How diversity affects police work? Traci Ann Fuchs August 16‚ 2013 SS 310 Cultural Diversity DR. Don Kirk Macon The role of the police is to enforce the law‚ not to question it. This means that the police have been used to do society ’s racial dirty work--to return runaway slaves to their masters and to enforce segregation in the South. We have only to think of Southern sheriffs like "Bull" Connor to remind us of how the white power structure has fought to maintain its privileges. However
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The term police state describes a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social‚ economic and political life of the population. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control‚ and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive. Pierre Claude‚ R. "Human Rights and Statistics". University of Pennsylvania Press The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions
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Introduction The goal of this paper is to inform the public of the difficult decisions that law enforcement officers and officials have to make on a daily basis in regards to police pursuits. This also includes the potential safety risks to the public‚ officers and suspects that are involved or not involved in a police pursuit. This paper will also highlight the statistics of police pursuits as well as the efforts and processes that are involved in making police pursuit policies. Police pursuits are often sudden
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Career Research Paper Police officers have played a major role in society by protecting us from crime. Their responsibilities include not only preserving the peace‚ preventing criminal acts‚ enforcing the law‚ investigating crimes‚ and arresting those who violate the law but also directing traffic‚ community relations work‚ and controlling crowds at public events. Law enforcement officers are a part of our communities to protect and serve us from danger and to apprehend criminals that disobey the
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1 Police Abuse Hope Hagan Saint Leo University Michael Singer Word count: 1691 Police Abuse Police brutality is the excessive‚ unreasonable use of force against citizens‚ suspects‚ and offenders. A study showed that most citizens complained against police officers because of the use of profanity and abusive language towards them‚ the use of commands to move on or get home‚ stopping and questioning people on the street or searching them and their cars without probable cause‚ the use of threats
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Police Brutality Lakhbir Singh Medicine Hat College Reg Leibel CJLS 101 November 4‚ 2013 Contents Police Brutality 4 Police Force Brutality 4 G-20 Summit Protests 5 Police Racism 5 Peaceful Protests 5 Background of the protests 6 Law Regarding Protests and Emergencies 7 Police Office-Guilty 8 Activists Detained By Police 10 Conclusion 11 References 12 Abstract The assignment is based on the excessive use of police force during the G-20 summit held in Canada
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Suresh Mainali Since a recent years‚ U.S has seen many instances of police ruthlessness. It has turned into a questionable theme among groups that have seen police fierceness occur before their homes. Officers are confronted with numerous debilitating circumstances ordinary driving them to settle on split second choices and to expect the most exceedingly awful and trust in the best. Cops are given the ability to take any natives rights away and even their lives. With that sort of force comes obligation
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Training for police officers is essential to the police department and the community. It allows the officer a pre-glimpse of what the roles and duties of a career in law enforcement will be like. During police training‚ officers will be tested and then evaluated on his or her performance. Officers will be tested on his or her physical or mental state. Both mental and physical state are essential to the livingly-hood of the officers and the department. One type of training that focus on the officer’s
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Police deviance may be viewed as a very controversial topic by some and most people hold an opinion about it because of the nature of the policing profession. Using the positivist perspective involving empirical knowledge deviance can be defined as “a determined behaviour‚ a product of causation; hence‚ casual‚ explanatory theory can be developed” (Thio 2010:11). As a result of this view‚ police deviance in regards to breaking the law can be justifiable because police work can be stressful. Decades
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stressful then being a police officer. Dayin and day-out they are required to risk their lives for the benefit and protection of individuals and society as a whole. It is a thankless profession that more then likely will result in family turmoil and unrest. From the stress of a mass casualty situation such as 9/11 or having to use deadly force to defend yourself or someone else‚ there are dire consequences and repercussions that are often overlooked or wholly ignored. In this paper I will be covering
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