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Friday, December 19, 2008
police and community relations-conclusion
When officers engage in police brutality, they are disrespecting the people they are hired to protect. Officers seem to have forgotten that they are civil servants and the public is their boss. as their boss, citizens will not tolerate the wrongful beating of members of the community. i cannot stress the fact that the police need the community help and the community needs the police help. when police brutality occurs, "public distrust of the police my be reduce the ability of the police to control citizens who are dissatisfied with the police, are less likely to control them or provide officers with information about criminal activity. This is important because it indicates that fear of crime lowers evaluation. Thus, it is conceivable that regulate perception of the police contribute to a cycle of reduced police effectiveness, increased crime and further distrust of the police"(Brown). In order for there to peace between the police and the community officers involve in police brutality must face punishment for their actions. citizens deserve justice, when justice in not given, the entire Judaical system is tainted in the eyes of the community.
Works Cited (Bryce)
WORKS CITED
Does ‘24’ encourage interrogators to ‘torture’ detainees? By Tom Regan
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0212/p99s01-duts.html
Torture and 24 by Kevin Drumhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_02/005701.php
“24:” Torture on TV
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/157437
Fear Factor: How Far can Police go for a Confession?
http://people.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=police-interrogation.htm&url=http://www.courttv.com/archive/movie/crowe/fear.html
Does ‘24’ encourage interrogators to ‘torture’ detainees? By Tom Regan
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0212/p99s01-duts.html
Torture and 24 by Kevin Drumhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_02/005701.php
“24:” Torture on TV
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/157437
Fear Factor: How Far can Police go for a Confession?
http://people.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=police-interrogation.htm&url=http://www.courttv.com/archive/movie/crowe/fear.html
"24" Cont. (Bryce)
All these things he does, however are not legal. They were outlawed quite some time ago. Beating a confession out of clients was outlawed in the 1940’s. Any violence at all, as a matter a fact was deemed illegal. Some officers would deprive suspects of sleep, deny them food and water, drug them, hang them from windows, even using unbearable smells to get a confession. In some cases, the police would get false confessions just so that they would stop their interrogation.
Most of the tactics used in “24” are actually far from what actual interrogators will do. As previously stated, the suspects cannot be harmed physically. Interrogators actually have a handbook they learn from. There are essentially nine steps they take towards getting a confession out of a suspect. Of course not all of them use the techniques stated in the handbook word for word.
New officers coming into police forces, the army, or any enforcement agency, at least some of them actually sort idolize Bauer’s use of violence. The military spoke out on what they think the show is doing, “…hurting efforts to train recruits in effective interrogation techniques and is damaging the image of the US around the world.” US Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan said this when he actually came onto the set of “24” and met with the creative team. In an interview with Gary Solis, a retired law professor also said that many of his students took on Bauer’s motto of “Whatever it takes.” He then said, “I tried to impress on them that this technique would open the wrong doors, but it was like trying to stomp out an anthill.” How big is this actually becoming?
Some interrogators are using these techniques in the field. Actually, there has been a rise in these cases as the number of scenes of torture appear more frequently in the show. There have been more than seven hundred investigations of abuse within the Army. Out of that seven hundred there have been about twenty-five deaths that have been ruled as homicides. Many organizations are trying to push the point that torture by Americans is not tolerated within their ranks. The Human Rights Group is the one of the groups doing so. They were the ones who arranged the meeting between the creative team of “24” and the military officers.
There are some that however disagree with this, that Jack Bauer influenced these deaths within the custody of the army. Rick Moran of the American Thinker says that:“I have no doubt that General Finnegan and the agents are genuinely concerned about the show's impact on the troops. But the idea that some of the abuse of prisoners meted out by American soldiers is the result of watching a television show is absurd on its face. Blame it on our not giving the prisoners Geneva Convention protections or on poor discipline or leadership. But the intelligence professionals who carry out the overwhelming number of interrogations on prisoners can't all be that stupid. ...”
