填空题 A=James Hargrove
B=John Joe
C=Sergeant Jackson
Which black officer...
● staged in the car and radioed for help when seeing a robbery? 1
● is a son of retired Los Angeles police officer? 2
● believes that in most cases white and black officers would help each
other in case of the danger? 3
● thinks that the conflicts arising from being" black in blue" can be humiliating? 4
● said he and the white officers didn"t talk to each other for eight hours
when at work? 5
● thinks that the relationship between black officers and the black community
has improved? 6
● mentioned that black and white officers were partners on the job, but
the story was different when they were off duty? 7
● said that when black officers took off their uniforms, whites would
treat them as the ordinary black? 8
● prefers to work in minority communities? 9
● mentioned that they were asked to think of themselves as being blue
rather than black? 10
James Hargrove
He remembers the time he saw a robbery in progress in Manhattan. As a police officer, he wanted to jump out of his patrol car. As a black man in civilian clothes, carry a weapon, he knew better.
So Patrolman Hargrove did what most other off-duty black police officers have been trained by instinct and by the job to do in such situations: he stayed in the car and radioed for help.
It underscores a more complex issue: how the pervasive stereotype of criminals as young black males may influence police officers" responses. That point was illustrated in December in Prince Georges country, Md., when a black Washington, D. C. police officer was shot and killed in his home by a white country police officer who mistook him for an armed burglar.
In an interview, Patrolman Hargrove, who lives in a predominantly black section of the capital, said the conflicts and ambiguities that arise from being "black in blue" can be humiliating and demoralizing. "When the white guys finish work, they go home to their white neighborhoods and the black guys go home to the black community."
He continued, "You may be their partner on the job, but the minute you"re off duty, it"s a different story. It"s like you"ll find a bunch of white cops hovering in the locker room snickering at something—then when you walk in they stop. Now what are you supposed to think?"
John Joe
"I work in a white area on the West Side. Being black, in plain clothes, people might mistake me for a burglar and shoot me. It"s better for me to be in a black area. Very few black officers work in white areas. The majority of the policeman in the station where I work are young whites," said John Joe.
In an interview he said, "Most of us believe that regardless of personal likes, dislikes or prejudice, white officers would come to our aid and we would aid them. And we share the view that the relationship between black police officers and the black community, where the black officer is sometimes regarded as a traitor and often shunned, has improved in recent years, in part because of attempts by black police officers to control the high incidence of crime in black neighborhoods."
"We"re tied to the black community by this umbilical cord," he continued, "We can"t sever it because we have a commonality, and that is our color. We know that if we take off our uniforms, whites would treat us the same as they do other blacks in Anacostia," a predominantly, low-income black community in the District of Columbia.
"On the one hand, we"re asked to think of ourselves as being blue, not black. I had one fellow officer, who was white, tell me that if he calls blacks niggers it shouldn"t offend me because I"m blue, not black."
Sergeant Jackson
He is 29 years old, a graduate of California Lutheran College and the son of a retired Los Angeles police officer. In an interview, he said, "They give you a different partner about every day. You ride around, patrol the area, answer the phone calls, write tickets—it gets pretty dull. You and the white don"t talk to each other for eight hours." The white guys feel, "I"m with this black to put on a comrade of integration." I am saying to myself, "The only reason I"m with this white cop is to protect his life while he"s riding around in the black community."
"We can always feel that we are treated differently from whites in assignments and promotions. We are more likely to be assigned to high crime areas in which minority groups live. I preferred to work in minority communities, even with the greater potential for danger. We serve a dual purpose in the black community in that we are seen as protectors of the community and in some respects as role models. Most of us have learned how to respond to the pressures we face on and off the job, and most also concede that constant stress may eventually begin to take its toll."
"Sometimes I feel that it was destroying me as a black man. When I joined the force eight years ago I went along with the racial slurs in order to be accepted by the police fraternity. It began to turn me against my own people. I began to see fellow blacks as untrustworthy, as thieves and criminals. I began to shut myself off from my family and friends."