K-9 police officers work closely with their dogs to enforce laws and apprehend criminals. With relatively few positions available in the field‚ an assignment to the canine unit is highly coveted amongst law enforcement professionals. Duties A K-9 handler can use their dog to enforce public order while on patrol. A primary role for police dogs is pursuing and apprehending suspects that attempt to escape law enforcement officers. Dogs tend to be trained for one specialty skill such as identifying
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The Police and Corruption The police. Twenty-four hours a day‚ three hundred sixty-five days a year‚ this division of our government has a mandate to enforce the criminal law and preserve public peace. Understood in this mandate is an obligation to police everyday life matters that originate in the daily lives and activities of citizens within their community. Police interact in some form with the average citizen more often than any other government official. In society today the police
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of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice ME RT NT OF J US CE TI National Institute of Justice R e s e a r c h R e p o r t N BJ A C E I OF F IJ J O F OJJ D P B RO J US T I C E P “Broken Windows” and Police Discretion S G OVC RA MS U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs 810 Seventh Street N.W. Washington‚ DC 20531 Janet Reno Attorney General Raymond C. Fisher Associate Attorney General Laurie Robinson Assistant Attorney General
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Are We Really Being Protected By The Police In Our Communities? A middle age man rides through his city of Los Angeles intoxicated. Who would have ever thought he’ll get pulled over before making it home? King did not expect for his night to become a disaster after having a wonderful time out with friends. Although driving under the influence in any state is illegal; what made this particular case make the front page of multiple news articles? King led officers on a high- speed chase endangering the
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There is a widespread and persistent problem of police brutality across the United States. Thousands of individual complaints about police abuse are reported each year and local authorities pay out millions of dollars to victims in damages after lawsuits. Police officers have beaten and shot unresisting suspects; they have misused batons‚ chemical sprays‚ and electro-shock weapons; they have injured or killed people by placing them in dangerous restraint holds. This is the first paragraph of an
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Police Discretion Police discretion is the ability to choose a course of action because of broad limits of power. It "refers to the autonomy an officer has in choosing an appropriate course of action" (The Police In America‚ 113). It "includes authority to decide which of the various means of helping the helpless‚ maintaining order‚ and keeping the peace are best suited to particular circumstances" (www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1989/january/Sa15878.htm). The police need to have discretion
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University Police Department “Man‚ FUCK the Police!” is a phrase I’m sure we have all heard and some of us have even said it. Police Officers are generally viewed as cocky‚ donut eating a-holes who think themselves above the law and like to flex their authority. These stereotypes are largely due to television and some based upon personal experience. However‚ this isn’t entirely true for all police officers‚ especially here at USM. Here at Southern Miss we have our own University Police Department
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The Hunter Standard is a police academy that’s focus is on having the police officer upon completing the training ready to be prepared to start enforcing the law and serving the community the best way he or she can. The Hunter Standard Police Academy will consist of 360 hours of stressful and non stressful training techniques that will have an officer prepared to handle most situations faced in the real world and in the legal system‚ from how to handle hostile situations on the street‚ to filling
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on the fence between defending or upholding this law. I will project both arguments for reasoning and doubt to fully disclose my views. Police use of deadly force is a main theme ever since officials were allowed to carry firearms since the 1850’s. Since that time‚ the legal force was guided by the so called fleeing felon rule. It’s basically gives officers the use to apply deadly force as a legitimate reasoning for specific individuals that are suspected from fleeing the crime. “By any means
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Police Administration: CRJU – 4200 College or High School Educated Police? Joe Fisher 10/15/2011 Introduction Since the early part of the twentieth century‚ academicians and criminal justice practitioners have debated whether police officers should be required to have a college education as a minimum qualification to be hired. Today‚ there is general agreement that a college education will not necessarily make a person a good police officer
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