Issues in Policing

• Do male police officers respond to more burglary calls than female officers do? It is often the closest officer responding, so male officers respond more because they out number the female officers.
• Do female officers make more arrests of teens than male officers? Female officers make more arrests because teen witnesses are more likely to cooperate with female officers than male officers.
• Do male officers save more lives? Only in cases involving carrying people do male officers save more lives than female officers.
• Are female officers more educated than male officers? There are more enlisted female college graduates than male college graduates.
• Do male officers get accused of unnecessary force than female officers? Male officers have higher testosterone levels and are accused of unnecessary force more often than female officers.

In this video, Officer Rosenthal exhibits the "law enforcer" style of policing. The "law enforcer" style is best described as detection and apprehension; they play it by the book. If the suspect does something that warrants a citation, they get that citation. If the suspect warrants being arrested, they get arrested. The "law enforcer" knows the law and if a person breaks the rules, the officer is dedicated to delivering the consequences outlined, without care to outside factors. Officer Rosenthal definitely displays the "law enforcer" style. He first detects suspicious activity. After speaking with the witnesses, he discovers the suspect is soliciting money. When the suspect starts "flexing on" the officer, he cuffs the suspect. Officer Rosenthal then proceeds to tell the suspect that originally he was only going to give him a citation because he was only committing a misdemeanor. However, after resisted Officer Rosenthal, the suspect now warrants being arrested, and that is exactly what Rosenthal does. He is playing by the rules and giving the punishment deserved.


Police brutality includes many different actions police use to harass people. The following is a story from a Colorado man who believes police brutality was used against him. In this case, the police responded to a call claiming that a man named Farouk Kigozi and his girlfriend were arguing loudly. The man was compliant with all police requests once they had arrived, but an officer continued to twist Farouk's arm and throw him to the ground once he was handcuffed. The police officer then continues to repeatedly punch him in the face, even as Farouk begs the officer not to hit him. Farouk was handcuffed with his stomach on the ground while one cop continued to use unnecessary excessive force and another cop held him on the ground while he did so. The form of police brutality being used would be excessive force in the form of continuous beating with punches to the face, even when the man did not seem to be a threat what-so-ever. According to the story, Farouk admitted to drinking too much that night, but states that the police should have handcuffed him and then taken him to jail immediately, instead of repeatedly beating him in the face. This man did not threaten the police or refuse to comply with their requests at any time during the incident. He did what was asked of him and it was unnecessary for the police to use that kind of brutality against him. He should have been taken straight to jail once he was arrested. The rest was uncalled for (Mbrckley, 2009).


"Las Vegas Midget (Round 1)." 25 October 2008. Online video clip. YouTube. Accessed on 05 October 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIr7SrHafkU

Mbrickley . (2009). Alleged Colorado Police Brutality caught on tape. http://www.totalinjury.com/blog/alleged-colorado-police-brutality-caught-on-tape.