Practitioner Interview: Officer Leon Epps The role of police departments has profoundly changed since the 9/11 attack on America. Departments across the nation not only have to continue “traditional” law enforcement‚ but are also faced with being the “first responders” to acts of terrorism and other catastrophic events. Nonetheless‚ the day-to-day activities of a police officer are still primarily within the context of the criminal justice system. An interview with an officer can provide
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Law Enforcement and Social Media Social media is new tool for law enforcement that has proven instrumental in community oriented policing. As times and technology advance‚ police need to keep up to maintain the edge against criminals. The internet‚ social media in particular‚ is a relatively new occurrence‚ and how to most effectively utilize it as a crime fighting tool has probably not even been realized yet. Criminals are not known to be the brightest bunch‚ and there are new stories every day
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Ethical and Professional Practice Police integrity and ethics are a very crucial part of Law Enforcement and it is needed to be an effective police officer. Integrity and ethics also help build trust within communities. Honesty and trustworthiness by police officers improve community interactions‚ enhances communication‚ and promotes responsibility for addressing crime and misconduct. Police departments can strengthen relationships by understanding and training on three main concepts of ethics and
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American Dream According to Homeland Security‚ there were a total of 1‚107‚126 immigrants in just the year of 2008‚ which came to America and became local citizens. I would like to think these numbers are so high is because there are many opportunities and ways to achieve them. The most outstanding reason for these large numbers of immigrants though‚ is because of the infamous American Dream. The American Dream in my opinion is the balance between what we need‚ how much we want‚ and what we are
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Jimmy Carter formed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by consolidating several government organizations. That same year Congress appropriated funds to transfer the Civil Defense Staff College (CDSC) and United States Fire Administration (USFA) and National Fire Academy (NFA) into FEMA. The Civil Defense Program (CDP) had been established in 1947 under the Department of Defense. Training was first offered under this authority in the spring of 1951 at three federal facilities. In 1954‚
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07/09/15 Police Departments in the United States have grown over time to be more diverse. “The virtually all-white‚ virtually all-male departments of the 1950s and 1960s have given way to departments with large numbers of female and minority officers. Openly gay and lesbian officers‚ too‚ are increasingly commonplace. (Sklansky‚ p. 1210)” This essay focuses on the demographics of the police department‚ who the police are‚ the struggles minorities encounter as police officers‚ and how society perceives
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questions. 1. What is an Agency? Agency is a fiduciary relationship “which results from the manifestation of consent by one person to another that the other shall act in his behalf and subject to his control‚ and consent by the other so to act”. A party who employs another person to act in his behalf and subject is called a Principal. A party who agrees to act on behalf of another is called an Agent. Agency is governed by a large body of common law known as agency law. Eg: A real estate broker
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The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics on the IACP web page serves the same purpose as the comparable code of ethics for many other public servant agencies. Chiefly and principally I believe they are a set of values that are not just the stated policy of conduct expected of law enforcement officials. They are a set of values that the officers who swear their allegiance to not only abide by but should believe in out of respect for their predecessors as well as their profession. The main points I drew
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PUBLIC SAFETY LAW ENFORCEMENT Records Management Submitted By Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2 2.0 Components of a records management system 2 2.1 System Architecture 2 2.2 Security 4 2.3 Query Capabilities 4 2.4 Reporting Capability
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attention of the media outlets as it was with Edward Snowden’s revelations in the British newspaper. Namely‚ The Guardian published an article about the National Security Agency (NSA) spying the nation and requiring Verizon‚ the biggest wireless communication service in the USA‚ to hand over all records of the citizens’ phone calls to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the NSA. In addition‚ to the classified NSA files‚ the Washington Post and The Guardian announced
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