responsibilities of government officials, security personnel, and private citizens. The next topic involves the practices or laws relating to search, seizures, and surveillance by police, corrections, private citizens, and security personnel. This paper will also compare the laws relating to the use of force by police, corrections, and private security. And the paper will conclude with individual privacy rights and laws relating to policy, practices, and procedures. The United States
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information provided by the investigators, and at that time prosecutors decide whether there is enough evidence to charge/indict the case. Once the prosecutor believes that they have a lock tight case, he or she may request a warrant bases off probable cause. The federal law enforcement officer or an attorney for the government will bring the affidavit or evidence before a magistrate judge with authority in the district. The judge may
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obtain a search warrant First off offenders are protected by the fourth amendment against unreasonable search and seizures. Officers should try to obtain a search warrant when they feel there is probable cause that evidence will be found at a particular location. And in order to present probable cause officers are not allowed to go on their opinion but on pure facts. The facts can come in a way of the officer’s personal observation and knowledge, they can also receive information from a reliable
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FERGUSON, Mo. — The city of St. Louis — and the nation — are deeply divided over whether a police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., should be charged with a crime. The law that determines when police can use deadly force generally gives officers considerable leeway in making that split-second decision about whether they need to kill to save themselves or others. Police officers are also automatically authorized, based on training in most states, including Missouri
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judgment in deciding whether to maintain the offender in the system or to discharge the suspect without further action. Initial contact takes place as a result of a police action. The officers observe a person acting suspiciously, or they are contacted by a victim to report a crime. The second stage, consist in the criminal investigation, police officers gather enough evidence to identify a suspect and support
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Facts: Billy Greenwood was suspected drug trafficking using is home Laguna Beach Police Department did not have enough probable cause to obtain a search warrant Greenwood placed a garbage of his on the curb of the public street Officers from the department searched the bags and found evidence of illegal drug use, which was used to obtain a search warrant for Greenwood’s home Officers found cocaine and marijuana during their search California Supreme Court dismissed the charges against Billy Greenwood
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based on his or her (perceived) membership in a certain group or category and it involves actual action taken towards that individual. In the process of excusing the power given to the police by the government they began to conflict themselves by being discriminate which resulted in being bias instead of the police limiting themselves to what has been assigned to them they took the law into their hands and did whatever they thought was good for them by being selective in their Stop and Frisk, they
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checkpoints fit in with the Fourth Amendment? DUI checkpoints are legal under the law and do not require a warrant because there is no individualized suspicion, every single vehicle is being stopped. In the article on FindLaw.com, “Michigan Dept. 7 of State Police v. Sitz, a majority of the Supreme Court Justices determined that the needs of the state to prevent drunk-driving accidents outweighed the minimal intrusion on sober drivers who just happen to get caught up in the DUI dragnet. Thus, the Justices argued
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committing a crime or an offense. The stop-and-frisk policy is when a police officer stops someone he/she deems suspicious and frisking the person for something. One case that relates to this flaw in the criminal justice system would be the Floyd v. City of New York. The date that this case was filed was on January 31, 2008 by David Floyd, David Ourlicht, Lalit Clarkson and Deon Dennis. This case challenged the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) practices of racial profiling and seeing whether
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students. Performing random locker searches with or without the permission of the students is one of the best ways to provide a safe environment for all students. Although this is a necessary measure, educators and administrators must still have probable cause to search a student’s locker. The U.S. Supreme Court claims that searches are only justified “when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law
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