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Labor Issues in Policing

499). The tide was turning. The police officers would finally get adequate pay and protections from their departments. Collectin...

Community Policing in the United States

stance. After all, the police officers can write tickets for small oversights, but a friendly attitude, without overly strict enfo...

The Positive and Negative Aspects of Police Departments

protocol that needs to be changed. That is tantamount to corruption. Of course, the things that occur routinely and are not extrem...

Ethics and Police Brutality

go to the individual and what he or she believes is right and wrong. A code of ethics will likely hold two models. One is whether ...

U.S. Foreign Policy, Just War Theory, and the Persian Gulf War

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

Downtown U.S. and City Saving

less attention and other social problems such as crime and drugs are also more likely to emerge and proliferate due to the level o...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Dr. Claud Anderson on Discrimination Considered

to live in substandard housing. Dr. Anderson observes that discrimination is perpetuated because Whites have controlling ownershi...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Lindbergh Falls From Grace After Many Years Aloft

4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...

Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

Female Police Officers

The literature makes it very clear that female police officers face more challenges and have fewer opportunities than male office...

Police Roles and Ethics

This paper pertains to police officers' roles, and police subculture and ethics. Three pages in length, six sources are cited. ...

Collaborative, Problem Solving Police

The scenario is that a captain in the police force must give a report on how to set up a community policing unit. The paper define...

Scandals in Law Enforcement

This essay discusses two large events of police corruption. One has to do with ticket fixing and the other was more involved with ...

Amadou Diallo, Eleanor Bumpurs, Chases More

This essay provides background on four real cases involving the police. In three cases, people were killed by police. In the fourt...

The Growing Interdependence of Public and Private Policing

when we think of policing we think of government paid employees that are paid to enforce the laws of the government entity. Publi...

A Police Officer Steals Guns

held to a higher standard that the rest of the society because they have power over the public. Even so, their behavior on-duty an...

Federal Sentencing Guidelines

The law, as well intended as it is, can vary in regard to its application. The law is not always black and white in terms...

Approaches in Policing Old Verses the New

The question of how to address crime has plagued civilization throughout history. The old approach to crime was to make the punis...

Incorporating New Approaches in Policing

The question of how to address crime has plagued civilization throughout history. The old approach to crime was to make the...

Lying by a Police Officer

This research paper/essay describes a scenario in which a police officer is shown to have lied. The writer hypothetically takes th...

Code of Silence and Police Subculture

This research paper pertains to the problem of police misconduct, which is acerbated by police subculture and the acceptance of a ...

Investigators in the Police Department

This essay offers an introduction to police investigators/detectives. Promotion opportunities for police officers are reported. Th...

History of U.S. and Ecuador Policing

In seven pages this paper discusses policing in the U.S. and Ecuador in a historical overview that includes a study review regardi...

Post 1970 Texas Law Enforcement Brutality

In twelve pages this paper discusses post 1970 police brutality as it pertains to the Houston Police Department's treatment of Afr...

Policing Models Compared

model go to long standing issues such as gang violence or traffic problems. In other words, the focus is not just on resolving a s...