Cop in the Hood has taught me a lot about how police work in a city really is. The chapter titled “911 is a Joke” intrigued me the most, for mostly two reasons. First the story at the beginning of the chapter really put perspective on how some people really live in the inner cities and how a police officer would have to react to the situation. Secondly, growing up in a middle class suburb I was always taught the 911 was only to be called in a time of emergency. It was a sacred number that I had never had to call. Me and my friends would joke on each other and type “911” on our flip phones and threaten to call, but never will. When Moskos said the 911 was a joke I was taken back by it because it when against everything I was taught. Once he displayed the table showing the percentage of calls in the Eastern District in one year, over one quarter of them were DCS or drugs related. This made sense because of the drug relyant nature of the Eastern District. But many of those were “bullshit calls” meaning the police did not need to be dispatched to the call. This includes competing drug dealers calling the police on each other, or prostitutes not getting paid and claiming they were raped. The themes of the chapter is …show more content…
that police dispatchers got many more bullshit calls that I would have anticipated. I thought the police could track where the call came from, with bigger problems they need to deal with and the frequency of these bullshit calls it would take too much time to intercept each one. The most interesting part of this chapter, besides the amount of bullshit calls the police get, would be the Kansas City preventive patrol experiment and the concept of omnipresence. The experiment consisted of five police on patrol beats, five were on proactive beats, and five on reactive beats. They did this for one year and after analyzing the results found that there was no significant difference between the control beat, proactive beat, or reactive beats. Although I was hoping that the omnipresence would decrease crime, but the police reaction time is still affected when it comes to arrests. What surprised me the most in this chapter would be the story including the three kids in the beginning of the chapter. When I was fourteen I barely know what cocaine was let alone selling it on the street. Also I was surprised how the kids reacted with Moskos when he approached them. Since they were drug dealers I expected them to not cooperate with the police considering one of them had been arrested eight times, once for a handgun arrest. It was the way Moskos approached them with demeanor and authority. I was somewhat curious why the man called the police on the kids and why he wanted to be anonymous so badly. I would assume that the gentleman has had been exposed to drugs considering he lives in the innercity of the Eastern District, but maybe he wants his community to be drug free and not under the control of the gang running the drugs. Moskos called these calls easy because they are almost always anonymous and because of this there is very little paperwork. The only flaw in Baltimore's policing is that each call is logged as an individual incident. Meaning if there are three calls on the same group of individuals throughout the night then it is recorded as three separate incidences instead of making it one event. This would be better to do but harder because it would be logged that these people already had an encounter with the police. Although it is hard to log who the people are because none of them gave their ID. This book has taught me lot about the realities of policing and how the system is really ran.
It has helped me so much individually that I had recommended it to my friends at other universities who are currently reading, as well as my father. From debunking myths about police, especially in this chapter, and tricks to get more overtime. Through my own, somewhat biased eyes, I had always thought that if the police would be called there would be a police car there in less than five minutes and a majority of the time there would be an arrest, but in reality that just isn't always true. A hidden theme that I found throughout reading the book was that with the events in just one year is enough to write an entire books, as you yourself could mostly relate
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"Brooklyn Cop” written by Norman MacCaig, a Scottish poet, is about an American cop who roams the streets tackling crime. Our impression of the stereotypical cop changes throughout the poem as we find that he isn’t all that he is made out to be. This essay will look at how the cop is portrayed and the techniques used to give this impression of him.
Officers were rewarded and reprimanded appropriately for the amount of arrests that were made. When Officers successfully prevented or deterred crime it didn’t show on paper. This tied in with officer morale in a big way. The book illustrates that when departments put out arrest quotas for the east side arrests fell, usually to the minimum. Mosko is often very critical of upper police managements distance and ignorance to the actual problems out there.
... some addition information in this book it does not lack in quality or clarity of its messages. It is a strong book and I would recommend it to anyone interested in law enforcement, anyone currently in law enforcement, family members of law enforcement personnel and those who have been in law enforcement.
...is novel with an outstanding salute to those who serve in law enforcement saying, “And so I tip my hat to all the good cops throughout our nation who risk their lives and strive to do the right thing when facing split-second decisions about life and death every day in the kill zone” (Klinger, 2004, page 274). Pulling the trigger of a gun can cause a variety of issues both within and outside of a police officer’s life, but it could also potentially save another human being from harm and keep the safety of our society intact.
Cop in the Hood by Peter Moskos is a book concerning a sociologist named Peter Moskos wanting to know more about the ways of American cops. A Harvard student going to work in Baltimore in the eastern district for one year, writes about his learnings and findings from firsthand experience. Some people say cops are not prepared when they leave police academy. From the book it says police officers learn more in the first two years than they will learn at the police academy. Becoming one of the deadliest profession cop’s duties are eye opening and even jaw dropping. Cops are known either has “gatekeepers” or even “pigs” in slang term. What if there were no cops in America? What would happen if they all just vanished and there was no one to protect
As elucidated above, William Bratton successfully engages the audience in thinking about the possibility of having responsible cops and a functional police department. He does so by explaining and revealing how new strategies changed the entire operations of the NYPD and other police departments in America. Though not flawless, the book is fascinating, informing and interesting for learners and law enforcers.
