Police Brutality Does It Exist? In general‚ police brutality does not exist‚ however there have been a lot of drama involving police officers. I believe it is because police officers can do a lot of things that are unnoticed because they’re protecting the streets from crime. In Los Angeles‚ California‚ two veteran officers were arrested because they were sexaully assaulting females that have problems‚ mainly drug addictions. Joe Nichols and Luis Valenzuela were raping girls in different locations
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Sunday‚ October 15th. McComb Police was suppose to call in a report but they didn’t. CPS received a call from McComb Police Department from Officer Bruce Gatlin. He stated the child was at the hospital and hadbeen abused. When the reporter arrived at the hospital‚ mom said she had been at work that day. She left for work at 6:00 a.m. Mom works in Jackson‚ Louisiana. Mom said she got home and noticed a knot on Logan’s head; there was a red mark. Mom said she asked Brandon what happened. Mom left the children
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the 1920s and 1930s. Police departments continued to move towards a more professional model as a result of various reform efforts. During the decades of the 1920s and 1930s two significant events occurred that helped orchestrate a move towards law enforcement. Passage of the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution often called the Volstead Act and the Great Depression which lead to a massive crime wave (Gaines & Kappeler‚ 2008‚ p. 195). Prior to t Volstead Act police officers allowed public
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Police Negligence and Liability 1 Running Head: Police Neglect/Liability Police Negligence and Liability Police Negligence and Liability 2 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine factors involved in police negligence and the extent of liability the officers hold. Are police officers held accountable for their misjudgments or reckless behavior when they are at fault? This paper exams relevant cases in which police officers have been
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While police brutality is only recently taking the media by storm‚ it has been a large scale issue in the United States for over one hundred years leading to various riots‚ petitions‚ and presidential panels. In 1938 at the time of a great riot regarding police brutality the National Negro Congress stated “Our lives‚ our homes‚ our liberties each day are made less secure because of unrestrained and unpunished police brutality” in their petition against police brutality (Contemporary Police Brutality
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Police on the Dark Side One can say that corruption‚ misconduct‚ and brutality are issues that exist in police agencies across the country. With power comes responsibility‚ which is a trait that he or she would assume that every officer would have‚ but with an undisciplined mind power and authority can be terribly abused. Police corruption can be defined as “acts” involving the misuse of authority by a police officer in a manner designed to produce personal gain for him or for others(Walker &
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Interview Paper with Cumberland Police Officer Daniel Smith Before I start I should mention the odd way I ended up having the interview with Daniel Smith. Last week the security system in house malfunctioned. Even though it was not armed‚ it somehow sent a signal that our house had been broken into. He happened to be patrolling nearby the area and was sent to our location. The Officer that came happened to be him. He checked out and saw everything was fine and then I asked him to allow me to
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Police Militarization: Domestic Terrorism While police militarization of law enforcement is deemed as necessary because of the fear and threat of terrorism‚ however a closer look should be taken to examine how police militarization has effected United States citizens often times harming‚ and sometimes killing innocent people. Modern American policing has become unnecessarily and dangerously militarized‚ in large part through federal programs that have armed state and local law enforcement agencies
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There have been ongoing debates about the guidelines for police officers when conducting discretionary searches. One police department that has been in the headlines for its practices of discretionary searches have been the New York City’s Police Department. New York City’s Stop and frisk policy allowed police officers to stop and search an individual on the street at their discretion based on suspicion of criminal activity. One of the most highly publicized cases of NYPD’s stop and frisk tactic
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results of police brutality and how racial profiling and racism is closely tied with it. This dissertation also tests the arguments that racism is non-existent in the present day. By researching further into these topics‚ information was collected and presents the Michael Brown (Ferguson) case as a major reason why these issues need to be addressed and fixed once and for all. Although we may think racism has slightly decreased within the past few decades‚ police brutality
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