Police and the Media Roles

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This paper examines how today's policemen face many different roles as they battle crime of a new era and how they inadvertently take on many roles in the community as seen by the media. Among the few are the following four: The crime fighter, the social servant, the order maintainer and the crime preventist. It looks at how each one of these roles is but one integral part of today's police force, which is greatly different than the one from just ten years ago.

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"The Crime Fighter Role of Today's role is often the one that Hollywood loves to embrace. Typically, it is a confrontational style of policing that makes a great movie. I say it makes a great movie because any real officer will tell you that the last thing they want is to be involved in a fire fight with a criminal in a neighborhood. However, at the University of Utah in 2001, an officer received a tip that there were drugs being consumed at a on campus dorm/house. Officers kicked in the door to find a young man pointing a rifle at them, so they shot him in the hand to keep from firing on the other officers. (Whitley, 2001) This is a true story, but not one that the officers wanted to go through."

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