...London Burning By Mark Arve, 7th August. An innocent lost life during a drug-raid has brought demonstrators blood boil. Revenge is on the agenda and London is paying the price. 4th August 2011, Tottenham Hale. The death of 29-year-old Mark Duggan during a drug-raid has pulled the trigger and should apparently be the cause of the riots in London theses days. The police stopped a taxi carrying Mark Duggan as a passenger on Thursday the 4th August in the evening around 18 AM. The police were trying to arrest Mark Duggan, but the arrest lead to hand-to-hand fighting, while Mark Duggan tried to resist the overpowering police officers. The officers were compelled to shoot Mark Duggan because of his threating and violent behaviour and in preparation to their own safety. The police officers fired two shoots against Mark Duggan. One of them fatally stroked his chest and killed the family man, who was father to four children. Ambulance services tried to save his life, but his life could not be rescued – he died only half an hour later. Conflict of evidence A spokesman, representing the police maintains that the police officers shot Mark Duggan in self-defence. The spokesman claims likewise that Mark Duggan first discharged shots against the police officers, before he got shot. Family and friends, who knew the 29-years-old Londoner very well are not in doubt about the cause to the death and whose fault it was. According to them, Mark Duggan was...
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...Department of Defense (DOD) has responded to in past years (Grange & Johnson 1997, p.108). The U.S has acknowledged and prepared for terrorist attacks for years. The terrorist events in the fall of 2001 put to test the extent to which the local, State, and Federal emergencies had in responding to emergency or disaster (Fema, 2004, p. 7). London bombings of 2005, Oklahoma City Bombings of 1995, and Centennial Olympic Park bombings of 1996 have challenged the effectiveness and efficiency of emergence services in the United Kingdom, and the U.S. London bombings on July 7, 2005 have revealed several serious emergency issues, which were similar to emergency issues in 1995 and 1996 in the United States. Terrorist acts seriously undermine the stability of any society. The role of emergency services is to provide victims and injured with full information and timely assistance. Critical accidents similar to Oklahoma or Olympic park bombings reveal the major emergency inconsistencies and failures. These failures are later evaluated and addressed in numerous after-action reviews. Emergency response to London bombings 2005 “Terrorists attacked London on 7 July 2005, claiming 52 innocent lives and injuring hundreds more. Many more people were affected by their experiences that day and in the days that followed” (Home Office Security, 2006). Emergency response to bombings was immediate and highly qualified, aimed at...
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...London Riots The London Riots occurred in 2011. It first started on Saturday August 6 and ended on Thursday August 11. Thousands of people rioted in several London boroughs and in cities and towns all over England. The riots are sometimes referred to as the "BlackBerry riots" because of the use of mobile phones and social medias to organize them. The riot first began in Tottenham, North London after the death of Mark Duggan. 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot by the police in Tottenham on August 4, 2011. He was shot in the chest because the police had suspicion that he had a weapon and was planning an attack. This event wouldn't have turned to much if Mark was not dark skinned. No one would have given it a second thought, but he was. There was always tension between black people and the police since 1985 the Broadwater Farm riot. Since 1985 there was progress in the relationship but the shooting raised the tension once again. According to David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, Duggan's death was part of "a history in Tottenham that involves deaths in the police custody". Claudia Webbe the chairperson of Operation Trident, asserted that many black people saw Dugan's shooting as "yet another unjust death in custody" and that young people in Tottenham are "still six, seven eight times more likely to be stopped and searched than their white counterparts". One of the reasons I think the riots occurred and turned to more than just a protest was because of what Claudia Webbe said. Black...
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...41-year-old man, who earlier in the year was a suspected paedophile. . At a police press conference earlier this morning, the London police department announced that an 18-year-old girl is suspected of stabbing and killing a 41-year-old man, Jeff Lee, who earlier this year was suspected of being a paedophile. The man was found dead Tuesday morning, in a container in one of East Castle’s alleys with several stab wounds to his body. “We have not yet fully investigated the incident, but several eyewitnesses have claimed seeing the 18-year-old girl at the crime scene, and she is therefore our prime suspect.” The London police department have apologized to the deceased mans family for taking so long to start the investigation, even though he already was reported missing Saturday evening. However, because of the riot that broke out on Oxford Street the London police said it would have been an impossible task to find Jeff Lee’s corpse, before Tuesday morning. Initially it was suspected that the man had been killed during the riot, but Springfield University Hospital could after their post-mortem examination announce that he died just few hours before the riot. They also announced that the cause of death was a stab wound to his throat. “This was a very violent and cold blooded killing, the perpetrator must have been in a very angered state to deliver such a wound “ - said Dr Martin to The Local. The London police are investigating on a theory that there are more suspects who are involved...
