Learning Objectives

  • Discuss how the law has impacted the ways in which police carry out searches
     
  • Identify the ethical challenges that police officers face as part of their job duties
     
  • Discuss how actions by the police may involve the discriminatory treatment of certain groups in society
     
  • List the different types of force used by the police
     
  • Describe how police departments establish legitimacy in a community
     
  • Identify sources of occupational stress for police officers