Moral Development and the Justice System As law enforcement officials, we need to understand the moral development of not only those we come in contact with in our job, but also of ourselves. Why? The answer is, as police officers; we may be confronted with hundreds of issues about moral reasoning each day. These may range from the decision a suspect makes about whether to resist arrest to whether or not we issue a speeding ticket to a friend. Every day, citizens, as well as officers, make hundreds
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The criminal justice system is the subject of much criticism and debate. Although it has its faults, the system is a generally good way of keeping order, but only for some. These faults can lie anywhere within the boundaries of corruption, racial profiling, or bias. For example there is a stigma that sentences are often reduced or made more harsh for people based on ethnicity, social status, or economic class. I conceive these factors to be unfair and inefficient for building trust between the system
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Police Roles and Functions Police agencies perform similar duties and responsibilities such as maintain law and order, investigate crimes and provide assistance to the community. There are various functions that each level of policing agencies handle and are broken into local, state and federal levels. In this paper I will discuss the various functions of a police agency, compare the functions on a local, state and federal level, explain what would happen if various functions and policing were limited
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paid, police force. In 1636 the city of Boston established Night Watch, which idea worked reasonably well as long as the area remained a rural and agrarian one. New York City established the Shout and Rattle Watch in 1651, but, by 1705 Philadelphia found it necessary to divide the city into ten patrol areas. In the almost 100 years between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the more than rapid growth of population and industrialization in America mandated the development of municipal police departments
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Police Organization 2 There are many different types of law enforcement agencies and they are organized in different levels. You have officers beginning at your local small town police department all the way up to the large federal agencies. Within your state and local agencies, you have officers who make up your local police, your state and highway patrol, special jurisdiction police, and your deputy sheriff. Your local police would include municipal, county, tribal, and regional
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In the previous Thai political crunches such as October 1973 and 1976, there are lots of people were killed by police and military because of the leader’s commanding. It could be seen that the Thai leaders, who wield such power, had done everything they can to stay in power as long as possible, but nowadays, everything was changed. In the past decade, the way of people acting to against their government was changed in a good way. To illustrate, the non-Violence was used as a political tool to avoid
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found guilty. Therefore, the images of the Matlock television show that has legal drama are fair representations of the criminal justice system. Law and Order television show has a cast that is cops and lawyers, and they track down the crime from police investigations to the prosecutors by the DA’s office (Law and Order, n.d). This television depicts all three components in the criminal justice system. Basically, this television show is about how investigators work with the District’s Attorney Office
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have the discussion about police ethnics, the word integrity must be defined. Integrity is the sum of virtues required to bring about the general goals of protections and service to the public. The author, Rich Martin stated that the major cause of police corruption is mediocrity. It is the leadership’s responsibility to maintain a high level of conduct within a department to prevent the mediocre. He states that some reasons for the corruption is the work that police do. It is measured in results
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different people. In criminal Justice, however ethics should mean adherence to the mandates outlined in the constitution and respect to the professional codes of ethics.” (Kelly Cheeseman. Claudia San Miguel. Durant Frantzen. Lisa Nored. 2011). As a police officer it is my duty to uphold the law, and I may be called upon to take action against people who are closes to me, and when that time comes I will perform my duty without fear or favor. The information which I have of the planned gun rally, I
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India’s first and highest (woman) ranking officer who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972. Her expertise includes more than 35 years of creative and reformative policing and prison management. She worked with the United Nations in New York as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She represented India in International forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women’s issues. She holds a Law, Masters, Doctorate
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