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  • Traffic Stop
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    Introduction Racial-profiling, the practice of targeting individuals for police investigation based on their race alone in the last few years has been an increasingly prominent issue in American society (Abramosky). Numerous magazines, newspapers, and journals have explored the issue of race-motivated police actions. Recently, the ABA Journal did a study of New Jersey traffic stops from 1988 to 1991, concluding that black drivers were more likely to be pulled over and arrested than whites (Gh an...
  • To Get Hired Most Law Enforcement People
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    Overview The Police keep us safe from all the murderers, bank robbers and other people that cause crime in this world. Most police officers work forty hours a week with some overtime if they are working on a case. Some officers work weekends nights holidays and rotating shifts because, just because it's your day off doesn't mean its a robbers day off. In an average, day if you were a street cop, you would patrol the highways and make sure everything is safe. Most cops don't make lots of arrests ...
  • Kait's Car And The Time Officer 2
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    After Kait was shot, her car traveled 719 feet, crossed the median, and came to a rest on the sidewalk east of the intersection of Lomas Blvd. and Arno Street. The first officer on the scene (not in uniform-just passing by) observed two vehicles parked on the sidewalk, Kait's red Ford Tempo and a VW Bug parked next to it. He also saw a man standing next to Kait's car. The officer drove past the vehicles while he radioed in to ask about an accident (none reported), then returned to the scene to i...
  • Officers
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    JUST BEFORE DAWN on Oct. 30, 90 law-enforcement officers wearing black masks and fatigues and armed with assault rifles stormed the Martin Luther King Jr. /Marcus Garvey Cooperative in the Western Addition. They used special 'shock-lock's hot gun rounds to blow apartment doors off their hinges and cleared people out of rooms by throwing 'flash-bang grenades,' which produce nonlethal explosions that terrify and disorient people. At a Nov. 4 police commission meeting, a train of furious and sobbin...
  • Thomas And The Officer
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    COP STABS COP Street brawl after night out drinking Darryl Heeralal Thursday, March 31st 2005 A POLICE officer stabbed and beat a close colleague during a quarrel on a street in Port of Spain on Tuesday night. The attack took place after the two officers had a night out drinking and liming with some of their colleagues. The group, all off duty, was walking along Independence Square when PC Sherwin Thomas, attached to the Police Band was assaulted. Thomas said the reasons for the assault were unc...
  • Trash Searches
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    On May 16, 1988, the Supreme Court ruled that police officers, without a warrant, have the right to inspect curbside rubbish for evidence. "Justice Byron R. White's opinion for the majority said the privacy of garbage bags left outside the home and its immediate surroundings is not protected by the Fourth Amendment because people have no 'subjective expectation of privacy' in their garbage 'that society accepts as objectively reasonable' " (Taylor 559-560). The Supreme Court's ruling on curbside...
  • Back Office With The Police
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    The Shoe Carnival Character List: Whitley (Cashier) Raymond (Floor Supervisor) Jessica (Floor Supervisor) Brett (Sales Associate) Karen (Loss Prevention) Shoplifter (female) Customer #1 Police Officer Extra Customers in store Setting: The Shoe Carnival is a retail store where this scene takes place. It is approximately 7 p.m. and one of the employee's, Whitley is returning to work after a brief break. Just as she is approaching the entrance to the store she notices the flashing police lights and...
  • Pursuits A Necessary Law Enforcement Tool
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    In Hot Pursuit There has been a heated debate over the last few years whether police chases are worth the risk of public safety to catch a fleeing criminal. Each year these hot pursuits end in the arrest of thousands of criminals wanted for a wide array of crimes. At the same time it can cause injury and some times even death. There is a huge misconception that police are out chasing the red-light violator or the burned-out tail light criminal. This is not the case at all. They are protecting th...
  • Suspects From Overzealous Police Officers
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    The Miranda Warning For the past decade, many Right Wing organizations have sort to change many of the laws, governing our rights and freedom. These laws were passed by congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. The Miranda Warning is one of these laws. The Miranda Warning is intended to protect the guilty as well as the innocent and should be protected at all costs. Without the law, many suspects may be treated unfairly. It is a necessary safeguard. Miranda is a ruling which says that the accuse...
  • Anatomy Of A False Confession
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    Anatomy of a False Confession Depending on what study is read, the incidence of false confession is less than 35 per year, up to 600 per year. That is a significant variance in range, but no matter how it is evaluated or what numbers are calculated, the fact remains that false confessions are a reality. Why would an innocent person confess to a crime that she did not commit? Are personal factors, such as age, education, and mental state, the primary reason for a suspect to confess? Are law enfor...
