...I have the personal history statement to fill out. At the end of the packet we have to write a small essay on why being a LEO is important to us. This is what I have so far. I'm listing the shoplifting part in the application but I'm not sure if I should leave it in the essay or not. It was a learning experience for me and it turned me around but I'm not sure If I should draw more attention than is necessary to it. Heres what I have so far: "Becoming a police officer with the city of Allen is very important to me for a number of reasons. I was raised in a small town where the police officers interacted with the civilians and were very involved with the community. I believe one of the key factors in promoting a safe community is being proactive and maintaining a presence with the civilians. Growing up in a small community allowed me to observe how much of a positive influence this method of policing can have. By utilizing programs such as National Night Out and Citizens on Patrol, the Allen Police Department builds on the concept of having a strong relationship with the community. I have always respected the role of a police officer however one incident in particular really opened my eyes as to the importance of the position. When I was sixteen I made the mistake of trying to shoplift a music CD from a store. Since I was underage instead of being arrested a police officer came and talked to me. He explained the consequences of such actions and how one incident may lead to...
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...rmWhat is IRAC? IRAC stands for Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion. It is one way to structure legal analysis. An effective essay (no matter the overall length) follows some form of the IRAC structure where it is organized around each of these elements for each and every issue and subissue identified as a legal problem. IRAC is an extremely useful tool in organizing any law related essay answer. It is not the only way to structure an answer, but it helps to make sure all bases are covered. So, until you achieve the level of mental and written fluency where you can weave together rule and fact in a seamless tapestry and transition between thoughts without loss of either the substance or your reader, you might choose to rely on some form of IRAC to keep focused. Use IRAC as tool for organizing your thinking and your writing. Think of it as a weaving loom that is there only to support the threads of your argument, while you weave and create an intricately beautiful piece of fabric, i.e. a complete, logical argument. Soon, the process will become automatic and you will rely less and less on the loom. Until then, you have something you can rely on to guide you through the process. How to IRAC 1. State the issue The issue is the most important element in the analysis and must be stated in a way to show what is in controversy. The legal question weaves together the rule and the facts particular to the problem you identified. Articulate the issue by creating the legal question...
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...permit in South Carolina than in New York. The purpose of the essay is to show how they are alike but also very different in many ways. Also some of the important laws about guns that people may not know about each states. Gun laws are designed to protect communities and preserve rights; it would be surprising to find out that they are different in many ways within the United States. South Carolina has some very different laws than most states, but some states are very much alike too. Here in South Carolina you can buy a gun from any store at any time. We have a place where you can go and take a class to get a permit. Then once you pass the class, the police officer sends your information off to Columbia, South Carolina. After a few weeks you will get your ID card in the mail that you put in to your wallet so you can carry your weapon at all times, but you can carry you weapon without a concealed weapons permit. They can be in your car as long as it is a three step process; if you get pulled over you have to tell the officer that you have a gun. They will ask you to get the gun out slowly and lay the gun unloaded on the dash board with the clip beside it, so that it can be seen by the officer there. Also you can carry long guns in the back window of your truck as long as it is unloaded. New York gun laws are very different from South Carolina; you have to obtain a pistol license from the police department. You can have an unrestricted concealed carry license...
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...the use of many different mediums. One of the primary reasons for success in business and social settings is competent information sharing and because of this, significant strides have been made to advance technological resources to assist contemporary needs of communication. The importance of communication, in every field of life cannot be neglected making these advances that much more important. Effective communication plays a major role in criminal justice settings as well. Without understanding communication methods, individuals could not properly communicate. Police officers are a great example of this. For police officers, oftentimes, the stakes are much greater since his or her actions are more severely scrutinized while conducting their daily investigations, validating his or her position in court, and also before the press. Expressing good verbal skills and non-verbal gestures or postures helps the officer perform their job at a higher level. Effective communications play a large role not only at the business, social, political, and economic levels but it is also a significant advantage to use efficient and sophisticated communication in the criminal justice field as well. Throughout history human civilization has talked about the significant use of verbal and non-verbal communication. Before the advent of language, non-verbal forms of communication were adopted. Today psychologists have promulgated through their research that two-thirds of communication is done through...
