TY - BOOK ID - 77905734 TI - Careers on a city police force PY - 2006 SN - 142379950X 1585116726 9781423799504 PB - Chicago Institute for Career Research DB - UniCat KW - Occupations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77905734 AB - Police officers constantly go on patrol, 24 hours a day in most cities, to make sure that people who are thinking about committing crimes know that they will be caught and punished if they do. This is known as "showing the flag,"or telling the bad guys who's the real boss in the neighborhood. This is also the backbone of policing technique. Cops look for trouble and hope they don't find it. Make no mistake – cops are not universally loved. Certainly they are despised by criminals, but they are also thought of by many law-abiding folks as agents of oppression. Most such claims have little valid ER -