Notebook Post

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I think the best choice of notebook for a police officer would be option A because it is small and durable which makes it ideal for taking notes out in the field. Option B is a regular composition notebook that is typically used as a journal or diary. A composition notebook is simply not tough enough to endure the elements faced by police officers everyday. Option C would be too big of a notebook for a police officer. It would be too big for the officer to carry on his persons when he or she is out of the squad car. These types of notebooks are most commonly used by students and are meant to hold a lot of information but not necessarily meant to be  comfortable to carry. 

Narrative Writing Rewrite

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Information Report
Location: 1647 Rancho, El Fuego
Occurrence Date: 7-25-15
Persons: Tunney, Carol P. DOB 1-21-66
Persons: Tunney, Katherine L. DOB 9-16-89

Details
On 7-25-15 at 1230 I received a radio call to meet reporting party Katherine Tunney at 1230 hours. Upon reaching the address I began by talking with Katherine Tunney. Tunney said she was getting ready to leave her residence at 1215 hours when she saw a white Toyota van wagon stopped in front of her residence in the middle of the street facing westbound. She said the sole occupant of the van was sitting in the seat facing her residence and taking pictures of her residence. From what she could see she described the person in the vehicle as a white male with gray hair.
Tunney made an attempt to confront the person in the van but once she exited her residence the person in the van closed their window and sped off. Tunney was able to see the license plate number. 836L92F. I looked up the license plate in the database and the results came up as a 2004 Toyota Wagon registered to Bond, Stephen D., 3381 El Balazo, El Fuego.
I talked to Katherine Tunney's mother, Carol Tunney, to  get more information about the incident. Carol Tunney said she filed a report in April because a man had approached her while she was planting and asked for her name. Carol responded by asking for his name but the man left after that. Carol saw the license plate. ISPYONU. I ran a license plate check and it came up as a 2008 SAAB registered to Toomey, Richard, 36 Paseo De Bonito, El Rancho.
I told both Carol Tunney and Katherine Tunney that no crime had been committed and the information has been filed.

Challenges Faced

    The hardest part about writing the film summary of Blackfish was condensing what I wanted to summarize. While I was watching the film, I took notes of every single scene which took multiple hours to finish. Watching a documentary, it was hard to decide what facts to include and what facts are not as important. I exceeded the length requirement for that reason. The entire film was worthy of summarizing because each scene had some information about why these killer whales were attacking the trainers. Ultimately, I ended up not condensing as much as I wanted because my summary was still four pages too long. I believe due to my attention to detail, it will not affect my grade too much.

                                Writing Reflection

    This is the first time I have ever had to write a summary about a documentary. Usually all the summaries I do are about books or articles, so this is new experience for me. I found it was easier to write about a documentary, but harder to revise than a book. When I am watching the documentary I feel as though I should include every scene in my summary making my summary longer than it usually would be for a summary about a book or article. Condensing my information is really hard for me because once I get in the mind frame of explaining everything thoroughly, it is really difficult to get out of that mind frame. I do not necessarily think it is a bad thing to be descriptive and detailed, but when my summary is two pages longer than the suggested length requirement, it does not help anything. When I was watching the documentary Blackfish I wanted to provide the readers of my summary enough details that they could visualize the documentary, without actually viewing it.  I think being very descriptive is a good thing for the field I plan on going into, criminal justice, because police reports should be as descriptive as possible. It is harder for me to not explain everything than it is to explain everything that I am seeing. 

    Another process I had trouble with was making the tenses line up. As I am watching the film, I noticed I always put the verbs of my paper in the past tense because I already saw it. I spent a solid hour or so going back through my draft correcting all my verbs to present tense. If i would have focused more on putting my writing in present tense as I was writing, I could have saved a lot of time on the editing process.

    When I get my degree and a job as a police officer, the skill of being able to describe what I am thinking onto paper is very important. In the criminal justice field it is very important to be very descriptive. Practice makes perfect and practicing my writing skills, will ultimately strengthen them.