The public has taken matters into their own hands, by marching and creating riots to demand change. A march took place in Ferguson in honor of Michael Brown. Protestors carried signs that said “Hands up, don’t shoot”. The group was there to march for injustice and demanding change locally and nationally. This was cry against police violence. When Staten Island grand jury didn’t indict Pantaleo, citizens in New York and San Francisco gathered to protest. On December 4 and 5 more than 300 people were arrested for disorderly conduct. Protesters used Garner 's last words “ I can 't breathe” as a slogan. They chanted together against police brutality. Where there is a group that’s against there is a group in favor. A march was done in support of police officers on December 19. Supporters wearing shirts that stated, “ I can breathe, thanks to the NYPD. They held up signs saying “blue lives matter”. They also had their own chant “ Don’t resist arrest”. Retaliation But, Ismaaiyl Brinsely took it to Instagram to declare in his page that he will be killing police officers in retribution for the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. He wrote, “ Watch what I’m going to do” also “I 'm putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours let 's take 2 of theirs.” On December 20, the gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsely killed two police officers. Brinsely approached the patrol car of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Lu from the 84th precinct. He shot both of them multiple times in the head and upper body. Brinsley then committed suicide with the same handgun in a subway station. 9th Precinct Experience I conducted an internship this past winter at the 9th precinct.
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I was working in the roll call/ training office. I was able to get to know the work life of a police officer from beginning to end. I was making their daily tour schedules and notifications. Here I was have conversations about current events on police brutality. Officers had their own opinion on the case. Working there I was able to come to my own continues on what is the problem behind all of this.
Officer’s opinion. When speak to officers a lot of them told that there were multiple reasons behind all these accords. Many believe that it was a lack of supervision. I learned that to every four rookie on patrol, there should be one lieutenant or sergeant supervising. But, there isn’t enough Lieutenants or Sergeants to conduct supervision. So rookies were sent out on patrol in pairs of two, with just 6 months of training. Another reason was the lack of training, many polices officers already on the job informed me that they didn’t feel completely prepare for the job after training. Some stated that training needs to cover more topics and include more hands on exercises. My opinion. While work in roll call/ training I realized that my precinct had a lack of officers. One morning I was preparing the daily roll call, when I realized I didn’t have enough officers to pair up and send on patrol. I ask my co-worker, who told me that this had been a problem for year now. How can a precinct that need a total of 240 officers, function with just 125 officers? Half of the officers were rookies to begin with, which can’t go out without supervision. The lack of
I was working in the roll call/ training office. I was able to get to know the work life of a police officer from beginning to end. I was making their daily tour schedules and notifications. Here I was have conversations about current events on police brutality. Officers had their own opinion on the case. Working there I was able to come to my own continues on what is the problem behind all of this.
Officer’s opinion. When speak to officers a lot of them told that there were multiple reasons behind all these accords. Many believe that it was a lack of supervision. I learned that to every four rookie on patrol, there should be one lieutenant or sergeant supervising. But, there isn’t enough Lieutenants or Sergeants to conduct supervision. So rookies were sent out on patrol in pairs of two, with just 6 months of training. Another reason was the lack of training, many polices officers already on the job informed me that they didn’t feel completely prepare for the job after training. Some stated that training needs to cover more topics and include more hands on exercises. My opinion. While work in roll call/ training I realized that my precinct had a lack of officers. One morning I was preparing the daily roll call, when I realized I didn’t have enough officers to pair up and send on patrol. I ask my co-worker, who told me that this had been a problem for year now. How can a precinct that need a total of 240 officers, function with just 125 officers? Half of the officers were rookies to begin with, which can’t go out without supervision. The lack of