Larry Avallone January 20, 2014 Abstract Ethical decisions and the way that the police department handle situations is an extreme issue. When an officer in the department is witness to brutality or unethical behavior it is their duty report the incident to the proper person within the department. Unethical Decision Made In July of 2007, Christopher Dorner was a police officer for Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). At the time he was on patrol with a fellow female officer, Theresa Evans
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Technological Communication Methods and Practices Paper The future brings for us many unknowns especially when it comes to law enforcement. Law enforcement technology has come a long way from its early days. Technology has facilitated the job for many law enforcement positions. Thanks to DNA and fingerprinting many cold case crimes have been solved, in addition many wrongfully accused have obtain their well-deserved freedom. In 2013 we can expect many advancements such as: brain fingerprinting
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Victims’ Rights and Vengeance Terence Goodman CJA/ 324 July 8, 2013 Keith Lima Victims’ Rights and Vengeance From the civil rights era of the 50’s and 60’s, I feel that victim’s rights have come a very long way. I know monetary compensation can never make up for a person civil rights being violated but that will help with any financial burden they may or potentially will have in the future. Programs like President Reagan’s National Victims’ Rights Week are good for spreading awareness to
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should be 2 – 4 pages in length. Each essay response should be brief, not more than one page. You may use references to support your responses, but the essay responses must be original. Scenario 1 - Drugs at a Friend’s House You are an off-duty police officer at a party at the house of an old high school friend. Everyone is still in the backyard drinking. You go into the house to use the restroom and observe several of your friend’s friends (whom you do not know) snorting cocaine. You do not know
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University December 2011 ABSTRACT Many police agencies have developed a community policing style approach to fighting and preventing crime. This has worked for some and not so much for others. I have developed a program that interacts with the community and helps fight crime. This project not only reduces crime in an area but may continually keep crime at a low by getting the community to be more involved in day to day activities. You cannot expect the police to do all the crime fighting and then
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could have my choice over improvements in some areas of the Criminal Justice system I would start with local Law enforcement by upping their pay and doing extensive screenings for more qualified officers. I would also work hard to make sure that all Police Departments have all of the up to date equipment so that they can do their job for efficiently and effectively. As far as the courts are concerned, I would structure to a point so hat hard paying tax payers are not working hard just to have their
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to day lives as U.S. citizens. For this reason, I had the pleasure to interview agent John Smith, a CBP agent stationed in El Paso, Texas. Smith has been an agent for roughly 6 years now, and while Smith isn’t a servant of the El Paso Police Department, he said that as an agent, he still has to follow criminal laws. Every individual is different. Therefore, we have to follow proper procedures and laws. He also added that using such laws allows them to maintain order, such as avoiding
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Is There Really Celebrity Justice? Under the United States Constitution it states, that all men are created equal. Numerous, people believe that all are not equal, and all are not treated the same in today’s so-called “equal” justice system. “There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has” (Cole 3) In one source, many people argue that our criminal justice system is based on the premise and promise of equality before the law, but at times predicate
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his eye she was enjoying are consented to it. Really a 14 older I don’t think that she has to maturity or understand of what happened to her. End result she commits suicide. As a society we need to hold police officer, judges, public safety as a whole accountable for their actions. How can a police officer cite citizens
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CIS 500 Information System Decision Making January 16, 2013 In an effort to effectively compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets, we first need to examine what information technology is available to police and further more what information technology means. Information technology is “the collection of computing systems used by an organization” (Turban & Volonino, 2011)
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