Final-Farewell

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  Since the beginning of the semester. I was nervous entering the semester afraid what was going to be ahead of me while taking this class.  During the sixteen weeks of the semester I sure did learn a lot. The activities during this semester were as follows: a summary of a documentary, weekly blog posts, exercises from our textbook Just the Facts by Michael Biggs, analysis of police scenes, and concluded with mock interviews. These activities did represent a lot about the law enforcement field while writing and interviews. 

  The text book readings made me analyze more about the law enforcement field. Some of the texting reading started to get boring yet every week but during our group interactions about the exercises we read brought a lot of different thoughts about certain topics discussed in the chapters. 

  Documentary project, this project at first was very difficult during our class time working together I started to figure out how to write in the past tense, as if I just lived the scene. I would recommend this project again for future classes but instead of a documentary video maybe the Police videos of real life events that happened were you discuss in class the event then make the students type out a report of the scenario. One thing that could be used is going online and getting templates of all the paperwork needed for reports and have the students write out all the information. 

  Mock interviews, this assignment was a very creative project. I found this project one of the funniest yet one of the best learning experiences in the class while interviewing people. I will not forget John and I interviewing about the stolen yogurt case, the questions asked made a setting making me feel like a real detective with John, only thing for future mock interviews is maybe real life cases that the students have to read about and perform questions for the interview. One of the greatest projects in the class that we had. 

  Blogs, at first I was a little scared of the blog entries being, that I never used a blog before and that I am not computer savvy as other students. I found this to be interesting reading other students comments about certain reflections we had to write about. Blogs made our thought come across that we may have not spoken in class about. favorite reflection was on the live events officers faced during their duties. From the citizens view what they may have thought compared to the law enforcement side believing the event was totally justifiable. 

  This semester had its downs at first but, the class came together to finish the semester strong. I had a great semester with the sixteen weeks. I wish every student an amazing rest of the semester and hope the best in the law enforcement community!

Final Reflection Rough Draft

This class has brought many opportunities on learning how to become a police officer. This class has better myself in certain writing areas that I struggle in while doing reports, while being in this class we have accomplished many different bases of writing such as the documentary project being one of the biggest key writing styles that law enforcement Officers face on a daily routine. Weekly blogs and reflections on scenario based things throughout the semester from videos to comments on specific things discussed while in class. The topics we discussed and the assignment we did through out the year all had some advantages and disadvantages throughout the semester. During the semester we had some rough patches on what should be discussed in our writing class and what shouldn't but, we all came to work together and as we finish the last week of class looking from the beginning of the semester to now we have learned a lot throughout this semester.

Video Reflections

The video I watched was where the cops shot the young teenager because of a toy assault rifle. Most people who watch the video will be shocked the officer shot a young teenager. People don't understand the situation unless they are actually there at that exact moment. The toy gun looked real and the officers told the boy to put the gun down which the boy would not cooperate with the officers by not listening to their commands. Its a very difficult situation to be in but remember if that gun were real they could have been killed in a matter of a second. Its the officers responsibility to make that split second decision which is always not the easiest.

Thoughts On Our Mock Interviews

During our mock interviews on Friday, we learned a lot in regards to how interviews are conducted and what strategies that can be used.

During my interview with my partner John I believe we did really well. Both of our strategies during the interview showed the possible offender to open up with hints that showed she was the offender. During our interview the tactics we used seemed to be intimidating.

Kayley was another person who was interviewing a possible a offender. During her interview she did a great job by preparing the questions she will conducted during the interview.  During her interview she did a very good job on building a rapport about the possible offender. The questions she asked were factual questions and she seemed to be aggressive when using these questions.

Furthermore, I think everyone did a great job during the mock interview. This project was a fun activity but yet it helps prepare us for bigger interviews that we may face in our futures.

Chapter 6

The thing I loved about chapter 6 is I felt that the arrest report writing. Will benefit us for our future in law enforcement. I liked how the book made us actually write out things about cases that took place.

Reality Of Your Appearance

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After reading A Black Man Wore Different Kinds Of Clothing To See If People Treated Him Differently. The article shows how people judge just by your appearance. If someone was wearing a expensive suit compared to just sweats the would be treated better compared to someone wearing sweats. Most people judge even by age if you are young you may not have as much money compared to someone who is older. The article shows how each different clothing that he wore he was treated differently. Everyone should be treated similar regardless what they are wearing.

Facial Gestures

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Episode 2 of Making A Murderer shows a lot of facial gestures through out the episode. During the interview with the state attorney and other key characters that were working on Avery's case all showed similar aspects of nervousness. During the interview with the Deputy Chief he keeps stating he does not "recall" anything about the incident. When we all know he truly does since this cased had to be one of the biggest cases that happen in his county.