Essay on Police and Rand Cooperation

Submitted By redwolf334
Words: 315
Pages: 2

Torrie Maxwell
Issues in Policing Response
CJS/210
12/12/2014

Policing is a very psychologically stressful job, to say the least. Many officers face death, the loss of family, people’s disrespect, late hours, and confusion between departments or coworkers. When confusion happens this can cause them to end up dead, or even harm the case they are working on. Police officers have so many things that they have to really be careful of. Like for example, they have to make sure that they are respectful to people who commit crimes, and people who they arrest. Even though they may not agree with what they have done, and even if the criminal is disrespectful to the police officer. (Rand Cooperation, 2014)
These issues coincide with those of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), because these departments work together in getting important information back and forth to one another. They do this so every department is aware of the different dangers in their area including terrorist. This is the main concern right now for the DHS as this can happen anywhere at any time. I think that if we get better communication and more officers willing to work as a team, instead of being hard headed, and trying to play superman, then I think that all these enforcement agencies would be more willing to work together. I say this, because a lot of officers like to be the hero, and do not want help share information. So with that being said, all the agencies need to be more