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    Should the police be armed? There have been quite a lot of controversies over the issue whether the police should be armed or not. Nowadays‚ police officers in most of the countries are armed when they are patrolling. However‚ police officers in New Zealand‚ the United Kingdom‚ Iceland‚ Falkland Island and Norway are literally unarmed‚ except for those who are committed in airport security and anti-terrorism work. In countries such as China‚ the United States and Russia‚ the media often adduce

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    has shown that police are more likely to abuse blacks rather than whites and this is caused by racial profiling. But through the history of police brutality‚ police brutality was first used after a police officer was described beating a civilian in 1633. Police brutality is the abuse of force and it is usually through physical. But there are other ways to abuse which are verbally and sometimes psychologically and this is done by a federal or state authorities which are the police officers. The history

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    Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice http://ccj.sagepub.com/ Peers and Gun Use Among Urban Adolescent Males : An Examination of Social Embeddedness Deanna L. Wilkinson‚ Marquette S. McBryde‚ Brice Williams‚ Shelly Bloom and Kerryn Bell Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 2009 25: 20 DOI: 10.1177/1043986208328449 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/25/1/20 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and

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    perceived as authority figures that are corrupt and abuse their power‚ we turn on our television and witness an incident where an officer abused his/her power then just like that‚ they have made a bad name for all cops. Now‚ don’t get me wrong many officers abuse their powers in many ways simply because it’s easy to get away with but there are some officers that go to work for all the right reasons but people oversee that because of a couple bad apples. Police corruption seems to be a growing problem in

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    Police Misconduct Response I would define police brutality as something that occurs when a police officer acts with excessive force by using the amount of force with regards to a subject that is more than necessary. By excessive force‚ I mean that the officer use more than the amount of force to get the subject under control. I feel that police brutality happens when an officer has the subject under control and then might hit the subject with a black stick‚ or use the taser gun on the subject

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    criminal and noncriminal events” (Boivin &ump; Cordeau‚ 2011). Every police officer has a great deal of discretion concerning when to use their authority‚ power‚ persuasion‚ or force. Depending on how an officer sees their duty to society will determine an officer’s discretion. Discretion leads to selective enforcement practices and may result in discrimination against certain groups of people or select individuals (Young‚ 2011). Most police officer discretion is exercised in situational situations with

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    community where the police‚ who are supposed to protect and serve the community‚ assault‚ harass‚ and discriminate the people for no apparent reason? First off‚ that is called police brutality and it sure does not go down well at all‚ police brutality is a serious crime and should not be taken lightly at all just because they are police officers. Police officers tend to be looked at very negatively from a civilian’s point of view‚ and to me the main reason why they are is because of police brutality. In

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    Gun control is a huge political topic and it is often debated whether gun control policies should be more lenient or more restrictive to better protect citizens. An innumerable amount of research has been conducted to find a solution to the debates concerning gun control and gun violence. Researchers have found that some states with stricter gun laws have experienced higher crime rates‚ while other states have experienced a decline in crime rates. It is strenuous to determine the exact deterrence

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    them have a process to how a trail starts from beginning to end. Let’s take a look on how the criminal trial process beings. Before entering into the court room depending on the specific facts of the case‚ the first step is to make an arrest. If police have probable cause “a set of facts and circumstances that is led to believe a particular person has committed a crime”. (Schmalleger‚2012‚p.397) they will go ahead and make an arrest. After and arrest has been made‚ the suspect or the accused must

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    Police Agencies There are many different types of policing in the United States‚ most agencies operates through the government and the state itself these agencies consist of state and local agencies such as local PD‚ sheriff’s departments‚ highway patrol‚ and state troopers. The main purposes of these agencies are too investigate of suspected criminal activity‚ referral of the results of investigations to the courts‚ and the temporary detention of "suspected" criminals pending judicial action. Law

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