SB 798 prohibits the sale and manufacture of BB guns and imitation firearms unless the entire exterior surface is painted in bright neon colours. This Californian bill was amended on April 13th 2011 by Californian Senator, De León. The purpose behind this bill is to protect Californians, especially accidental shooting of residents from law enforcements due to fake firearms which are indistinguishable from real guns. However, SB 798 will not make California safer and will do more harm than good.
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Drug courts combine treatment with incentives and sanctions. Sanctions can and do include mandatory, as well as, random drug testing of the offender. Drug courts are a proven tool for improving public health as well as public safety. They provide an innovative way for collaboration between the judiciary, prosecutors, law enforcement and other community corrections agencies, drug treatment providers and community support groups. The effectiveness of these courts is well documented since they first
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law enforcement. Close attention will be paid to the ability of police officers to frisk people, vehicles and occupants of vehicles, also commonly referred to as Terry stops. Currently, the rule of law is that police officers are not able to frisk solely on the basis of officer safety and that they must have a reasonable belief that a person is armed and dangerous prior to frisking. This paper will propose a new standard police should follow. Finally, an examination will be done on the social
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enforce their laws more strictly may be the greatest difference between the two. Within France, there are two major principal police systems which employ more than 145 thousand people. The two major principal police systems are the National Police and The National Gendarmerie. The Director General of the National Police includes the inspector general of police, judicial police, general intelligence, public security, territorial surveillance, control of the borders, and republican security company.
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‘The Pedestrian’ by Ray Bradbury To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do. He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of pavement in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference;
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Crime Reporting and Rate Responses CJS 200 2013 Crime Reporting and Rate Responses The purpose of major crime-reporting programs is to collect data about crime statistics and these statistics help with multiple other reasons for crime reporting. The statistics provide information about when and where crime is at a higher rate, including the type of crime and occurrences. This type of information is important to the development of new strategies to prevent and control crime; as well as where
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protect individuals and the community”. (The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, 1967) The Criminal Justice system has three main parts: Police, Courts and Jails also known as Corrections but all these parts have one main goal that is to maintain the rule of law within the society by operating with coordination under one umbrella that is Law. Police Police is the front face of the criminal justice system that has the prime responsibility to maintain the peace and control the law and order situation
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Clay Strayer University Predictive Policing In order to compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. We have to look into the technologies available to them today. Predictive policing has become the one of leading standard for police departments today. Predictive policing primary role is to simply pre-empt crime, it is rooted heavily in business analytics and relies advanced
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CRIME AGAINST PERSON The article that I pick was, “Hate crime data incomplete due partly to varying police reporting practices”. This week, the FBI reported a 2% increase in hate crimes in 2008, as compared to the previous year. While hate crimes are an important problem in the United States (and abroad), this reported increase itself should be grounds for neither particular concern nor comfort. The reason for this is that the FBI data give us an incomplete picture at best. While federal
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On July 19, an undercover police officer took the stand in a New York courtroom to testify against an alleged drug dealer named Fabian Joseph. Consistent with longstanding practice in New York City, the officer refused to identify himself by anything but his badge number. Inconsistent with longstanding practice in New York City, trial judge Dorothy Cropper barred the officer's testimony. Judge Cropper ruled that because the undercover officer had failed to show he was in particular danger of retaliation
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