  • Driver To Exit His Vehicle
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    Public Misunderstanding of 'Officer Safety' How many times have you been pulled over by a police officer, and when the confrontation was complete you said to yourself, 'Boy, was he rude!' or " There was no need for him to treat me like that. ' Well, unfortunately, the public is prone to misinterpret an officer being safe for being rude. Unfortunately, the actions taken during a 'routine' traffic stop which a reinterpreted as being rude are necessary steps that insure the safety of both officer a...
  • Louima In The Cell
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    Portraying Evil in the World The article I picked to show the evil in the world today was about a man named Abner Louima. This man was arrested in 1997 and is suing the state of New York for being beaten in a restroom in the station while being questioned. The sole witness Co nelle Lugg, 19, he heard loud screaming and banging noises against the wall of the bathroom while he was in his cell, he then saw a police officer push Louima into a cell pants down and blood rushing out of his open wounds....
  • Mumia Abu Jamal And Officer Faulkner
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    Near 4 AM on December 9, 1981 Mumia Abu-Jamal was working a second job as a nighttime cab driver in the hope of making additional money for the upcoming holiday season. He was driving west on Locust St. when he saw that his brother's Volkswagen had been pulled to the side of the road by a Philadelphia Police cruiser. Mumia pulled into a parking garage on the North side of Locust so he could question his brother to make sure he wasn't in any trouble. After emerging from the parking garage he saw ...
  • Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner
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    Chris Sandman Mumia Abu-Jamal Wesley Cook was born in 1954. While he was protesting at a George Wallace for president rally in 1968, several white men attacked him. He claims that two men grabbed him. One kicked his face and skull, while the other kicked him in the groin. As the beating progressed, he looked up and saw the two-toned gold-trimmed pant leg of a Philadelphia police officer. He yelled for the police, who saw him on the ground being beaten to a pulp. A police officer marched over bri...
  • Teenagers As Bad Kids
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    I belong to that classification of people known as the stereotypical teenager. I am a teenager, not altogether incidentally I am a good kid. People often stereotype teenagers as terrible. That's not fair for the teenagers that aren't inferior. Recently my dads truck was stolen from are underground parking lot. The truck was involved in a "gas and go" and was also involved in a purse snatching. Right away the RCMP thought it was I because of the footage they had on a surveillance camera. It all s...
  • Illegal Search And Seizure
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    One night John Doe is driving down the freeway and is pulled over for a routine traffic violation. After issuing poor Johnny a traffic ticket the officer asks him one little question that could change Johnny's insignificant life forever. "May I search your car" Now imagine if you were in John's position, how would you have responded to the question. Would you have just said yes and let the officer go through your personal belongings, or would you say no. If you were to say no could it lead to co...
  • Dirty Harry
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    In class we defined force as use of power, energy and strength, and we said that it was an occupational requirement for police. We defined violence as the rapid intensive use of force and it could be good, legal and legitimate in some circumstances for police officers. We defined brutality as illegal, illegitimate, inappropriate or excessive use of force, and that brutality could be physical or psychological. In terms of policing a definition of brutality must include use of physical force. In c...
  • O Where An Arrestable Offence
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    o The police must respect individual's civil rights. o People are entitled to be allowed to move freely and to have their person and their property respected. However, there must be sufficient powers for the police to investigate crime. o Parliament gave them special powers which can be used in certain circumstances. o Includes right to stop and search them, to arrest and interview people when necessary and to take fingerprints and samples (blood) for scientific analysis. o Law on police powers ...
  • Police Station
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    BeforeAdsfds The System: Police Before I was to go and visit the police station, in Chambersburg, PA, I guess you could call me ignorant. You can say this because I was expecting to basically see what happens on all of those made up police shows (i.e. New York Under Cover). I was hoping / expecting to see culprits walked into the police station, handcuffed and saying all types of vulgar things to the officer who arrested him or her. I also expected to see around the station and what happens to t...
  • Darlie's Price For Bail
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    Arrest Warrant In the case of Darlie Routier, an arrest warrant was needed to be issued so that Darlie would be taken to the police station by a police officer. The officer who signed Darlie's arrest warrant was Officer Jimmy Patterson. The warrant spelled out the police version of the story and it was later released to the media. Police said that inconsistencies in Darlie's story were the key ingredient. First she would tell them one thing and then she would tell them another. Her stories made ...

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