The chapter starts with corrupted police stories and honored “heroes” who dedicated their time and effort to bringing down criminals. The biggest issue the chapter talks about is the way people see police officers. Whether its their personality, their roles, myths, and stereotypes, and their styles. Because everyone is considered different, so are police officers. Some may be super strict and some could be way to lenient. One thing I learn in this chapter is the three styles of policing. One is the watchman style which emphasizes on the maintenance in order while the legalistic focuses more strictly on law violations than on the maintenance of order. The last style of policing is the service style which approaches law enforcement from a complex problem-solving perspective. The chapter also showed me the issues and stress police officers have to go through everyday. I learned that just about everyday during the job, you will encounter a lot of B.S from crooks and its your job to seize the scenario in a proper way while under a lot of stress or pressure. that’s why, I learned in our LW101 class that you need to build tough skin in order to best get yourself on track and away from B.S.
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