July 30th, 2009 by Kate Lehnhof
Women like to joke about the whole “man in uniform” thing but contrary to My Colleges and Careers usual style of reveling in the unimportant but interesting, we are going to take things a little deeper today. What does it mean to wear a uniform? Is there a certain power that comes with it? In a recent study participants were asked to rank 25 occupational uniforms by the feeling they elicited. Police uniforms consistently symbolized a feeling of safety to participants.
Interesting Facts about Police Uniforms (policeone.com)
In 1969, the police in Menlo Park, California dispensed with their traditional navy blue, paramilitary-style uniforms and adopted a nontraditional uniform in hopes of improving police community relations. The new, nontraditional uniform consisted of a forest green sport coat blazer worn over black slacks, a white shirt, and a black tie. The officer’’s badge was displayed on the blazer and the officer’’s weapons were concealed under the coat. Once word spread about Menlo Park’’s attempts, over 400 other police department in the United States also experimented with a blazer style uniform. In 1977, after wearing the blazer style uniform for 8 years, the Menlo Park Police Department realized that the sport coat uniform did not command respect and returned to a traditional, paramilitary-style uniform.
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July 30th, 2009 by Kate Lehnhof
Criminal justice is a hot career right now and there are actually many careers besides a police officer available in this exciting field. Sure the cops can catch bad guys, but someone has to keep track of them afterwards. My Colleges and Careers would like to introduce you to a very important person in the San Diego Sheriff’s Department: Fred Hunting.
PS. Fun Fact: Fred was once on the TV show Suddenly Susan!
- So what is your job title exactly?
SHERIFF’S LICENSING AND REGISTRATION INTERVIEWER
- What do you do on a day to day basis?
INTERVIEW AND PROCESS DRUG AND SEX OFFENDERS INTO THE STATE REGISTRATION SYSTEM. I ALSO INTERVIEW AND PROCESS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE LICENSING PROCESS FOR ANY OF 32 DIFFERENT LICENSES (EX: STATE CONCEALED WEAPONS PERMITS, TAXI, MASSAGE, ETC)
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July 29th, 2009 by Kate Lehnhof
Cops. You either love ‘em or you hate ‘em. But has society painted them with too broad of a brush? Are all New York city cops tough-talking and all tiny town cops patriarchal heroes?A recent study by Springfield College decided it was time to put all the stereotypes to rest.
They surveyed 830 randomly selected cops using The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire Scale to get to the bottom of things.
- The majority of those surveyed categorized themselves as a “Typical Cop” with qualities like self-discipline, social boldness, extroverted and emotionally tough.
- Traffic officers and deputies shared many characteristics such as high energy, dominance, independence, spontaneity, socially flexible and free from anxiety-related behaviors.
- Previous research has used the MMPI as a test to determine psychological characteristics of police officers, and it was suggested that the MMPI was the most commonly used psychological test of law enforcement officials and that research on psychological assessment of police officers is so mixed that it may even be questionable to advance generalizations about possible discriminating characteristics.
- A similar study found a wide variety of behaviors between police officers from different departments. The interpersonal skills of community college law enforcement officials were rated higher than major university and inner-city police officers.
- Police officers as a group tend be more homogenous than other career groups. They tend to be cheerful and outgoing with a strong interest in practical matters.
- Female participants were also found to be more likely to present a good impression of themselves, to be less depressed, to be more psychologically mature, more assertive and more aware of the needs of others as compared to the normative population data.
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July 14th, 2009 by Kate Lehnhof
A wise man once said, “perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.” Fictitious police officers are all the rage these days and My Colleges and Careers has compiled a list of Hollywood’s Most Wanted Officers. Some times they play good cops. Sometimes they play bad cops. Sometimes they look so good in the process we don’t really care. So scroll on enjoy our list. You have the right to remain silent.
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June 2nd, 2009 by Kate Lehnhof
The stereotype that all cops love donuts is about to get turned on its head. It’s all about cookies these days. I’m not talking about the chocolate chip variety though, I’m talking about internet cookies. An internet “cookie,” is a piece of text that a Web server can store on a user’s hard disk. Cookies allow a Web site to store information on a user’s machine and later retrieve it.
What is Computer Forensics?
These digital files are a new tool in the arsenal of cops and criminal investigators everywhere. This branch of the criminal justice industry is known as “Computer Forensics” and it focuses on evidence pertaining to crimes that is found through digital files. Digital evidence can take the form of an email, photo,disk, fax or a cell phone record.
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