Police Scenarios

In this paper, I will be writing about Police Discretion. I will start by defining Police Discretion then briefly discuss the use in domestic disturbances, minor misdemeanors, and traffic enforcement. I will also discuss the application of police discretion, the provisions it uses and how it is currently practiced. At the end of these brief descriptions, I will then present the myth that exists in regards to police discretion. And finally, I will end this paper with my personal opinion as well as a brief conclusion.

Policing has definably evolved over the last thousand years. Not only to progress crime fighting methods, but also show our community and greater service. The old way of policing which was primarily based on random patrol, hoping for the chance to accidently walk up on a crime in progress, police agency started focusing on social problem, and even more effective, statistics. Community policing has been enhanced through a management accountably process called (CompStat).

Police discretion by definition is the power to make decisions of policy and practice. Police have the choice to enforce certain laws and how they will be enforced. "Some law is always or almost always enforced, some is never or almost never enforced, and some is sometimes enforced and sometimes not" (Davis, p.1). Similarly with discretion is that the law may not cover every situation a police officer encounters, so they must use their discretion wisely. Until 1956, people thought of police discretion as "taboo". According to http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/ 205/205lect09.htm, "The attitude of police administrators was that any deviation from accepted procedures was extralegal and probably a source of corruption. When it was finally

Police discretion is a very important approach in matters concerning criminal justice. There has been a consistent problem between enforcing the law and the spirit of the law. Discretion in the broader sense can be defined as the individual’s ability to make a decision basing on the principle of courses of the action. During training, police officers are given different possible scenarios that they may experience while on duty. However, the situations presented are not exact and the police come face to face with more riveting situations that demand their personal choices. The

Policing in America underwent a major paradigm shift in the way that law enforcement was carried out – this shift was known as a shift from the Political Era to the Professional (Reform) Era (Roberg, Novak, Cordner, & Smith, 2015). This switch in eras happened in the United States during a period branded as the Progressive Era, when many “types of problems … began to be addressed not only in the public sector but also in private enterprise” (Roberg et al., 2015, p. 41). This movement affected the United States and the American life since it functioned on the ideas that there should be “(1) honest and efficiency in government, (2) more authority for public officials (and less for politicians), and (3) the use of experts to respond to specific

Black lives matter! There have been so many black lives that have been taken this year. Black on black crimes vs white on white crimes are important to acknowledge. Yes, all live matter but African Americans matter more than others. It’s important to acknowledge the situation involving Alton Sterling, an African American who sold CDs and got shot severally because of a misunderstanding. It’s also important to acknowledge the case involving Dylann Roof, a Caucasian who killed 9 people and is still alive. Then, there’s the questions we ask ourselves: why is there mistreatment and brutality coming from police officers? Why do people stereotype African Americans? These are questions we ask ourselves and these are questions that need to be answered.

Jessie, I really enjoyed your post as I have been a police officer for 18 years and it directly relates to my job. Yes, police departments across the country must strive to make their departments more diverse, especially with the rising Hispanic population. One main hindrance to this goal is the fact that many cities are doing away with pension programs and starting hybrid or 401K retirement plans. At my agency, the Knoxville Police Department, we are having problems getting any race to apply because of the new hybrid system. I would recommend offering ride-a-long and cadet programs to attract more minorities to the field. As far as keeping arrest numbers equal to the makeup of the population, there is no way to make this happen

On Thursday, January 5, 2017, I, Officer McDaniel #147, of Mansfield ISD Police Department, located at 1522 N Walnut Creek Dr, Mansfield, TX, was contacted by dispatch for a public service call, to a parent, in reference to an incident that occurred on November 28, 2016, at James Coble Middle School, located at 1200 Ballweg, Arlington, TX.

On 1/13/2018, I, Dillon Dickerson, badge #155, was working as a Patrol Officer for the Wichita State University Police Department, in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. At approximately 1920 hours I was working a special assingment at Koch Arena. While standing in one of the sections I heard someone say the name Cordell. I remembered this name from a case I had in 2017 which was case number 17C0236. I looked at the male and he looked familiar to me. When I noticed this male he was starting to walk into the concourse area due to it being half time.

On Friday, August 07, 2015, at approximately 1304, I had just called my dispatch center to let them know I was on duty and dispatch advised they had just aired, over the police radio, an officer safety BOLO (Be on the lookout) for a male party, identified as James Michael Leigh, who currently had a warrant for his arrest, out of Durango Colorado, for homicide. According to Dispatch, James was heading north and his cell phone had been pinged just south of Ouray. Dispatch advised me that James might be driving a green Land Rover, bearing Colorado license (280LDQ). As I was driving my patrol car southbound on Main Street, I passed the green Land Rover as it was traveling northbound on Main Street (Highway 550), at about Eighth Avenue. I advised

On Friday, December 2, 2016, I, Officer McDaniel #147, of Mansfield ISD Police Department, located at 1522 N Walnut Creek Dr, Mansfield, TX, was on a campus check at Della Icenhower Intermediate, located at 8100 Webb Ferrell Rd, Arlington, TX. While on a Campus Check, I made contact with Assistant Principal Brooks, Amber, B/F, DOB 8/26/1985.

I was born to a rich dad who made Money selling Construction supplies across the nation. At the age of 16 he hired me in his Company and quickly started preparing me to run his company showing me the ins and outs of the Trade. He was later Shot down when i was only 19 in a drive by Leaving the company to me. To make sure that no one in this city goes through what i've been through i decided to join the police force to stop this crime filled

Police officials are recruited from different ethnic groups and each ethnic group has its own culture. This is evident in the societies in which police officers live. However, despite this conformity to different sets of values, there is one mind-set that takes over when a police recruit consents to the formation of a dominant monolithic police culture. Halttunen (2015) asserts that organisational culture is influenced from both inside and outside. The police culture is derived from the external and internal factors that are present in occupational settings. The notion of a single occupational culture that is now being deabated has been endorsed by both past and contemporary police scholars (Paolline III, 2003:204). The addition of other ethnic

This lack of impact is due in part to the fact that many incidents to which the police respond are only symptoms of larger problems in the community. In fact, it is how police resources are allocated and deployed that makes a difference. If the police respond only when they are called and deal only with the incident at hand, the reasons why the incident occurred in the first place remain unaddressed, and this increases the likelihood that similar incidents will happen again as well, in the model of policing there is little, if any, collaboration with the community or other agencies. Researchers have found that, with the exception of specific targeted strategies, levels of crime are generally unaffected by increase in the number of patrols cars,

I think some gas station owners feel it is the police duty to protect them from gas drive-offs, whereas like you stated there is not much the officers can do to help them, past just sitting in the parking lot all day, which is not going to happen. The owners do need to help themselves and there are many ways they can do this. Your thoughts here are spot on and why the police have to explain this to the stations is beyond me. Common sense by the owner would be a pleasant surprise to the officers that have to explain this, I would probably not do it as tactfully as you stated