Sunday, August 30, 2009

Police Role in the Media

The role of social servant is a compassion filled empathetic role, police chaplains are not usually the focus of the media’s attention. Police chaplains provide emotional support and assistance to not only the police officers but victims as well during crisis. When an accident or crime occurs the police officers that respond need to use their skills and resources to figure out the crime scene and collect evidence and write reports. Police chaplains help notify family members and act as emotional support during the initial grief of hearing a loved one has lost their life or even taken their own life. "If we can help that family within the first hour, it helps with the grief process," Petty said. ""Even if they've had another death, they're facing something at that moment they've never faced before. On average, chaplains respond to anywhere between 50 and 75 calls a year for the department. That's more than one call per week. (Hansen, 2009)
It takes a special individual to become a social servant; the role itself can take an emotional toll on the individual. Chaplains respond to a variety of different emotional situations at any given hour of the night. Sometimes the officers responding to the scene even need to borrow the strength of the chaplain if the scene touches a personal area for the officer. I believe that chaplains are valuable tools for law enforcement officers regardless of religious preference or even preferring no religion at all the chaplain can provide a soft friendly shoulder to lean on in a time of crisis.
Order maintainers are ones who uphold and maintain, regarding law enforcement the order maintainer brings to mind the “sheriff of the land” in my mind. There is one man that readily comes to mind for me, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of my own area in Maricopa county Arizona. Arpaio has been called the toughest sheriff in the U.S. but he is not exactly winning popularity polls. Civil libertarians throughout the whole country have some sort of bone to pick with Arpaio mainly due to his tough stance on cutting costs while effectively incapacitating criminals. Sheriff Joe presides over the largest county in the U.S. and does not apologize for his efforts to maintain order. Our dear sheriff does not want inmates to enjoy anything while incarcerated, he is somewhat famous for his tent city where he has the inmates stored in tents versus a traditional jail cell.
The sheriff lives the old adage, "If you don’t want to do the time…don’t do the crime" which coincidentally can be seen in his office behind his desk. I think it is wonderful and if America had more order maintainers similar to Sheriff Joe Arpaio we would be far better off. Arpaio knows it is his job to maintain order and most efficiently carry out the sentences that his inmates were handed for crimes they were already convicted of. Arpaio is a tough guy interested in carrying out justice. I believe he is doing a great job, inmates have basic rights and Sheriff Joe meets those rights just fine. (24seven, 2005)



A crime fighter is a person who as a law enforcement official or government employee works to prevent crime and enforce laws. The gender equality in police forces has been an issue for years. Can women be just as good as men in the arena of crime fighting? I believe the answer to that is yes. The obvious disadvantages are height and weight and lacking upper body strength for women, but women are tough in their own ways. “Before we go any further with this issue let us get the ridiculousness out of the way. Whether you believe these studies or not, the truth is that whatever your naturally assigned gender, it absolutely doesn’t limit you as an individual from growing and learning and overcoming and adapting.” (Gennon, 2006)
Women have fought hard to have the right to occupy certain roles within law enforcement and I believe that woman is a great asset to police force as a crime fighter. Women bring many things to the table, a softer side to relate to as well. Communication is at times easier for women. One of the areas where the biggest differences have been found lies in what scientists call "spacial ability", which is the ability to picture things, their proportion, shape, position, and geography in the mind's eye. While the male brain gives men the edge in creating three dimensional objects out of drawings, reading maps, and finding their way around a neighborhood, the female brain tends to be organized in order to respond more sensitively to all sensory stimuli. This is very interesting to me and suggests that women as just as capable as men to be crime fighters.
A crime preventer is law enforcement, government employee or even active community member that takes an active role in minimizing victimization and crime from occurring. A great approach to crime prevention is to see a problem, come up with a solution that will in effect prevent more of that same crime to occur. Arizona has been the primary entry point for illegal immigrants from Mexico for at least a decade. Federal officials plan to start construction within weeks on a new "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border that they say could almost completely cover the nearly 2,000-mile frontier within five years. (Rotstein , 2009)
This is a great way to proactively fight crime and possibly prevent it. While I do agree that illegal immigration is not the worst crime that we could focus on the impact of illegal aliens in substantial. The Federal government spent $1.43 billion to incarcerate criminal aliens in fiscal 2004. This total includes $280 million of reimbursements made to state and local governments under the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program [SCAAP]. But SCAAP funds cover less than 25 percent of the full cost of incarcerating criminal aliens in state and local correctional facilities, according to the GAO. The average criminal alien was arrested for 13 prior offenses. (Rubenstein, 2005)

