...departments and agencies in the U.S. that it could easily seem very strange to people in other countries why there was a need for this huge number of entities. Most often in other countries law enforcement is ran by a central agency or ministry that is over all local branches. Unlike the US system in which local departments are largely responsible for themselves, for example currently the US has around 18,000 different agencies ("United States", 2014). While the UK has 46 agencies ("United Kingdom", 2014) and Japan has 47 agencies ("Japan", 2014). The almost 18,000 agencies in the US are individually governed, so to speak. Each agency answers to a higher power, our local law enforcement that is managed by and answers to the mayor and the City Council. Larger cities or metropolitan areas often also have a federal law enforcement agency branch in the city. The federal enforcement agency located there reports to the federal office of that particular agency. The common local law enforcement handles the simple day-to-day tasks of keeping the town running and in order, while the federal law enforcement handles issues like kidnapping and bank robbery. Then there are specialty departments with in these agencies. Such as departments that are over parks or airports, there are also federal agencies over specific enforcement such as the ATF that enforces laws about Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. According to "About Atf" (2014), ATF is a unique law enforcement agency in the United...
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...Law Enforcement 1. Criminal Justice Trends Paper Lillie Johnson CJA 484 February 28, 2012 Shane Evans Law Enforcement 2. Pursuing Criminal Justice: Law Enforcement There are a lot of components that make up the criminal justice system, including but not limited to: corrections, courts, and law enforcements. The criminal justice system, referred to as a network as opposed to a system by criminal justice professionals, can not be successful without all the elements that make up that system. Nothing can go forward within the criminal court system without first being handed over by a law enforcement agency. The purpose of this paper is to focus on law enforcement component of the system. This paper will address three current practices of law enforcement that prove the successful great courage of justice. In addition, this paper will explain three examples of changes that law enforcement has experience as...
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...Police Operations Name Police Operations Law enforcement agencies throughout the country are active in numerous activities and operations. Law enforcement at all three levels varies in labels, operations, authority, and jurisdiction. It’s interesting to consider that the different levels of law enforcement don’t necessarily cooperate with each other. Considering that all the levels of law enforcement have the same overall goal and face the same crimes, weapons, and technology advances, then it’s understandable that they actually should cooperate with each other. The Dangers of policing Danger is something that all police officers must face at some point in their career. In particular, the greatest danger for police officers is physical harm. At any given time, a police officer is at risk to be attacked or assaulted from a criminal. Then, there are the added dangers when officers lack sufficient backup. However, officers are trained to measure situations so they he/she does not go into a situation without the sufficient support or knowledge. Regardless, there still exist those situations in which an ordinary police procedure can escalate quickly. For example, a traffic cop can stop somebody for a traffic violation then have to face a violent or threatening individual when trying to issue a ticket. Furthermore, there are dangers at a lower scale than physical harm. There are dangers related to stress and issues in the personal lives of...
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...Larson The police department is important to community. There are several departments and agencies designed to keep the people safe from drugs, homicide, armed robbery, rape, and many other crimes. There are various acts of violence that take place in America but police are practicing safety precautions to keep our streets safe. In this paper, will be addressing the various types of police agencies at local, state, and federal levels. It will also address the roles and functions of police operations and their role as it applies to the law. Finally, I will identify the major organizational theories associated with policing. There are just under 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States. This includes 12,656 local police, 3,061 sheriff’s departments, 49 state police agencies, 1,376 special police agencies, and 45 federal agencies. At the local level, they have municipal police, county police, and county sheriffs. Also there are the constables, coroners, special district police, and the tribal police. Local Police Agencies Municipal police: Municipal or city police are the most important component of American law enforcement. In 2000 they represented 71% of law enforcement agencies and employed 62% of all sworn officers. Municipal police play a more complex role than any other type of law enforcement agency. The external environment heavily influences all agencies. Cities, and big cities in particular, represent the most complex environments, particularly...
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...Reporting System (NIBRS). The data collected through the UCR and the NIBRS is used by Congress to make decisions toward the policies and to allocate federal criminal justice funding to the states. In order for Congress to make these policy decisions based on statistical information, there has to be an understanding of how each program will collect ad report crime date. However, there are also limitations associated with data input through both of these reporting systems. The UCR was enacted when the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) recognized the need for crime statistics to inform of the national crime rates throughout the nation in the 1920s. This was an effort to create a national standardized measurement of different incidences of crime being committed. However, it was originally conceived in an effort to measure the effectiveness of local law enforcement agencies to aid law enforcement with the data needed to use in the help to fight crime in their jurisdictions. The UCR is a combined city, county, state, and Federal law enforcement program....
