law enforcement for protection.
Terrorist are very smart and very skilled when it comes to planning mass amounts of chaos and loss of life. Terrorist are also unrelenting and will stop at nothing to achieve their goal of terrorizing other nations. Our border security would fare pretty well against a terrorist attack, but our airport security , in my opinion, is weak and not at all prepared or secure enough to prevent another 9/11, especially if the attack is done on a grander
Affecting Problems of police Personnel There are many things that affect police personnel but there are also that are very crucial. There are some that can ruin the career of a person and there are some that can cause long-term physical problems. There are things like job stress, fatigue, domestic violence, corruption, and alcohol/ drug abuse that can hinder many police personnel’s career. People are unaware of the stress that police officers face. Their stress is unlike any other type of job stress.
With the recent decision to militarize departments across the country, the truth and the responsibility that comes along with this oath has diminished. Multiple cases of police brutality in the past few years have lead citizens to mistrust the people who are supposed to be watching over and protecting them. As said in the article, “War Comes Home,” “It’s time for American police to remember that they are supposed to protect and serve our communities, not wage war on the people who live in them.” Over the years, police departments all over the country have become militarized by arming officers with military grade weapons and vehicles. The addition of these weapons and vehicles is unnecessary and has caused citizens to fear officers instead of trust them, citizens have been stripped of many rights written in the Constitution, and has lead to fatal accidents because officers do not possess the training required to use the military weapons being provided. In the first sentence of the Oath of Honor, officers say they will not betray the public trust.
Racism, a big part of police misconduct, has become a major problem in the police force. Police officers have a tendency to harass the homeless, young persons, and minorities, among with many other groups of people. Every law enforcement officer or other government official, whether federal, state, county, city, municipal, or otherwise, takes an oath of office and promises to serve and to protect. Unfortunately, over the years we have witnessed such abominations as the Rodney King beating, a graphically disturbing atrocity caught on videotape, or the Nathaniel Jones beating in Cincinnati. We read or hear stories about Amidou Diallo, an unarmed man, being shot forty-one times by the NYPD.
This is creating an enormous debate and concern for many people, not only within our government. With crime rates increasing and horrific events taking place the solution to this problem is not easily resolved. However there are many new views on how to properly solve this problem without depriving American people their right to use firearms as a tool and possible means of survival. Not only have these incidents been growing in numbers, but have been widespread throughout the US. Many people believe that it may be due to the economy and the struggle of people living in poverty to provide for their families.
These allow the Police officers to disable the violent of dangerous suspects, without having to use a lethal method of force. The armed Police would not shoot to wound, they would shoot to kill, and keep in mind that we still want the criminals to go to court of potentially jail for what they have done. The heartbreaking event of the two Police officers from Manchester Police force was a terrible event. The officers thought that they were going to a routine 999 call of someone's window being broken in, this all changed when a heavily armed, violent man turned up with a gun threatening to shoot both of them. That's exactly what
I personally am a strong believer that an “ideal society” should have no guns; nevertheless crime is a big problem to the citizens of our society and guns are necessary. Therefore, it is not recommended that we ban guns completely. The most pragmatic thing to do is to reduce the availability of guns and make it difficult to procure them by making sure that they are given only to people who are mentally capable of handling them. There is a definite need to ban guns since their liberal usage leads to large-scale public massacres, which are suited for the field of war, not civilized society. Weapons like automatic rifles and assault weapons are tools created with the purpose of mass killings.
The fact that officers know that illegally obtained (but true) evidence will quite possibly be thrown out, and therefore dangerous criminals will be freed, will encourage them to follow the proper procedures. (Woodfin, 2009) In addition, there are already several exceptions to requiring a warrant, such as “stop-and-frisk”, airport and school searches, voluntary searches, and emergency situations (Scheb, 2008) While these arguments supported the continued use of the exclusionary rule, there are also many argue against its value to our criminal justice system. One of the most