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Criminal justice (history (Political Era ((1842-1920), greater attachment…

- - - - british founder of the London Metropolitan police force, model for our own, formed a dedicated, paid, proffesional, group of officers
  - - - broken window theory
        
        tended to create a sense that the police were more concerned with keeping up appearances than solving crimes
      - stop and frisk was discontinued after racial implication
      - problem oriented policing
- - - - police function in rural areas
      - officer in court
      - operate jails
    - - police within city area
- - - - Danger
        
        situational awareness
        
        benign can become dangerous
        
        always on high alert
        
        can sometimes be seen as hostile/confrontational
      - authority
        
        must establish authority
        
        must balance between authority and respect
      - morality
        
        values that motivate or justifies actions- wether legal or otherwise
        
        upholding the law
        
        protecting society
        
        taking "bad people" off the streets
      - isolation
        
        is encourages by the perception that the public is hostile to officers
        
        "us vs them" mentality
        
        interactions with public usually occur during moments of crisis
        
        police see the worst of humanity everyday
        
        people usually see the hardest part of cops whenever they interact
        
        sometimes have difficulty separating work and home
      - stress
        
        external
        
        organizational
        
        personal
        
        stress of bringing work home
        
        higher levels of divorce, alcoholism, heart problems, etc
        
        operational
        
        stress of the job and decisions they have to make
        
        if they have hurt someone
      - police wellness
        
        establishing a healthy coping mechanism early in the career
        
        shift of the police mindset
        
        mentoring network
        
        stress reduction/wellness programs
        
        critical incident stress management (CISM) programs
  - - - if its small family stuff it can be ignored sometimes
    - - sometimes race plays a roll
      - women are less likely to get a ticket
      - females and whites are more likely to get a lighter sentence
      - rich people are treated nicer
    - - police may decide to enforce certain things more
- - - - want to make sure community isn't afraid of cops
    - - make sure rumors aren't true about corruption
    - - checks for complaints against stations or officers
      - has no real teeth for punishment but works with stations to maintain a good relationship with the community
    - - requires proof that officers ar doing things right by writing everything down
      - shows that that your department is doing everything right
- - - - it is when an officer can see obvious crime (like witnessing a crime)
    - - certain places need a warrent
    - - usually a traffic stop
      - not official arrest, just temporary
    - - gives the officer the ability to intervene without a warrant
      - judge has to determine later if it was enough or not
      - is dangerous and can cause officers to be accused of bias
    - - judge didn't sign a warrant properly
- - - - mostly because of media coverage
      - people are afriad after mass shootings
      - is actually safer now than ever