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...Capable Law Enforcers Ryan Asevo CJA/204 December 4, 2010 Gregory Todd Frum Ever since the dawn of organized society, there has been a need for capable guardians or what we now know as law enforcement agencies. In our present time, we have different levels of law enforcement agencies starting with local, state, and federal. Local law enforcement provides service to its designated jurisdiction which most of the time is one city. State law enforcement provides service to the entire state the agency is based in, and finally, federal law enforcement has a nation wide jurisdiction. In the following paragraphs, these different levels of law enforcement agencies will be discussed in detail about their history and function. The first Europeans who landed on our shores had to devise a system to effectively protect themselves and their property from the natives, who did not want to share their land. All able-bodied men and young boys were responsible for policing the community, after things became fairly settled and maintaining order was a simple task, the new colonies created Justices of the Peace. Justices of the Peace were unpaid community elected officials that patrolled the colony and kept the peace, but as colonies grew into towns and towns into cities, the Justices of Peace were not enough. The city of Boston established Night Watch in 1636, which worked well, as long as the area remained rural and pastoral. In 1651, New York City established the Shout...
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...Functions The criminal justice system is made up of various police agencies that focus on specific areas of enforcement on a local, state and federal level. Law enforcement in the United States is one of three major components of the criminal justice system of the United States, along with courts and corrections. Although there is an inherent relationship between the different groups that make up the criminal justice system based on their crime deterrence purpose, each component operates independently from one another. There are 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide. Those agencies employ 1.1 million persons on a full-time basis, including about 765,000 sworn personnel. Sworn personnel are defined as those with general arrest powers. Agencies also employed approximately 100,000 part-time employees, including 44,000 sworn officers. These findings come from the 2008 Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA) (Reaves, 2011). Local law enforcement agencies include Municipal police, County police, the County Sheriff, Special District police, and the Tribal police. State law enforcement agencies are the State police and the Highway patrol. The federal agencies fall under the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. The Department of Homeland Security includes the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Transportation Security...
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...any organization in today’s society, including entertainment, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, even law enforcement agencies. Information Technology is used to aid in storing, retrieving, analyzing raw data and transforming it into information in a timely and efficient manner. This paper focuses on law enforcement agencies and the implementation of Information Technology to optimize their ability to predict and reduce crime through predictive policing. Predictive policing is the usage of statistical information and analytical techniques used to identify potential offenders and crime hot spots and aid in crime prevention. Predictive policing allows law enforcement agencies to become less reactive and more proactive by predicting and preventing crime before it happens. Predictive policing is attracting increasing attention from law enforcement agencies around the country as departments struggle to fight crime at a time when budgets are being slashed (Goode, 2011). An innovation technology in predictive policing is a computer statistic or comparative statistic model known as COMPSTAT. COMPSTAT is a multifaceted dynamic approach to crime prevention, quality of life improvement, and personnel and resource management. COMPSTAT is an information system that identifies established and emerging crime trends for the efficient use of resources to target those trends. The COMPSTAT system represents one method of utilizing and making effective use of existing computerized data. The process...
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...Policing Development and Operation Trends Contemporary Issues and Futures in Criminal Justice/CJA 394 April 14, 2014 Ms. Marilyn West Past, present, and future local, state, and federal agencies can trace their routes to the Colonial Period of history. As with everything in history the various agencies were required to change, adapt, and develop specific procedures, missions, and operations. As criminals become more technologically advanced, laws are amended, and public perception changes each agency must change the way the handle, organize, and implement those changes. Local The local organizations begin with municipal police, county police and county sheriff. In the United States, there is under 18,000 law enforcement agencies to include 12,656 local police, and 3,061 sheriff departments. Municipal police or also known as the city police are among the key components of United States law enforcement. In the 2000 charts, municipal police makeup 71% of law enforcement agencies and employed 62% of all sworn officers. The city police or municipal police play a vital and complex role in the communities, and cities. Municipal police heavily influence all agencies. The cities and bigger cities represent the most complex environment and more so in the diversity in the population. The city police are often responsible for dealing with serious crimes that are disproportionately centered in cities. City police provide a wide range of...
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...Juvenile Crime Statistics Juvenile Crime Statistics Law enforcement agencies like to figure out statistics whether it be for adults or juveniles. Statistics give law enforcement agencies an overall view of the rates, whether rates increased or decreased and also allows law enforcement agencies to show the people what is going on. Statistics for juveniles are just as important as they are for adults. Arrest statistics is one set of statistics law enforcement agencies track. “Arrest statistics report the number of arrests that law enforcement agencies made in a given year” (Puzzanchera, 2008). Males, females, race and ethnicity are different categories arrests rates are tracked and viewed. When tracking arrest rates law enforcement agencies can also see what crime more arrests happen for. Juvenile statistics show law enforcement agencies and society how the juveniles are doing when it comes to arrests. Overall Decrease in Juvenile Arrests Juveniles are being arrested every day for multiple reasons. When juveniles are arrested society does not hear anything about it because when a juvenile is arrested or involved in any sort of situation with law enforcement it is kept confidential to protect the juvenile. Juvenile arrests statistics for a given year show whether juvenile arrests increased or decreased from previous years and the overall goal is for the rates to decrease. “In 2008, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated 2.11 million arrests of...
