Police Role descriptions in the Media?

Such as crime fighters, Social Servants, Order Maintainer, Crime Preventer.

Police Role descriptions in the Media?
"Human rights are not only a promise unfulfilled, they are a promise betrayed" (Irene Khan, AI's Secretary General"





In November 2005, National Public Radio (NPR) reported allegations of abuse of immigration detainees held at three New Jersey jails, including Passaic Jail and Hudson County Correctional Center. They included claims that two prisoners were beaten while handcuffed and that others were bitten by guard dogs. AI had reported on similar abuses in 2003. Most of the alleged victims in the NPR report were deported before investigations could be completed. The Department of Homeland Security said it was reviewing various contract detention facilities but did not confirm which jails were covered in the review.





There were reports of ill-treatment and deaths in custody involving “new generation” tasers: powerful dart-firing electroshock weapons deployed or trialled by more than 5,000 US police and correctional agencies. More than 40 people died after being struck by US police tasers, bringing to more than 70 the total number of such deaths reported since 2001. While coroners generally attributed cause of death to factors such as drug intoxication, in at least five cases they found the taser played a role.





Most of the people who died were unarmed men who did not appear to pose a serious threat when they were electroshocked. Many were subjected to multiple shocks and some to additional force such as pepper spray or dangerous restraint holds, including hogtying (placing someone face-down with their hands and feet bound together from behind).





There were reports that tasers were used by officers routinely to shock people who were mentally disturbed or simply refused to obey commands. Children and the elderly were among those shocked. In most such cases, the officers involved were cleared of wrongdoing. In some departments tasers had become the most common force tool used by officers against a wide range of suspects.





AI reiterated its call on the US authorities to suspend use and transfers of tasers and other stun weapons pending a rigorous, independent inquiry into their use and effects.
Reply:How about sorter of Bullsh*t
Reply:Actually I don't think the media uses any of those phrases to describe the role of police.





When a police officer gets killed in the line of duty, they are generally treated as wimps, careless, and not carefull.





When a police officer kills someone while in the line of duty, they are generally treated as monsters, criminals, scum.





So, you could say that with some elements of the media, cops can't ever get it right, wich is very unfair. There are instances where cops behave badly, even criminally, but that does not mean that the entire police force is guilty of such conduct.