This analysis will be examining the article “my encounter with Princeton police” by Imani Perry a female black professor at ivy –League University in New Jersey. Perry was pulled over by Princeton police while she was driving 67mph on street with 45mph limit. At which time, the police found warrant for arrest for two unpaid ticket. For these reason, Perry got handcuffed and taken into custody. The conclusion of this argument is clearly police are using inappropriate and disproportionate treatment against African Americans. The author set her argument on two strong primary assumptions. First, police are using disposition in racially discriminatory fashion to ward black Americans. Second, it presumed in this society we found ourselves, sanction
The piece goes on to say that “gang members, drug dealers, two-bit criminals, wannabes, etc. are taking a vacation and taking advantage of the police not wanting to be in the area because police are the targets for all these gang members and drug dealers.” The video continues on stating that this is all occurring as arrest numbers have dropped 32%; a concerning result of police officers being targeted, fearing for their lives, feel alienated and concerned about doing their jobs. The guest also states “this is exactly what the city government gets…The police department doesn’t feel the police commissioner has stood by it, and the mayor threw them under the bus by inviting the DOJ to come and investigate an alleged presence of racism…{So they} are making no proactive stops; not stopping people and shaking them down, not searching people or looking for guns or drugs, basically just answering the calls to service…taking care of the good citizens who are in trouble…and taking care of their fellow officers because they now have to worry about making a mistake and getting charged with false arrest, false imprisonment, and the loss of their freedom.” The guest also predicts that many of the police officers will leave to find places that will respect them and support them when they make lawful arrests and do their job, leaving only those who would do nothing and mindlessly agree with the
involved in being black in blue. Alex was concerned with the ways in which the
The Core Function of Police in Reference to Wilson and Keeling's Broken Windows Thesis In considering whether the core function of the Police should be to maintain order, there are a number of issues, both historic and current, which need to be taken into consideration. For example, the maintenance of what constitutes “order” can be interpreted differently by different communities i.e. urban and rural. The expectations of police performance and in how they deploy their resources to meet conflicting demands need to satisfy both nationally set targets and meet locally driven priorities.
Organization is the most important part of any business. In the business of criminal justice, organization is of the highest importance. Every day, hour, and minute must be accounted for, and at the same time all bases must be covered. This brings up a problem when trying to run a precinct that employs a lot of police officers. The Chicago Police Department is the principal law enforcement agency of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Chicago. It is the second largest local law enforcement agency in the United States after the New York City Police Department. Chicago’s community policing effort is more extensive and organized than other jurisdictions.
As stated in the textbook, police often have to make decisions on their own, with only their moral compass to guide them. Most ethical dilemmas that police officers face derive from their powers of discretion. Moral dilemmas that police officers face are often frequent and unavoidable. They are often unpopular with many people, resolved quickly, and are often dealt with alone.
In the last 5 years or so we have had so many police scandals arise and become the central eye of the news and papers. In 2015 we now have a massive rise with social media and usually are the first to get any information and or video. Every time the news comes on or anything related to media we will get new information or see tmz has the first video of it happening. Social media is the fastest way to get anything on the web or the news within hours. Scandals that I can think of off the top of my head are Kelly Thomas beating from Fullerton PD, Sheriff Lee Baca scandal involving jail violence among inmates, and tons and tons of scandals involving police beatings and the amount of force used. The most recent scandal to come out is the officer
Tom Ryan’s police abuse story is not as sudden and physically painful as Hobbs’ story, but it deserves just as much attention to prevent it from happening, since both Hobbs and Ryan fear that they are in danger for no particular reason. Ryan describes the town of Newburyport, his hometown, as a city, whose natives are always trying to struggle over the power of politics (Ryan 22). In his memoir Following Atticus, Ryan states, “I would often sit shocked as city councilors or other community leaders lied in some televised meeting and thought nothing of it. When I’d report it, they’d act as though I were the one who had crossed the line – and in some ways they were right, I had. I refused to let business happen as it always had happened” (Ryan 25). When Ryan’s newspaper began to involve the misconducts of police officers, he began to receive death threats on his car’s windshield and in his mailbox. However, Ryan never decided to report these threats because he suspected that the police might have been the ones who wrote them. Ryan continues to explain the long controversial history of Newburyport’s police department and how most politicians feared it. During one night, in front of Newburyport’s city hall, Ryan had a short conversation with a police officer that left him so frightened that he did not to mention the police in his newspaper for the next year and a half. Ryan’s readers wanted to know why, but all he could do was say he did not want trouble from the police (Ryan 37-8). Ryan asserts about one officer in particular, “He said to me, ‘How about we form an uneasy alliance - you and me? I won’t go after you if you don’t go after me.’
I find that after reading chapter five, sic and seven I realize how much listening and responding skills play a role in my career of law enforcement. When I started this career I was forced to become a good listener and had to obtain many different styles of verbal communication. I had to learn how to develop these skills on my own as I was thrown into this life long career. Listening is key to being able to understand and help people with their problems. When I show up to a call and people are all wound up and everyone is trying to talk at once, it can be difficult to decipher ever word and hear the stories of both parties. By separating the parties and let them know that I’m hearing what they are saying and processing all the information. It’s a major role to defusing situations in the field.