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...information sharing and because of this, significant strides have been made to advance technological resources to assist contemporary needs of communication. The importance of communication, in every field of life, cannot be neglected, making these advances that much more paramount. Keeping the importance of communication in consideration it can be stated that effective communication plays a major role in criminal justice settings as well since without having a grasp over communication methods, the individual cannot win the favors of the opponent and using a police officer as an example is great evidence in this regard. For a police officer, oftentimes, the stakes are much greater since his or her actions are more severely scrutinized while investigating a case, validating his or her position in court, and also before the press. Having excellent verbal skills as well as non-verbal gestures or postures helps the officer perform their job at a higher level. Not only at the business, social, political, and economic levels does effective communication play an impactful role but it is also significant to use efficient and sophisticated communication in the criminal justice field as well. Throughout history human civilization has told us about the significant use of verbal and non-verbal communication. Before the advent of language, non-verbal forms of...
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...Statutory interpretation is process of interpreting statutes by the judges. The definition of statutes have had very specific words but indeed the judges would still need the statutory interpretation to help them. The reason of this, even how, the words in the statutes are specific but sometimes the words contains ambiguity and vagueness in words. On top of that, each word could give us different meaning. For example, we can find in the Oxford Dictionary where a word would contain at least one meaning. Hence, without the statutory interpretation, a lot of judges would have trouble in deciding their judgments in deciding a case. This essay will analyse the four rules, intrinsic aids and extrinsic aids and presumptions in the interpretation of statutes. There are four different rules of interpretation in English law which are the literal rule, the golden rule, the mischief rule and the purposive rule/approach. Each rule take different approaches and some judges prefer to use one rule while other judges prefer another rule. Traditionally, the English courts have taken a literal approach to the interpretation of statutes. The Literal Rule is the cornerstone of this approach. The literal rule requires the courts to give the words of a statute their plain meaning. It is for a court to interpret Parliament’s intention from what it has actually said – not from what it thinks it meant to say. This can produce some surprising results as, in practice, words seldom have a single plain...
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...when I try to draw an analogy with the process of reading application essays. The bad. Ninety percent of the applications I read contain what I call McEssays - usually five-paragraph essays that consist primarily of abstractions and unsupported generalization. They are technically correct in that they are organized and have the correct sentence structure and spelling, but they are boring. Sort of like a Big Mac. I have nothing against Big Macs, but the one I eat in Charlottesville is not going to be fundamentally different from the one I eat in Paris, Peoria or Palm Springs. I am not going to rave about the quality of a particular Big Mac. The same can be said about the generic essay. If an essay starts out: "I have been a member of the band and it has taught me leadership, perseverance and hard work," I can almost recite the rest of the essay without reading it. Each of the three middle paragraphs gives a bit of support to an abstraction, and the final paragraph restates what has already been said. A McEssay is not wrong, but it is not going to be a positive factor in the admission decision. It will not allow a student to stand out. A student who uses vague abstractions poured into a preset form will end up being interpreted as a vague series of abstractions. A student who uses cliché becomes, in effect, a cliché. If we are what we eat, we are also what we write. Not only does a preset form lead to a generic essay, so does a generic approach to what is perceived as the right...
