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You Are a Police Officer
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This simulation required that, as a police officer, I obtain a criminal conviction in six or more cases and have three or fewer law suits against the police department as a result of my violating someone's civil rights and liberties. I only had one strike in this process.
The first event centered on a local Irish-American Association's St. Patrick's Day parade. A group of gay Irish-Americans were told they could not march in the parade by the IAA, which is a private organization. When the gay group began to march, the police were called and asked by the IAA to arrest the gay marchers. I had to decide whether to let them march.
Understanding that a private group is not obligated to allow anyone to participate in their private …show more content…
The question was whether to arrest the skinheads or to let them go.
In light of R.A.V. v. St. Paul, I knew that government could not limit or punish speech and conduct because it does not agree with that speech or conduct.12 Virgina v. Black disallows "treating cross burning as prima facie evidence of intent" but states that, coupled with the intent to intimidate, cross burning can be banned.13 Since the skinheads were well within their right to free speech and there was no mention in the narrative of New York's arson law, I decided to let the skinheads go. The skinheads could have been prosecuted under the arson law, so I missed that one.
A student's Fourth Amendment rights are tested in the next simulation. My partner and I have been assigned to the local community college to look for evidence of illegal activity. My partner has been randomly feeling students backpacks and thinks she has found a gun in one of them. She asks if I believe there is enough probable cause to search the bag. I do not search the bag as I feel my partner was outside the scope of the investigation to feel the bags to begin
You Are a Police Officer
Results
This simulation required that, as a police officer, I obtain a criminal conviction in six or more cases and have three or fewer law suits against the police department as a result of my violating someone's civil rights and liberties. I only had one strike in this process.
The first event centered on a local Irish-American Association's St. Patrick's Day parade. A group of gay Irish-Americans were told they could not march in the parade by the IAA, which is a private organization. When the gay group began to march, the police were called and asked by the IAA to arrest the gay marchers. I had to decide whether to let them march.
Understanding that a private group is not obligated to allow anyone to participate in their private …show more content…
The question was whether to arrest the skinheads or to let them go.
In light of R.A.V. v. St. Paul, I knew that government could not limit or punish speech and conduct because it does not agree with that speech or conduct.12 Virgina v. Black disallows "treating cross burning as prima facie evidence of intent" but states that, coupled with the intent to intimidate, cross burning can be banned.13 Since the skinheads were well within their right to free speech and there was no mention in the narrative of New York's arson law, I decided to let the skinheads go. The skinheads could have been prosecuted under the arson law, so I missed that one.
A student's Fourth Amendment rights are tested in the next simulation. My partner and I have been assigned to the local community college to look for evidence of illegal activity. My partner has been randomly feeling students backpacks and thinks she has found a gun in one of them. She asks if I believe there is enough probable cause to search the bag. I do not search the bag as I feel my partner was outside the scope of the investigation to feel the bags to begin