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    AMBITION: Every person has his own dream or ambition in life. Someone wants to become a soldier‚ someone a doctor‚ some an engineer or a politician and so on. Some others aspire for the careers of authors‚ actors or singers. But my ambition is to become a police officer in my future life. In the drill class in my school‚ I was very serious‚ and always tried to follow and learn the rules of parade as perfectly as possible because I wanted to become a member of the police force. A police officer‚ as far

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    Police Misconduct Response I would define police brutality as something that occurs when a police officer acts with excessive force by using the amount of force with regards to a subject that is more than necessary. By excessive force‚ I mean that the officer use more than the amount of force to get the subject under control. I feel that police brutality happens when an officer has the subject under control and then might hit the subject with a black stick‚ or use the taser gun on the subject

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    Police brutality has been one of the major issues in America for decades and should be resolved immediately. Statistics say that In May of 2015‚ it has been analyzed the 385 fatal police shootings in the United States have occurred so far in 2015. The number‚ which came out to two officer-involved shooting deaths per day‚ was more than twice the rate that the government had recorded over the past decade. That same report found blacks to be killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities

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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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    I shadowed at the Police Department in the IT Department as a IT Support Analyst. I had my shadow on Friday‚ December 02‚ 2016 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM and I shadowed with Brian Sherman. The day started off with Brian and I introducing ourselves. He informed me about him starting a year long project with him and his co-workers. They will be working to update and change the communication machines in the Police Cars such as their radios and other little updates throughout the vehicle. He then said

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    ASSIGNMENT #2 – Police Discretion When enforcing the law‚ no two situations are ever the same‚ there for becoming difficult and impossible‚ in some cases‚ to enforce the law equally. There are different circumstances in every crime‚ take murder for example. A ruthless‚ sadistic murder that was intentional. A pregnant woman being beaten by her husband until she‚ out of desperation‚ grabs a knife and stabs him to death. Two very different circumstances but they both fall under the same crime‚ murder

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    Police Are Not The Problem Every human being is a victim of racism at some point in his or her life. Some do not even know they are victims of it. The epitome of racism these days seems to be in the form of police brutality. It is said that police brutality happens extremely too often in low-income areas as well as medium to high-income areas. According to an Article by the TNO Staff of The New Observer: Far More Whites Killed by Police‚ more whites are actually killed by police than other races

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    Studies has shown that police are more likely to abuse blacks rather than whites and this is caused by racial profiling. But through the history of police brutality‚ police brutality was first used after a police officer was described beating a civilian in 1633. Police brutality is the abuse of force and it is usually through physical. But there are other ways to abuse which are verbally and sometimes psychologically and this is done by a federal or state authorities which are the police officers

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    INTRODUCTION Diversity management and equal opportunities are important values that need to be upheld in today’s work environment. Given both the past and recent history of discrimination cases against the Met Police‚ such as the cases of Stephen Lawrence and Carol Howard‚ institutional racism in organizations is still being questioned in British society. Over than last 50 years‚ changes in discrimination law have indeed impacted the behaviour of employers and institutions. These laws have made

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    1. The context “When any sworn police officer violates the law or behaves in ways that discredit his or her position‚ this is police misconduct” (Champion). Officers withhold the power to use force when stopping a criminal. But the world seems to have all different ideas on what level of force the law may use to stop a criminal or get a confession out. The media has‚ in the past year or so‚ seen fit to broadcast the police officers who have expressed what they believe is misconduct. What the world

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