most prominent of these individuals would be police officers‚ prosecuting attorneys‚ and judges Police officers have a large amount of discretion. This stage of the crime is the most influential to a case. What a police officer decides to charge an individual for and whether or not they charge them at all can completely affect how a case is carried out. For example‚ let’s say that and individual was going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit and a police officer pulled them over for it. The individual
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the 1920s and 1930s. Police departments continued to move towards a more professional model as a result of various reform efforts. During the decades of the 1920s and 1930s two significant events occurred that helped orchestrate a move towards law enforcement. Passage of the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution often called the Volstead Act and the Great Depression which lead to a massive crime wave (Gaines & Kappeler‚ 2008‚ p. 195). Prior to t Volstead Act police officers allowed public
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Federal Tort Acts of 1946 Jenna Smith CJA 520 Professor Mark Holley July 30‚ 2011 Introduction In the United States today if you as an officer put either you or your department in a liability‚ for any type of act that is not warranted and handled in a professional manner you are opening yourself for a number of different actions which could hurt both you‚ your department as well as causing you to loss everything that you own‚ just because you decided to not following proper protocals which
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Police Performance Management: Practical Guidance for Police Authorities June 2006 This guide has been produced by the Home Office Police Standards Unit and the Association of Police Authorities with the help of PA Consulting. We are very grateful for the contributions provided by all police authorities and other contributors during the development of this guidance. Foreword Police performance makes headline news: it affects people’s daily lives. There are many stakeholders in police performance
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Police Department Organization Paper 01-09-2012 CJA/214 Instructor: Robert Ferrier Police Department Organization Paper Local police departments‚ including city and county agencies‚ represent a third level of law enforcement activity in the United States. The term local police encompass a wide variety of agencies. Municipal departments‚ rural sheriff’s departments‚ and specialized groups like campus police and transit police. There are approximately 12‚700 municipal police
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Opinion paper police shoot My opinion on police shootings is they are just trying to do their job. Their job is to protect the people and property which if it takes shooting someone that is not following the demands of the officer then that is what they should do. The research shows that most gunfights accrue at about three-six feet apart from the officer to the inflictor. Police have a job that could get them killed‚ so when they see someone reach in their pocket or for something they will be extremely
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Montgomery County’s Police Department‚ approximately 95% (94.1) of female officers were affected by killing someone in the line of duty had a 90% (88.2) impact on female officers to her male counterpart at 85% (82.2). The exposure to dead and battered children impacted female officers at almost 80% (82.0) to male officers at almost 70% (73.2). Responding to a felony in progress showed female officers at 70% (73.4) while there was no affect on male officers (Pendergrass et al.‚ 1984). Police stress: history
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The Police and Law Enforcement Anthony Mugavero CJA/204 University of Phoenix Timeline of the historical development of police agencies and their jurisdiction. • 1200-British created an organized posse led by the shire reeve or mounted officer • 1285-Statute of Winchester • 1630-Watch and ward in England. Colonist implemented English style law enforcement • 1700s-The Bow Street Runners. An early English police unit • 1829-Sir Robert Peel created the London Metropolitan Police Force of
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Police departments do things differently from one another. Each of them have their own policing style. A policing style is a collection of the police department’s methods‚ routines‚ and processes (Jihong & Hassel‚ 2005). The department’s policing style serves as a reflection of the department’s culture and affects all aspects of police work in that community. In 1968‚ social and political scientist James Q. Wilson conducted a study on police departmental styles (Jihong & Hassel‚ 2005). He studied
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John Busby (Author) vs. Meyer Family (Crime Family responsible for the attack). Raymond Meyer organized the shooting of John Busby. Raymond Meyer drove the car when James Meyer shot John Busby in the face with a shotgun. John Busby was an honest police officer who had a family. He was working hard for the right reasons. Busby’s life was forever changed by this act of violence. This conflict created a different world for not only John Busby‚ but his entire family. In a quick moment the life
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