The Growing Cop Shortage
The purpose of this article is to show that the authors are trying to showcase the need for cop’s world. There is a need for the situation to be looked at with seriousness that it deserves, illustrating the various problems that this department lacks. This also demotivates people from becoming cops. One major issue is the lack of money, which is essential for this department to handle its work efficiently. The crucial primary topic for this text is the author is trying to showcase that there is a significant problem for the scarcity of cops.
The arguments used to support the topic include the problems facing the cops, such as lack of back teams and the necessary resources required for any police. The funds being talked about here are such as the cars being used are much worn out, making them lack the resources necessary to help them handle their work efficiently. The finding being brought out by this article will help the essential authorities in identifying them and improve on the issues to see whether there light at the end of the tunnel for people to turn up for the cop’s jobs. The article is essential such that it helps us identify a problem, and it helps us to view the point of perception in different views to help out solve the problem. The weakness of this reading is that it does not give the solutions to the problem; the most work that has been done is only the research for the problem (slide 2, pdf).
The articles showcase the major significant problem which is all over the world and which makes an essential problem that needs to be looked at very seriously since this also concerns the wellness and the security of the people. The question which is a scarcity of cops is being brought out by where people are willing to enroll of being cops, apart from that the people the police who are retiring from being cops are not being covered by the people who want to register to be cops which makes the major problem of concern. But through the help of the author bringing the concern about this problem in the article, the author has helped us to identify some of the difficulties which may be resulting in people not willing to enroll from being cops. The first significant problem is that there is no money in this department, whereby we see most of the cars being used to conduct the work being done by cops are old. This, in some cases, motivates people from being becoming cops, which showcases that this department has scarce resources (slide 3, pdf).
Apart from that, looking at the work being done by the cops, it is highly pressurized such that the officer in charge has to handle many cases and also reports at the same time. We also see that most cops who are at times being called the backup team are working overtime, which is due to the lack of enough cops. The article helps us analyze the problem and gives us a way to handle the problem by identifying the issues of the case study.
References
America’s Growing Cop Shortage, pdf.