Policing_Is_The_Microcosmic_Mediator

Policing Is The Microcosmic Mediator “ The police officer is a microcosmic mediator of the relations of power in a society”. This is an extremely powerful statement to me and could mean a lot of different things. I believe it to mean this. The police officer, today’s police officer (not the one In post modernity times) is the only thing that breaches the gap between the normal citizen and the law. In everyday society the normal person doesn’t really ever come in contact with the law unless when receiving a speeding or parking ticket, however the officer is the people’s law, in essence the only law they ever really deal with. In today’s communities the police officer is the only one who can really see what’s going on, no politics just the truth. But the police officer can only see what he knows to look for, and without instinct and training there is nothing. The core values of a police officer are the second most important thing there is. The first in my opinion is already established experience in the communities in which they have lived. For example when I took my police officer exam during police, officer, law, things, one, city, always, about, really, power, look, different, cops, cop, community, believe, article, very, thing, society, saying, sagginelli, own, officers, life, help, extremely, even, communities, beginning, because, write, without, within, while