...Melinda Winters Criminal Procedure – Probable Cause Article Summary Cja/364 University Of Phoenix Professor Timijanel Boyd Odom November 14, 2013 In a recent article in the Las Vegas Sun the Nevada police routinely track cell phone users without a warrant. According to "Las Vegas Sun" (2013), "Nevada law enforcement agencies have tracked the movements of citizens through their cellphones, sometimes without obtaining proper court approval, according to court records and documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada”. Last year a judged ruled that the Las Vegas police had improperly obtained the location of a murder suspect from his cell phone but allowed evidence gathered from the illegal tracking to be used at court ("Las Vegas Sun", 2013). Two police departments in Las Vegas routinely use cell phone records to track people involved in investigations and rarely without warrants. This act has become standard some obtain warrants but majority of the time they disregard. According to "Las Vegas Sun" (2013), "The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches by government. To obtain a search warrant, authorities have been required to show a judge enough evidence to establish probable cause”. Law enforcement agencies all over the country have been using cell phone tracking to investigate cases but have been keeping it a secret. The requirement for search and arrest warrants is that in order to be obtained the police must have...
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...Organizational Effectiveness in Criminal Justice Organizations All organizations have specific ethics, values, and goals that it uses to drive them in a forward direction that those within the organization need to know and understand. The Criminal justice system is not any different and has many moving parts that at times can make it difficult to have a clear picture of the overall effectiveness of the organization is truly operating. In order to make this picture clearer we will look at three areas in the following paper. Those areas are the definition of organizational effectiveness, applying theories of organizational effectiveness to the management of criminal justice organizations, and methods of exerting control in an organizational setting. Organizational Effectiveness Organizational effectiveness is defined as “the efficiency with which an association is able to meet its objectives” ("Organizational Effectiveness," 2015). For a business, they would use organizational effectiveness to measure growth, customer satisfaction, or profit margins. While in the criminal justice organization they are more likely to use it to determine the decrease in crime, ticket productivity, and overall crime deterrence in the town or city. There is no true way to measure how effective a criminal justice organization is, but they do agree that effectiveness is a priority. To achieve organizational effectiveness, an organization must first have a clear leadership structure. Second...
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...In the case study of Captain Edith Strong, the department and the employees are experiencing many issues. First of all, employees are viewing jobs as dissatisfying. The morale is low. The response time for a call for assistance is long. Citizen complaints are at an all-time high. More officers are filing disability claims. Employee turner is exceeding projections. The situation has become critical and makes the department seems if they are not performing to the proper standard. Police departments are expected to perform efficiently, effectively and productively. This issue needs to be addressed immediately. As the captain, Edith Strong is responsible for addressing this problem. The philosophical approach Captain Strong should take is to focus on the root of the program. She needs to figure out some measures to take in order to figure out what is causing the problem in order to solve the problem in a timely manner. In this case, Captain Strong needs to work directly with her patrol officers to see why they view the job as dissatisfying and why the morale is so low. Officers say that they feel the workload is excessive. This could be seen as a staffing issue. Maybe the Captian could look into the budget for hiring more officers. Officers are not allow to take breaks and lunches together. In order, for the morale to be boosted, officers have to have a time to fraternize with one another. Maybe she could allow more than one officer to take lunch at a time. In addition, she could...
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...file of CJA 474 Week 3 DQs shows the solutions to the following problems: DQ 1: Consider a specific job within the criminal justice system. What characteristics of that job are sources of motivation and what characteristics may lead to dissatisfaction or burnout? How would you redesign the job to emphasize the first set of characteristics and deemphasize the others? Consider a specific job within the criminal justice system. What characteristics of that job are sources of motivation and what characteristics may lead to dissatisfaction or burnout? DQ 2: How would you redesign the job to emphasize the first set of characteristics and deemphasize the others? DQ 3: Describe the goals of your local police department. How do official and operative goals compare? What variables would you suggest to measure the achievement of those goals? Describe the goals of your local police department. DQ 4: How do official and operative goals compare? DQ 5: What variables would you suggest to measure the achievement of those goals? Law - General Law CJA 474 Week 1 Inidivdual Assignment A Diamond Personality Paper CJA 474 Week 2 Inidivdual Assignment Motivation and Control Thanks for Nothing Paper CJA 474 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Work Perspectives Paper and Outline CJA 474 Week 3 Inidivdual Assignment Bullying Bosses Paper CJA 474 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Wellness Strategy Survey and Recommendations CJA 474 Week...
