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Students Name Instructor’s Name Course Details Date Female Officers/PTSD The society people grow in has installed in society a certain perspective about police officers. Most of the stories people tell about police officers are either true, false or just stereotypic stories people tell to portray a certain image about the police. Stereotypic stories about the police are meant to discredit the cops most of the time (Johnson 1). Police stereotypes have been in existence as long as the police forces have existed. The most affected police officer is female as she has to deal with society and her fellow male counterparts (Johnson 1). Male police officers never fail to make female officers feel inferior. Some of the common stereotypes of police officers both negative and positive are cops love doughnuts; police officers have quotas and the old Irish officer. In the USA police officers are assumed to eat sugary fast foods to gain energy in the short-term. A police loving the doughnuts is the most used stereotype in the USA (Johnson 3). Police officers know the existence of such perception towards them, and they often try not to park their patrol cars near doughnut shops. Not that it is not true that police meet at doughnut shops, they meet there because it is the only place they can have coffee at three in the morning. Secondly, society has the notion that police officers have quotas on the number of arrests they must make per day (Johnson 3). Many people get tickets from police officers believing they are just unlucky to have met the police officer when the ticket was to be issued. For a police officer to show up to the bosses that they are working, they must
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