Minorities and Policing 1 Minorities and Policing: Unfairly Treated Dorothy J. Fells Criminal Justice 131 C. Thompson December 6‚ 2001 Minorities and Policing 2 Minorities and Policing: Unfairly Treated If we look at the past‚ we can see that there is no warm tradition of community cooperation between the African-American community and law enforcement. Minorities and Policing is an important topic because it deals with issues pertaining to how minorities are
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In the early 1800s to1980s‚ patrolling and investigating were the traditional methods that the police force were using to implement crime fighting. Uniformed police officers would patrol the streets to prevent crimes that were in progress and to catch criminals. However‚ researches since the 1960s has shown the limits of both patrolling and investigating for reducing crimes. This method did not show any effectiveness on crime preventions and reducing criminal activities. Police patrolling still
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Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson notes in his article “Predictive Policing And Reasonable Suspicion‚” that law enforcement must acquire either “probable cause” to search or “reasonable suspicion” to seize an individual. He argues‚ “Because predictive policing does not provide personal knowledge about an ongoing crime‚ or particularized identification of the suspect involved‚ it cannot support the weight of reasonable
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There is no denying that gender plays a big role in medicine. The first medical school was opened in 1765 and it was 80 years later that the first woman was admitted to medical school. Even though‚ the ratio of men to women practicing medicine is not close‚ about one third of the doctors are women and it might not be far when women will outnumber men. There has been an increase in women physicians in every specialty‚ the fact remains that women prefer non-surgical specialties like internal medicine
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------------------------------------------------- Reactive vs. proactive policing Allison Hendricks February 22‚ 2013 University of Phoenix/axia policing February 22‚ 2013 University of Phoenix/axia policing Reactive patrol is police responding to specific requests from individuals or groups in a community that provides “immediate” response to calls. Reactive patrol provides help to ensure that calls are responded to in an efficient and timely manner. Reactive patrol also involves the
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Constitutional Policing The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ and effects‚ against unreasonable search and seizures‚ shall not be violated‚ and no warrants shall issue‚ but upon probable cause‚ supported by oath or affirmation‚ and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things seized.” The Fourth Amendment is clearly broken in the case of Weeks v. United States‚ it was a United
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Aggressive patrol can be seen whenever the police cracks down on a suspects and arrests them for their wrongdoing. Directed patrol‚ however‚ keeps the police patrol time centered in high crime areas and neighborhoods. When it comes to the style of policing‚ you must first take a look at the different situations that a police officer might come upon. In crowd control‚ a police officer would want to use preventative patrol. Doing this would mean that he is keeping an eye out for any troublemakers and
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What is community policing? Community policing is a working partnership with a community that helps make the environment a better place to live in. This partnership with the community has goals such as reducing neighborhood crime‚ helping to reduce fear of crime and enhancing the quality of life in the community. And it does so with the help of police‚ local government and community members. With the collaboration between the police and the community‚ community policing should identify problems of
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1. Both forms of policing require the input from the community‚ but are applied differently. Community policing requires citizens to work proactively with law enforcement; however‚ “POP” is aimed at solving community problems by grouping community incidents to identify possible causes (pg. 4‚ 86) 2. SARA model stands for Scanning‚ Analysis‚ Response‚ and Assessment. (pg. 100-101) S. In the past year there have been 150 car burglaries‚ and the year before 70. Which gangs that live in the area‚ and
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agencies to adopt innovative technologies and problem-solving techniques while empowering traditional police organizational structures. Some participants questioned whether predictive policing was‚ in fact‚ a new model. Many police department argued that good crime analysts have been practicing predictive policing for more than 40 years. (Pearsall‚ B. 2010 May) SINCE THE EARLY 1990s‚ New York City has experienced the deepest and most prolonged crime drop in recorded history. In 1994‚ Police Commissioner
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