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Lincoln Augustin
Kandice Kardell
INTRODUCTION
The amount of mass shootings and lack of education, police in the United States are
rooted in laws enforcement misconduct. I will look to explore the links between these injustices
and lack of quality police training. As kids growing up we have learned that police brutality has
been a major issue in our history. We have also learned from our peers, school teachers and class
rooms that this issue mostly has been against individuals in lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
However, as a society were not aware of everything that was going on. Due to the lack of
resources, it is very hard for us to know what is going on in the outside world. Today we as a
nation have been catch up to the situation, due to the development of technology. Since the
creation of technology, we have been able to capture everything that is going around us. Now
that the media is informing us, and people are recoding everything, we have been able to see, and
hear, a lot about the police shooting and brutalities that are going on here within this country.
This issue has been part of our culture for decades but for whatever reason I think we did not pay
attention until the last five years. The last three to five years have been very hard on the
American people due to all the killing that has been happening. Thankfully the media and
technologies for opening our eyes. However, we as society are still struggling to figure out what
has happened to cause the mass shootings and what has prevented the police officers, who are
supposed to be protecting us, from the bad guys. The goal for this paper is for me see the link
between training and police offers. Furthermore, I will be looking to see how training effects the
officer’s decision. Also, what kind of education/training they are receiving on this matter. As
part of my assignment I have selected 8 articles that I hope to give me the knowledge or material
Bazley, T. D., Lersch, K. M., and Mieczkowski. (2007) Officer force versus suspect resistance:
According to this article, the interaction between police officers and communities is a nightmare.
Police shooting, and brutalism are affecting citizen in the community in many ways,
especially in the black communities. Everyone is becoming afraid of the officer because
they are wondering what the result can be for them. The focus of this article is
community relation and how better training can help officer built a strong relationship
Kleider H. M., Parrott D. J., & King T. Z. (2009). Shooting behavior: How working memory and
I have picked this article for my paper because its different for the other articles. I found this
article to do be unique because it took a different part than the others. Instead of focus on
the training the author decided to take other ways by looking at what are some previous
experiences that can cause officers bad behavioral problems. The article gives us a
greater understanding other personal experiences that is affecting officer’s decision when
This article has a similar approach to one of the previous articles, but it goes more in-depth about
providing better training and programs for police officers to interact with citizens in the
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community. The author believe that public agencies and police officers should be held
accountable for their actions, (Klinger). It also provided me some great information that I
Lebrón, M. (2012). Neocolonial Policing in Puerto Rico. NACLA Report on the Americas,45(1),
12-16. doi:10.1080/10714839.2012.11722106.
According to the article, there was a mass unlawful activity going on in Puerto Rico in the year
2004 to 2008. Due to the unlawful misconduct that was going on, the Civil Right
out why there was so many police officers involved in criminal activities in the island. I
have chosen this article for my research paper because its cover some important
information that we all need to know. Especially about how due to lack of training or
appropriate education is affecting not just us within the Untied States but also other
Mcelvain, J. P., & Kposowa, A. J. (2008). Police Officer Characteristics and the Likelihood of
doi:10.1177/0093854807313995.
In this article the authors put their focus on examining the officers based on gender, race etc. The
article is also looking to see who are more quickly to shoot between female and male
officers. The fact that this article takes a different stand than the rest of them makes a
great resource for my paper. It will give me the opportunity to looks deeper than just
Paoline III, E. A., & Terrill, W. (2007). Police Education, Experience, and the Use of
This article focuses more on the different level of education for each officer and how that can
impact their decision making when it come misconduct or unlawful events. The article
also points out how less training officers are quickly to fire at unarmed persons compare
to a more education, experience and training officer are. This article gives me a great deal
The main goal of this article was to do a deep investigation on the Chicago Police Department to
Civil Right Division). To better understand the matter the (CRD) looked at every possible
way that could help them find what is causing the officers to use deadly force against
citizen on the streets. Due to this investigation being in Chicago, it makes it very more
important due to the amount of crimes that happened there. This article provided us with
Storey, J. E., Gibas, A. L., Reeves, K. A., & Hart, S. D. (2011). Evaluation of a Violence Risk
(Threat) Assessment Training Program for Police and Other Criminal Justice
When looking for a cause or reason of why police officers do what they do, we need to look at
all the possibility. Which is the reason why this article will play key role into my paper.
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The article dose not just look at police officers but every profession within the criminal
Justice field to see how lack of train affect them on a personal level.