Police Discretion Police discretion is freedom or the power of state officers to exercise various alternative actions towards a person. A police officer may choose to give a warning‚ issue a ticket of violation or arrest an offender. Not all circumstances allow police to have discretion. According to a research by Carrington and Schulenber (2004)‚ various factors affect police discretion. These factors include the seriousness and the nature of the crime‚ prior contacts with the police‚ injury to
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else but here. How has terrorism impacted the police mission in the U.S.? What disagreements exist regarding the appropriate law enforcement behavior which fights terrorism but maintains personal liberties? I feel that since 9/11‚ the use of police departments have slightly shifted. For example‚ police departments have had to dig their heels in and provide defensive or “security” services instead of going out on the offensive‚ preventing crime. Police now have to balance their staff and budgets
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#1 Boy‚ 13‚ charged with attempted murder of young girl Police say the youth charged with attempted murder in the brutal stabbing of a 13-year-old girl in Warman‚ Sask. is a 13-year-old boy. The boy was tracked down by officers Friday night after they responded to a home in the city‚ located about 20 kilometres north of Saskatoon‚ where a girl was suffering from severe stab wounds. Police managed to stabilize her at the scene and she was rushed to hospital by ambulance. The girl was in stable
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How does power corruption debauched the mindset of a people? Corruption shows absolute power‚ personality change‚ and religion mishap for example: Kim Jong-Un in Korea‚ J. Edgar Hoover the director of the FBI‚ and Adolf Hitler the mastermind of the religious hate group the Nazis. Kim Jong-Un is the prime minister- president of the North Korea country. Kim adjudicates the way of living for the Koreans in the north. For example‚ every citizen has to dress‚ socialize‚ and deliberate the same. To
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County Roy Keane ) Plaintiff ) Roy Keane’s vs. ) First Amended ) Complaint Bryce Caldwell ) Defendant ) Assault‚ Battery‚ and Intentional ) Infliction of Emotional Distress ) ) ) Not Subject to Mandatory ) Arbitration Plaintiff‚ Roy Keane by his attorney‚ Walter Meier files his Complaint against defendants as follows: Claim 1 – Assault 1. Plaintiff‚ Roy Keane accompanied his wife to an NHL pre-season
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NT Rama Rao‚ in Karnatake under R K Hedge(especially in bringing to light the involvement of the Reddy brothers in the illegal mining scam). The track record of Birendra Pal‚ the lokayukta of Karnataka and that of MP have been good too. One major complaint on their end is that they donot get sufficient information from the govt. In bihar the lokayukta had to close a case after there was no response from the state govt for as long as eight years on the conduct of a minister. There is a huge divergence
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them for succumbing to peer pressure. In “The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden‚ the speaker‚ a government bureaucrat‚ also takes on this two-faced attitude towards a man identified as the unknown citizen. At first glance‚ this poem seems like the well-deserved tribute to a man who lived the perfect life‚ but after a more detailed analysis‚ the speaker reveals his attitude towards his subject. The speaker uses diction and irony to criticize the citizen for following the standards set forth by society to
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Police Discretion Jocelyn Golphin University of the District of Columbia Criminal Justice System 2/21/2014 Golphin 2 Police discretion is a very important approach in matters concerning criminal justice. There has been a consistent problem between enforcing the law and the spirit of the law. Discretion in the broader sense can be defined as the individual’s ability to make a decision basing on the principle of courses of the action. During training‚ police
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Short Speech on Corruption in India : Corruption in India is one of the most menacing threats that our economy has been battling with ever since the independence. At all levels of Indian bureaucracy corruption has seemingly taken its toll and has been corroding the structure of our nation. Be it private sector or public sector‚ Indian people have a tendency of misusing the public position/power in their favor to fulfill their motives and gain personal benefits. All these “allegations” are not solely
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Chief Complaint Followup for inpatient stay for "complicated migraine". History Patient is a 54-year-old right-handed white female who has a long history of migraine headaches. She states she had headaches as a child. When she started having her menses‚ they became menstrually related. It would also occur during ovulation. For a while‚ she was on Topamax and other medications. She went through menopause four years ago with a marked decrease in her migraine frequency. She did note that in
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