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...Jail and Prison Paper Tara Frost CJA/204 June 15, 2015 Christopher Cannon Jail and Prison Paper Have you ever wondered about the types of prisons or the major differences between selected jails and selected prisons? Have you ever wondered about the aspects of jail and prison culture and subculture? Why do jails play an important role in the criminal justice system? What is the role of community-based corrections programs associated with jails and prisons? Did you know that violent behavior occurs in jails and prisons? Do you know what the role of probation and parole are? Well, this paper will answer all of those questions for you. By the end of this paper, you will understand a lot better about jail and prisons. Types of Prisons Prisons are grouped into two categories, which are state and federal (Schamelleger, 2011, p. 466). According to Schamelleger (2011), there are six types of prisons (p.468) One type of prison is high-security prison for long-term, high-risk offenders (Schamelleger, 2011, p. 468). There is one or more medium-security institution for offenders who are not high risks. There is even one institution for adult women (Schamelleger, 2011, p. 468). There are one or two institutions for young adults (generally under age 25) (Schamelleger, 2011, p. 468). According to Schamelleger (2011) there is also, one or two, specialized mental hospital-type security prisons for mentally ill prisoners (p.468). The last type of prison, is one or more, open-type institutions...
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...Refection of My core values Timothy Maurer CJA/474 November 25, 2014 Paul Zepeda Refection of My core values Individual values are our core beliefs, values, and ideas that we look about life, its drive, and our own purpose. For instance we grow up, we take on board the individual values of others around us up to we reach the teen-age years and start to accept or discard such values as being a part of who we are,. Instead of just accepting those values that remained ingrained in us by close relative, instructors, and culture, we want to stop, take a look at ourselves, identify our values, and implement them into our lives.. I have many core values, such as in family. Family means a lot to me because they are there for me. My loved ones care deeply about what is best for me. I would do anything for them. When my wife gave birth to our wonderful son, I as a person has changed. Since I am a new father who needs to show my son the way of life and right from wrong, this experience has changed the way I live and the things I do. Honesty is one of my favorites because you have to have honesty to achieve thing in life. You don’t want to live your life in lies the old saying is you can remember the truth but you can’t remember a lie. Honesty goes a long way . I do not like when I am lied to it really gets at me and it breaks my trust with you .it really hard to gain my trust wonts its gone. honesty is the best thing you can do in any...
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...Case Study: Officer Robert Barton Paper Marcellus Brown CJA/474 May 9, 2016 Theresa Cruz When Officer Barton joined the police, He wanted to be an up standing cop and do everything by the book. After graduating from the academy he wanted to preserve the peace and a goal of protecting people and society from criminals. Officer Barton grew up in a small town and was raised in a middle class family and was not ready for the experience of police life. When Officer Barton graduated from the academy and joined the police force, he realized that his views had changed once he hit the streets. Officer Barton wanted to be part of the group and by doing so he sacrificed his standards so he could be accepted. Protecting citizens and catching people who break the law is the core mission of a police officer. But, it is apparent that in some law enforcement agencies the mission is to protect each other. Being from different backgrounds, the officers quickly assimilated into a new sub-culture. Depending on what side of the group you were on, the mind set of us against them was embedded in the culture of law enforcement agencies and it did not take long for Officer Barton to change. Officer Barton was transferred to a new task force that monitored and arrested gang members. Task forces are usually small groups of law enforcement officers and when Barton was transferred he thought it would be a good place to fight...