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...History of Police August 7, 2014 School Class The American police systems are largely founded in the English system of policing. Although policing seems ubiquitous today, formal public police services did not appear in the US until the late 1700s and 1800s. Prior to this period, policing efforts consisted of volunteer groups that were charged with a variety of responsibilities including: “social services, including lighting street lamps, running soup kitchens, recovering lost children, capturing runaway animals, and a variety of other services…” (Sagepub, 2014) As the country began to grow and populations increased during the 1700s, these watch groups were expanded to have daytime and nighttime groups. But as the country grew, problems such as riots and social unrest proved to be too much for these groups to handle. Watch groups were also highly ineffective at crime fighting and because they were comprised of volunteers, these groups were often irresponsible and remiss in their duties. “Policing in England and Colonial America was largely ineffective, as it was based on a volunteer system and their method of patrol was both disorganized and sporadic.5 Night watch groups in Colonial America, as well as day watch groups that were added at a later time, were largely ineffective; instead of controlling crime in their community, some members of the watch groups would sleep and/or socialize while they were on duty.11 (Sagepub, 2014):” During the late 1700’s and early 1800s...
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...reformers along with the Irish Home rule partisans. The reports of Jack the Ripper were collected and reported by the police, but then the different newspapers with their political influences slightly distorted the stories to give them their own effect. It has been more the one hundred years since the last murder and there is no longer any more original evidence, and the "facts" about the stories have changed over time due to different writers or differing sources. The press changed Jack the Ripper from being a depressed killer of prostitutes to one of the most romantic figures seen throughout history. One fact that most sources agreed upon was that the Ripper was a killer who wanted nothing more than to strike fear into the entire city by horribly mutilating his victims and then leaving them in locations where they were sure to be seen. Jack was the type of killer that wants fame and loved the fact that his "name" was on everyone's lips and was able to strike fear into anyone and everyone's heart. In the late 1800's "Jack the Ripper" began his rampage of killings. He was a serial killer who murdered several prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888. The people of London, mainly the press at the time, dubbed this killer, "Jack the Ripper." The name was given to the killer because at the time of the murders, a person wrote a letter to the police and press claiming to be this serial killer, and he had called...
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...that would eventually evolve over the years. Robert Peel had great knowledge for how the law should work so he set great foundations that would evolve into today’s law enforcement agencies. Sir Robert Peel continued to work on his structure of law enforcement for over 30 years. Peel would later be referred to as the “father” of modern policing and progressive ongoing political efforts to rebuild a struggling English Law enforcement system. In the early 19th century, London faced a lot of challenges concerning ethnic conflict, poverty, crime, disorder, weak public safety, and various other elements that placed the entire city at risk for violence and chaos. In 1829, Robert Peel would establish London’s first Metropolitan Police after years of attempting to persuade English Parliament. Peel had a vision to build a proactive and reliable police force in the city of London. Over the years, officers were nicknamed Bobbies or Peelers in honor of Sir Robert Peel and his accomplishments in English Parliament. Modern police as we know it now still functions under the principles that were first...
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...the norm with religious, political, or military police acting as the law. Policing was unstable and unorganized. Citizens took the law into their own hands and served as judge, jury, and executioner. There was not such a thing as being “innocent until proven guilty.” If the community believed an individual was guilty of a crime then the community would handle the offense themselves. American policing stems from the English heritage; crime prevention and control, preventive patrol, and the quasi-military organizational method became the policing structure. The English colonists brought a criminal justice system as part of their cultural baggage (Walker & Katz, 2008, p. 24). In addition, American policing also used other features from the British system. A member of England’s elite social and political class fought to improve the structure of the law enforcement for more than 30 years. History expresses itself and acknowledges this member as the “father” of modern policing, otherwise known as Sir Robert Peel (Walker & Katz, 2008, p. 25). After the collapse of the England law enforcement in the early nineteenth century, Sir Robert Peel took a stand to control order and organization in the law enforcement system. He fought for many years for this and finally convinced the English Parliament to create the London Metropolitan Police in 1829. The officers became known as “Bobbies” in honor of Sir Robert Peel. The London Police Department set in motion three new elements that...
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...Broadwater Farm riot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Broadwater Farm riot occurred around the Broadwater Farm area of Tottenham, North London, on 6 October 1985. The events of the day were dominated by two deaths. The first was that of Cynthia Jarrett, an African-Caribbean woman who died the previous day due to heart failure during a police search at her home. It was one of the main triggers of the riot in a context where tension between local black youth and the largely white Metropolitan Police was already high due to a combination of local issues and the aftermath of another riot which had occurred in the Brixton area of London the previous week following the shooting of a black woman (Dorothy 'Cherry' Groce) during another police search. The second death was that of PC Keith Blakelock, the first police officer since 1833 to be killed in a riot in Britain.[1] Contents * 1 Death of Cynthia Jarrett * 2 Day of disturbances * 3 Death of PC Blakelock * 4 Aftermath * 5 Trials * 6 Inquest * 7 See also * 8 References * 9 Bibliography Death of Cynthia Jarrett At 13:00 hrs on 5 October 1985 a young black man, Floyd Jarrett, was arrested by police, having been stopped in a vehicle with an allegedly suspicious car tax disc.[2] He was taken to nearby Tottenham police station and charged with theft and assault (he was later acquitted of both charges). Five and half-hours later, D.C. Randle and three other officers decided to search his...
