or the destroying of evidence. When exigent circumstances are present, the police do not need to abide by the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement (Worrall, 2012). In a more basic form exigent circumstance are those situations that are considered emergencies such as, high speed chases, in situations where a suspect is trying to get away, or if the evidence has a chance of being messed up. In these situations the police don’t need a warrant. In the case of Ryburn v Huff (2013) some students
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limitations that ensure police officers do not interfere with an individual's Fourth Amendment rights. I could go into how search and seizure is defined and what is necessary for a warrant, but I want to go into a different direction and discuss how technology is changing the meaning of ; "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by
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nation’s police departments. Biometrics is a technology that can make police departments safer, more effective and more efficient by saving time and money. Biometrics uses a person’s biological markers such as fingerprints, palm prints, facial features, and iris information for various uses. This paper will discuss how biometrics is applied to police technology such as smart guns, iris scanners, fingerprint scanners, and facial recognition systems. This document hopes to provide police departments
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case is the first action taken witch is a police investigation. Their first duty is to clarify if there was a crime committed or was it a misunderstanding. Most of the time calls are made after the crime has been committed other than while the crime is happening. No one ever sees a crime happening before hand. Any officer who is on call will need a probable cause connecting a suspect to the crime. An officer cannot do certain actions without probable cause. Even the criminals have rights, but once
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Dishmon 1 Dorian Dishmon Mrs. Sanford Language Arts February 19, 2016 Racial Profiling Racial profiling is a practice used knowingly and unknowingly in police departments, airport systems, and many other agencies worldwide. Racial profiling refers to the targeting of particular individuals based not on their behavior, but rather their personal characteristics, a person's race, ethnicity, or religion
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Amendment - only what is necessary), what it means, and what are your views on it? The Fourth Amendment prohibits form any official personnel to go through personal belongs without a probable cause. It prohibits the search and seizure procedure which is used in many civil law and common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime. A search occurs
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at 20101 Central BL Land O’ Lakes, FL. Upon my arrival, I made contact with Kaila Marie Nitsche, who was incarcerated on unrelated charges. I made contact with her in an interview room in the booking section of the jail. I introduced myself as a Police Officer with the city of Port Richey and told her I wanted to talk about an incident that had occurred in February of 2018. I informed she did not have to talk with me, but advised her cooperation would by appreciated. The interview was recorded
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rmWhat is IRAC? IRAC stands for Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion. It is one way to structure legal analysis. An effective essay (no matter the overall length) follows some form of the IRAC structure where it is organized around each of these elements for each and every issue and subissue identified as a legal problem. IRAC is an extremely useful tool in organizing any law related essay answer. It is not the only way to structure an answer, but it helps to make sure all bases are covered. So
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contact with the police. When this phase has past, an investigation must take place; this phase can last anywhere from a few moments to several years, and can involve only one officer or several hundred. The police must gather enough sufficient evidence to identify a suspect and to support a legal arrest. In order for an arrest to occur there must be probable cause, the officer deprives the suspect of his individual freedom, and finally the suspect believes he or she is now in police custody and lost
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enforce the constitutional rights of criminal suspects and defendants, beginning with initial police contact and continuing through arrest, investigation, trial, sentencing, and appeals. Fourth Amendment The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and
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