When examining the issue of police use-of-force‚ the issue of what conduct constitutes too much force must also be addressed. The legal assessment for excessive force is whether the officer reasonably believed such force was necessary to accomplish a lawful police purpose (McEwen‚ 1996). Another concern for many is the possibility of racial profiling among certain officers. Allegations of the use of excessive force by police officers have fueled the debate over possible racial profiling and have
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that have changed how law enforcement may and may not conduct police activities including the searching of suspects‚ seizure of evidence and arresting suspects and the rights of those suspected of illegal and criminal activities. Out of all these cases the one that has had the most influence on the initial contact with individuals is the case of Terry vs Ohio. Terry vs Ohio was a case against in 1963 in which a Cleveland‚ Ohio Police Detective Martin McFadden noticed three suspicious individuals
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Running head: POLICE DEPARTMENT ROLES AND FUNCTIONS Police Department Roles and Functions xxxxxx Axia College of University of Phoenix CJA/214 xxxxx Police Department Roles and Functions Law enforcement agencies range from local counties all the way up to state and federal levels. Communities are dependent of these agencies to conduct and perform many different roles and functions. All policing agencies perform the same basic duties and responsibilities‚ which are‚ maintain law and
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there will be police to help keep everything in line. In Germany it’s the same way. Their police are called the Orpo troops or Ordnungspolizei‚ also known as the green police. Their name comes from what they wear‚ green uniforms so green is in their name. They were mostly known during the Holocaust when Hitler was in power around January of 1933. He used them to take over the country and wipe out the Jews. Even though Hitler wanted to kill the Jews. But the Jews did have there own police called the
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Should Police Officer Who Lies Be Terminated? There are many instances where police officer need to take the stand or go to court due to the reports that they take. When under oath you are supposed to tell the truth and nothing but the truth‚ how can you do this when you are known to lie as a police officer. A police officer is an employee of the government‚ when a person is hired to become a police officer there are code of conducts that you learn in the police academy (Spector‚ 2008). These codes
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List and discuss the different phases of the police hiring process. There are 100 applicants for every police officer position. In larger cities announcements for police officer positions usually generate about 1000 applicants. A civil service type of application is one of the most commonly used application process for police recruits. The application contains basic information; name‚ address and background information like education and experiences‚ some applications will even go beyond the
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Police Encounter Matthew A Loos Kaplan University CJ227: Criminal Procedure Unit 2 Assignment July 15‚ 2013 Officer Smith‚ in my opinion‚ had reasonable suspicion to conduct a traffic stop on the female driver the night in question. According to (Lasker‚ 2012)‚ “In People v. Hackett‚ 2012 IL 111781‚ a unanimous supreme court overturned the appellate and trial court decisions and remanded the case for a trial based on evidence stemming from what the court held to be a justified "investigatory
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With advances in technology we see new and scary ways criminals commit crimes. With the introduction of cell phones and scanners years ago‚ criminals could listen to police radio traffic and see where and how we police were responding. No need for "look outs"‚ technology became the look out. Now in the computer age we see crimes from identity theft and hacking into computers to steal personal and corporate confidential information to cyber stalking and sexual predating to cell phone cloning. Criminals
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Police are often stereotyped to be authoritative‚ dictatorial employees of the state. According to the National Research Council (2004)‚”...Officers embrace attitudes that are more authoritarian than the average person and that these attitudes influence police behavior in undesirable ways” (p. 129). Through the Social Learning theory we are going to examine what and how police and police culture have been influenced to adapt to an authoritative personality‚ as well as perspectives on authoritative
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Mieles Police Role Description in the Media CJA/333 Policing Theory & Practices Instructor – Patrick S. Montes‚ MSCJ University of Phoenix May 18‚ 2010 Week One Crime Fighter Men and women who fight against crime‚ not only in uniform of the police force they work for but also as civilians who want to keep their neighborhood free of crime‚ are considered Crime Fighters. This title is not limited to just men and women‚ it may also be a title for the piece of equipment that the police officers
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