This is all somewhat correct. Anyone who gets to become an interrogator isn’t stupid enough to go against regulations and actually break the law by killing their suspects. They go through years of training, and know what is and what isn’t the correct way to go about things in the interrogation booth. This job requires a large amount of wit to be able to wage a psychological war against the suspect. I’m saying that in general, you have to be pretty smart to be able to meet the standards of this job. In the case of these homicides however, one death by one person represents the entire organization and shows that there is some sort of flaw in the system that allowed for this to happen. The people who have committed this atrocity have been prosecuted, but while this trend remains small, will it continue to grow as “24” continues? It will. 24 has the most torture scenes of any show on television to date. The methods of torture shown in the show are sometimes more creative than the one before it.
A show that illustrates torture as how we Americans get our work done is simply incorrect. It does not give those who watch it the right to act out what happens, it only puts a damper on our society and in general makes the US look bad. True, the demographic of death while in US custody is small; this represents the organization and everyone in it. Death is something to not be taken lightly, especially where it is not necessary in the least. That is why violence against suspects was outlawed in the first place, so this doesn’t happen.
Most of the tactics used in “24” are actually far from what actual interrogators will do. As previously stated, the suspects cannot be harmed physically. Interrogators actually have a handbook they learn from. There are essentially nine steps they take towards getting a confession out of a suspect. Of course not all of them use the techniques stated in the handbook word for word.
New officers coming into police forces, the army, or any enforcement agency, at least some of them actually sort idolize Bauer’s use of violence. The military spoke out on what they think the show is doing, “…hurting efforts to train recruits in effective interrogation techniques and is damaging the image of the US around the world.” US Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan said this when he actually came onto the set of “24” and met with the creative team. In an interview with Gary Solis, a retired law professor also said that many of his students took on Bauer’s motto of “Whatever it takes.” He then said, “I tried to impress on them that this technique would open the wrong doors, but it was like trying to stomp out an anthill.” How big is this actually becoming?
Some interrogators are using these techniques in the field. Actually, there has been a rise in these cases as the number of scenes of torture appear more frequently in the show. There have been more than seven hundred investigations of abuse within the Army. Out of that seven hundred there have been about twenty-five deaths that have been ruled as homicides. Many organizations are trying to push the point that torture by Americans is not tolerated within their ranks. The Human Rights Group is the one of the groups doing so. They were the ones who arranged the meeting between the creative team of “24” and the military officers.
There are some that however disagree with this, that Jack Bauer influenced these deaths within the custody of the army. Rick Moran of the American Thinker says that:“I have no doubt that General Finnegan and the agents are genuinely concerned about the show's impact on the troops. But the idea that some of the abuse of prisoners meted out by American soldiers is the result of watching a television show is absurd on its face. Blame it on our not giving the prisoners Geneva Convention protections or on poor discipline or leadership. But the intelligence professionals who carry out the overwhelming number of interrogations on prisoners can't all be that stupid. ...”
This is all somewhat correct. Anyone who gets to become an interrogator isn’t stupid enough to go against regulations and actually break the law by killing their suspects. They go through years of training, and know what is and what isn’t the correct way to go about things in the interrogation booth. This job requires a large amount of wit to be able to wage a psychological war against the suspect. I’m saying that in general, you have to be pretty smart to be able to meet the standards of this job. In the case of these homicides however, one death by one person represents the entire organization and shows that there is some sort of flaw in the system that allowed for this to happen. The people who have committed this atrocity have been prosecuted, but while this trend remains small, will it continue to grow as “24” continues? It will. 24 has the most torture scenes of any show on television to date. The methods of torture shown in the show are sometimes more creative than the one before it.
A show that illustrates torture as how we Americans get our work done is simply incorrect. It does not give those who watch it the right to act out what happens, it only puts a damper on our society and in general makes the US look bad. True, the demographic of death while in US custody is small; this represents the organization and everyone in it. Death is something to not be taken lightly, especially where it is not necessary in the least. That is why violence against suspects was outlawed in the first place, so this doesn’t happen.
