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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Police Negligence and Liability 1 Running Head: Police Neglect/Liability Police Negligence and Liability Police Negligence and Liability 2 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine factors involved in police negligence and the extent of liability the officers hold. Are police officers held accountable for their misjudgments or reckless behavior when they are at fault? This paper exams relevant cases in which police officers have been
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The Nature of Police Work The myth of police as crime-fighters has been conveyed to the American people through television dramas‚ comic strips‚ and newspaper articles. It conjures up in one’s mind an image of a police officer doing a dangerous job that requires him or her to outshoot‚ outpunch‚ and outwit dangerous criminals. For most American police‚ there is little correspondence between this image and reality. In a major metropolitan area (where crime rates are the highest)‚ half of the officers
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Introduction: The Police Department has a duty to protect and serve in the public ’s best interest. Working in this particular profession‚ at times‚ can be very dangerous. Many men and women who wear the police uniform are put into positions where excessive force is necessary; however‚ there are many instances where it is not. Causes of Police Brutality: The factors that trigger into whether police abuse their power are race‚ religion‚ socioeconomic status‚ and treatment of the mentally
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The Fine Line between Police Discretion and Corruption Abstract In today’s law enforcement agencies there is a fine line between discretion and corruption. Imagine that you are a police officer‚ you pull over a car that you suspect is driven by someone who has had too much to drink. Upon reaching the window you find that it’s an old friend from school. Do you take him to jail or do you take him home? Police officers have the power to make this decision. In the world of the officer this could
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Police Deception Police deception has and always will be a topic of discussion amongst the law enforcement community and the public we serve‚ protect‚ and prosecute. Police deception has been used as a tool to determine involvement as well a tool for apprehension. The use of undercover operations and entrapment situations to aid in the apprehension of criminals has become commonplace. So is deception by law enforcement reasonable in police interrogation and when is deception appropriate in this constraint
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different factors that impact police discretion. There are four general categories that include Organizational Factors‚ Neighborhood Factors‚ Situational Factors‚ and that also contain subcategories within them. For this paper I will be focusing on Individual Officer Characteristics and Situational Factors. Individual officer characteristics which are influenced by an officer’s age‚ education‚ experience‚ gender‚ ambition and attitudes towards their job. The way that a police officer may present themselves
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There have been ongoing debates about the guidelines for police officers when conducting discretionary searches. One police department that has been in the headlines for its practices of discretionary searches have been the New York City’s Police Department. New York City’s Stop and frisk policy allowed police officers to stop and search an individual on the street at their discretion based on suspicion of criminal activity. One of the most highly publicized cases of NYPD’s stop and frisk tactic
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It is widely regarded that the police in any given society have a difficult job to fulfill. Dealing with criminals and placing themselves in harms way on a day to day basis is indeed‚ an admirable calling. Although seen as difficult‚ there is an underlying sentiment in the general public that the job of law enforcement officers is relatively strightforward. Simply put‚ their job is to arrest the "bad guys". This is true to a point‚ a large part of their job is to arrest these so called "bad guys"
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Police now a day are always trying to use more authority than they actually think they have because most people don’t know their rights. Cops will try to use what they can to arrest you for lying to them‚ and will threaten you. Being under arrest and being detained are two different things when being stopped. If you know your rights‚ just cooperate with the police officer‚ and if you’re not in any wrongdoing there should be no problems with you leaving the scene in no harm or handcuffs. At what
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