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...when I try to draw an analogy with the process of reading application essays. The bad. Ninety percent of the applications I read contain what I call McEssays - usually five-paragraph essays that consist primarily of abstractions and unsupported generalization. They are technically correct in that they are organized and have the correct sentence structure and spelling, but they are boring. Sort of like a Big Mac. I have nothing against Big Macs, but the one I eat in Charlottesville is not going to be fundamentally different from the one I eat in Paris, Peoria or Palm Springs. I am not going to rave about the quality of a particular Big Mac. The same can be said about the generic essay. If an essay starts out: "I have been a member of the band and it has taught me leadership, perseverance and hard work," I can almost recite the rest of the essay without reading it. Each of the three middle paragraphs gives a bit of support to an abstraction, and the final paragraph restates what has already been said. A McEssay is not wrong, but it is not going to be a positive factor in the admission decision. It will not allow a student to stand out. A student who uses vague abstractions poured into a preset form will end up being interpreted as a vague series of abstractions. A student who uses cliché becomes, in effect, a cliché. If we are what we eat, we are also what we write. Not only does a preset form lead to a generic essay, so does a generic approach to what is perceived as the right...
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...Law of Negligence Introduction The requirement of the law of negligence is that individuals’ conduct should conform to certain standards of behavior (Steininger, B., & Koziol, 2005). When the actions of a person violate these standards, it is required by the law that they compensate the victim on their failure to conform to the standards. The law is under torts and its appearance dates back to 1932 in a case of Donoghue vs. Stevenson (Baudouin, 2010). In the case at hand involving Emma a girl who sustained injuries as a result of flying debris and the SCL Company, the law is applicable in several dimensions. There indeed exists a cause of action against SCL Company as discussed in details in the essay below. To start with, the case passes an impartial test by ascertaining the foreseeability of the eminence of harm not only to Emma but to any other person. As presented in Jolly vs. Sutton (2000), the council owed a duty to the young boy for negligence of removing the old boat from the flats (Baudouin, 2010). It was thus evident that the presence of the boat near the flats presented a threat of life to the young children around that vicinity. The municipal was thus responsible for the injury that the boy suffered. It was thus ruled that the municipal had to reimburse for the injuries sustained by the boy. Applied in the case at hand, the SCL Company owed a duty to Emma because it was their duty to ensure that the roof tiles are tightly fitted to prevent them from slipping...
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...more of a hindrance than a help to the police in combating crime”. Discuss. The relationship between the police and the mass media have long been the subject of intense debate. The mass media and the police have different roles in the public eye causing the media to be of concern to the police. Historically and in the contemporary era the police have had to meet high expectations of being the public’s crime-fighter. It is the police’s role to prevent crime, maintain order and protect the public (Carrabine, 2009) whilst, the media fulfil a role that is supposed to challenge the state institutions on behalf of the public. Media handling in serious crime investigations is a complex issue. On the one hand, they provide the public with access to information and help generate important information for an enquiry. For example, since its first broadcast in 1984, Crimewatch UK has sought help and information from the public in order to solve crime (Carter and Branston et al., 2002). On the other hand, the media can mislead the public and interfere with the investigative legal processes. As a whole the media plays a critical role in shaping the public’s views by exposing corruption and the activities of the powerful and of agencies of control such as the police (Croall, 2005). More to the point the media are there to maximise audience revenue to get money and to entertain via means of print, audio, visual and social media. Whereas, the police are the primary protection for the public...
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...leadership is vital to the processes of organisational change (Denston, 2003; Silvestri, 2007). Indeed, for some, the very definition of successful leadership is the ability to bring about sustained organisational change (Allen and Kraft, 1987). Throughout policing history, leadership has played an essential part in organisational development, learning and management of crises. Some leaders have played their part in the development of the police service whilst others have come to the fore at times of crisis. This essay will take a historical look at some of the people who have played an influential role in the development of policing in the UK and the USA and will ascertain whether the development of the police service in both countries can be attributed or compared to modern leadership models and behaviours. The essay will use historical evidence and will apply modern leadership models to ascertain the influence on the development of the Metropolitan Police service by Peel, Rowan and Mayne and the development of the American police service some 100 years later by Vollmer and Wilson. The models used include, in the case of Peel, Fiedler’s Contingency theory and Adair’s Functional Leadership. Ethical leadership will be used in respect of Vollmer and Wilson. The...