I’m wondering why police brutality occurs. What factors lead officers to beat or possibly kill citizens; could it be stress, they feel threaten by possible suspects or could it they just want to remind citizens who is in charge. Is there really a good reason for officers to “rough up” suspects? I believe the only reason officers need to physically touch a suspect is to restrain him/her. Once a suspect is restrained officers have no reason to physically touch the suspect. “One study has concluded that police use of violence is a result of their responses to community characteristics. In communities where violence is a common method of resolving conflict, they suggest that the police are most likely to adapt similar means in their reactions to community problems”(Williams). That quote is twenty-seven years old but it could still be used to understand the use of police violence to a certain point. I agree that if the police get a call dealing with violent behavior in an area known for its mishaps, the police should take that in consideration when handling the situation. Going into a bad neighborhood does not mean walk in the community with gun in hand ready to kill. With a mind like that, the outcome is going to be nasty. I admit being a police officer is a very stressful job, but I could not understand how stress or anything work related could lead officers to beat citizens. If leaders of the police department believe one of their officers is dealing with a high level of stress and is a possible danger to the community, it is the commander’s job to put the officer on leave. That does not happen quite often. Too many officers on the force have possible allegation of brutality on their record and the police do nothing about it. Commanders are allowing officers to walk around as ticking bombs. Not taking in consideration the citizens, their lives or job or the victims live.Could it be that they do not realize “public hostility toward the police can affect the careers of officers, adminastors and even politicians”(Brown). I think if they understood that having a bad relationship with the community would end their careers, adminastors would not sit back and tolerate police brutality. I think there lies the problem, officers are not losing their job, and therefore they are going to keep engaging in police brutality
Thursday, December 18, 2008
"24" and Police Brutality
The show on the Fox network, “24” Represents something that our operational organizations do not condone. That thing is torture of apprehended suspects during interrogation. This is something that has not just happened just once, but several times on the show. The things that Jack Bauer (The main character of “24”) does to his suspects misrepresents the justice system’s way of interrogating possible suspects to a crime. This has become a problem due to that this behavior has become so glorified that interrogators are mimicking Bauer’s actions in their own body of work.
What happens on “24” is not interrogation; there are some people that would say that this is torture—I count myself as one of those people .Take for example a scene, when Jack comes into a interrogation room and shoots the suspect in the kneecap, promising another bullet if he didn’t talk. Of course; the guy tells Jack what he needs to know. Not only this, but they also get to the wife of a terrorist. At the time she was suffering from a gunshot wound, and of course she won’t say what needs to be known. So a member of Jack’s back-up squad sticks his thumb in the wound and twists around, demanding she talk if she wants him to cease.
What happens on “24” is not interrogation; there are some people that would say that this is torture—I count myself as one of those people .Take for example a scene, when Jack comes into a interrogation room and shoots the suspect in the kneecap, promising another bullet if he didn’t talk. Of course; the guy tells Jack what he needs to know. Not only this, but they also get to the wife of a terrorist. At the time she was suffering from a gunshot wound, and of course she won’t say what needs to be known. So a member of Jack’s back-up squad sticks his thumb in the wound and twists around, demanding she talk if she wants him to cease.
Friday, December 12, 2008
entire community in danger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEIlpm6HEM
I put this video up because I wanted everyone to see that Sean Bell and his friends were not the only ones in danger when the police fired 50 shots at him. If people a block and a half away were in danger of being killed, there is no way the police department can call the shooting justified. The entire community surrounding the night clube where the shooting took place was in danger. Police officers that worked at the train station almost lost their lives because five New York Police officers fired 50 shots at an unarm man. This video supports my clam that police brutality is a major problem and it is going to get bigger because officers are not held accountable for their actions. They think it is ok to kill citizens of the community they are suppose to protect. I said it before the individual that is harm by the police are not the one affected by police brutality, communities are affected by it aswell. Calling the Sean Bell incident police brutality is an understatment, that was cold blood murder.
I put this video up because I wanted everyone to see that Sean Bell and his friends were not the only ones in danger when the police fired 50 shots at him. If people a block and a half away were in danger of being killed, there is no way the police department can call the shooting justified. The entire community surrounding the night clube where the shooting took place was in danger. Police officers that worked at the train station almost lost their lives because five New York Police officers fired 50 shots at an unarm man. This video supports my clam that police brutality is a major problem and it is going to get bigger because officers are not held accountable for their actions. They think it is ok to kill citizens of the community they are suppose to protect. I said it before the individual that is harm by the police are not the one affected by police brutality, communities are affected by it aswell. Calling the Sean Bell incident police brutality is an understatment, that was cold blood murder.
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