"The public wants a general-purpose emergency service, available to handle problems that arise" (Katz & Walker, 2008, p. 10). The onus of this is left to the police, every hour of the day, every day of the year. Necessitating, through the sheer scope of its responsibilities, a range designation of specific roles best suited to manage its variant maintenances. These both include and supersede the attitudinal perceptions of the community and its observations of specific news events. This ties directly into recognition of a difference from the reality of law enforcement and its popular depictions. Shown through an exploration of current news stories based upon the four basic role perceptions of the police. That is, as a body focused on crime fighting, social service, order maintenance, and crime prevention. Viewed through an angle of each independent role via news outlets discernment on an occurrence. Noting a range of fiction to persist, forcing a scope of differing impressions in its wake. Herein highlighting an imperative standard of recognition with police responsibilities and roles for jobs to remain effective. Basely, when the media and populace portray law enforcement as mythologized figures with singular foci, communities suffer from the misrepresentation that ensues.
The first police role that examines this is that of the crime fighter. A mantle most widely maligned through stereotypes and fictionalized ideals of its reactive functions. Whereby expectations frequently exceed possible capabilities and result in communal backlash. However, the concept of certain police responsibilities directed strictly at the combating of crime is not unilaterally wrong. Evidence of this pattern in action is seen through the Castle Rock ...
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It is a myth to believe that an officers job is spend fighting dangerous crimes, in reality officers spend more time handing smaller cases. For example, police officers spend a lot of time doing daily tasks such as giving speeding tickets and being mediators in disputes (Kappeler & Potter, 2005). Handing out speeding tickers and handling minor disputes are far from fighting crime. Police officers spend more time doing preventive measures (Kappeler & Potter, 2005). Preventive measures involve officers intervening to prevent further altercations. Victor Kappeler and Gary Potter discussed the myth of crime fighting as invalid and misleading notions of an officer’s employment.
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