And it does this by conducting investigations and enforcing laws that deal with public health, order, and decency. "Morals" and "decency" are not words one would expect to see in the core values of a secular institution like a police department, bu Continue Reading...
Arizona illegal immigrant law a good idea? The Support Our Police force and Safe Neighbourhood Act (enacted as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and therefore is associated basically as Arizona SB 1070) is really a legal Act within the U.S. Arizona State. T Continue Reading...
Some of these methods include plea agreements and the disclosure of incriminating evidence, along with witness testimony. Thus, defendants' rights do not tie the hands of officers and the courts because officers and the courts have an arsenal of way Continue Reading...
Furthermore, there have been very few cases of police corruption. New Zealand police officers are also known for their involvement in various community and youth outreach programs. (the New Zealand Police) 7. General comparison of New Zealand and t Continue Reading...
Law Enforcement Patrolling Kansas City Gun Experiment and the Kerner Commission Report The Kansas City Gun Experiment of 1992 and 1993 illustrates a police strategy that was responsive to the fact that a particular area was responsible for a very h Continue Reading...
Each level of the counter-terrorism strategy present in the United States has its own flaws and its own weaknesses. Law enforcement cannot be left behind in the pursuit for more professional counter-terrorist elite units. The New York Police Depart Continue Reading...
Negotiating Union Contracts Jonathan Zaun The relationship between a city or municipality and its various employee groups is often defined by the collective bargaining process which is used to formulate and finalize contracts between the two partie Continue Reading...
Green River Serial Killer The investigation into the case of the Green River killer stretched from 1982 to 2001, before Gary Ridgway was finally arrested for murdering 48 women. Ridgway's case is distinguished by the length and expense of the homici Continue Reading...
Role of Women in Law Enforcement Agencies Seminar type mini paper Gender discrimination has long been a topic of controversial debate. While much has been done about it in the U.S.A. And Britain, where many laws and regulations have been passed in Continue Reading...
Vice refers specifically to crimes of a moral nature and usually refers specifically to prostitution, gambling, and also the dealing of drugs. Vice activities are defined differently by different communities and in general do not represent the laws o Continue Reading...
Crime -- Abstracts and Introduction Dependent variable: Crime Independent Variable: halting rising crime rate Control variable: government spending on law enforcement Tentative hypothesis: If government spending on law enforcement increases, then Continue Reading...
As practitioners of the law, court officials and subordinates are bound by the single powerful system of the law and governmental policy. Lawyers are bound by regulation rather than occupational socialization. Their interaction with the general publ Continue Reading...
Everything happens behind the scene, there seems to be too many secrets, and everybody is "dirty" in one way or the other. In the background, the whole time, there is the somewhat mysterious captain Dudley Smith, played by Cromwell. He is a man who Continue Reading...
"By the end of the 1980s many departments had set up detailed procedures to ensure equality and had employed full-time and specialist staff to promote and pursue such policies." (Heidensohn, 1995, p. 60) The number of females in law enforcement was Continue Reading...
Dirty Harry The film "Dirty Harry" revolves around a sniper terrorizing San Francisco. Known as "Scorpio," the sniper tries to extort $100,000 from the city in return for stopping the killing of innocent people. To ensnare the sniper, SFPD Inspector Continue Reading...
A good police officer must be strong but he or she must also be compassionate. This does not mean caving in or being overly emotional -- to me, it means trying to put myself in another person's shoes and see things from their perspective. To me, bei Continue Reading...
Change How would needed changes be determined in today's big city police departments? What approaches could be use to implement changes? Write a reflection. Needed changes in a large, urban police department would have to focus on crime prevention, Continue Reading...
Goal setting techniques also reduce stress, as a sense of purpose is now both part of time and personal management within the police department. Collaborative policing through electronic communication can also serve as a time-saving device. Police Continue Reading...
Poor Grammar Criminal Justice System The criminal justice system may be seen as an overpowering, puzzling as well as threatening for all those who do not work according to the system on normal basis. Thus, one can easily imagine the response of a c Continue Reading...