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...Local Law Enforcement Intelligence The world of local law enforcement intelligence has changed significantly since September 11, 2001. State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies have been given a variety of new responsibilities to handle including intelligence as just one. The intelligence discipline has evolved significantly in recent years since 9/11. As these various trends have merged, increasing numbers of American law enforcement agencies have begun to explore, and sometimes embrace, the intelligence function. Law enforcement agencies should consider many new techniques in bettering their intelligence functions. This research paper will discuss law enforcement intelligence history, methods to integrate intelligence into their agency and resources to help with their departments function. To begin this research the first question to be asked should be that of what is law enforcement intelligence? “Law enforcement intelligence is the product of an analytical process that provides an integrated perspective to disparate information about crime, crime trends, crime and security threats and conditions associated with criminality” (Carter). In my opinion the term “law enforcement intelligence” is used and viewed improperly. The majority of people will take this term out of its context and confuse it with national intelligence. Law enforcement intelligence is often viewed as pieces of information about people, places, or events that can be used to provide insight about...
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...Criminal Justice System Lessons Learned Post 9/11 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of interagency collaboration in the criminal justice system, the changes that were made and lessons learned following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In the wake of the events that followed the 9/11 attacks many problems were revealed within the criminal justice system, especially those affecting the law enforcement community. One of those problems was the lack of interaction between the police departments and other local/state law enforcement with the federal law enforcement agencies. Local law enforcement agencies are the primary responders to any incident of crime or terror, therefore developing a better interagency collaboration in order to share information is essential in order to prevent future attacks. Prior to the 9/11 attacks many of the agencies believed in keeping information within their own realm due to protocols and security clearances. These criminal justice agencies each had pieces to a puzzle, but because these agencies never worked together, those pieces would never be put together to reveal the bigger picture. The 9/11 events revealed the lack of interaction and set about a positive change that would impact the way the criminal justice system approached their problem solving. One of those changes was the reorganization of the federal law enforcement agencies, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation...
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...Functions Paper According to The Free Dictionary (2013), policing is defined as to regulate, control, or keep in order with or as if with a law enforcement agency. Policing is at city, county, state, and federal levels with the United States, each have different roles and responsibilities. Policing has advanced so much from starting with night watchmen who were just citizens, to community policing being an occupation. Society is always advancing making the criminal justice system which includes policing to keep up with the advancements. As a police officer whether it be at a city, county, state, or federal level risk their lives daily to keep society in order by protecting and enforcing the laws. There are also private security industries that employ law enforcement officers as well. Local police department is a general purpose law enforcement agency which consists of both county, and town or city (Bureau of Justice Statistics, n.d.). Tribal police are also classified as local police. Municipal or city police are the most important component of American law enforcement. Municipal police play a more complex role than any other type of law enforcement agency. As a city police department has the heaviest responsibility for dealing with serious crime which is located within the cities (Walker & Katz, Chapter 3, The Contemporary Law Enforcement Industry, 2008). Not only with the responsibilities for difficult order are maintenance problems they expected to provide emergency services...
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...Index 0% Similarity by Source Internet Sources: 0% Publications: 0% In this paper of the Bill of Rights and several amendments will be discuss, which is the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth. Also will discuss how the Bill of Rights evaluates different areas in security and the administration of justice. Such as challenges of law enforcement, roles of the courts, roles of the security, and recommendation. The main purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect the freedoms and the rights of the American citizens. Also, so that every individual can worship wherever he or she feel comfortable without restrictions. If an individual born inside the country or outside the country his or her citizenship as an America and recognized as an America. American citizens protected from seizures and searches by law enforcement agencies unless there is a warrant presented. The warrant must be present before the seizure and search take place. The warrant will specify what and who will be search so that an individual privacy not invaded. The United States Constitution of the first amendment states Congress cannot make laws condensing the right for people the peacefully assemble, speech, the press, and religion (Bill of Rights). Chris Neefus wrote article that challenge the First Amendment. The title of that article was “Justice Breyer suggests that burning a Quran could be like shouting fire in a crowded theatre and not protected by First Amendment.” The article...
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