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    n order for police to effectively police an area they must have cooperation. With this comes the ability to lower the crime rate and make the community feel more secure‚ but how is this done? Police alone cannot make people feel secure and community members cannot make others feel safer alone either‚ this come when they are both working together. This is linked to police legitimacy by how the community feels about the police. If there is a negative feeling towards to police than the people are going

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    Essay On Police Corruption

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    “When you have police officers who abuse citizens‚ you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe” ― Mary Frances Berry This quote could not be any more accurate during these past few years. Time and time again we have seen how police officers have used their power in ways that they shouldn’t. Due to this‚ society has lost all trust on police officers making the job of good officers unsafe‚ like the quote stated above. It is obvious that there

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    P1 There are two types of businesses‚ private and public. The difference between public companies and private companies is their ownership. Private held companies are under control of a single or group of shareholders when public companies are owned by the government. [pic] Ownership of the business Top shop is operating in private sector. It is a Public Limited Company this means they sell their shares on the stock exchange and that it’s available to the public to purchase

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    Police subculture and code of ethics Police subculture is one that is questioned with police brutality‚ use of excessive force in administering order‚ cover-ups for fellow police officers‚ corruption‚ and other unethical issues in the police system. An efficient police system would mean a flawless one‚ where there is no corruption or any form of misconduct where recruitment and training would all be fair. The police have time and time again been on the frontline for assault against a particular

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    Recently there have been incidents of police brutality in the United States all over the internet‚ in newspapers and on TV. Police brutality is a huge problem all across America and sadly‚ it occurs everyday. The Dictionary of American History defines it as the use of any force exceeding that reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose. (http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401803303.html) Most cases of this type of brutality are also racially motivated‚ which I will go more into detail

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    Police Reputation Essay

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    12/6/16 Police Corruption and Reputation Having a bad reputation can lead to someone being accused of a crime. Bad reputation kind of relates to police corruption‚ which is another topic I’m going to focus on. People’s reputation is being ruined every day and if they aren’t then people are probably talking around trying to ruin it. Police corruption is another issue that is in the world today still. Most cops respect the authority that has been given to them but some do not. “Police officers are

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    Police Brutality Essay

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    all know as a police officer their job is protect us citizens while trying to detect and fight crime. Because that is their job we trust them to always do the right thing and do right by the law. Unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. There are hundreds of cases all around the world about police officers harming and even killing completely innocent people leaving hundreds of families with broken hearts and no answers to why an innocent life was taken daily. This is known as police brutality. Because

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    Gruenewald Police and Society January 31‚ 2013 Police Misconduct and Corruption In the early 1990’s police brutality had become common; police officers abused their powers and became brutal when dealing with offenders and even non-offenders. One infamous example of such brutality occurred in 1992 in Los Angeles when a black man named Rodney King was violently beat by five officers for being “black.” The five officers repeatedly struck King as a few other officers stood by not paying any attention

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    Police stress is important to control and to deal with. Some officers have to seek help to control it. In the police business there is no telling what you run in to on a day by day schedule‚ there is not the same work day twice. One day you will by just giving people tickets to the next day dealing with someone being shot. Anyone can understand if you see someone being shot then it makes you a little stressed out. Stress plays a part in the lives of everyone. Some stress is not only inevitable‚ it

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    Police Brutality Speech

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    on the floor with two white officers holding guns in their hands. Police brutality is unacceptable. Black teenagers shouldn’t be scared to drive their car or walk on the streets. NOBODY should be afraid of getting shot or brutally injured just for simple things like‚ speeding. Police brutality occurs for many reasons. One of those reasons may be racism. In 2016‚ there have been seven hundred and eight documented deaths by police shootings. One hundred and ninety four of these deaths have resulted

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