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...Police History LaShawn Green CJA/214 November 12, 2012 Luis Martinez Sir Robert Peel created the London Metropolitan Police District in the year of 1829. He was a strong believer that the prevention of crime could be accomplished without intruding into the lives of other citizens. He also wanted to prove that it was possible to reform a variety of criminals and not just punish them. By creating the development of the London Metropolitan Police District, Sir Robert Peel came up with nine principles that are very relevant today’s society just as they were back in the 1800’s. According to "From The 'Lectric Law Library's Stacks Community Policing: Learning The Lessons Of History" (2012), these principles include the use of crime rates to determine the effectiveness of the police, the importance of a centrally located, publicly accessible police headquarters, and the value of proper recruitment, selection, and training. American police developed similarities to the London Metropolitan Police District. Majority of the U.S. cites established municipal police departments that came together as uniformed officers in paramilitary-style organizations serving the interests of the politically powerful. The American police officers carried around guns and operated under the command of local precinct captains politically appointed. As the turn of the century approached, the progress of the police movement began to promote professionalism in the law enforcement world. “While the...
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...POLICE HISTORY SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 CJS 241 POLICE HISTORY The history of policing dates back several thousand years, to when there was no peace and order. Inhumane acts upon citizens was normal with religious, political, or military police acting as the law. Policing was unstable and unorganized. Citizens took the law into their own hands and served as judge, jury, and executioner. There was no such thing as being “innocent until proven guilty.” If the community believed an individual was guilty of a crime then the community would handle the offense themselves. Early English colonists brought with them to America many familiar concepts of policing based on their own policing systems. These policing systems evolved as time progressed, resulting in major differences in responsibilities and credentials within the legal system. Now, as the U.S. Policing is based on historic English policing, the more modern roles of such officials such as the sheriff, have little in common with their historic ancestors. (CJi) As a member of England’s elite social and political class, and fighting to improve the structure of the law enforcement for more than 30 years, history expresses itself and acknowledges this member as the “father” of modern policing, also known as Sir Robert Peel (Walker & Katz). You may ask who Sir Robert Peel is and how he impacted American Policing. Sir Robert Peel updated England's criminal code. He established the first modern police force in London, whose...
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...for privacy on a hospital ward. A good example given to the inquiry was when a young girl aged 5 was undergoing open heart surgery and the hospital refused her parents to stay the night. The parents of the 5 year old girl appealed against this and won as it was breaching human rights. This can make the NHS look bad by not being able to follow the human rights act. This could prove to be vital as patients will want full trust in their health carers and the NHS not following the human rights act properly could lose trust from their patients. Another public service who is affected by Human Rights is the Police Service. The Police service have had many complaints in the past about the breach of human rights and the police need to address any issues with human rights immediately because they need to respect this policy as it protects people. An example of where the police breached human rights is when Ian...
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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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...the books as the founder of the first form of an English police department: the London Metropolitan Police. This was after his London Metropolitan Police Act passed in 1829, giving greater power to the English police force and establishing what he is known for today. Peels ideas were very well defined and offered a lot to policing even up to modern day. To understand the impact of this, we must take a look at Peel's act, and know how it would change policing. Peel was Home Secretary of England when his act passed in 1929. Sir Peel’s mission in creating his police force was to establish control on crime. He wanted to obtain this through crime prevention. Thus far, policing had been reactive for the most part. His ideas of crime prevention reflected the proactive idealization, that is that preventing crime is more effective than responding to it. Sir Peel's principles were heavily influenced by the military as well. He implemented the military’s organizational structure such as their uniforms, ranks and rank structure, discipline, and an authoritarian system of command. In an authoritarian system of command, one single person is in charge at the top of the command chain. This same military approach is still one of the most commonly used command structures in today’s policing. Although Sir Peel established these groundbreaking principles for policing, he was not a police officer himself. Sir Peel guided London’s police department with “Peel's Principles of Policing”. The principles...
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...London Riots Between Saturday 6 August and Thursday 11 August 2011, thousands of mostly youths rioted in several London Boroughs and in cities and towns across England. The resulting chaos generated looting, arson, and mass deployment of police. The events were also called "BlackBerry riots" because people used mobile devices and social media to organise them. Disturbances began on 6 August, after a protest in Tottenham following the death of Mark Duggan, a local who was shot dead by police on 4 August. Several violent clashes with police ensued, along with the destruction of police vehicles, a magistrate’s court, a double-decker bus, and many civilian homes and businesses, thus rapidly gaining attention from the media. Overnight, looting took place in Tottenham Hale Retail Park and nearby Wood Green. The following days saw similar scenes in other parts of London, with the most rioting taking place in Hackney, Brixton, Walthamstow, Peckham, Enfield, Battersea, Croydon, Ealing, Barking, Woolwich, Lewisham and East Ham. From Monday 8th until Wednesday 10 August, other cities in England including Birmingham, Bristol, and Manchester, along with several towns, saw what was described by the media as "copycat violence". By 15 August, about 3,100 people had been arrested, of whom more than 1,000 had been charged. Initially, courts sat for extended hours. There were a total 3,443 crimes across London linked to the disorder. Along with the five deaths, at least 16 others were injuredHYPERLINK...
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