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Police Brutality Police Officers
3,151 words... le Civics p. 1 Police Abuse In recent years, police actions, particularly police abuse, has come into view of a wide, public and critical eye. While citizens worry about protecting themselves from criminals, it has now been shown that they must also keep a watchful eye on those who are supposed to protect and serve. This paper will discuss the types of police abuse prevalent today, including the use of firearms and receipt of private information. I will also discuss what and how citizens' ri...
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Police Departments Medical Marijuana
1,451 words... criminal-defense lawyer who advocates drug-policy reform. "But the real word is 'confiscation. ' Current law goes way too far. " In 1992, for instance, state troopers grabbed $ 38, 000 from the briefcase of Tom Russo (not his real name) after stopping him and then charging him with drunk driving, among other violations. Although a state judge ordered the cash returned because of an illegal search, police had already transferred it to the federal government, essentially leaving the money -- p...
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Law Enforcement Officers Driving While Black
1,501 wordsThe great era of civil rights started in the 1960 s, with Martin Luther King, Jr. s stirring I have a Dream speech at the historic march on Washington in August of 1963. At the same time Birmingham Police Commissioner Bull Connor used powerful fire hoses and vicious police attack dogs against nonviolent black civil rights activists. Although these years proved to be the highlight and downfall of civil rights in America, even with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act being pas...
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Law Enforcement Officers Driving While Black
1,487 wordsThe federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. These records should include the persons race; the reason stopped; how long the car was detained; and whether a ticket was issued, the car searched, or any illegal goods or weapons were found when the traffic stop was made. Racial profiling is the police practice of stopping and searching African-American and His...
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Separation Of Powers Police Officers
1,827 words... the people. As Thomas puts it, [T]he fundamental plank of the constitution is the supremacy of the people and that the democratic imperative is a representative government which can only be protected when there is an independent judiciary to adjudicate oppression of the peoples rights. Meek outlined the consequences of adhering to the doctrine of separation of powers. For one, the legislature must put its hand out of the judiciary as to the manner and outcomes when the latter adjudicates cas...
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Police Department Ethics Part 1
1,728 wordsPolice Department Ethics Policies Police Departments main purpose is to serve people and to protect them from harm and various kinds of offences from the side of other people. Every police department has a certain code of rules and ethics, which predispose their actions and attitudes towards the society. In this research we are going to compare and contrast two police departments ethics policies and codes of conduct. Police brutality has been a long lasting problem in the United States since at ...
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Nypd Shooting Of Amadou Diallo
1,768 wordsNYPD Shooting of Amadou Diallo Police brutality remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States. The excessive use of force by police officers persists because of overwhelming barriers to accountability. This fact makes it possible for officers who commit human rights violations to escape punishment and often to repeat their offenses. Police or public officials greet each new report of brutality with denials or explain that the act was an aberration, whi...
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One Of The Greatest Police Officers
1,139 wordsThe most efficient way to reduce crime is to unite the police department with the community it serves. The police alone can not prevent crime and need to summons the assistance of its citizens. Without community policing, much of the police response ends up being reactive instead of proactive. We always look at statistics in a way that shows reactive status, but proactive status can not be figured into account. Some programs of community policing are bicycle, foot, and mounted patrol. Others may...
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Drug Enforcement Agency Marijuana Should Be Legalized
619 wordsLegalization of Marijuana The purpose of this paper is to discuss marijuana and compare both sides of the issue of legalizing marijuana. We have two fractions fighting each other; one of those who are pro-marijuana and those who are anti-marijuana. These two factions have been fighting on this issue in the halls of justice for years, each coming up with new reasons why they are the right ones. Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physicians Association for AIDS Care and the National Lym...
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Amadou Diallo Police Officers
2,884 wordsCraig H. Brockman Instructor: Eric Becker College Writing 221624 23 April 2000 The Diallo Incident; One Officers Perspective In the quiet post-midnight hours of February 4, 1999, 41 shots rang out in the entry vestibule of a South Bronx apartment house. Within seconds, a young man laid dead, four policemen standing over his lifeless body. A 22 -year-old immigrant from West Africa was the unfortunate victim. The police officers: four white men from the New York City Police Departments Street Crim...
