Cops Vs. CopsEssay title: Cops Vs. CopsYou see cops all over the TV now days, but the cops shows on TV give people that watch them the wrong images about real cops that see all day long. All people think they are, are no good people that dont give a care what people think and are mean people, and also the people that watch cops also suspect, what they see on TV is what really goes on in the real life, but thats wrong.
Like for instance people think that just because on TV all crimes are ultimately solved and perpetrators brought to justice but really Most crimes are never solved (around 80 percent of murders are solved, but less than 20 percent of burglaries). The chances of being sent to prison for committing one crime are 1 out of 100.
In American mass media, police work is a major topic. News, talk shows, prime-time crime dramas, and movies, all feature police as major figures. But, what kinds of images of policing does the media portray? How close or far from reality are these images? What is absent from media portrayals of police work may be just as important as the things the media tends to exaggerate.
Overall, it would have to be said that the attitude of the media towards the police is an ambivalent one. News depictions of the police as truly heroic figures, who selflessly give of themselves to protect the public are rare, but cop movies rely on such characterizations. Police work is frequently glamorized by all forms of media, and made to appear much more exciting than it actually is. Depictions of police doing paperwork (handing out tickets, filling out reports, accident forms, insurance verification documents, etc.) are few and far between. Rarely shown are traffic duties, crowd control, and the social work functions largely performed by regular patrol officers (calming angry spouses, transporting drunks, allaying the fears of frightened citizens). We learn little of the real nature of day-to-day police work from media accounts.
It might also be true that the ‘pro-black’ elements of the police are largely not present in most depictions of the black community. Although the depiction of a black police officer in films such as Black Lives Matter are hardly different from our own experience, the tone of the police work has changed, making it increasingly popular. At the same time, there is much media coverage focused on how cops are portrayed (in a highly offensive sense). A number of examples of this are found in various newspaper reports, some particularly noteworthy of course, such as an article from an Associated Press newspaper, and from CNN’s “Today” in 2015.
The most notable change is that the work of law enforcement, along with an increasing number of film companies, means that more and more stories are now written about the police and their job status and the impact it has on people’s lives. A number of public opinion polls conducted in 2015 have shown a large number of people saying that the police force has no interest in representing the black community, while some of them have become increasingly critical by comparing the police to Nazis or other Nazi sympathizers.
The question is: is the police the perfect depiction of a black city? Do depictions of the police show something positive about the black community? Or are they just the opposite?
The majority of black Americans live in very diverse neighborhoods, with plenty of employment opportunities and housing opportunity, yet the police tend to be portrayed as law enforcement professionals in film. There are many examples of film productions portraying police as black policemen, including:
A group called GEOs of the Black Nationalist Organization (GNA) (the Black Panthers), who hold the Police Department title, were an early example of an NAACP group that did not take sides but were involved in many actions. For instance, they were also the first NAACP police union, which was also made up of former police officers like Cotto and Bannister. While GNA did not formally claim themselves as a group, they claimed to have worked with the civil rights movement and were the main supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. GNA also had a much needed “black bloc” in which hundreds of people, many of whom were white, gathered outside the city’s police barracks and organized the Black Panthers. GNA claimed that the GNA was responsible for breaking up the racist demonstrations that had taken place by the St. Louis Public Television news station across the country: “I saw firsthand the terrible conditions which have engulfed this city… I said, ‘What can I do to change the attitude of the police to the black community?'” One night, one of the African-American activists, a young man named Kari Freeman, drove away. Kari had been caught on video confronting and being tackled by police. Kari was not armed, but he told GNA that he could walk on the street if they just put her up. They took Kari’s camera and uploaded it on the internet. The following day the GNA group posted something on their Facebook page to give the impression that they had a very good understanding of the culture of violence and racial injustice within this city of 1.5 million residents.
GNA became a powerful force in the African-American community and made a
It might also be true that the ‘pro-black’ elements of the police are largely not present in most depictions of the black community. Although the depiction of a black police officer in films such as Black Lives Matter are hardly different from our own experience, the tone of the police work has changed, making it increasingly popular. At the same time, there is much media coverage focused on how cops are portrayed (in a highly offensive sense). A number of examples of this are found in various newspaper reports, some particularly noteworthy of course, such as an article from an Associated Press newspaper, and from CNN’s “Today” in 2015.
The most notable change is that the work of law enforcement, along with an increasing number of film companies, means that more and more stories are now written about the police and their job status and the impact it has on people’s lives. A number of public opinion polls conducted in 2015 have shown a large number of people saying that the police force has no interest in representing the black community, while some of them have become increasingly critical by comparing the police to Nazis or other Nazi sympathizers.
The question is: is the police the perfect depiction of a black city? Do depictions of the police show something positive about the black community? Or are they just the opposite?
The majority of black Americans live in very diverse neighborhoods, with plenty of employment opportunities and housing opportunity, yet the police tend to be portrayed as law enforcement professionals in film. There are many examples of film productions portraying police as black policemen, including:
A group called GEOs of the Black Nationalist Organization (GNA) (the Black Panthers), who hold the Police Department title, were an early example of an NAACP group that did not take sides but were involved in many actions. For instance, they were also the first NAACP police union, which was also made up of former police officers like Cotto and Bannister. While GNA did not formally claim themselves as a group, they claimed to have worked with the civil rights movement and were the main supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. GNA also had a much needed “black bloc” in which hundreds of people, many of whom were white, gathered outside the city’s police barracks and organized the Black Panthers. GNA claimed that the GNA was responsible for breaking up the racist demonstrations that had taken place by the St. Louis Public Television news station across the country: “I saw firsthand the terrible conditions which have engulfed this city… I said, ‘What can I do to change the attitude of the police to the black community?’” One night, one of the African-American activists, a young man named Kari Freeman, drove away. Kari had been caught on video confronting and being tackled by police. Kari was not armed, but he told GNA that he could walk on the street if they just put her up. They took Kari’s camera and uploaded it on the internet. The following day the GNA group posted something on their Facebook page to give the impression that they had a very good understanding of the culture of violence and racial injustice within this city of 1.5 million residents.
GNA became a powerful force in the African-American community and made a
1) For a significant proportion of the public, TV cop shows are assumed to depict reality. In particular, people believe that their favorite shows are credible.
2) On the other hand, the police concluded the shows to be inaccurate, and rarely depict real-life police work.3) The public, however, claims that TV police shows have little impact on their image of the police, stating that they get their information mostly from news.
4) The police believe the public gets its information mostly from TV cop shows, not news.5) The police believe TV cop shows hurt their image with the public, rather than improve it.6) Police object most strongly to the way TV shows depict them as driving irresponsibly, violating the Constitutional rights of suspects, and not using their weapons responsibly.
7) 40 % of the public believe police shows offer accurate portrayals of police work v. only 14% of the police interviewed.8) Do TV police dramas hurt the image of the police? 46% of the public said they had no effect, while 48% of police said such programming hurt their image.
9) On the issue of violations of Constitutional rights of citizens by police, the most surprising slip occurred. It is on this issue that the public are probably most effected by TV. The result of the constant violation of such rights by TV cops is that a significant portion of the public has come to expect it as standard operating procedure