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Committed A Crime Searches And Seizures
1,728 wordsThe overall issue is whether the offered evidence obtained by the State in the robbery trial of Andy and Bob should be suppressed. The first issue is whether Officer Short had probable cause to stop the VW bug. When a police officer has probable cause to believe that a suspect has committed a crime, the officer makes an arrest. An arrest may occur either with or without a warrant (most are made without a warrant). Arrest usually involves taking the suspect into custody and transporting him to th...
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Police Officers Police Commissioner
1,573 wordsCivil rights advocates in the city note, however, that there has been a cost to the new strategy, revealed by steady citizen complaints against more aggressive NYPD officers during the past several years and continuing impunity for many officers who commit human rights violations despite the recent reorganization of both the civilian review board and the police department's internal affairs bureau. In August 1997, after the alleged torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by police officers mad...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Fair Trial
1,254 wordsOn December 9, 1981, Wesley Cook, a. k. a. Mumia Abu-Jamal, was driving his taxi in Philadelphia when he saw that police had pulled his brother over. Jamal stopped to see why his brother was being pulled over. An altercation followed leaving Officer Daniel Faulkner dead and Jamal critically wounded. Jamal is currently on Death Row awaiting execution. Jamal's trial was held in 1981 and since then there has been much controversy about whether the trial was fair or not. Much evidence has recently b...
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Miles An Hour Police Officers
1,233 wordsImagine being a police officer doing your daily routine job. You are in a patrol car on the highway, watching the cars and trucks drive by. You are also looking for speeders to warn them to be more careful and maybe youll ticket them. It has been a very boring day for you, since you have only been called on your radio once, and it was for an accident (fender bender). Almost at the end of your shift, a blue car drives by going ninety miles an hour, but you know the speed limit is only fifty-five ...
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Domestic Violence Police Officer
1,542 words... and the apartment did not reflect any recent violent activity. She did know the name of her assailant. She described him as an acquaintance. This gave the officer more suspicion that she was a prostitute. The officer told the victim that it would be in her best interest if she did not continue the allegations. He said that a jury would laugh her out of the courtroom. He also told her that it would be a waste of time to go to the hospital for a checkup. The officer tells the known prostitute ...
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Elie And His Father Concentration Camps
1,780 wordsNight, a novel by Elie Wiesel is a horrifying recollection of Wiesel's experiences through numerous German concentration camps, where amidst the savage duration and murder of the prisoners, acts of kindness and signs of hope still penetrated. During Wiesel's stay at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Buna, he witnessed hangings, beatings, starvation, and torture. In such frightening, and yet, unbearably real situations, hopes of freedom seemed distant and kindness was rare, or unheard of. An understanding...
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Arrest Search Warrants And Probable Cause
1,681 words1. The United States Supreme Court has held that normally, a police seizure of either evidence of a crime in a constitutionally protected area or a possible criminal defendant must be based on probable cause (e. g. , Illinois v. Gates (1983) ). Furthermore, the Court has repeatedly stated that a government search or seizure on private premises without a warrant is presumptively unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment unless it falls within one of the "carefully delineated" (Welsh v. Wisconsin, (...
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Police Officer Street Level
1,048 words... ury as a welder. The second constraint on the counselor was the fact that an EMT has to be in excellent health to be able to pick up and carry large people from stressful situations which could further hurt the client. Another constraint on the counselor is the fact that the client was worked up and excited about possibly getting the chance to become an EMT. The constraints work on the counselor in this situation by making the counselor use good judgment in the situation. If the counselor ag...
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Fresh Air Six Hours
1,473 wordsOne had been swayed by the Yellow Submarine, that cool Beatles number of the 60 s. This one looked cool too. And mysterious. As it lolled on the gentle waters off Visakhapatnam, this mean machine seemed to hide Cimmerian secrets in its bosom. And some 70 men. The invitation from Commander S. Dasika of the Eastern Naval Command was too tempting to forego, in spite of the claustrophobic rush at the mention of a submarine. It is not often that one gets a chance to visit an Indian Navy submarine. An...
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Search And Seizure Probable Cause
531 wordsOne night John Doe is driving down the freeway and is pulled over for a routine traffic violation. After issuing poor Johnny a traffic ticket the officer asks him one little question that could change Johnny's insignificant life forever. May I search your car? Now imagine if you were in Johns position, how would you have responded to the question. Would you have just said yes and let the officer go through your personal belongings, or would you say no. If you were to say no could it lead to cons...
