Metropolitan Police Department Heloise V. Posey BUS310014VA016-1118-001 Date: October 29, 2011 Abstract The Washington Metropolitan Police Department is one of the largest local police agencies in the United States. The Metropolitan Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency for the District of Columbia. The main focus of this paper will be on the issues surrounding human resources and other areas of the Metropolitan Police Department. The Chief of Police serves as the Chief
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New Officers in the Community. Lafisha Hinton Strayer University PAD 505: Public Budgeting and Finance Dr. Joseph Keller November 4, 2012 Budget Request: Hiring New Officers in the Community. In this paper I will be discussing a budget request for hiring new police officers in the community due to an increase in crime that has been announced by a concerned council member. The rate of police officer hiring is growing
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Elizabeth Mendoza Article Critique – Police Discretion & Force Professor Coleman Police System & Practices / 2328-51001 El Centro College The degree of force that officers use is heavily influenced by police discretion in real-world situations rather than espoused by a certain agenda. Discretion can be classified into four different categories where administrators, the community, and the individual police officer exercise differing degrees of influence in decision-making. What
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is said that Milwaukee Police Departments are said to be “racial profiling” due to their Police Chief implementing a “traffic stop initiative” only in African American Communities. The Police Chief tried to say it that it wasn’t “racial profiling” but rather “targeting the high crime areas of Milwaukee (White, 2010).” Racial profiling occurs when police routinely use races as a factor that causes an officer to react with suspicion to take action. Though the Police Chief feels he is doing
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Alcohol fuelled violence has not been taken seriously by police or the public. Critically discuss and include in your answer at least one policing strategy for addressing this problem. Alcohol fuelled violence ‘has’ been taken seriously by police and public in recent years. The introduction of new strategies, zero tolerance and community awareness have all helped towards fixing the problem. Unfortunately there is strong evidence of an association between the consumption of alcohol and violence
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The police force is a law enforcement agency that is mandated to enforce law by the state. Its main purpose is to prevent civil disorder and protect individuals as well as public and private property. The force has permission to use force where necessary. These forces form separate entities from the military and other forces charged with protecting states against foreign aggression. However, it has to be noted that such forces also have internal policing units too, such as the military police-which
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deadly force is making the job more difficult. It is not that I think police should be given free reign and just be able to shoot and kill anyone the choose. What I am saying is if an armed felon is fleeing the scene of a crime, or they come towards the officer in a threatening manner, then they should be able to use deadly force. The more restrictions that are imposed on officers, educates the general public as to what the police can and cannot do. The general public will use that information to their
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Race Is a Factor in Police Shootings Rosetta Kelly Composition II Tara Turzi 2/15/2015 Race Is a Factor in Police Shootings There was a process that started in 1955 with racism and a 14 year old black teenager named Emmitt Till who was beaten, shot in the head, eyes gouged out, and hung for simply speaking to a white woman. Throughout the years racism and racial profiling progressed from Emmitt Till to recent years targeting another black teen named Trevon Martin. At the age of 17 Trevon
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Police history plays an important role in today’s policing styles in the nation. Some individuals thinking policing styles and the history is based off of television shows and movies that are released which in reality is not true to a certain extent. “Up until the last two hundred years, most societies relied on individual citizens and communities to ensure that laws were upheld and criminals were apprehended (Grant and Terry, 2012).” After many years, societies and communities upheld this responsibility
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productive partnership between police and citizens (Peak, 2010). Policing in communities has influenced crime. For instance, a drug deal less likely to happen when a police patrol car is roaming the area every 20 minutes, the risk of becoming busted is high so the crime does not happen. This is good for high crime areas. Police officers are willing to explore alternatives to law enforcement to tackle the underlying cause of community problems. The role of police officer was lessened there would
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