As per the constitution of Haiti – promulgated in 1987 – the government of Haiti has an obligation to not only offer basic protections to the citizens of Haiti, but also maintain law and order. The country’s judiciary, which happens Continue Reading...
actions by the police in the incident involving the killing of a mountain lion were shortsighted and demonstrated a lack of leadership and good judgment. The needless killing of the animal proves that the police used excessive violence in dealing wi Continue Reading...
Law Enforcement Function • Analyze the influence of the criminal justice model on the structure and mission of a local police department. In other words, how would a police department exhibit different structure and procedures under the crime c Continue Reading...
Stakeholder Map: Mdpd High-priority stakeholders (Must meet their needs and please): Public (residents and tourists) Community public advocacy groups (victim's rights groups and anti-crime groups) Community interest groups such as schools Communi Continue Reading...
Interview with a Law Enforcement Specialist This interview took place on October 10 with a retired police officer. He spent 32 years with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and had some very interesting things to say about the changes he has w Continue Reading...
Law Enforcement and Hiring Laws Types of Policing Community policing primarily consists of law enforcement through police patrol and presence. Problem oriented policing is very similar to community policing, except that instead of merely patrols ac Continue Reading...
ILEA's International Law Enforcement Academies The 1990's saw a tremendous change in the nature of international relations and international threats and crime in particular. The end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union opened a large po Continue Reading...
Cyndi Banks' Criminal Justice Ethics: Theory and Practice No serious-minded individual over the age of twelve actually thinks that justice and ethical issues involved in criminality are purely black-and-white or clear-cut issues of good and bad. Th Continue Reading...
Crime and Intelligence Analysis The Roles of Crime Analysis and Intelligence Analysis in the Future of Policing and Homeland Security The state of this country after the September 11 attacks was of utter shock and disbelief at what had taken place Continue Reading...
Australian Criminal Justice System Formal mechanisms are required to make certain there is no bias or discrimination against the people. With informal mechanisms there was unfair treatment of the accused even to the point of receiving unjust sentenc Continue Reading...
Stalking Victimization in the United States Crime Victimization It wasn't until Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by Robert John Bardo in 1989 that the word 'stalking' began to take on a new meaning in popular culture, one associated with the pursuit of Continue Reading...
shooting of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, writers Michael Grunwald and Jay Newton-Small asked an important question: How could Jared Loughner, the shooter, be considered too dangerous to attend community college but not too dangerous to Continue Reading...
These are federal stimulus funds for policing programs that are community oriented. As these programs has already awarded $1 billion in ARRA funds. (2010). If the Lowell Police Department is able to receive ARRA funding from the COPS program, addit Continue Reading...
During the first era of American policing, constitutional standards of criminal procedure including formal policies of arrest, interrogation, evidence procurement, and the treatment of prisoners was substantially subject to local authorities and va Continue Reading...
This letter provided the strongest link to the letter writer and an actual murder that was committed. There are varying degrees concerning the authenticity of this package and letter (Barbee 2006). Nonetheless, officials did know that this particula Continue Reading...
legal system of the United States of America rests on the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights? The answer is that this is not completely true; the Constitution, when it was initially developed, did not enable authorities to cope successfully Continue Reading...
Running by Luis Rodriguez Cause and Effect as Found in Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. A by Luis Rodriguez Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" Sir Isaac Newton once wrote. Such is the case in the life of author Luis Ro Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Organization and Management: The Paramilitary Model Adopted by Police Organizations Introduction The paramilitary model provides a degree of discipline and training to police officers that they might not otherwise obtain. The paramil Continue Reading...
DUI experiment design test for DUI Experiment to test DUI Task Force Police departments today must be very careful about how they spend their scarce resources. This experiment is designed to assess the efficacy of the DUI task force, specifically Continue Reading...
Human Trafficking The primary thing I liked about Jesper Lund's discussion about Interpol and the way it works was the speaker's candidness. He was extremely forthright, personable, and knowledgeable about this organization and its influence through Continue Reading...
