Title: How Things Appear Isnt Always how they are Category:Literature / Novels Details: Words: 313 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
How Things Appear Isnt Always how they are
How things appear is not always how they really are. This is common when looking at how law enforcement officers and agencies operate. The public as well as Serpico had many preconceived ideas about how the department and fellow officers functioned. Unfortunately, for Serpico more and more of his conceptions are turning out to be false.
While riding in the patrol car Serpico and his training officer heard a call over the radio about a rape. His partner was not planning on taking the call …showed first 85 words of 313 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 313 total…society we want to believe that police officers will go above and beyond the call of duty to serve and protect us, but in actuality many police officers will not do this. As far as Serpico going against the ways that have been set before him, he is only setting himself up for trouble with the other officers. In fact, in today’s “cop world“ officers don’t take kindly to rookies coming in trying to be super heroes and change the way things are.
