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    Community Isolates Police

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    the community isolates the police? I think some of the community isolates police officers because they do illegal things like smoking weed. People who do illegal things do not want the police involved in their lives because they fear they will get caught. The police discipline people with ticket‚ arrests‚ etc. and people do not like it and they isolate the police for these reasons as well. Finally sometimes people just angry and need someone to take it out on and the police is a good source for them

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    Police brutality makes it hard to conduct successful patrols within the community. Depending on the person their sense of trust can be destroyed on many different levels‚ the abuse can be physical or psychological that stays with them their entire life. There have been cases far worse than the Rodney King assault often leading to torture‚ or even death that was swept under the rug (Martin‚ 2005‚ p 314). With no proof and only speculation the guilty continue their unauthorized tactics. Today people

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    Police Legitimacy Notes

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    Police Legitimacy & Use of Force Tom Tyler‚ “ Enhancing Police Legitimacy” -Legitimacy = Undisputed Credibility and integrity. – Effectiveness of the police ultimately depends on their legitimacy. - 1st b/c the moral paradox underlying the police use of nonnegotiable coercive force can be resolved only if police actions are qualitatively distinct from other actors’ use of force. - 2nd b/c people tend to obey authority out of respect for its legitimacy more than out of fear of its power

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    We have all seen the news‚ and we have all heard of police brutality. The cases are all the same; an african american citizen was killed by a cop for “no reason.” Well‚ the truth is‚ most cops are not these racist‚ Ku Klux Klan members we think picture them to be. Media is the real villain‚ twisting words and adding in extra details to these stories. Overall‚ the media is framing the cops into being the bad guys‚ and unfortunately‚ the strangers we should trust most are being visualized as the bad

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    birthed an insolent child of violence‚ this child that so dearly receives an overbearing amount of attention strives to overpower the celestial nature of unity and peace. Throughout decades of forming the United States‚ a police officer’s job has undyingly remained the same; police officers work and live in order to protect and serve our communities. To commence‚ a prime way that officers have been able to protect our communities is by persecuting constituents who disregard traffic violations. Driving

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    Police Department Roles

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    Police Department Roles and Functions Nancy Anderson CJA/214 August 11‚ 2012 Miriam Moore Police Department Roles and Functions Police officers play many roles. In the United States the mission of law enforcement is to maintain social order and public safety by reducing crime. To accomplish this and preserve the peace‚ officers have five main responsibilities (CJi Interactive‚ 2011). The first of these responsibilities is to enforce the law. To be able to do this the law enforcement officer

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    Intro 2 CJ - Abstract Police and the Rule of Law Police and the Law of Rule is a key component of the Fourth Amendment which controls law enforcement officials. The Fourth Amendment contains two parts: the reasonableness clause and the warrants clause. Each clause is independent because a search can be reasonable without a warrant‚ but if a warrant is required‚ certain steps must be taken. There are 3 requirements that must be

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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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    could seem like nothing to another‚ but they are still problems. One that interests me and I feel is of major concern happens to be alcohol abuse in police officers. Alcoholism itself is a major social problem‚ but when mixed with policing it may be more dangerous than we think. It all starts with the feeling of being stressed out on the job. Police feel that they have too much to deal with on the job‚ which I feel is true. In the field of law enforcement‚ officers tend to get involved in some intense

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    Police Power Etc.

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    Scenario 3 Weatherbell and Farzal are Police Constables on duty when receiving a call from ’All That Glitters ’ - jewellers in the shopping centre about a woman who is believed to be a theft.The information they have got about the suspect is : young‚tall woman with long blonde hair wearing jeans and black jacket carrying a black rucksack. As the police constables mentioned above drove past Station Square they see young woman meeting the description they have. When officer Weathrbell runs after the

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