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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There are a lot of legal and illegal immigrants from all over the world in the united states of America. But the question is: should we allow illegal people to stay? First of all I’d like to discuss how people enter the USA. It’s easy to cross the USA’s border legally. Some people come to visit with tourist visas‚ student visas‚ some of them with work and study visas‚ but majority of them decide to overstay their visas and they become illegal immigrants. The drawbacks are: they
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The 1033 program was enacted in 1996 under the direction of former President Bill Clinton‚ allowing excess equipment originally purchased for the military to be transferred to state and local law enforcement agencies at no cost (GovTrack‚ 1996). The equipment is stated as being surplus‚ moreover‚ several notations are made on the Defense Logistics Agency’s website advising the equipment was not purchased for the sole purposes of providing it to law enforcement (n.d.). The equipment that has been
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allowing illegal immigrants into America. Illegal immigrants should be allowed into America. Illegal immigrants are essential to the American economy‚ they contribute more to the government than they receive in benefits‚ and current immigration policies are discriminatory. An illegal immigrant is any person who enters the United States illegally‚ or any person who enters legally and stays past the time legally allowed. History has shown that prosperity follows immigration. Illegal immigrants have a
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an officer begins to do wrong things and starts to participate in illegal activities? That’s where the internal affairs of either the police department or the city in which that police department is in‚ comes into play. Furthermore‚ the perspective that we have of the term “internal affairs” usually comes from social media‚ TV shows‚ or movies. This idea that we have of police departments having some sort of police for the police is absolutely wrong. Those are just some things that we see in either
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authority by a police officer to fulfill personal needs or wants. There are three simple criteria for a “corrupt act” which must all happen simultaneously: (1) misuse of authority‚ (2) misuse of official capacity‚ and (3) misuse of personal attainment. (Dantzker‚ 1995). Police corruption falls into two major categories-- external corruption‚ which concerns police interaction with the public‚ and internal corruption‚ which involves the relationships among co-workers within the department. The external
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Police Ethics Police Discretion G Abstract: This paper is going to cover the unlawful behavior that led to harmful discretionary acts that had taken place in several different police departments; from the big cities of Los Angeles and Chicago to the small department of East Moline. This will cover‚ in detail‚ how these officers went down the wrong path to self-destruct their own departments. “Police discretion refers to the authority granted to a police
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Police discretion Police discretion can be defined as actions undertaken by law enforcers in which they exercise their individual judgment in order to determine the best course of action (Gaines & Kappeler‚ 2003). Before deciding whether a certain action should be pursued against a suspect‚ the police take into account many factors‚ at least in theory. As Kleinig (1996) stresses‚ discretion also gives law enforcers “a permission‚ privilege‚ or prerogative to use judgment about how to make a practical
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English 111 December 5‚ 2011 Police brutality Police brutality is one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States and it occurs in every community. The job of a police officer is to maintain public order‚ prevent‚ and detect crime. They are engaged in a dangerous and stressful occupation that can involve violent situations that must be controlled. In many of these confrontations with the public it may become necessary for the police to administer force to take control
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point across that immigrants who have created a life and home for themselves in the land of opportunity are now being deported and dealt with as if they were criminals. After Trump’s presidential campaign which was fueled by immigration‚ he has followed through with his promises‚ and has changed the strategies of how deporting illegal immigrants is carried out. That include ICE has been performing raids throughout the country raiding homes and deporting illegal immigrants back to
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