Critical Issues in Policing Lindsay R.V. Klamp CJA/214 – Introduction to Police Theory and Practices June 11, 2012 Melinda Allen University of Phoenix Critical Issues in Policing There are a number of critical issues when concering policing. This paper will discuss the dangers of policing and how it affects police officers; less-than-lethal weapons and the benefits that it has for officers and our community; past, present, and future technology of policing and some of the benefits that they
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Jeremy Kuzmarov’s Modernizing Repression sits at a fascinating link in the scholarship on the history of the application of power overseas by the United States. There remains a vast bulk of scholarship about customary topics of U.S. foreign relations, such as military intervention and occupation, diplomatic negotiations, and bilateral and multilateral treaties. The volume of scholarship on less traditional topics, whether of the effects of cultural exchange, development aid, and transnational organizations
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Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Throughout policing history the roles of women and minorities have changed tremendously. In this paper I will discuss the role of women and minorities throughout policing history, how it has changed over time, how the change has affected modern policing agencies and compare women and men police recruits. In 1972 the act “Tittle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act” prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of color, race, religion or sex (Grant & Terry
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Officer Selection Process The requirements for the police officer for the local agency have changed over the years. Forty to fifty years ago, all police officer were strong male, majority white, and only a high school diploma. Not until the 70’s, African American and Hispanic were allowed to be a police officer and even then females were allowed. Today the requirement has changed to become a police officer in the city of Southfield, Michigan there are assortments of requirements that they must pass
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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
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American history. On March 3, 1991 he was on a high speed police chase going speeds estimated at 115 miles per hour and that is what started the whole sequence of events. He was essentially pulled from his car after being apprehended, beaten by four white police officers as another sixteen policemen on the scene watched. Rodney King was on a high speed chase with police and one of them was named Stacey Koon. When they finally got King pulled over he got out of his car aggressively. Police thought
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Police Job Hazard Jermaine Hunt CJA/334 January 22, 2013 Fred Hammett Police Job Hazard Police jobs are hazardous and stressful. The goal of this research is to find ways to make the police job less hazardous. In this day and age police officers are at soaring danger of more experiencing killings of most often killed, wounded or attacked even by people, hoodlums, and criminals whose conduct disagrees with society norms and the law. Police officers are experience friendly fire more than even
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high school rates of black, and unfair assumptions made by police officers toward blacks. Racism has been existing around 613 years since 1400, it mostly begins when black slavery colonization. Until now, the society still has an inescapable racism problem, such as employment. The article “ The Black and White Labor Gap in America” written by Christian E. and Jaryn Fields, the article summarizes how
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proven time and time again that black and whites are not equal within the criminal justice system. History even says that the early conception of the criminal justice system and punishments were formed under conditions of colonialism and slavery. An example is white police offers repeatedly killing African American Males and being found not guilty; from Emmitt Till to the Ferguson case. Which is history repeating itself, the more things change, and the more they remain the same. In each generation
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this manipulation. This essay will highlight the history of the use and abuse of jailhouse informants, laws that prevent the misuse of snitches, and the many sides around the controversial issue. Historical Background As long as eye-witness testimonies have been regarded as a reliable source, they have been potentially unreliable. Rob Warden for The Northwestern University School of Law Center of Wrongful Convictions (2004) states that the history of the snitch dates back to our most rudimentary
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