1. Find your local police department's social media page and determine if/how it is being used. In answering this prompt, please make sure you reference the police and social media section.

2. The distortions that exist between the media's depiction of the police and police work (as compared to the scholarly evidence). Why do you think understanding these deviations is important? How does the entertainment media's depiction of the police impact the general public'sunderstanding of police work?How about the type of people that it draws to the field? How does this impact their level of job satisfaction and therefore their effectiveness in the force?