Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
I was able to keep the attetion if the people in my presentation and also I had a bit of a suprise when people from a presentation that was cancled came in but it was a good suprise. I was just happy that they listened at least.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC
I did what was required of me and a little bit more but I feel that I got at least a P if anything.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC
I did what was required of me. That's it basically.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

The research really helped with my presentation and the overall project because I really got to know the project material.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?
Mentorship for me didn't work really, I did it but I felt it was completely unnessary when my topic was about history

(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

I learned more about the field that I wanted to go into and more about the history about the field.

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?
My essential question is "How has the history of Law Enforcement most shaped the current policies?". My best answer is  "The history of law enforcement has most shaped the current policies on women in law enforcement." because it's a very close subject to my heart and it was the most interesting to research.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
Talking to Officer Pesqueida helped me arrive to this answer because of what he said about women having a harder time in law enforcement jobs.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?
I had a bit of a problem talking to my mentor at first but it was resolved after a while.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
The Red Dot Club by Robert Rangel - was suggested by one of the people I interviewed, it has a lot of information about officers stories and even lead to one if not two of my answers.
Interview with Officer Norwood - Officer Norwood is a female officer that works for LAPD and talking to her helped me get more of a perspective from a female officer.

Blog 22: Independent Component 2

(a) Include this statement: “I, Brooke Cooper, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
 My mentor: Officer Pesqueida 
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
 
(d) Explain what you completed.
I completed hours to be added to my mentorship hours.
   
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   
Hours logged in my mentorship log
 
(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
Being able to see what they do more helped me better understand things like for my last answer about emergency responses and being able to understand the changes that these officers have seen since so many large events/emergencies have happened since they started working there.

Blog 17 - Interview 4 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
I learned the perspective of a female officer and the difficulties there can be while working as a single mother and an officer.
 
2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?
I now have a primary source for my first answer which is about females in law enforcement which should help.

Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
I plan on interviewing officer Danny Pesquida. He works at the LAPD.

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. Have you ever been in a emergency response situation?
2. What is the training like for emergency responses?
3. Have you ever seen or done an interrogation?
4. Do you have any experiences similar to that that happened in the Red Dot Club?
5. What was the most intriguing story from the book other than Rick's?
6. After reading that did it make you more aware of things at work?
7. Are you more cautious?
8. Have there been any recent changes to policies at work?
9. When was the last time there was a change?
10. Do you have body cams at work?
11. What is your opinion on them?
12. So my EQ is *Insert EQ here* what do you think of it?
13. Do you think history is important to your job?
14. Would you change anything at work if you could?
15. What's the most interesting thing about your job?
16. What in your opinion makes a good officer?
17. Have you ever trained another officer?
18. What was your training officer like?
19. Does the job out weigh any injuries you currently have from it?
20. If you weren't a police officer what would you probably be doing?

Blog 19: Third Answer

EQ 
How has the history of law enforcement most shaped the current policies?

Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
The history of law enforcement has most shaped its policies for emergency responses.

3 details to support the answer

• Responses to robberies
• To active shooters
• High Pressure situations

The research source(s) to support your details and answer:
 Rangel, Robert. The Red Dot Club. USA: Robert Rangel. 2014. Print. Pg. 115 - 141 "Norco"
Ayoob, Massad. "Tactical Lessons from the Norco Bank Robbery." HendonPub.com, Hendon Media Group. August 2010. Web. October 28, 2015. <http://www.hendonpub.com/resources/article_archive/results/details?id=1653>
Parker, Bob. "How the North Hollywood Shootout Changed Patrol Arsenals" Police Magazine, Policemag. February 28, 2012. Web. October 28, 2015. <http://www.policemag.com/channel/weapons/articles/2012/02/how-the-north-hollywood-shootout-changed-patrol-rifles.aspx>
Meyer, Greg. "Lessons from the Onion Field." Police Magazine, PoliceMag. March 25, 2015. Web. Novebmber 11, 2015 <http://www.policemag.com/blog/patrol-tactics/story/2013/03/lessons-from-the-onion-field.aspx>
Police Executive Research Forum. "The Police Response to Active Shooter Incidents." Police Forum, PERF. March 2014. Web. December 3, 2014. <http://www.policeforum.org/assets/docs/Critical_Issues_Series/the%20police%20response%20to%20active%20shooter%20incidents%202014.pdf>
Federal Bureau of Investigation. "A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013." Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI. September 16, 2013. Web. December 3, 2015.
"Botched L.A bank heist turns into bloody shootout." CNN, Cable News Network. February 28, 1997. Web. January 7, 2016. <http://www.cnn.com/US/9702/28/shootout.update/>
Wagner, Jack. "Norco Bank Robbery Documentary - Part 1, 2, 3." Youtube, Youtube. 1980. Web. January 21, 2016.      

