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Privilege In A Police Car: The Story Of My Unresolved Ride-Along, Anita L. Bright May 2015

Privilege In A Police Car: The Story Of My Unresolved Ride-Along, Anita L. Bright

The Qualitative Report

This paper focuses on the events of a Friday evening in the winter of 2012 wherein I went on a police “ride-along” and accompanied a police officer as he went through the normal duties of his shift in a medium-sized city in the Pacific Northwest. During our time together, the officer arrested a 16-year old boy, and had him admitted to the local juvenile detention center. The officer also arrested an adult male who, during the process of being arrested, injured the officer such that the officer required medical attention. Additionally, I witnessed another officer performing an analysis of a …