the police department are a form of social control established to keep peace and eliminate crime within communities. It is important to analyze how the public perceives their community police because it aids in helping to decipher which reforms should be enacted to improve the police and community relationship and effectively fight crime. It is not only policing behaviors that affect public attitudes‚ but other elements on the micro and mezzo levels which influence public perceptions of police officers
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Police Ethics and Deviance Ethics and the police is a subject that most people are interested in. When people use the words ethics and police in the same sentence‚ people usually think of police deviance‚ police corruption‚ misconducts such as drug and alcohol abuse‚ sexual violence‚ domestic disputes‚ and violence within families. Most common subjects people most associate with police ethics is police brutality‚ police deception‚ and abuse of their authority. Police officers in the United
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Interview Paper with Cumberland Police Officer Daniel Smith Before I start I should mention the odd way I ended up having the interview with Daniel Smith. Last week the security system in house malfunctioned. Even though it was not armed‚ it somehow sent a signal that our house had been broken into. He happened to be patrolling nearby the area and was sent to our location. The Officer that came happened to be him. He checked out and saw everything was fine and then I asked him to allow me to
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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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Police Brutality in NYC Police brutality is the use of excessive physical force‚ including beating citizens with hands or batons‚ or using guns‚ and even lethal weapons. For the vast majority of citizens‚ this is something they never have experienced. Many police officers go their entire careers without ever having to draw their weapon or even engage in a serious physical confrontation in order to protect themselves or the public from an offender. A very small percentage of law enforcement
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For years‚ the police force has been jeopardizing the rights of human beings while receiving no repercussions. The government’s and the police’s tolerance to reoccurring acts of horror continues to occur‚ causing police brutality to be one of the most serious human rights abuses in the United States today. Standards for what constitutes brutality vary widely‚ though‚ two major international human rights treaties‚ to which the United States is a party‚ explicitly prohibit police abuse. The International
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Law Enforcements Cross The Line “It begins with a relatively minor incident: A traffic stop. A burglary. A disturbance. Police arrive and tensions escalate. It ends with an unarmed black man shot dead” (Somashekhar). Already a total of‚”896 people shot dead by police this year” ("Investigation: Police shootings"). The 31 of which were of a weapon unknown‚ which means‚”could not determine whether a person was armed because of conflicting accounts from witnesses or a lack of information‚” (Somashekhar)
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There are two types of personality trait designations that are used to describe police officers. The two types are the unique traits viewpoint‚ and socialization and experience viewpoint. Those who believe in the unique traits viewpoint are often referred to as predisposition personality traits. Also in this viewpoint‚ it insists that law enforcement attracts a certain type of individual to the job. Within this viewpoint‚ some of the traits included are authoritarianism‚ cynicism‚ racism‚ hostility
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officers are the agents of enforcing the law‚ and the police play a very significant role in promoting peace. There are policies that guide how the police maintain law and order and which describe the growing series of actions that an officer can take when resolving a situation. These policies recognize the rights of the people‚ and that the police have the instruction to respect them even when enforcing law and order. Despite that the police have authority over the common person‚ they do not have
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While police brutality is only recently taking the media by storm‚ it has been a large scale issue in the United States for over one hundred years leading to various riots‚ petitions‚ and presidential panels. In 1938 at the time of a great riot regarding police brutality the National Negro Congress stated “Our lives‚ our homes‚ our liberties each day are made less secure because of unrestrained and unpunished police brutality” in their petition against police brutality (Contemporary Police Brutality
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