RoSoni Sharma
Professor Ruth Smith
Crisis Intervention
July 8, 2012
The Negotiator
According to Gerald Caplan, crisis can be defined as where people are in a state of crisis when they face an obstacle to important life goals and obstacle that is for a time, insurmountable (challenging) by the use of customary methods of problem solving.
Based on the film, “The Negotiator”, which focuses on Danny Roman, the main character in the movie, who plays the hostage negotiator for the Chicago Police Department. In the very beginning of the movie, we see Danny negotiating a hostage taker down and eventually resolving the situation. Later that same evening after his success party, the stage is set for his downfall.
In the movie, we get to an understanding that Danny’s partner was investigating the fact that money has been repeatedly withdrawn from the police officers pension fund. However, he informs Danny that he was pretty close to find out who was guilty, but then his partner is shot by an unknown person and was found by Danny. Therefore as the story continues the crisis was that all evidences were against Danny being the murder and also taking the money from the pension fund. “Discuss in terms of what you have learned in this class. Make sure you use the correct terminology”
The Essay on The Negotiator
Negotiation is a simple word with broad meaning and understanding. We all know that negotiation is not an easy task to do. It has to be practiced and developed. No one can easily adapt the environment of negotiation without deeply knowing it by heart and by mind. We are also aware that negotiation plays a big role in the lives of people especially to professionals and entrepreneurs. They might ...
When Danny did not get the answers as to who had killed his partner he took the suspected corrupt investigator hostage along with his personal assistance and a petty informant who were also in crisis. They were nervous, worried and tensed as to what Danny Roman was going to do. They were all in the office room handcuffed and terrified.
The Crisis which was addressed by the crisis intervention worker was that Danny Roman had three people as hostage because there was no one who wanted to believe Danny. Sometimes in life they say if you give someone your finger, they take your hand, in this case it was the same with Danny. He gave his coworkers “Trust” and they had betrayed him and tried to prove him as guilty.
There were different interventions used to work toward diffusing the crisis and helping the individual in crisis such as different methods to find who was guilty as charge. Danny Roman knew he would not find his answers that easy which is why he ordered to get Chris Sabian , who is also a negotiator. After he got Chris Sabian, they eventually teamed up to find out who were the killer as well as the one who had taken all the money. They used different techniques; Chris Sabian was the one to calm him down and tried to get Danny out of the office.
They went to the suspected corrupt investigator’s house to find evidence as to who and why all that happened. Therefore, Chris and Danny had to play along with the inspector who also came over the house with the intentions of shooting Danny, but then Chris Sabian came and shot Danny in his leg and negotiated with the inspector to get his share of money just to find out if he was guilty.
The inspector thought Danny was killed and therefore did not want Chris to announce to the public that he was the one who had killed Danny’s partner as well as stole the money. He did not realize that everyone heard him such as all the police team, and later on also realized that Danny was not killed. The inspector went to jail and Danny went to the hospital.
My thoughts regarding the crisis and how it was handled was that I found this movie as one of the best movies which has been shown to us as a Criminal Justice class. It wakes us up each minute to know that we should not trust people that easily. It can be your friend or family; there is always someone down the line who wants to always prove to others that we are guilty. I think the crisis was a very heavy one and anyone who would have been into Danny Roman’s shoes would have not been able to be this smart and think fast. I also think that he handled this very well because when he was trying to be nice to everyone and tried to prove that he was innocent, everyone gave up on him and refused to listen to what he had to say. However, Danny had to turn the tables the other way around and had to try to seem as the bad guy to find out who was at fault.
The Research paper on Crisis in Rwanda Brief Background
The pre-colonial Rwanda was characterized by a fluid of ethnic divisions between the majority of the population (Hutus, comprising of about 85% of the population in 1999) and the minority of the population (Tutsis, comprising of about 8-14% as per the time of the genocide in 1994), and could not reportedly be considered as separate tribes. Inter-communal conflict did not exist. These existed even ...
It is not very easy to deal with different crisis that comes up in our lives. We eventually learn from watching movies and listening in class. The Negotiator movie has been very motivating, it makes me wonder sometimes that not everything in the world is impossible, if there is a bad there is a good, and there is always a way to prove the world that you are not guilty if you are on the right track in life.
The crisis professionals worked accordingly with time and danger at the same time and had to plan a few seconds before anything happened. These professionals knew their way out and how to work with crisis at the same time.
