Is police officer a respectable job in U. S? I see many comment that they the US police like to abuse their power. Such as police brutality. In my country singapore, being a cops is a professional and respectable job

There are Police Officers, and there are Pigs. Police Officers are respectable and do their job. Pigs abuse their power. There is a difference. 

Enclosed: Speech by Joe Friday.

"It's awkward having a policeman around the house. Friends drop in, a man with a badge answers the door, the temperature drops 20 degrees.

You throw a party and that badge gets in the way. All of a sudden there isn't a straight man in the crowd. Everybody's a comedian. 'Don't drink too much,' somebody says, 'or the man with a badge'll run you in.' Or 'How's it going, Dick Tracy? How many jaywalkers did you pinch today?' And then there's always the one who wants to know how many apples you stole.

All at once you lost your first name. You're a cop, a flatfoot, a bull, a dick, John Law. You're the fuzz, the heat; you're poison, you're trouble, you're bad news. They call you everything, but never a policeman.

It's not much of a life, unless you don't mind missing a Dodger game because the hotshot phone rings. Unless you like working Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, at a job that doesn't pay overtime. Oh, the pay's adequate-- if you count pennies you can put your kid through college, but you better plan on seeing Europe on your television set.

And then there's your first night on the beat. When you try to arrest a drunken prostitute in a Main St. bar and she rips your new uniform to shreds. You'll buy another one-- out of your own pocket.

And you're going to rub elbows with the elite-- pimps, addicts, thieves, bums, winos, girls who can't keep an address and men who don't care. Liars, cheats, con men-- the class of Skid Row.

And the heartbreak-- underfed kids, beaten kids, molested kids, lost kids, crying kids, homeless kids, hit-and-run kids, broken-arm kids, broken-leg kids, broken-head kids, sick kids, dying kids, dead kids. The old people nobody wants-- the reliefers, the pensioners, t he ones who walk the street cold, and those who tried to keep warm and died in a $3 room with an unventilated gas heater. You'll walk your beat and try to pick up the pieces.

Do you have real adventure in your soul? You better have, because you're gonna do time in a prowl car. Oh, it's going to be a thrill a minute when you get an unknown-trouble call and hit a backyard at two in the morning, never knowing who you'll meet-- a kid with a knife, a pill-head with a gun, or two ex-cons with nothing to lose.

And you're going to have plenty of time to think. You'll draw duty in a lonely car, with nobody to talk to but your radio.

Four years in uniform and you'll have the ability, the experience and maybe the desire to be a detective. If you like to fly by the seat of your pants, this is where you belong. For every crime that's committed, you've got three million suspects to choose from. And most of the time, you'll have few facts and a lot of hunches. You'll run down leads that dead-end on you. You'll work all-night stakeouts that could last a week. You'll do leg work until you're sure you've talked to everybody in the state of California.

People who saw it happen - but really didn't. People who insist they did it - but really didn't. People who don't remember - those who try to forget. Those who tell the truth - those who lie. You'll run the files until your eyes ache.

And paperwork? Oh, you'll fill out a report when you're right, you'll fill out a report when you're wrong, you'll fill one out when you're not sure, you'll fill one out listing your leads, you'll fill one out when you have no leads, you'll fill out a report on the reports you've made! You'll write enough words in your lifetime to stock a library.

You'll learn to live with doubt, anxiety, frustration. Court decisions that tend to hinder rather than help you. Dorado, Morse, Escobedo, Cahan. You'll learn to live with the District Attorney, testifying in court, defense attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, judges, juries, witnesses. And sometimes you're not going to be happy with the outcome.

But there's also this: there are over 5,000 men in this city, who know that being a policeman is an endless, glamourless, thankless job that's gotta be done. I know it, too, and I'm damn glad to be one of them.

Why do you feel the need to create a new topic for every question you have? A web search will get you plenty of answers. 

 

A law enforcement officer is a respectable job in any country, it's just dependent on whether that officer deserves that respect or not. You'll always see the bad things officers do as it gets plastered all throughout the media and social networking, it's a rarity that you'll actually see an officer being applauded for doing the right thing.

I think it doesn't vary depending on where you live.

I like to call police officers, social workers and the like "50/50 jobs".

50% of the people there are there to help people and genuinely care and 50% of the people are there for the power trip.

There are good cops and bad cops everywhere in the world, not just limited to the US. I'm farily certain good outweight the bad but media likes to focus on things where a MOS has conducted misconduct, police brutality etc...

Edited May 7, 201412 yr by Olanov

Ive never been in the usa, but what i have seen about their police is that they in fact have a high brutality rating; and compared with european polices, they enjoy having a bit more of overall immunity. 

