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In the United States, the media and the government have created a socially constructed image of the police as the effective thin blue line that stands between anarchy and order. Officers and detectives are constructed as effective crime fighters who prevent crime and protect us from criminals. Police are portrayed as effective crime fighters who use the latest technology and techniques to prevent crime, to ferret out lawbreakers, and to...Read More

Many people aspiring for a career in law enforcement wonder if they can become a police officer even if they have had some trouble in their past. Of course, the answer to this question is not an easy one and it really depends on what one means by “trouble.”  Fortunately, research conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics provides some answers to this question. Read More

The Teacher Leader capstone experience is designed to bring reflection and focus to the whole of a teacher’s graduate level experiences. As a culminating project, it centers on the application and integration of the skills, knowledge and experiences gained through focused study and in-depth inquiry. It’s designed to authentically address a complex problem in practice.Read More

In this series, we have examined the widely held belief that women are inferior to men in law enforcement and discovered that females perform equally as well as males in many areas and out-perform them in others. Our first two installments focused on similarities.Read More

Regardless of the fact that women have been employed in American law enforcement since the early 1900s, a historical pattern of bias and discrimination has continued, even in the face of substantial evidence, which shows that not only are women capable of doing police work, but often they out perform men in important aspects of the job.Read More

Women in American law enforcement face substantial obstacles to integration when entering the ranks of police organizations. While racial/ethnic minorities have faced significant discrimination in policing because of racial prejudice, women entering law enforcement have confronted gender ideology and gender bias as major impediments. Gender ideology is defined as a system of beliefs that attempts to justify differential treatment of women on the basis of socially constructed categories as well...Read More

By the 1960s, massive social and political changes were occurring in the United States. The civil rights movement was challenging white hegemony in the South and racist social policies in the North. The use of professional police forces to suppress the Civil Rights movement, often by brute force did irreparable damage to American policing. From 1964 to 1968 riots, usually sparked by police brutality or oppression, rocked the major cities...Read More