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Law Enforcement Officers Quality Of Life
3,372 wordsCommunity policing has emerged since the 1970 s as an increasingly important strategy for controlling and preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that allows the police and the community to work closely together in creative ways to solve the problems of crime, drugs, fear of crime, physical and social disorder, neighborhood decay, and the overall quality of life in the community. Community policing is difficult to define. Although i...
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Lee Harvey Oswald Quot Quot
4,876 wordsIn another bizarre twist to a mystery that has haunted Americans for more than a quarter century, the son of a former Dallas police officer plans to tell the world that his father was one of the assassins of President John F. Kennedy. Ricky White, a 29 -year-old, unemployed oil equipment salesman in Midland, says he " had no conception of ever, ever giving this story out" but decided to do so after FBI agents began asking questions in May 1988. " Im telling you a story that has to...
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Yitzhak Rabin Tel Aviv
9,687 wordsThe name Entebbe and the operation with which it is associated hold a special place in the annals of the ongoing war against terrorism. To the people of Israel, and to many others, it was a declaration that free men need not submit to terrorist blackmail and extortion, no matter how impossible the alternatives may seem. Scores of men from the Israeli Defense Force, with unparalleled planning and preparation, made this mission successful in what had seemed to be a hopeless situation. Lieutenant C...
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Police Brutality Rodney King
707 wordsPolice Brutality Police Brutality seems to be becoming a much more larger problem then it use to be. It seems to be at least once a month we hear about another case of police brutality. Some of the most famous ones are the Rodney King beating, the beating of the two illegal aliens in Riverside, and the killing of Gustavo Soto Mesa by deputy Tom Langley. One of the main motivations behind these beatings seem to race. Right before the Rodney King beating, Officer Powell and Officer Wind were heard...
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Canadian Charter Of Rights Charter Of Rights And Freedoms
1,248 words? ? THERE ARE SOUND REASONS for such special concern with police corruption. The police have a unique place in our society. The policeman is expected to? uphold the law? and? keep the peace. ? He is charged with everything from traffic control to riot control. As a result, society gives him power and obligation to bear arms, along with the authority to take away our liberty by arresting us. ? (Murphy) What is Police Corruption? This question holds a different meaning for every individual. It is ...
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Human Rights Watch York City Police
1,934 wordsIn the past decade, many police departments have adopted a new theory that says serious crime can be reduced by controlling minor disorders and fixing up obvious signs of decay or litter. The theory is called broken windows, after a 1982 Atlantic Monthly magazine article by James Q. Wilson and George Killing. The article argued that when low-level quality-of-life offenses were tolerated in a community, more serious crime would follow. According to this view, broken windows, abandoned buildings, ...
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Police Officer Bad Guys
791 wordsPublic Misunderstanding of Officer Safety How many times have you been pulled over by a police officer, and when the confrontation was complete you said to yourself, Boy, was he rude! or There was no need for him to treat me like that. Well, unfortunately, the public is prone to misinterpret an officer being safe for being rude. Unfortunately, the actions taken during a routine traffic stop which are interpreted as being rude are necessary steps that insure the safety of both officer and civilia...
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Driving While Black Criminal Justice System
3,718 wordsThe interviews excerpted here show that racially biased pre textual traffic stops have a strong and immediate impact on the individual African-American drivers involved. These stops are not the minor inconveniences they might seem to those who are not subjected to them. Rather, they are experiences that can wound the soul and cause psychological scar tissue to form. And the statistics show that these experiences are not simply disconnected anecdotes or exaggerated versions of personal experience...
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Saving Private Ryan World War Ii
1,154 wordsThe film industry of the 20 th century has done all that it could to manipulate the viewers of the world. Whether good, or bad propaganda in film has been a major source for molding the publics minds to fit the political correct way of thinking at that particular time. Saving Private Ryan and an Officer and a gentleman are both movies that i believe to be propaganda films for the united states in concern of war. Both of these movies deal with the united states armed services, but the message beh...
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Butcher Knife Police Officer Pumpkin
824 wordsBack in the early 1600 s when people believed in witches and warlocks, they never knew what would be around the corner, in alleys, and streets. In the small town of Salem, Massachusetts, the belief in the supernatural was very strong. On Friday, October 13, just after dusk an old woman in a nearby house saw an orange light emitting from a neighboring house. The closest person who lived by the house was an old widow, Mrs. Wilks, and her son. Mrs. Wilks could not think of what to do when she saw a...
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