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...Values and Reflection Paper Enrique Riccardi CJA/474 - MANAGING CRIMINAL JUSTICE PERSONNEL January 25, 2014 Jason Husky Abstract Reflection paper will address some topics while reflecting on core values, brief description on how some professionals in the field acquire their own values and with time may change their values. It will give a definition of what values in the workplace are, and explain what these values do for us as professionals. In this paper the reader will also be able to see the breakdown the nature and the overall importance of human and professional values in the work place. Write a 700- to 1,050-word reflection paper in which you address the following concepts: * Identify your core values. * Describe how people acquire and change values. * Explain what values do for and to us. * Explain the nature and importance of human values in the workplace. Defining core values may vary from people’s education and ethical values that they have learned through life. Core values for a law enforcement agency it will be the fundamentals beliefs of the organization. They are normally used as guiding principles for the organization and it will dictate the way the organization will operate. These core values will help identify what should be done and what should not be done in the organization; right and wrong. By clarifying where the organization would like to be in the future, and letting all of its members what is and will be expected...
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...Values Reflection James A. White Sr. CJA/474 October 22, 2013 Marcus Gamble Values Reflection My core values are what I have determined of what I believe in. Some people never take the time to communicate what their values are. Once a person determines what, he or she believes in and what is important to him or her, his or her values are set in their lives. There are several ways that an individual can determine his or her core values. Here are some questions that some people ask themselves to determine their core values; What is important to me? What do I believe in? What are things I believe in that you would want to pass on to your children? What are the thing that I believe in that governs how I live my life? Within this paper I will make the attempt to identify my core values, as I describe how people acquire and change values. I will explain what values do for and to us. Finally in the conclusion, I will explain the nature and importance of human values in the workplace. The order of an individual’s values defines how he or she will recognize and how he or she will act; as a result that regulate your instant purpose. Everyone’s values changes over time, therefore his or her destiny changes over time. The summary of an individual’s sequence of callings controls his or her life voyage. The final or comparative static core value directs the endless journey the most. The more important a value is to you, the higher you will make it important to your lifestyle...
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...Values Reflection Paper John Iverson CJA/474 Managing Criminal Justice Personnel 20140826 Barry Lewis Values Reflection Paper This paper will cover the core values that I hold, I will describe why these values are dear to me. I will then describe how values come into being and how we come to change these values. I will then explain what values do for and to us. I will then explain the nature and importance of human values in the workplace. In my opinion core values are the beliefs and actions that a person holds and practices throughout one life. Values dictate how a person lives there lives and what they pass on to their children. It hard for me to put into numerical order the values I hold so I will list them but remember they are not necessarily in order. Honesty is one value I hold in high regard. I believe that a person who is not honest cannot be trusted. Hence trust is another value I have. These two are the cornerstone of the most basic and important institution in our lives, marriage. Without honesty and trust it is impossible to have and keep a marriage together and marriage is the cornerstone of the family. My family is the most important thing to me. I trust my wife with every aspect of my life and if she was not honest I would trust her loyalty plays a huge part in a marriage also. There other values I have obtained after I joined the military. There are called the army values, Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honesty, Integrity, and Personal...
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...Values Reflection Marc Maier CJA/474 December 2, 2013 Terry Smart Values Reflection Values are the reflection of who a person is and how he or she sustains a fulfilling life. Values are not the same for everyone as each has inherited inadvertently his or her own values based on his or her environment and the influences that surround a person's life. The student will share her core values in what she believes from growth and development as a child to an adult. The student will view how others acquire and change his or her values. In addition, the student will describe what values do for us and what values do to individuals. Moreover, the importance of human values in the workplace. Core Values Core values are what a person believes and how strong we hold these values in acceptance to who the student is as a person. The student's personal values are similar in what she believed in adolescence. The knowledge and learning of values I obtained as a child was not one's the student wished to carry with her as an adult or throughout her lifespan. Individuals who helped influence my values were not part of my family growing up but rather, the influences were from teachers and other friend’s parents. Through learning experiences as a child and becoming an adult the student has sustain and upheld positive values throughout her life but not without change. Values important to me is integrity, honesty, respect, leadership, putting others before myself, paying it forward...