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

lonely

I am really lonely right now.........I hate that he messed stuff up and I have to suffer physically by not having any intimacy and feeling kind of depressed about it the whole thing is a mess............I never see him anymore cause he works 7 days a week now so I guess that is good part of me feels bad for him but I can't get past all he has done or can I and I am just going about it wrong? IDK!!!! I feel like I am losing my strength maybe it is because I haven't been reading the Bible? I feel so lost and alone right now............what is the purpose of this storm I am going through.......every time I start to feel bad for him I remember the day after his affair and he was with that nasty stripper and he said these words I will never be able to scrub from my brain " You just don't understand what she(stripper girl) has been through in her life and how bad she has had it" WTF .......This was like 6 months after giving birth to his son too! I don't know what to do with all this anger it is killing me can I really forgive him for my sake or is this just a waste of time to even try to fix........once a cheater always? I don't know

What must be done to reduce or alleviate the role of conflict in policing?

What must be done to reduce or alleviate the role of conflict in policing?
I believe that the conflict in policing exists on many different levels and in some way always will. The people expect so much from officers and rightly so, they have taken a job which is dangerous and at times very isolating. Police have a duty to preserve the peace, protect lives and property. Along with all of these obvious responsibilities the police also have to cover themselves. By that I mean liability issues, internal conflict, external conflict, the more I study officers the more gratitude I have for these special people because I don’t envy their job one bit. The public has the image of a police officer as someone chasing down criminals or making the big busts, but actually the officer is far more complex than just that. The officer of the law today is a counselor a fellow citizen trying to help hopefully and spends a good amount of time doing paperwork. Conflict resolution is part of the officer’s job, I can’t think of a whole lot of things that would make conflict not a part of an officer’s job. As far as alleviating stress proper training could absolutely make the officer’s job easier to deal with.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Whats next?

Still separated...... just kind of on the fence as to what to do in this marriage, I don't know if I love him anymore...... My pastor's wife said to keep it together for the kids, he hasn't got professional counseling yet like I asked him to......instead he goes online at daily strength and chats with women who sympathize with his "plight" he is a douche that is all there is to it ....he just told me last week "you shouldn't have intellectual conversations with men" men being guys from my college class that I am in no way attracted to and have never met, I don't know what to do anymore, I still feel very spiritually disconnected and like I am just wandering aimlessly

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Socialism and the Proffesor

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,
but had once failed an entire class.

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That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.


The professor then said, "OK,
we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".


All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.


After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.


As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.


When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering,
blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.


All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.


Could not be any simpler than that.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

DRUGS are BAD emmmmmmmkkkkkk

Would the association between drugs and crime disappear if drugs were either legalized or decriminalized?


I believe not, people are always going to abuse substances legal or not. The government would benefit from being able to tax the drugs but there would still be crime. The crime would just mostly be in the form of stealing to get money for the “legal” drugs. Also the misdemeanor population in prisons would decrease but the felonies may increase. I may get some flak for my opinion but we have to stick to our guns on the position of drugs, I realize what we are doing now is not working and hasn’t been working but drugs are bad the alter a person’s ability to drive, think and be productive. We cannot take the position that that is acceptable because it simply is not. I am personally surprised the government has not already made some drugs legal to benefit from the ability to tax them. I just don’t think that is a good message to send our children, I experimented a bit but luckily I didn’tt destroy my life. Drugs defiantly have the potential to ruin lives and people are going to do them on some level legal or not