Policing: The Essentials
First Edition
Learning Objectives
- Examine how increased levels of stress may contribute to police officer suicide.
- Explain why some people want to defund the police.
- Describe the additional training police officers need to identify cases of elder abuse as the population of people 65 years and older grows in the United States.
- Explain how the criminalization of people with mental illness contributes to the increased interactions between the police and people with mental illness (PWMI).
- Identify some of the reasons why police officers feel ill-equipped to help people experiencing homelessness they encounter while on duty.
- Summarize the history of involvement of local police departments in the enforcement of immigration laws in the United States.