cuffs

 chapter 5

how is audience sympathy with the police created?

The audience begins to have intense feelings of sympathy towards the police force in the scene when Jake is trying to arrest a woman committing a crime, however he is falsely accused of trying to sexually assault her as she frantically tries to escape her fate. Jake is an inexperienced police officer, and the audience may put themselves in his shoes, and feel sorry that the criminals are taking advantage of him for his naivety and inexperience. We as audience members may feel angered and slightly infuriated by this . Although this scene has been created to express signs of comedy, it is actually very sad that the woman feel like they can accuse Jake of such a thing. This could infer a poor society in which woman feel like it is appropriate to accuse Jake of these claims which could potentially ruin his career and life. It gives us an insight to how police are treated. Jake is just trying to do the just thing, and put things right,  however this is not appreciated by many of the people featured in this scene. As a result we express sympathy for Jake, and the police as a whole in this small section , because it is apparent their  feelings can be disregarded and taunted in moments like these.