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    Police Officer Race

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    Being a police officer is one of the hardest jobs around. They are trained and hired to "protect and serve" their communities and they are constantly in the public eye. Everything that they do is criticized by the people who are watching them. Like in every other profession‚ there are some who should really not be doing that job‚ and those people give a bad name to the really good and dedicated officers that work so hard to take care of people. One of the problems that cause the public to have a

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    Police Cameras Affirmation

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    102: Police Cameras - Aff The use of cameras cuts down on violent incidents and citizen complaints Chief Tony Farrar (graduate degrees in Administration of Justice and Business Administration‚ and a Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science. ​ 2013 graduate from the University of Cambridge (UK) - Institute of Criminology with an additional graduate degree in Criminology and Police Management. Police officer of 34 years.) “SELF-AWARENESS TO BEING WATCHED AND SOCIALLY-DESIRABLE BEHAVIOR: A FIELD EXPERIMENT

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    Police Brutality Notes

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    Police brutality notes: http://graphs.net/police-brutality-statistics.html : 25% of all united state police officers say that they have witnessed fellow officers harassing a citizen “most likely because of his/her race” More than 10‚000 complaints of police abuse were filed only in Chicago in a time span of 2 years. Only 19 resulted in meaningful disciplinary action. Graphs.net. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2015. <http://graphs.net/      police-brutality-statistics.html>. http://www.bustle.

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    In order to end police brutality‚ one must address specific problems. The first step is to identify exactly what the police problems are in each city. What’s wrong with your police department‚ might not be the same as what’s wrong of another department. Police departments differ in quality of management‚ size‚ local traditions and the severity of their problems. Some departments are greatly corrupt‚ while others are are so to say‚ “clean” however have a poor relationship with their community. A city’s

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    Deadly Police Shootings

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    today’s society‚ there has been an escalation of reports involving police officers using deadly force on unarmed suspects. Almost every day news channels are reporting on incidents that involve deadly police shootings. News reports have a major impact on how police officers are perceived by the public‚ leading police officers to be thought of as killers. According to the Washington Post‚ 793 people have been shot and killed by police. Some may question how accurate this number is‚ due to the fact

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    Police Officer Career

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    The police officer also known as law enforcement officer participate in an essential part in communities throughout the United States. Police officers commonly undergo a relentless amount of training to help them perform their duties as a police officer. The police officer patrols in the assigned area and concentrate on maintaining public order‚ protecting citizens and property‚ also preventing and detecting crimes‚ and enforcing laws within the community. Working as a police officer requires having

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    Police Brutality Does It Exist? In general‚ police brutality does not exist‚ however there have been a lot of drama involving police officers. I believe it is because police officers can do a lot of things that are unnoticed because they’re protecting the streets from crime. In Los Angeles‚ California‚ two veteran officers were arrested because they were sexaully assaulting females that have problems‚ mainly drug addictions. Joe Nichols and Luis Valenzuela were raping girls in different locations

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    Police Brutality Issues

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    today in the United States‚ would be police brutality. Police brutality can be viewed as the deliberate use of exaggerated force by a police officer‚ which oftentimes results in bloodshed‚ bruises‚ broken bones‚ disfigurement and lately‚ in death. The fact of the matter is that most of these incidents are either “swept under the rug” or covered up. There is and have always been a blatant impunity and little to

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    The city of London Police

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    The City of London Police Introduction The City of London is the world’s leading business and financial centre. Over 450 international banks are sited here. The City of London is the recognised world centre for the insurance industry and home to the headquarters of countless international corporations. More than 300‚000 people travel to work in the Square Mile every day‚ generating tens of billions of pounds for the UK economy. Many major global companies have their headquarters in the City

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    Police Militarization: Domestic Terrorism While police militarization of law enforcement is deemed as necessary because of the fear and threat of terrorism‚ however a closer look should be taken to examine how police militarization has effected United States citizens often times harming‚ and sometimes killing innocent people. Modern American policing has become unnecessarily and dangerously militarized‚ in large part through federal programs that have armed state and local law enforcement agencies

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