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...Briefing Report Ashley Jones SEC315 Professor Michael Tunick January 20, 2012 Abstract This essay investigates the security measures that are being undertaken by the Federal Protective Service to assure security to the general public. It evaluates these measures to determine if they are sufficiently comprehensive to combat a potential threat of a similar magnitude to the Oklahoma City bombing. In addition, the essay compares these security measures to those of the “John Hancock Tower” in Boston City. Further, it elucidates the weakness of Federal Protective Services in relation to security services provided at “John Hancock Tower”. According to the literature, the protocol of FPS usually has frequent security lapses that often leave the people vulnerable to bomb or terrorist attacks (Mearsheimer, J. J. 2007). Briefing Report The Federal Protection Service has been the people’s last hope against terror threat since the September 11. The police unit provides integrated security to federally owned buildings or properties. It is known to organize its security operations within the guiding principles of technical expertise, organizational excellence and proper stakeholder service. However, the recent trend of security lapses in their protocol has caused some panic among the general public as well as within the government quarters. For instance, only a few months ago in McNamara Federal Building that is situated Downtown Detroit, there was a serious bomb scare when it...
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...Introduction “Police history” predates the evolution of the “police” as a permanent occupational group within a bureaucratic institution, providing the primary state response to crime and disorder. That was primarily a development of the 19th century and a reaction to the rapid social change of the industrial revolution and rapid urbanization. Prior to 1800, governments maintained order by a variety of means, local and national. One of the key historical debates concerns the effectiveness of these approaches and the degree of continuity between the premodern and modern police models. Around 1800 a small number of distinctively different types of police institution emerged. The French, under Napoleon, instituted the Gendarmerie, a state military police model. It evolved from the “Marechaussee,” which had had a dual military and civil function since the 16th century. The model was exported across Europe by Napoleon. The British developed two models. The first, set up to answer similar challenges to the Gendarmerie in France, was the Royal Irish Constabulary model. It was close to the state military model, but distinctively styled as part of the civil power of the state and subordinated to the Magistracy. The Irish model was subsequently exported to Britain’s colonies and became the basis of forces such as the Indian Police Service. The Metropolitan Police was consciously created as a local force with a uniform that was deliberately different from the military and a mission that...
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...most ancient form of torts. It developed even before the presence of the police force, to provide protection against the physical interference to person, land or property. The statement has made specific reference to the tort of trespass to person, in regards to the extent of intention needed to determine that a trespass to person has occurred. As such this essay will examine the tort of trespass, with reference to both UK and Malaysian cases in order to make that determination. It will then conclude. As mentioned before trespass may take three forms. The focus here will be on the trespass to person. All three forms of torts, it should be noted, are actionable per se, meaning that the claimant may not...
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...Health and Safety Issues of Police Officers in Canada, the United States and Europe: A Review Essay © Jennifer R. L. Parsons June, 2004 2 Introduction Police officers play a pivotal role in North American and European societies. They are involved in many aspects of North American and European life. Officers’ involvement ranges from general, daily, proactive patrol activities to specific criminal activities such as narcotic investigations. Because there is such a wide range of activities involved in police work, there are many health and safety issues surrounding policing as an occupation. Police officers may be exposed to different health and safety risks in their occupation. For example, police officers are at risk of assault and homicide; the dynamics of policing as an occupation creates opportunities for them to experience many psychosocial hazards such as stress, suicide, sexual harassment, and discrimination. It is important that research be completed on the health and safety issues of police officers in order to identify hazards and identify ways to reduce risk. The failure to identify and solve health and safety concerns of officers has potentially serious consequences for the health and well being of officers and their families. These consequences can include depression, divorce, suicide, and disease. Not addressing the health and safety issues associated with policing may also impact the general public. For example, if an officer is stressed or fatigued...
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