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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
2,898 wordsTHE RODNEY KING INCIDENT According to Whitman (1993): Well before he heard the first siren, Rodney King knew he never should have slipped that key into the ignition. They had been having so much fun, he and his buddies Bryant Allen and Freddie Helms, just kicking back, sipping some inexpensive 40 -ounce bottles of malt liquor at the local park as they jawed and laughed while the daylight ebbed away. Afterward, they had stood in front of Allens moms house trying to croon a few tunes. King wasnt m...
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Part Of American Harley Davidson
2,499 wordsHarley Davidson, Americas number one and only motorcycle rests comfortably at the head of the pack, but it wasnt always that way, and it wasnt always just Harley. Its hard to say when the invention of the first motorcycle was thought of, plans for bikes go as far back as the 1700 s, of course they had no motors. In the 1860 s inventors finally got a bike that worked the next logical step was a motor. The first motorcycle came when the Johnson Motor Company strapped a steam engine to a bike, and ...
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Millions Of Dollars Police Corruption
727 wordsHistory of Police Corruption in the United States The challenges facing the Chicago Police Department today are not new, nor are they unique to this city. The problem reaches back as far as the establishment of the first organized police forces in the United States. Corruption has taken many forms and has continued to plague the police departments of nearly every major city. Police corruption may change form over time, but its roots are firmly planted in American history. In The Development of t...
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Human Rights Violations State And Federal
1,608 wordsA Brutalized America Police brutality remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States. The excessive use of force by police officers persists because of overwhelming barriers to accountability. This fact makes it possible for officers who commit human rights violations to escape due punishment and often to repeat their offenses. Police or public officials greet each new report of brutality with denials or explain that the act was an aberration, while the...
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Convicted Sex Offenders Law Enforcement Agencies
2,866 wordsTragically, there is little we can do to help the innocent children who already have been victimized in this horrible, horrible way, but, we can-and we must-do everything possible to prevent that horror from happening to other children. Pennsylvania s governor, Tom Ridge, said this while talking about the horrible crimes of child molestation. There have been many cases in this country of these types of crimes, and unfortunately, no one had made any effort to make laws to help protect our childre...
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Internal Affairs Unit York Times P
3,297 wordsPolice corruption is a complex phenomenon, which does not readily submit to simple analysis. It is a problem that has and will continue to affect us all, whether we are civilians or law enforcement officers. Since its beginnings, may aspects of policing have changed; however, one aspect that has remained relatively unchanged is the existence of corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication on any given day will have an article about a police officer that got b...
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2,985 wordsPolice corruption is a complex issue. Police corruption or the abuse of authority by a police officer, acting officially to fulfill personal needs or wants, is a growing problem in the United States today. Things such as an Internal Affairs department, a strong leadership organization, and community support are just a few considerations in the prevention of police corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication in an urban city during any given week would most l...
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2,968 wordsPolice corruption is a complex issue. Police corruption or the abuse of authority by a police officer, acting officially to fulfill personal needs or wants, is a growing problem in the United States today. Things such as an Internal Affairs department, a strong leadership organization, and community support are just a few considerations in the prevention of police corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication in an urban city during any given week would most l...
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Police Departments Substance Abuse
2,436 wordsMISSION STATEMENT The mission of the Davison Area Police Stress Evaluation And Referral Service (S. E. A. R. S) is to provide officers and employees of the Davison, Davison Township, and Richfield Township Police Departments the opportunity to share stress related issues with a peer supporter, for the peer supporter to evaluate the employee s stress related issue, and finally for the employee to be referred, by the peer supporter, to an outside source that will best assist the officer or employe...
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Driving While Black Law Enforcement Officials
2,272 wordsRacial Profiling: Its Racial Profiling 1 Racial Profiling: Its Time to Put an End to this Unjust Practice It has happened to actors such as Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, Blair Underwood and LeVar Burton. It has happened to football player Marcus Allen, Olympic athletes Al Joyner and Edwin Moses, and it has happened to attorney Johnnie Cochran. Police officers stop, question and even search black drivers who have committed no crime, based on the excuse that a traffic offense has occurred. The term b...
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