But this has a good excuse and it is that USA has a high criminal and insecurity rating, and one solution is to give the police more maneuver in its activities giving them more power (what can lead to corruption), instead of center attention to improve its national safety directly.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

 

Here you can see that USA is one of the 1st world countries with more homicide rate, thanks to wrong or poor policies. Thankfully is changing slowly with time.

 

I studied public and private security, and how works the USA security is a common theme.

 

Greetings

 

Edit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

 

Visit the last one, incarceration rate...

Edited May 7, 201412 yr by OutCAst

As for my experience in the US, I've only met really nice and professional officers & deputies.

There will always be good and bad LEO's (Law Enforcement Officers), no matter where you go. Often times being a LEO is a respectable job, however as always, there are those who are just out for the power that comes with the uniform (badge/star).

 

Media loves to focus on corrupt LEO's that's why you see a lot of it in the media, and yes the US has a lot of police brutaility. However, it's not like every LEO in the US is a corrupt, power abusing grumpy dude. Every LEO isn't corrupt, and it's often that 1% of the LEO's who makes the rest look bad. 99% of LEO's are nice and love their job, but the 1% will always be there...

 

 

Of course, Being a city cop, sheriff, or trooper are all very noble jobs. Don't believe everything you see on TV and YouTube about all cops just want to beat up people and stuff, in those stories you only get about half the story. But there is that 1% of cops that makes the whole look bad... Being a cop in the U.S. is a VERY respectful job.

Is police officer a respectable job in U. S? I see many comment that they the US police like to abuse their power. Such as police brutality. In my country singapore, being a cops is a professional and respectable job

Yes it is but i think much police officers  not respect their own profession but if one professional is serious and like what he make i think is very respectable without corruption and others sure...

regards,

MHB

Depends on who you ask and where you ask.

Okay look, It doesn't matter where you are in the world. There will be police corruption. Most Officers aren't but there always could be. If they're not respected it's most likely because that person has been arrested or they go with a lot of rappers as in the term "F**K the police" because it makes them feel cool.  Some people lay blame on officers for enforcing the laws that the government places. In different areas maybe they respect you in some they may not. It depends.

Here you can see that USA is one of the 1st world countries with more homicide rate, thanks to wrong or poor policies. Thankfully is changing slowly with time.

 

Why USA is also ranking high with homicides is affected by the huge population, different ethnic cultures living closey together, poverty, poor educational system, social security and many other different factors. It all adds to it and explains why some things are so over there. It's far from worst though. One I'd consider worse and is much closer to my home too is Russia. I can imagine law enforcement agencies in Africa (especially south) aren't most joyful neither.

Thanks for all your comment :)

 

 

just fyi Below is top ten out of 148 country Rankings for reliability of police services By WEF (world economic forum)  global competitiveness report 

 

 

1. Finland

2. New Zealand

3.Qatar

4.Hong kong

5.Singapore

6.switzerland

7.Chile

8.Ireland

9.Iceland

10.Netherland

 

 

UK is 26

US is 24

Edited May 7, 201412 yr by ahling023

There are Police Officers, and there are Pigs. Police Officers are respectable and do their job. Pigs abuse their power. There is a difference. 

Enclosed: Speech by Joe Friday.

"It's awkward having a policeman around the house. Friends drop in, a man with a badge answers the door, the temperature drops 20 degrees.

You throw a party and that badge gets in the way. All of a sudden there isn't a straight man in the crowd. Everybody's a comedian. 'Don't drink too much,' somebody says, 'or the man with a badge'll run you in.' Or 'How's it going, Dick Tracy? How many jaywalkers did you pinch today?' And then there's always the one who wants to know how many apples you stole.

All at once you lost your first name. You're a cop, a flatfoot, a bull, a dick, John Law. You're the fuzz, the heat; you're poison, you're trouble, you're bad news. They call you everything, but never a policeman.

It's not much of a life, unless you don't mind missing a Dodger game because the hotshot phone rings. Unless you like working Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, at a job that doesn't pay overtime. Oh, the pay's adequate-- if you count pennies you can put your kid through college, but you better plan on seeing Europe on your television set.

And then there's your first night on the beat. When you try to arrest a drunken prostitute in a Main St. bar and she rips your new uniform to shreds. You'll buy another one-- out of your own pocket.

And you're going to rub elbows with the elite-- pimps, addicts, thieves, bums, winos, girls who can't keep an address and men who don't care. Liars, cheats, con men-- the class of Skid Row.

And the heartbreak-- underfed kids, beaten kids, molested kids, lost kids, crying kids, homeless kids, hit-and-run kids, broken-arm kids, broken-leg kids, broken-head kids, sick kids, dying kids, dead kids. The old people nobody wants-- the reliefers, the pensioners, t he ones who walk the street cold, and those who tried to keep warm and died in a $3 room with an unventilated gas heater. You'll walk your beat and try to pick up the pieces.

