There are many reasons for a police officer to exercise discretion. Police discretion is a choice by a law enforcement officer based on his or her training and experience whether to investigate or apprehend‚ the disposition of suspects and the application of sanctions (Schmalleger‚ 2015). Perhaps the most common practice for using discretions would be in those instances were the police handbook falls short‚ better known as the gray areas. Furthermore‚ police officers have also been known to use discretion
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Working in the Criminal Justice field requires a proficiency in your ability to write. As a police officer/case worker filling out reports‚ conducting interviews and taking notes‚ and filling out assessment‚ search warrants and arrest warrants may not seem like a task that requires great communication skill but it does. In almost every profession where you are preforming a service calls for an initiation of some kind of permanent record‚ and this is especially true in Law Enforcement. Your writing
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Police Officers: Heroes of the 21st Century It is the bad things that the media highlights in the news when it comes to law enforcement and the bad things that people remember when it comes to police officers. The job of an officer changes daily and from one circumstance to another; they must use their best judgment to make the best decision in the most critical of times ensure the safety of everyone. With the advancement of technology and weapons of all sorts‚ law enforcement has come a long way
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12/6/16 Police Corruption and Reputation Having a bad reputation can lead to someone being accused of a crime. Bad reputation kind of relates to police corruption‚ which is another topic I’m going to focus on. People’s reputation is being ruined every day and if they aren’t then people are probably talking around trying to ruin it. Police corruption is another issue that is in the world today still. Most cops respect the authority that has been given to them but some do not. “Police officers are
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Militarization of the Police Imagine a military grade tank rolling down your residential street‚ 撤OLICEspray painted on the gunner. In many parts of the country this is now a reality. In one county 6 million dollars was allocated to local police for armored vehicles. (Levitz) This and other military grade weapons have sparked a debate in the nation about militarizing the police. If you take into account‚ the original purpose of special forces‚ money spent‚ and the proportional response to a crime
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Week 1 Assignment In order for a Police agency to prevent and deter Police misconduct‚ there must be a definition to what actions and behaviors that the term will encompass. The term ‘police corruption’ has been used to describe many activities: bribery; violence and brutality; fabrication and destruction of evidence; racism; favoritism or nepotism. Many different scholars differ in their own examples of the definition. Before attempting to the question of whether a precise definition is possible
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is not big in citizen count‚ the local municipal department has its work cut out for them‚ the crime rate is not low for its amount of citizens the city has in total. We shall compare these two police departments that will be covering the University of Texas and also we will also cover the local Austin police department. The areas we will be covering will include agency’s staffing‚ divisions and services. Then we will cover the area of the organizational structure‚ crime statistics and other pertinent
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Effectiveness of Police Patrol For many years there has been a debate on whether police patrols have been effective in crime prevention. The articles “Bicycle Patrols: an underutilized resource” and “Police Patrol Policies on Motorways with Unequal Patrol lengths” are the two articles I will be analyzing the effectiveness of police patrolling. Chris Menton’s‚ “Bicycle Patrols: and underutilized resource” focuses on a five city‚ thirty two shift study on the output of police bicycle patrols
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Issues with in American police. When I first began researching the topic of these issues with in our police force‚ it really got my mind pondering different things. How do we survive in a world where there is so many issues taking place day after day? Many Americans believe out police system is completely corrupt. The top police based issues concerning Americans today are such things as Police organization and management of police‚ Socialization into the
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A solid metal is dropped from the height of 64 feet. How long will it take for the solid metal to hit the ground? Ignore the air resistance. | Correct Answer: The solid metal will hit the ground in about 2 seconds. | Which of the following functions shows the graph below? | f(x) = x2 + 2x | Find the quadratic equation whose roots are 1/2 and 6. | 2x2 - 13x + 6 = 0 | The curve y = -2x2 is shifted so that its axis of symmetry is the line x = -2 and its orthogonal axis is y =
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