Today’s media and news outlets have portrayed the police force in a negative connotation, which is very contradictory to protecting the people, the police forces job. In order for police to work accordingly and effectively they must use their own tactics such as building rapport, rather than having hatred for cops, community members must place trust into the officers so the crimes will cease. The public and police need to work together hand in hand in order to feel the comfort in each other’s presence. If the community and police work together, it will lead to a more efficient police force and a better relationship between the public and these government workers.
An easy way to prevent the negative connotation with the police force is
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Only eight percent of officers say they mainly see themselves as enforcers. Sixteen percent of officers see themselves as protectors while on the job rather than enforcers of laws. More than eight in ten police say that civilians don’t understand the risks and stress it takes to be an officer or do police work. Research on police officers application of the law has shown that “discriminatory practices can be rooted in explicit, implicit, or unconscious biases”(1). Most civilians believe that officers in their communities have behaved according to the law and are abiding. Another way that helps with protecting and defending citizens/officers is the use of body cameras, this is useful when it comes to a case in which the whole story is not being revealed and one party is being ignoble(I). The job of the police is more complex than what it seems; the risks are always high. Generally speaking, if an ordinary citizen would see through the body camera of an officer, their negative perspective on them would most likely change(E). Resolutions would be made much easier if both groups put themselves in each other's