Police pinned down Alton Sterling to the ground when he was selling CDs outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in Louisiana on Tuesday after receiving a tip from an anonymous caller on 911 about Sterling pointing his gun at someone. As Sterling lay immobile‚ the police shot him several times. In the video released on Youtube‚ one of the police officers is seen yelling‚ "He’s got a gun!" After a few seconds‚ Sterling is shot by the cops. Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Cpl. L’Jean McKneely
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military police officer is to protect the lives and property on Army territory by enforcing military laws and regulations‚ control traffic‚ prevent crime and respond to all emergencies. There is a lot that goes into becoming an MP. There is school and special training thats involved. Another aspect is the crucial distinction between a civilian police officer and a military police officer. There is also many job benefits that also include life after the military. A military police officer is responsible
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issues that involve social psychology. Being a police officer is a profession that encounters a lot of social psychology issues. One issue that all police officers have to encounter is prejudice. Police officers have to not be prejudiced against the citizens that they are trying to protect and serve the criminals that they must apprehend and also against each other. Two case studies that will be discussed are prejudice against female police officers by their male counterparts and racial prejudice
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assessment: Being a police officer is an extremely difficult career as they are tasked to deal with a lot of negative aspects of human nature‚ while having to operate within the law and their agency policies. (Dantzker‚ 2011) Being involved with law enforcement is considered to be one of the most dangerous and stressful jobs in existence‚ and because of this‚ agencies must find suitable recruits who can handle these demands in an adequate manner. (Dantzker‚ 2011) For well over 50 years‚ police agencies have
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With so much fire going towards the police department about corrupt or crooked police officers what is the true definition of a corrupt officer? Well‚ a corrupt officer is a police officer that is going against the law for personal gain‚ such as‚ taking drugs for themselves and selling back into the community‚ taking bribes from crime lords and going after people who caused them grief in high school. The dictionary definition of a corrupt is‚ “cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal
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The scenario starts by introducing T. G. Redd‚ a sworn Henrico police officer. As a sworn law enforcement officer in the state of Virginia‚ Redd has certain powers and responsibilities‚ even while off-duty and out of his jurisdiction. While off-duty at Stony Point Fashion Park of Chesterfield‚ Virginia‚ Redd comes across Mike Richards‚ a man Redd had obtained warrants in Henrico for Breaking and Entering‚ Vandalism‚ and Malicious Wounding‚ though had yet to serve them. As Richards is leaving the
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circumstances revolving around this incident revealed. Officer Dossey attempted to conduct a traffic stop of a bicyclist for a vehicle code violation he observed. The bicyclist fled and a short vehicle pursuit ensued. The suspect made an unsafe turning movement during the pursuit by swerving to the right almost colliding with the patrol vehicle and then back to the left. The suspect then suddenly decreased his speed without signaling causing Officer Dossey‚ who was making a left turn to pursue him‚ strike
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Pros and Cons of Prison Privatization Prisons are institutions that have specifically been designed to handle the members of the society who are under conviction of different crimes. The people who reside in the prisons are referred to as inmates or prisoners and the time they spend in the prisons depends on the imprisonment period. This period is dependent of the intensity of the crime committed. Once in the prisons‚ the inmates undergo rehabilitation‚ incapacitation‚ retribution and deterrence
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Pros and Cons of CCTV Camera What is CCTV Camera? Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras can produce images or recordings for surveillance purposes‚ and can be either video cameras‚ or digital stills cameras. Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the CCTV camera. Video cameras are either analogue or digital‚ which means that they work on the basis of sending analogue or digital signals to a storage device such as a video tape recorder‚ security dvr recorder or desktop computer or laptop
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Lets look at the pros and cons of the two and then look at why the two should be combined. One pro of an Autobiography according to eHow is “Authors use autobiographies to not only to share events that occurred in their lifetime‚ but help future generations relate to those events by explaining their affect
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