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Canada Policing, Powers of Police, and Use of Discretion

force they can join an existing municipal force or contract with the RCMP or the provincial police in order to police the area (Mc...

Police Discretion's Mythological Aspects

is the responsibility of the criminal and juvenile justice systems to prosecute all violations of the law, and ... failure to do s...

Discretion in Policing

must always play a part in police work, discretion is a more arbitrary practice (Bronitt and Stenning, 2011). For example, where a...

Community Policing and Terrorism

firing guns and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic, then turned over the ominous recording to a clerk at Circuit City in Mount Lau...

Process of Becoming An Auxiliary Police Officer

In an essay consisting of twelve pages the process involved in becoming a New York City Police Department auxiliary police officer...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Community Law Enforcement and Discretion

In sixteen pages this paper examines the importance of discretion in community policing with issues including training, ethics, Fo...

The Use of Discretion in Police Work

2004). Also, it is important to note that sometimes the public wants certain rules enforced and at other times, it does not ("Poli...

Police Discretion and Domestic Violence

if they will make an arrest it is apparently the case that they do not need to witness the crime, but can make their own judgments...

Function of Policing

This paper consists of eight pages and discusses policing function, trends, and issues including training and powers of discretion...

Its Past, Police Discretion and Juvenile Justice

This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...

Police Discretionary Power

punish and which to ignore, they are said to be using discretion" (Gaines and Miller, 2009, p. 155). For example, it is not even f...

Law Enforcement Models

Four decades ago, police departments began considering other models of policing that would bring them closer to the people. Team p...

A History of Law Enforcement in the US

complaints. A sort of checks and balances was also put in place with the development of the tything unit(Monkkonen 2003). The t...

Rampart Independent Review Panel Report and What Can be Done to End Deviance within Law Enforcement

to cooperate with LAPD officials in exchange for a five-year prison term. Perez charged that several members of the CRASH unit en...

Federalism and the Writings of William Manning

of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...

Irish Police Culture

biased toward the unionist side and, therefore, this generated sympathy for the IRA (Clark, 2008). The British government, therefo...

Caribbean and the Foreign Policy of the United States

America's foreign policy in Central America, most notably in the Caribbean, is analyzed in a paper consisting of five pages....

John Schwarz's America's Hidden Success Winning The War On Poverty

This text on winning America's war on poverty is analyzed in five pages....

Analysis of Jack Nelson Pallmeyer's The School of Assassins

In five pages this paper analyzes the text that recommends closing the 'School of the Americas' that contributes to Latin American...

Issue of Community Policing

a proactive partnership between law enforcement agencies, community, the DAs office, and public and private groups (Weinstein, 199...

Philosophies on Community Policing

In six pages this paper presents two philosophies on community policing and also compares the differences between general policing...

Is Community Policing a Shaky Proposition?

been stretched into prevention efforts. Based on a wide range of viewpoints and actual criminal activity within each of th...

WHY THE U.S. JOINED WORLD WAR I

1917. The overt, and simple, explanation for Americas entry into the European conflict was the May, 1915 sinking of the Bri...

Connection to Subculture and Police Misconduct

This research paper pertains to police sub-culture and its influence on police misconduct. The writer specifically focuses on the ...

The Rampart Scandal, Strip Searches and Police Power

is hiding something under his or her clothing. On the other hand, there is room for abuse. It is possible that strip searches are ...

New Philosophy for Policing

disappeared in the 1960s when the premise was that cops in cars could respond more quickly to an emergency than a police officer o...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

Police and Private Security

police force can no longer cope with the law enforcement demands of local communities. It is certainly the case that there have be...

Policing in the United States and Austria

control. The United States Patriot Act was designed in such a way that it refocused policing processes on federal levels of contr...