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Police Officers confront criminals, the mentally ill and now potential terrorists, while serving in multiethnic, pluralistic and linguistically diverse communities. Omnipresent is the reality that their lives are at risk.
Police Academies prepare police for self-protection; train them in law enforcement and community surveillance. Then police are sent to communities that are often hostile to them.
The hostility is derived from the ‘experience’ of minority communities that feel besieged by police; e.g., Stop and Frisk. Minority sons and fathers have had ‘the talk’ to prevent them from the ‘pernicious’ police.