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    Local law enforcement is made up of a city’s police department‚ a sheriffs department‚ and some small town police departments. The local city police have the job of patrolling the streets for law violators‚ traffic violations‚ criminal investigations‚ and also providing crowd control. Most counties have a sheriffs department that can handle its crimes. The sheriffs department has the responsibility of handling the local jails; they are bailiffs in the local court rooms‚ they are coroners‚ as well

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    The detective agency has been around in the United States since 1850 thanks to Allan Pinkerton. Eleven years later‚ Zebulon Brockway created the first parole system. The world’s finger classification system was used in 1892‚ by Juan Vucetich while working for the Central Police Department in La Plata‚ Argentina. He first used it to identify a bloody fingerprint from a double homicide of children. Then in 1908‚ Lola G. Baldwin was hired as the first woman police officer. Also in 1908‚ Charles Bonaparte

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    | St. Michael’s College of Laguna |Name _________________________________________________ | |Institute of Computer Studies |Date ______________________ | |Second Semester 2012-2013 |CS4A MIDDLE TERM EXAM |

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    Local Law Enforcement Title of Agency (1): New York Police Department Web Address: http://www.nypdrecruit.com/ Stages/Steps in the Hiring Process: First step is the applicant processing division to identify the most qualified applicants. Second step is the Pre-hire interview‚ next is a medical exam and then take a written psychological test. Next one will take a job standard test and an oral psychological interview. Last but not least a character investigation and any other additional requirements

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    Police socialization is the process in which recruits are introduced to police officers who impart not only their knowledge‚ but also any negative qualities they possess (Volti‚ 2008). The influence of socialization is enormous: it can erase the positive influences from training and introduce the recruit to the darker side of the police subculture (Ellwanger‚ 2012). It is through socialization that police recruits are inducted into the police subculture‚ enabling the subculture to maintain its norms

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    Police Culture Number 8 powerpoint (Definition)The knowledge‚ attitudes‚ expectations‚ behaviours and rituals that exist amongst police‚ or which more broadly‚ characterize a police force. Police Culture affects: how police see themselves and their role as police • how they see the world around them‚ how they police (how policing is performed). Differences exist within and between police cultures. Police officers‚ as individuals‚ will not all equally adopt or adhere to the dominant police culture

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    Staerklé‚ C. (2009). Policy Attitudes‚ Ideological Values and Social Representations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass‚ 3‚ 1096-1112. Policy Attitudes‚ Ideological Values and Social Representations Christian Staerklé University of Lausanne‚ Switzerland Address for correspondence: Christian Staerklé University of Lausanne Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Institute for Social Sciences Bâtiment Vidy 1015 Lausanne Switzerland christian.staerkle@unil.ch Author note: We thank

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    The Price of Police Brutality Chris Lawton Union Institute and University Applied Ethics in Criminal Justice Management CJM 303 Professor Toni Bland October 19‚ 2012 Abstract This paper will differentiate between reasonable force and excessive force. I will describe when excessive force turns into police brutality and how the police culture can influence police brutality. I will discuss some of the many negative repercussions that excessive force / police brutality have on the law enforcement

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    Police in America Amy Quinn CJA 214 February 2013 Professor Kehoe Police in America According to our text‚ Robert Peel is the “father of modern policing” (Walker & Katz ‚2011). Robert Peel was an English political leader whom saw the need to improve and structure law enforcement. (Walker & Katz‚ 2011) He devoted his time to seeking solutions to his countries ever growing social problems. Peel helped create the first police force‚ “The London Metropolitan Police in 1829” (Walker

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    enforcement agencies have many different functions. Federal‚ state and local levels each are organized to effectively provide the services the public needs. Together these agencies work to accomplish numerous tasks. Although each level of police agency has its own responsibilities and job roles‚ their functions are very similar. A closer look reveals what the various functions of police agencies at each level are‚ how the agencies’ functions compare to one another‚ and the impact policing agencies have

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