Do you want your lives to be successful? If this question is given to everyone, they cannot give a clear definition of what the ‘successful’ means. Everyone dreams that their lives to be successful in today’s society. It is important to take a step by step to achieve one’s goal. Before taking steps to achieve goal, it is necessary to clearly identify what is my goal, how I am going to achieve the goal, and how I am going to live after that. Unfortunately, most people do not know exactly what their goal is. Actually, dreams and goals are the reasons why we live today, and motivating individuals to work hard to achieve it. From the book, Two Badges, Mona is a protagonist in the book. She is one of the people who chasing her dream and look forward to reach her goal as a successful police officer. There were many obstacles before achieving her dream as a police officer such as her childhood background, environments, and people around her.
First, Mona’s father wanted her to become a cop when she was young. “I always wanted to be a police officer, m’ija. But someone like me…no, not me, I lack an education. These hands are good only for hard work, yes? But you, someday, you should be a police officer. To show people that Mexicana can do a good job, too. For respect, for honor, for you raza..”(21). Mona’s family moved from Mexico and settled at Santa Ana, CA. City of Santa Ana was dangerous because majority of residents were involved in a gang. Also there were a lot of involvements with police officers. From this circumstance and the situation, Mona’s dad and herself does not want to be involved into this society. Instead, Mona’s dad encouraged her daughter to become a police officer. Also, Mona’s dad identifies a police officer as an a...
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...t effort to become a good police officer. Also, this was the only way for her to give a hope and wish to live as a new person.
Finally, I believed that Mona’s childhood and her background motivated and encouraged her to become a police officer. She had experienced all those negatives throughout the involvement with gangs. From this situation, sometimes she gave up on her dream, but other circumstances, such as working at a police office department motivated her again to think about her dream. I am proud of Mona because she kept her promises made with dad and police officers who helped out Mona. I am sure that Mona becomes a symbol in the city of Santa Ana, CA, because she is female, and she is the one who actually becomes successful. Lastly, I believed that there will be someone who got motivated and encouraged by Mona to take step by step to achieve one’s goal.
...les she had set for herself but she feels that she did a good job at her project. She was alarmed by the way that some of her co-workers lived and felt that she learned a lot from her experiences.
Individuals generally join a gang as young adults but, are sometimes recruited as early on as elementary school. Society generally sees gangs as dangerous groups to stay away from, but for a young person on the street, a gang offers a sense of family. Gangs present the benefit of protection and being part of a pack. When Latin Americans came to the United States as illegal immigrants they had very few resources and were essentially homeless. A simple solution was to join a gang. Mara Salvatrucha 13 profited from this scenario, exponentially growing in strength and size (Illegal Immigrant Gangs Commit Most U.S. Crime, 2009). An initial reason for the formation of Mara Salvatrucha 13 was for the immigrant’s protection from other gangs, but eventually ended up greatly surpassing their competition in both size and strength (2009).
Chapter one focuses mainly on the patterns of punishment expressed on Black and Hispanic boys. He begins the chapter by describing a young Hispanic boy’s negative experiences on the streets of his neighborhood with the police as something that occurs
Some kids have no other choice but to join the gangs at an early age. Lack of parent supervision has been shown to be linked with both boys and girls joining a gang. Even though most have men to prove they are the violent ones, not every gang member is shown to be violent. While the rest of Luis’s gang members treat women with disrespect, Luis seems to respect everyone no matter what gender they are. Being told his own mom the pain she had to go through influenced his ways of viewing and treating
According to Dr. Carl S. Taylor, the relationship between minority groups and police in the United States has historically been strained. Some cities have a deep and bitter history of bias and prejudice interwoven in their past relationships. The feeling in many communities today is that the system pits law enforcement as an occupying army versus the neighborhood. Dr. Taylor wrote about easing tensions between police and minorities, but stated “If there is any good news in the current situation, it is that the history of this strain has found the 1990’s ripe for change.
The book "Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys" is written by Victor M. Rios, who was a former gang member in his hometown and later turned his life around. He went to Berkeley and earned a doctorate in sociology. This book explores how youth of color are punished and criminalized by authorities even under the situation where there is no crimes committed and how it can cause a harmful consequence for the young man and their community in Oakland, California. The goal is to show the consequences of social control on the lives of young people of color and try to remind the authorities. This is important Since society plays a crucial part in shaping the lives of people. And the authorities have biases towards them and mistreat
Have you ever seen the super hero that wears dark blue and a badge, but not wearing a cape? The person that is here to help in every way possible day or night no matter when or where? The ones who are here during the highest and lowest points for everyone because that is a part of their job. The ones who are here to help the people on this island, but most of the time are treated like the “bad guys”. These undercover heroes are the people we all know as police officers. Many people don’t realize that they don't have an easy job. They are the ones who need to enforce the laws and are looked at as the “bad guy”, but when they come to the rescue they are the “good guy”. The book Non-traditional Careers for Women states that, “Police officers protect the people and help keep the peace” (155).
In today’s society, the United States is a melting pot of diversity. It is filled with many different cultures, languages, and beliefs. As these diverse aspects of people’s lives fill the city, suburbs and the country, police officers must adapt to these changes in their community. If police departments do not adapt or are slow at adapting to their community’s diversity they can come upon many barriers that can make their duties more challenging. The two most prominent barriers that exist between the police and their community are language barriers and cultural barriers (Miller, Hess, Orthmann, 2014).
...e idea of living peacefully she did what Nana did to her. She took her childish dream version of the situation and turned it into reality. Even though it was not the nicest way of telling her that she was wrong it was the best. Since she loved)((use more in P))) her family she decided to be more direct and use tough love to save everyone.
The book Armed & Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman is a biography of Gina Gallo career as a police officer. She served as a police officer for Chicago P.D. from 1982-1998. Gallo addresses the infamous “Blue Wall of Silence” by recalling events in which it was used. She offers a unique perspective of her duty as a police officer, she not only tells of incidences and crimes she dealt with but also what goes through an officers mind afterwards.
Growing up in the house of a police officer always had a stressful, yet interesting connotation. My father, who now works as a detective for the Phoenix Police Department, worked patrol for several years. I always looked forward to his return, because he told the best stories. However, my mother was often worried about his involvement on the streets. Since I was raised in a Christian home, prayer for my dad’s safety was a routine activity growing up. While my father was away at work, I remained at home hopelessly outnumbered by the girls in my family. Living with three younger sisters was always a struggle. Not only is it never quiet, but also, regardless of the situation, I managed to unfairly become the culprit. In addition to this,
Lieutenant Harris is an African American male, who is a police officer. In the black community, it is sometimes a bad stigma to become a police officer, especially if you are black. Lieutenant Harris talks about the change from being an ordinary citizen and becoming a police officer. The first issue that he brought to my attention was that some friends you had before, while becoming an officer were no longer there because you were a police officer. He stated that the police d...
In this essay, I will investigate and describe a cultural group in my desired field. I will provide details from an interview with a professional person in my field of interest. Gender inequality is still a big issue in law enforcement. Women make up a small percentage in the world of law enforcement. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, there are only thirteen percent of women working in law enforcement in the United States and only five percent are African American (Criminal Justice School Info, 2014). The New York City Police Department hired the first female officers in 1845 and they were called “matrons” (Felperin, 2004). Over twenty years of extensive research has shown that female officers possess a unique style of policing in which they rely more on their interpersonal skills rather than physical strength or force to talk a person down from a violent situation (National Center for Women & Policing, 2013).
Owings, Chloe (1969) Women Police: A study of the Development and Status of the Women’s Police Movement. New Jersey: Patterson Smith.
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