Shearer 3/24/2009 PA 241 Essay response for Spring Break 2009 The first thing to take into account is the actual number of arrests using the given statistics. This means that in 2002 there were 11‚446 arrests compared to 20‚330 arrests made in 2008. During this time the total population only grew by about 300‚000 citizens or about 1.5%. The increase of arrests was definitely due to policy change‚ as is illustrated when comparing population growth numbers by the increase in people actually
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criminals is one of the SAPS “modus operandi” in the execution of its crime battle duties or prevention. The major question has always been whether it is constitutional and justifiable for the SAP to use force‚ especially deadly force‚ in order to arrest a person seen as a criminal or prevent or control crime. This question is even more pressing in mainly that section 11 of the Constitution guarantying every single person in a state the right to life‚ this include even those who find themselves doing
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given at the time of questioning‚ the officer asked prior to taking Ross into custody. The arrest of Ross and Rachel was a lawful arrest because of probable cause. The search of the house was lawful because Ross gave his consent to search his residence The search of phoebe was lawful because the search was to ensure the safety of the officers performing the search. . Because of searches incidental to an arrest exception‚ this gives the officers the right to search Phoebe. The search of the table
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The Miranda rights are the rights a police offer is required to say to someone when the officer arrests that person. It is the warning that officers of the law give suspects so they know about their rights before they are interrogated. It was a law made after the conclusions of the Miranda vs. Arizona case. The case was very close as it was a 5-4 decision. The court ruled that any type of evidence‚ whether it is incriminating or proof of innocence‚ can be used as evidence in a case; however it
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The effort to analyze and expand on existing knowledge on the decision-making behaviour of police officers has been assessed and documented in many different studies‚ however Bonner reveals six themes related to officer arrest decision-making and the influence of working rules that are regulated by precise frameworks. When police and citizens endure and encounter each other they meet on a social stage were the citizen’s interaction is based on their status and capability to challenge the police (Bonner
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does the claimant hope will happen?) Husband Fidelity Beneficence The husband is hoping to not be arrested and to be left alone Wife Non-Injury Beneficence She does not need the assistance of the police officers any longer and is hoping they do not arrest her husband Officer Nixon
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System(CJS). Below is the diagrammatic representation of the sequence of events that follow in the CJS. As the scope of our project has been restricted to the Arrest and Pretrial process the focus of our research was these two phases and the decision points that fall in these phases. To start off it was essential to understand what is Arrest and Pretrial process and what these processes entails. Figure 1: Sequence of Events in Criminal
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Duty vs. Friendship The short story “After twenty years” is a classical story written by O. Henry. The story is about the two characters that were actually best of friends. They grew up in New York until lost sight of each other. One of them leave the place and tried to live in West to make easy money‚ thus he ended up being a criminal in Chicago while the other man felt that his place in his hometown is better and he ended up as a policeman. The two friends made a promise that after twenty years
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Police discretion by definition is the power to make decisions of policy and practice. Police have the choice to enforce certain laws and how they will be enforced. "Some law is always or almost always enforced‚ some is never or almost never enforced‚ and some is sometimes enforced and sometimes not" (Davis‚ p.1). Similarly with discretion is that the law may not cover every situation a police officer encounters‚ so they must use their discretion wisely. Until 1956‚ people thought of police discretion
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another man who he believes is Jimmy. He gives the man details about his successes out west. They walk to find a place to eat‚ but after a light shines on the man’s face‚ Bob realizes it is another officer; the officer arrests Bob for crimes committed in Chicago. The officer who arrests Bob gives him a note from Jimmy. The note says that the two men did meet on time; Jimmy recognized Bob as someone wanted by the authorities. The story has a theme of conflict between one’s friendship to another and one’s
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