POLICE DISCRETION Police officers are faced each day with a variety of situation in which they must deal; therefore we should ask ourselves the following questions: Should police officers enforce the law equally in all situations? In what situations should police officers be allowed to not enforce the law? What types of situations would they be required to fully enforce the law? Why does police discretion exist? What are its strengths and weaknesses? And what is the relationship between police
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Policing Essay Police discretion poses an interesting paradox in our democratic society. As Ramirez et al (2000) explains‚ we entrust the police to enforce the law‚ to maintain order‚ and to use legitimate force if necessary ’. Not only do we expect police to complete this rather demanding task‚ but we also expect them to accomplish these tasks by treating the public in a fair and even-handed way ’. Thus a major problem is the over policing ’ and stereotyping ’ of marginalized groups such
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Culture is the way that people is different societies behave about scenarios. KC Chhipwadia said “ Culture is defining how people behave in certain settings across different groups”(2016). Each culture lives by different norms and truisms. One truism‚ which governs my life is from the movie Talladega Nights which states‚ “ If you ain’t first you’re last”(2006). This truism teaches me that if you don’t do things to your best potential than you won’t come out to be the most successful. I value America
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Running Head: WHAT ABOUT BOB ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER AND THEORY What about Bob: Analysis of Characters and Theories Margaret Oliver 201340-PSY-2012-06T Professor Leonard Abstract In the film What about Bob‚ the movie starts off with Bob Willey sitting in bed telling himself “I feel great‚ I feel good‚ and I feel wonderful.” Without these words of encouragement he wouldn’t make it through day. Bob Wiley is quite the interesting character; he suffers from so many disorders
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Imagine a police force with no cars‚ radios‚ and no communication. These officers had no back up‚ they patrolled on foot facing any dangerous situation alone. Police were appointed by politicians for limited terms of service. Because of the apparent political ties corruption was very common. This policing era is referred to as the political era. During the political era residents were not able to “call” upon an officer for assistance. A civilian would have to flag down an officer as he was walking
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1. How Public Relations differ from Journalism? Public Relations and Journalism is certainly the same but has the inverse rapport when it comes on who to serve. In PR‚ their work is to inform the publics about the good and positive traits of their clients promoting a product‚ event‚ or a person which is merely not the practice of Journalism. Journalism works to inform the publics in a neutral manner. 2. How Public Relations differ from Advertising? Public Relations and Advertising are oftenly
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Merger Problems The problem that the police departments are facing is that these departments don’t have the correct financial support to make a metro police department. The problem of the metro merger is that police officers would be demoted from chief and would be brought down to the captain rank. Another problem is that there’s a problem with deciding who’s going to run the whole metro police department. Another problem is how’s the funding for the metro police department going to take place. In
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Define stroke‚ differentiate between stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA). Classification of stroke by etiology and presentation. Identify risk factors for secondary stroke. Practical application of guideline recommendations for secondary prevention of stroke. Pharmacists’ role in preventing stroke reoccurrence. Stroke is defined as ‘abrupt onset neurological deficit lasting at least 24 hours”. It is the 5th leading cause of death in the United States. Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is
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literature on police use of force has grown over the past four decades‚ limited attention within this body of work has focused on injuries sustained by suspects and officers during these encounters. The deadly force literature has examined the patterns and characteristics of police shootings and resulting fatalities‚ which represents analysis of the most extreme injury to suspects In addition‚ other researchers have examined the patterns and characteristics of encounters that result in police deaths in
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Police and Society Quiz One: Police and Society Roberg (2005) argued that the history of policing can be traced all the way back in time to where the family enforced the norms and customs of conduct. The Roman then introduced a police force of twenty-four hour patrolling‚ and continued on to the development by the England on the emphasis of prevention. This method of prevention was then carried over to America and has exceeded by far. Today we have our police departments that were based off of
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