Women in Policing Laura Jones 2/12/2013 Grantham University Abstract Women have worked within our law enforcement system for over one hundred and seventy years. This paper examines the history and current status of women in policing and the challenges they have faced. History of women in policing will be presented from the first instances of women being hired as law enforcement to their current status. Research information
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Predictive Policing Paul T. Lane CIS500005VA016-1134-001 Dr. Edwin Otto 14‚ April 2013 COMPSTAT (COMPuter or COMParative statistics) is a geographic information system adopted by the New York City Police Department in 1994 to predict future crimes. Mathematicians utilize COMPSTAT by designing algorithms to come up with future crimes for police departments. These crimes include‚ but are not limited to drug distribution‚ theft‚ homicide‚ and domestic violence. This method of policing has come
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The Future of Policing Christina Johnson CJS/210 September 14‚ 2014 Ronald Rucker University of Phoenix Policing in the United States has changed dramatically since it was first brought to the thirteen colonies from England. However‚ some of the issues faced then are being faced in policing today. There are also new trends that are prevalent‚ and these trends will continue to have lasting effects on the future of policing. Even though new trends improve policing overall‚ they
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claim by the police that politics should be kept out of policing fair or disingenuous?’ This essay will critically assess the requirement for politics in the police and whether or not it acts as an interference which affects policing or as an essential tool in protecting individual’s human rights‚ maintaining law and order‚ meeting crime targets and improving society. It will seek to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of political policing and look to examples of this to provide an answer to
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Throughout time the police have had one major function and that is to serve and protect the public. Policing is different in every country in the world; therefore‚ we cannot generalize that the police perform their job without issues in every country; however‚ in Canada and United States the police have done an excellent job in reducing the rates of crime‚ but they have done a horrible job at maintaining their public image and have not resolved multiple other major pressing issues. Thus‚ some government
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Policing as we know it today has developed from various political‚ economic‚ and social forces. To better understand the role of police in society‚ one has to know the history of how policing became what it is today. Policing has been categorized into three basic eras‚ which include the Political Era‚ Reform Era‚ and lastly the Community Problem-Solving Era that is the present form of policing. Most all of modern-western democracies are based on Sir Robert Peel’s Metropolitan Police Force‚ which
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Predictive Policing Compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. A comparison and contrast of the application of information technology to optimize police performance versus an unaided and random effort at patrolling the streets would mostly reveal the benefits to an IT supported approach as opposed to an unsupported approach. When comparing the two
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Police Corruption Police corruption has always been a problem in American society and it happens everywhere. According to the book Criminal Justice A Brief Introduction‚ “Police Corruption is the abuse of police authority for personal or organizational gain.” An example of police corruption can be when‚ a police officer pulls you over and he comes up to you and asks you for money instead of actually giving you the ticket of whatever he pulled you over for. Police will take bribes‚ drugs‚ and anything
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Predictive Policing By Amiracle L. Grace CIS500 Information Systems for Decision Making Professor Constance Blanson Strayer University July 16‚ 2014 ABSTRACT You will briefly read about Table of Contents Introduction In previous and the most recent years‚ police officers have increased their use of new technologies to become more effective when it comes to reducing crime. The oldest technology that has
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committing crimes. This ties into the theory of the text that the career of a police officer attracts people who are more suspicious and cynical than average. When danger and authority are mixed they can make the officer feel isolated in the community. People in the community can feel disconnected from the police because of the power that officers possess. This leads to officers feeling that they have to protect each other and to the use of deception by officers. The “blue wall of silence” is a term used
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