Part one of term paper
The media have made Law Enforcement Officers out to be the bad guys. Although we have an incredibly high crime rate in Clark County, and in the United States for that matter, the police are the ones being put in the spotlight with constant accusations of unjustified shootings. The media, by needing to please their viewers and in order to k ...

Part two of term paper
... keep ratings up. What the media is also accomplishing by focusing on ratings, in my opinion, is creating distrust in the minds of the general public. The growing number of people no longer look at the police as noble or heroic, they look at them as abusive and trigger-happy. According to an article in USA Today, only 64% of White-Americans and 33% of African- Americans believe the police treat all people equally (Wickham 2000). I am not saying that all policeman always use good judgement. There ...