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Essays 481 - 510
crimes * Intervene in the operation of the police force when the delivery of police services and the enforcement of the law is who...
Justice notes that in 1999 seven of ten law enforcement officers were employed by offices utilizing in-field computers or terminal...
national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...
or heart attack. The use of the stun gun might add to the problem. However, studies on these guns suggest that they are not quite ...
American nationalism is an ideology which has shaped the face of the world as we see it today. The United States itself first pro...
voice, it can be present in attitude, or behavior and no matter its vehicle, it is painful to those on the receiving end....
Court decision Miranda v. Arizona, which imposed carefully define limits on how far police interrogations could go. According to ...
money legally from licensing fees and taxes on hotels, bars, and restaurants ("Sex industry," 1998). There is a feminist advocac...
is occasionally not as effective in fulfilling its role to society and its citizens as it should be. There can be little doubt t...
the treatment received. The work examines, as would be imagined, both the United States and Britain. According to one review of...
up the incident. While the precedent makes for an exciting police drama, the reality is that corruption does exist and New Jersey ...
tights, underpants and shoes were in a rolled-up heap about ten or fifteen feet away.2 She was naked from the waist down, with her...
job" (Brewer and Wilson, 1995, p. 189). Members of the community feel betrayed when those they look to for protection are, themse...
in order for the public to have trust in law enforcement officers. This is particularly true as there is evidence that trust in la...
people closer to the processes of arresting suspects and investigating crime scenes than ever before (Getty, 2001). Law enforceme...
definition of excessive force is, "the use of any more force than a highly skilled officer should find necessary to use in that pa...
unnecessary force are minority members. According to this report, police have employed lethal force to subdue unarmed suspects fle...
were being ordered to advance through the most difficult terrain and the least traveled terrain in Canada. "The horses suffered so...
consequences of their involvement were far reaching. Not only did womens prisons improve but new jobs were created form women. T...
et al 1997, 642). A much more dramatic impact followed the beating of Rodney King, with ninety-four percent of whites, eighty-nin...
techniques used by some of those in law enforcement can still exact a confession from a completely innocent person, but it is now ...
it mandatory for video and audio recorders to be in the interrogation rooms. This would aid in preventing excessive coercive pract...
they have witnessed. It sometimes takes a long time for the psychological aspects to come out after these traumatic events, but i...
country on a regular basis, the good news is that many concerned people are trying very hard to fix the system. And, it is throug...
at sporting events and just generally ensuring that there are no tie-ups in the smooth running of anything in the public areas. T...
however, an easy demonstration to make. Indeed, drugs in our schools have resulted in the formation of its own subculture and tha...
one is afraid to get caught? And what of rationality - is that not merely a reflection of ones own self-interest? It is importan...
home as well. All of this adds up to the fact that officers rarely have a place they can go to relieve their stress; it follows t...
killing spree along the I-5 section of interstate. His story seems to typify that of several other serial killers, Ted Bundy, for ...
foot are able to mingle with the crowd, maintain order and keep a much closer eye upon the goings-on than any car patrol ever coul...