Rookie Blue Rookie Blue is a Canadian police procedural show set in Toronto. It follows rookie officers Andy McNally, Traci Nash, Chris Diaz, Dov Epstein and Gail Peck of the 15th division. The show humanizes law enforcement and is sympathetic to the activities of the police service; Discussing the mental impacts of the job, the challenges of being a rookie, and the daily problems officers face. This paper aims to critically analyze the accuracy of Rookie Blue and argue that despite the highly dramatized plot aspects and heavy focus on interpersonal relationships in the show, it offers realistic depictions of the procedures and behaviours of police officers in a major metropolitan city. Fresh Paint The first episode of season one ‘Fresh Paint’ was released in 2010 and is set on the rookie officers' first day on the job, away from the structure of the academy. Officers were called to the scene of a shooting where a drug …show more content…
however, senior officers urge them to use discretion. For example, rookie Officer Chris Diaz attempts to arrest Sadie, a witness, for violating her parole and references the C.C.. Officer Diaz’s field training officer Frank Best advises him to take her statement and offer her a deal instead of arresting her for violating her parole. As noted by Griffiths, the gap between the “training academy and the street” is reduced through the help of a “field training officer”(Griffiths,p.89). Officer Best’s instructions to Officer Diaz helped close the gap in the academy. Additionally, Sadie was known to the police and Officer Best, who guaranteed she would not face any additional charges, making her cooperative and forthcoming. This scene exhibits a police officer's legitimacy of authority to the community. Authority is the capacity to lawfully use power, while power is the capacity to persuade others to comply even when they are unwilling to (Cormier lecture, February
Police corruption is a practice of illegal and unprofessional behavior for improper reason to achieve approved goals by their officers. “The Seven Five,” documentary looks at police misconduct at Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct during the 1980s. The documentary turns into a narrative feature combined of interviews with key investigators, Michael Dowd, and Adam Diaz a deported Dominican drug dealer. Police Officer Michael Dowd explained his rogue activities during his assignment at rid the City of narcotics traffickers. Instead, he enlisted the services of other officers who began robbing drug dealers of their money, drugs or guns, or going into business with them to distribute narcotic and weapons. Dowd identified his formative years at the Department as laying the groundwork for his corrupt
As taught in the lectures, it is impossible for police officers to win the war against crime without bending the rules, however when the rules are bent so much that it starts to violate t...
The documentary “Policing the Police,” by PBS, assists in providing insight into problems facing the city of Newark, New Jersey, and its police department. The documentary displays the opinions of both the police officers and the people of the communities on the most pressing crime related issues in the city and the solutions to them. The variety of perspectives that documentary provides is very informative and forces the viewer to look at the problems of police brutality in a more complex manner rather than black and white. Ultimately, the documentary exposes the failure of the Newark Police Department to work effectively and the solutions new leaders are beginning to implement.
For years police corruption has been a major problem in American society but where is the line between moral and unethical police corruption, many modern movies address this vary issue. Some films portray how types of police corruption can have a positive influence on society, while others show the dark side of police corruption. Many law enforcement agents join the criminal justice with the basic idea of “justice for all,” however, most of them do not realize that the nice guy doesn’t always win. Even though there are vast amounts of movies which specifically address police corruption we will use three main movies for our argument today, mostly LA Confidential, however, also Training Day.
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The use of force, particularly with correlation to officer morale and/or inadequate education/training, has become particularly problematic. Measures should be taken to reduce the injury to suspects, particularly physical injury resulting from poor officer tactics or malicious intentions not related to upholding the law. These are problems, which, if properly handled and rectified, will result in improved officer morale, improved relationships with the public as well as ensure a continued upstanding reputation for the oldest police force in the nation.
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This documentary takes place in Newark, New Jersey. One of the most crime filled cities in the United States. Murder, drugs, and gangs fill this city. Many police officers work hard to keep their city safe and others for other intentions. This documentary shows how the police work, their tactics, and the reality of how police officers are working with the community.
The role of criminal justice professionals is to preserve and uphold the Constitution by enforcing laws, protecting citizen’s rights and promoting justice for all. Police officers in the field of duty must be able to discern situations to be able to act in the most appropriate manner as it relates to their job. In this case study, Officer Smith is threatened with being penalized for making a decision he thinks is good community policing, but his Lieutenant feels he violated protocol. Officer Smith responds to a domestic dispute between an intoxicated husband and wife. Normal procedure would be to arrest the husband and put him in jail until the decision is made whether or not to press charges. Instead, Officer Smith decides to intervene and asks the couple questions about if they love each other, and why they are physically assaulting each other. They respond they do love each other, but the alcohol makes them violent towards one another. Officer Smith then recommends counseling for the couple, as an alternative to putting the husband in jail. The couple agrees to
...ase that they have been assigned. Their loyalty to the case gives the impression that they are going to seek justice the right way. Their competence to the case gives the impression to the public that they are knowledgeable and diligent to the duties that they have been assigned and that they take their job very seriously. The show demonstrates that the police have a whole lot of integrity. They give the facts and only the facts. They do not give their opinions in these cases and they do not treat them in a personal nature. They will not lie to get what they want. All of these characteristics have an impact on the public, because the public will not trust an officer with information if he or she does not possess these characteristics.
Police officers have trained and developed trained tactics over the years of them becoming a police officer; they use those skilled tactics t...
LL Cool J, a talented rapper of American descent, once said, “When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.” (Brainy Quotes) Though Cool J came up with this quote from his own personal experiences, his powerful statement can be applied to an empowered character, Alma Beers, in the short story “Brokeback Mountain.” Alma, who is Ennis’s beloved spouse, plays a different role in both Anne Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain,” and Ang Lee’s Oscar nominated film Brokeback Mountain. Lee gives an interpretation of Alma in which he characterizes this female character with a more forceful nature and a character who is stricken by adversity, yet “stay[s] grounded” and
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It is both a result and a cause of police isolation from the larger society and of police solidarity. Its influence begins early in the new officer’s career when he is told by more experienced officers that the “training given in police academies is irrelevant to ‘real’ police work”. What is relevant, recruits are told, is the experience of senior officers who know the ropes or know how to get around things. Recruits are often told by officers with considerable experience to forget what they learned in the academy and in college and to start learning real police work as soon as they get to their Field Training Officers. Among the first lessons learned are that police officers share secrets among themselves and that those secrets especially when they deal with activities that are questionable in terms of ethics, legality, and departmental policy, are not to be told to others. They also are told that administrators and Internal Affairs officers cannot often be trusted. This emphasis on the police occupational subculture results in many officers regarding themselves as members of a “blue