Police Role Descriptions in the Media

Police Role Descriptions in the Media

Depiction, in analytic philosophy, is pictorial representation; however, not all representation with a picture is depiction. Alternative analyzes hold that depiction is a symbol system, which is syntactically dense, semantically dense and rather replete, or that it should be defined by a perceptual effect such as illusion, seeing-in, and imaginary seeing, or experienced resemblance. Another approach is to define depictive representation by recognition abilities. Other debates about the nature of depiction include the relationship between seeing something in a picture, and seeing it face-to-face, whether depictive representation is conventional, how understanding novel depictions is possible, the aesthetic and ethical value of depiction and the nature of realism in pictorial art (Wikipedia, n.d.).

Method

In the following four articles, it will be discussed how each article depicts the related role of crime fighter, social servant, order maintainer, and crime preventer and whether it is believed as real or image depiction.

Crime fighter

A crime fighter is a major role of the police that emphasizes crime fighting and the article discussed police officers indicted for a shooting. Three of the five police officers whose 50-bullet barrage killed an unarmed man on his wedding day were indicted in a case that heightened racial tensions and renewed allegations the city's officers are too fast on the trigger. The three officers fired the most shots confrontation that killed a 23-year-old and wounded two of his friends as they left a bachelor party