Do you have real adventure in your soul? You better have, because you're gonna do time in a prowl car. Oh, it's going to be a thrill a minute when you get an unknown-trouble call and hit a backyard at two in the morning, never knowing who you'll meet-- a kid with a knife, a pill-head with a gun, or two ex-cons with nothing to lose.

And you're going to have plenty of time to think. You'll draw duty in a lonely car, with nobody to talk to but your radio.

Four years in uniform and you'll have the ability, the experience and maybe the desire to be a detective. If you like to fly by the seat of your pants, this is where you belong. For every crime that's committed, you've got three million suspects to choose from. And most of the time, you'll have few facts and a lot of hunches. You'll run down leads that dead-end on you. You'll work all-night stakeouts that could last a week. You'll do leg work until you're sure you've talked to everybody in the state of California.

People who saw it happen - but really didn't. People who insist they did it - but really didn't. People who don't remember - those who try to forget. Those who tell the truth - those who lie. You'll run the files until your eyes ache.

And paperwork? Oh, you'll fill out a report when you're right, you'll fill out a report when you're wrong, you'll fill one out when you're not sure, you'll fill one out listing your leads, you'll fill one out when you have no leads, you'll fill out a report on the reports you've made! You'll write enough words in your lifetime to stock a library.

You'll learn to live with doubt, anxiety, frustration. Court decisions that tend to hinder rather than help you. Dorado, Morse, Escobedo, Cahan. You'll learn to live with the District Attorney, testifying in court, defense attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, judges, juries, witnesses. And sometimes you're not going to be happy with the outcome.

But there's also this: there are over 5,000 men in this city, who know that being a policeman is an endless, glamourless, thankless job that's gotta be done. I know it, too, and I'm damn glad to be one of them.

 

 

Just had to say; excellent read Ineseri.  That kinda summed up what I figured when through the head of a day-to-day police officer.  He put paper to pen very well.

 

Good find!

 

DrDetroit

Oh hi, we're at the top. :D

Thanks, it's from a TV-Series called "Dragnet". Here is the speech in video-form: 

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The link to world economic forum)  global competitiveness report 

 

 

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2013-14.pdf

Why do you feel the need to create a new topic for every question you have? A web search will get you plenty of answers. 

 

A law enforcement officer is a respectable job in any country, it's just dependent on whether that officer deserves that respect or not. You'll always see the bad things officers do as it gets plastered all throughout the media and social networking, it's a rarity that you'll actually see an officer being applauded for doing the right thing.

Not really reibu, because if you type in a web search, most things you will find are police hate fourms and police brutality this, and police brutality that, because people think having to tackle a suspect who is running from the police is brutality. If they want to know real police brutality, go back to the 1920's where justice was a nightstick and jailbars.

I remember reading somewhere that Singapore Police have quite a number of corrupt cops.
One cop I think did some robberies. Also the unlawful use of their on duty weapons.
 

Ive never been in the usa, but what i have seen about their police is that they in fact have a high brutality rating; and compared with european polices, they enjoy having a bit more of overall immunity. 

But this has a good excuse and it is that USA has a high criminal and insecurity rating, and one solution is to give the police more maneuver in its activities giving them more power (what can lead to corruption), instead of center attention to improve its national safety directly.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

 

Here you can see that USA is one of the 1st world countries with more homicide rate, thanks to wrong or poor policies. Thankfully is changing slowly with time.

 

I studied public and private security, and how works the USA security is a common theme.

 

Greetings

 

Edit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

 

Visit the last one, incarceration rate...

 

The US doesn't have any more corruption then any other country. We have the biggest media outlet in the world, don't you think it'll be reported just a tad bit more then any other country? We also have the biggest law enforcement program in the world.

 

Thanks for all your comment :)

 

 

just fyi Below is top ten out of 148 country Rankings for reliability of police services By WEF (world economic forum)  global competitiveness report 

 

 

1. Finland

2. New Zealand

3.Qatar

4.Hong kong

5.Singapore

6.switzerland

7.Chile

8.Ireland

9.Iceland

10.Netherland

 

 

UK is 26

US is 24

 

I always love seeing that because that is taking by a PUBLIC survey. So if any of those people got a ticket or arrested or yelled at they would of put No i'm not happy with our police department. In service and getting the job done I don't think you can compare different police departments because well each country does it in a different way. Why would you compare the US departments to Iceland departments where they just had there first police related shooting in over 100 years. Its going to be different can't trust the survey because different departments, different laws, different procedures. I'm sure if you put this survey in North Korea or China everyone will be saying yes.

 

To answer your question yes and no.All depends on the ground of people you're dealing with. If you're asking gang banger chances are they will say no...

Edited May 7, 201412 yr by Darkangel