Concluding Sentence
Many events have shaped the current protocols and policies that are now in place because of incidents like the Onion Field Shooting or many active shooter cases.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview? 
I learned that policy changes are actually a constant thing being updated in Law Enforcement and are not just mentioned and gone over in training.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
Not much has changed about my interviewing approach, my whole comfort level with senior project has changed. The only thing that might have changed with my interviewing is probably the fact that I planned it out a bit more. (Sidenote, the individual I had originally planned to interview was unavailable and will probably be interviewed at a later date.)

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
How has the history of law enforcement shaped the current policies?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
The history of law enforcement has shaped its current policies for women in law enforcement.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
The history of law enforcement has shaped its current policies for interrogation techniques.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1. Training: Law Enforcement employees are taught these tactics in their training.
2. Media: Many people assume that the tactics they see on television are the ones law enforcement actually uses
3. Real Life: These are actual tactics used and there were many more that did not work.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
"4 Police Interrogation Techniques You Should Know (And Why Not All of Them Work)" ForensicOutreach, Forensic Outreach. N.d. Web. December 10, 2015. 
http://forensicoutreach.com/4-police-interrogation-techniques-you-should-know-and-why-not-all-of-them-work/

6.  What other source supports your answer?
Meyer, Pamela. LIESPOTTING: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception. New York: St. Martian's Griffin. 2010. Print.
Barber, Nigel. "Do Lie Detectors Work?" PsychologyToday, Sussex Publishers, LLC. May 7, 2013. Web. January 7, 2013. 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201303/do-lie-detectors-work

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
Learning about the things and techniques law enforcement actually uses is a interesting way to show how law enforcement has grown.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I at the current moment have no idea what I going to plan to do with my second Independent Component and would like to discuss it would my house and advisory house teacher before deciding what I will do.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
I will probably do something similar to what I did for my first Independent Component where I made a powerpoint and put pictures and links to papers I wrote for the component.


3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
At the current moment I have no idea.



4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Brooke N Cooper, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
  "Writing a Police Report Narrative." Ohio Literacy Resource Center, Kent State University. N.d. Web. 12 November 2015. "13 Ways to Make Fake Blood." WikiHow, Wikipedia. N.d. Web. 18 October 2015.
  
  (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
  Hours log here
  
  (d) Explain what you completed.   
  I recreated the investigation that was described in the information for the Mock Trial we did for Rivas's class.
  
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work. 
  I recreated on of the scenes described in the information given to me in the packet for the investigation. I took pictures then chose three that would show what was described. I found a document that had a search warrant that you fill out and made it a PDF to fill out on the computer and filled it out on the computer. Then I rewrote 3 reports that were described in the information and did a debrief on them. Here is the PowerPoint I made that shows all of this. (All of the reports and the debrief are on the PowerPoint.)
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
  It made me really take a look into how the investigations and the reports that most people in law enforcement have to write and have they have to be very detailed and how much work it actually takes.

 
 

 

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I'm really proud of the energy that I kept throughout the presentation, I felt that my hook was well thought-out and my activity was well done.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?
       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.I felt that I did what was required of me and I did it to the best of my ability.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
The powerpoint helped keep my on track, I felt that my activity was received well and helped them understand a bit about my answer.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
I would try and have a bit more content.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
I might do something about emergency responses and active shooters.

Third Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
I plan to interview a female officer with the LAPD, Officer Choice. She works for the LAPD.

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview?
N/A as of right now.

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.
Did you learn of large changes in policies in the LAPD while training? If so what were they?

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).
How do you suggest I get a closer look at how things have changed and law enforcement?

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ
What do you think of my EQ?
Do you think it is a good perspective to look at the history?

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
I currently doing my mentorship at the Walnut Sheriff Station.
2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?
My contact is Deputy Daley and he is my primary mentor however this does not mean he is my only mentor. He is a Deputy at the Sheriffs station and has a background in law enforcement. 
3.   How many  hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right hand side of your blog).
I have done 2 ridealongs which are both 8 hours to that adds up to 16 hours.
4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.
During ridealongs what I can do is very limited, I mainly just observe and listen to what my mentor has to say to me. We do work well together and are able to talk. I plan on continuing to do my hours with ridealongs because it is a genuine learning experience.

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?I worked a bit on my Independent component over break.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?
I learned that certain interrogative techniques that we've been so use to seeing on popular TV shows actually don't work when interrogating people. I also learned that lie detectors have no scientific backing and actually do not work but are more of "theater show" to scare criminals. I learned this from an interrogation teacher from Faulkner University, Lou Harris and an article from Psychology Today "Do Lie Detectors Work?" by Nigel Barber, Ph.D.

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?
I plan to talk to the officer about their experience working in law enforcement and their opinions on certain events that are relevant to law enforcement today. I'm also gonna talk about to them about different protocols that have changed from when they started in law enforcement.