Blog 20 - Interview 4 Preparation

Coming up with good questions can be difficult for some, like me.

1. Who do you plan to interview? What is this person's area of expertise?

• The person who I plan to interview for the upcoming interview is, Officer Pagtakhan. He has been a Police Officer for more than 15 years and has worked in several different tasks. Some tasks are as followed; Gangs, narcotics, and patrol. Officer Pagtakhan has worked with Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department in assisting with narcotics and gangs task force. Officer Pagtakhan has more experience than some of the Officers in his squad, he has been exposed to several critical calls for service as well as assisting with community services.  

2. Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your Essential Question.

• To start off, state some background information and your current line of work?
• Being a Police Officer can be very stressful for some. So, on a daily basis how do you deal with stress when being exposed to it?
• How do you tend to perform in stressful situations? Like active shooters, high risk vehicle stops, vehicle pursuits, man with a gun, etc.
• My essential question is, "How can a Police Officer make safe and ethical calls in high pressure situations?" How would you answer the previous stated question?
• What is your current perspective on my essential question and how do you interpret it. So, once again my essential question is, "How can a police officer make safe and ethical calls in high pressure situations?"
• Do you know of any research sources that would benefit me in my senior project?
• Do you know of any research sources that would help me in answering my essential question?
•  Have you witnessed a police officer who was in a stressful situation that they could not handle?
• What comes to your mind when I ask you to define "safe and ethical"?
• When performing under stress what do you rely on? Any tactics?
• How can police officers perform well in high pressure situations?
• How do you go about your training simulations?
• Do you think all the training you undergo has helped you one way or another? If so, why? If not, why?
• Character defines a person. So, do you think that depending on the type of person one is that is how they will perform?
• What is the most high pressure/stressful call for service you have assisted on? How did you go about your performance?
• Reflecting back to the beginning of your career as a Police Officer. How is your performance from then compared to your performance as of now? By that I mean the way you act under pressure, deal with several calls for service, have you improved on something's, etc.
• Do you recommend anybody that I can talk to for further research on my project?
• What are something's that has improved Law Enforcement as of today?
• What are some activities that I can have my audience do so they can understand my answers to my essential question? My answers are; training, experience, and character.
• What is some advice that you would give an inexperienced police officer?

Blog 19 - Third Answer

Ethics are build as one keeps growing up and experiencing life situations.

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:


1. Essential Question

• How can a Police Officer make safe and ethical calls in high pressure situations?

2. Answer #3

• The third answer to my essential question is Character. By character I mean the Police Officers integrity, motivation, dedication, etc. An officer's ethics are not created as they grow up. In fact, they are built when they are born. Several factors affect an individuals ethics just like the environment they are in, their parents behavior, and the way they are raised. in order to make safe calls a Police Officer must be able to refer back to their ethics in order to make a good or the best decision in high pressure situations. Not only in high pressure situations but also when being on patrol. 

3. Three details to support your answer

• If it is 102 fahrenheit outside and a vehicle passed by then suddenly it is stopped by a Police Officer. The Officer must make the call if to take away the vehicle due to the small infraction and leave the driver, who is a mother and has her three children with her; to walk home. An option can be to take away the vehicle and take them home or not take it away at all and give the driver a warning. 
• If there is an active shooter at a school and the first responder is only one Police Officer. Will that Officer right away go in and possibly die or wait for their backing units. An Officers morals affects the way they make decisions and think about how to control and solve the situation. 
• If an Officer is shot and is in critical pain; should his partner help him or continue with the situation that they were sent for which is to eliminate the threat. Officers are trained in scenarios that have to do with an Officer being down. There will always be more than 5 Officers in high priority calls. So, an Officer is never left behind and will always have the help that he or she needs. 

4. The research source(s) to support your details and answer

• Book "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" by Malcolm Gladwell.  
• Horban, Jack E., Bruce J. Goorlie. "The Ethical Warrior and Warrior Creed" 

5. Concluding Sentence

• Ones moral values affects how to act, think, and solve a situation. When being under stress the mind tends to make decisions faster but one must choose if to go with the first decision made or continue thinking about the situation. Officer do not have a lot of time to make decisions that will always lead to the safer way out. Sometimes in this career lives are lost because split-second decisions are not made properly or the situation is not handled the way it should of been. The minute one is born the environment that surrounds us is a key element that affects the way we will be when we grow up.