Policing In America In this paper I am going to identify and define the US government and policing organizations throughout the US and how they both impact of this relationship on the American Society as a whole. The government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. This government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and their various
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Policing America by John Stossel EN3220 Isabel Ambriz ITT Technical Institute – Tempe, AZ Abstract Most of us think that living in America is living in a free country. You think that being on your cell phones, nobody is listening, your computers, nobody is controlling it but you, or even being in your homes, nobody can see inside because your doors and windows are closed. What about when you are driving from one town to another, you would think that there is no need to carry your citizenship
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There are three amendments to the United States Constitution that are directly related to police and the American people. The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments cover probable cause, exclusionary rule, arrests, search and seizure, electronic surveillance and lineups; confessions, interrogation, and entrapment; and the right to counsel and interrogation respectively (Peak, 2012). The goal of the Fourth Amendment is to protect the people from the police illegally performing searches and giving
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Policing in America today has grown from different economic, social and political forces. In order to understand how policing in the united states relates to the current relationship between the police and the different social classes and ethnic groups, one needs to know how the history of policing has developed in order to become what it is currently. This paper will discuss the views of the momentous background of the united states police and this will help us to have a better understanding of
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Policing Organizations in America Policing organizations in America have different roles and functions at the federal, local and, state level. These roles fall under responsibilities and operational strategies. Although the federal government may be similar to state and local organizations there is difference in the role of federal employee. An Example of a federal agency is the FBI, Homeland security, and the DEA. Employees of this organization are allowed to make an arrest in any
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Policing in America is one of the hardest and harshest jobs that public servants deal with in the United States. Today, the police are faced with the public, the media, and other groups of individuals who have different perceptions to either back the police or shun them. These men and women who put these uniforms on have a job to do, a family to support, and a place to defend from criminals of every race or ethnic background. Most of today’s people would not put themselves in a police officer’s shoes
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In the text reading “Policing in America” author Gains explains the diversity of the police establishment starting with the department of justice …Gaines illustrates how society attempts to control people via the creation of government, and how the government was primarily created to serve the needs of the elite. Gains says laws are a formal system of Social control and enforced via congressional laws. With the police and policing being a part of and resembling government. Due to its three levels
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society the world relies heavily on policing within their community’ citizens around the world want to feel safe, some as they walk the streets during the day and others while they sleep in their beds at night. Once upon a time citizens felt a great deal safer than they do today. People were not afraid to leave their homes and take strolls through the neighborhood at night, whenever they felt like walking to get some fresh air, thanks to the police. The policing throughout the city and in the neighborhood
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Policing has been a part of America for many decades. In fact, policing was known to exist prior to 1066, the year of the Normandy Invasion of Britain. Throughout the years policing has been a complicated and ongoing progress. The people of England did not have a stabilized policing standard and were often responsible for protecting and serving themselves. As early as the 1600s the Colonial America introduced the English styles of policing; citizens were responsible for monitoring community members’
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society the world relies heavily on policing within their community’ citizens around the world want to feel safe, some as they walk the streets during the day and others while they sleep in their beds at night. Once upon a time citizens felt a great deal safer than they do today. People were not afraid to leave their homes and take strolls through the neighborhood at night, whenever they felt like walking to get some fresh air, thanks to the police. The policing throughout the city and in the neighborhood
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