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...Case Study: Captain Edith Strong Managing Criminal Justice Personnel CJA/474 Case Study: Captain Edith Strong In recognition of law enforcement and the task that men and women adhere to it is important from every levels of the police department to succeed in inspiring and uplifting morale in the department the mission is crucial. The case study of Captain Edith Strong accentuates that the patrol officers are less than satisfied with the division and workload. Problems evident are; the job itself is no longer satisfying, the response times are long, low morale, citizens complaints are increasing, rapid turnovers, and disabilities claims by officers are increasing (More, 2012). The student will address the case study to determine the philosophical approach of Captain Strong. Moreover, how she will carry out the project, the motivational strategies in consideration, if the E.R.G. Theory is applicable, and if job enlargement or job enrichment is applicable. What Philosophical Approach do you believe Captain Strong should take in carrying out this Project? Describing the case study of captain strong the philosophical approach the student believes she should take in carrying out this project is finding the core underlying problem. Captain Strong's philosophical approach is to find the measures of building motivation and confidence among the patrol officers within the department...
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...Values Reflection Paper University of Phoenix CJA 474 Research Process and Terminology Values are the ideas one holds dearest to them. The values change and mold a person as the person grows. This paper will discuss what my core values are, how people acquire and change their values, what values do for and to us and explaining the nature and importance of human values in the workplace. Core Values The first values I can remember were given to me by my parents. My parent raised me to help people when they are in need. As the old saying goes, I would give the shirt off my back even in the middle of winter. I still believe in this value and want my daughter to see the importance of it as well. I was also taught not to look for trouble but, if it comes around deal with it. This value was a main reason for me joining the military. It also goes a long with the last major value I was taught, do not let anyone hurt your family or friends. As I have grown into a man, I have added a few values that make me a better employee and friend. I believe while at work you must put 110% while you are on the clock and that your raise is the reward for this hard work. I also believe if you are a true friend you should be there in their time of need, for example if they are become hurt or sick you do their chores for them until that are well enough to do them again, not just wish them well. The last value I have gained as an adult is to give to those less fortunate instead of buying the...
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...Values Reflection Paper Brandy Alston University of Phoenix Managing Criminal Justice Personnel CJA/474 Professor Leroy Hendrix October 30, 2013 Values Reflection Paper Introduction Values are closely similar to what life means, life is relevant when an individual has accomplished a stimulating obligation for themselves. Values are deserving of an individual’s best accomplishment, values are merits for living or for dying. Values are accomplishments every individual strives for, goals individual tends to perceptions that motivate individual action that projects certain attitudes. Values are motivations that are completely rooted to an individual’s behavior. Values are characterized as important to an individual and form the ground for their choices, reactions, and decisions. Some values are incorporated throughout time from adolescence to adulthood which appears during the time an individual is making a decision. Therefore what is designed as valuable are individuals and objects, goals or ideas that are essential in life, which allows individuals to understand direct and evaluate their life. Individuals use principles and ideals in which they live and set their own values and good manners are important bases for moral character. Considering my personnel values and the values considered in simulations. I feel as though my personnel values did not change, but expanded. Fulfilling simulation with my personnel values consist of equality, loyalty, trust...
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...Ethical Dilemma Walter Thibodeaux CJA 474 May 21, 2012 Evan Cohen Ethical Dilemma Individuals face many challenges when entering into new employment or profession. The new job’s culture is not quickly learned; therefore, one has to observe and take notes on his or her new job’s way of doing things and adapt. In this ethical dilemma, a police officer has just transferred to a new department. In his transition to the new department, the officer witnesses another officer violating the department’s ethical code of coduct. The officer witnesses another officer taking gifts from the community members and local businesses he services. As a new member to the department, the officer debates on what actions if any he should take in this situation. What measures do you take in regarding this type of ethical conduct? What measure would you take? “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” In this situation, the officer faces a difficult dilemma of integrity. Reporting the situation would not only show the officer’s integrity but also labels him as one who tattles. On the other hand, the officer does not want to cause any ways because he is new to department. In this situation, I would first speak with the officer informally about his actions in private. Taking this action will make hopefully the officer conscious of his unethical behavior; hence, discontinuing his dishonorable behavior. Although the unscrupulous officer...
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