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    IACP Oath Of Honor

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    SHOOT! Since police officers have been put in place, they have been expected to protect and serve citizens. And yet, in this day and age, people have come to fear police officers as time goes on. There were 987 fatal shooting victims by police in 2017 and only four months into 2018, there have been 329 victims shot and killed by police making 28 more fatal shootings this year than around the same time last year. Despite over 1,300 victims of police brutality, only around 20% of police are…

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    Response Memo

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    policy-shifting report “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety”, Wilson and Kelling (1982) make a case for why they believe proactive policing would help lower crime rates nationally and promote feelings of comfort across communities. They argue that the widespread usage of foot patrolling officers, as opposed to officers patrolling in vehicles, would promote positive civilian interactions and would deter crime, as the physical presence of police officers would dissuade potential…

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    What can police departments do to overcome language barriers between residents and officers and enhance effective communication? Police departments need to know and understand who they are serving. They need to know information about their residents along with the languages they speak (Shah, Rahman and Khashu 2007:10). Officers need to understand the background of their residents such as their culture. This will help the residents feel like they are understood along with officers feeling less on…

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    Protest. We came together out of our distress that the peoples’ conflict to Police Brutality needed to be taken to a higher level coast-to-coast. Stop The Violence Protest objectives is to bring forward a powerful, visible, national protest against police brutality and the deterioration of our generation. Our union aims to expose the state 's brutal program. It’s goal is to bring forward those most directly under the gun of Police Brutality and to also reach into all parts of the society…

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    Unethical Police Behavior

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    This study explores the ethical behavior of police officers, and their attitudes toward varying degrees of transgressions. The author of this study, Louise Westmarland, states that although there has been an increased interest in police ethics, it is unclear if any cultural change has occurred; the lack of knowledge and ability to make a comparison is due to little interest on this topic in the past. This study is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. Participants in the study were…

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    African-American community is demanding more oversight of the police departments. The major issue within these communities is the amount of force the officers are using and the lack of transpartity within the agencies. These issues have created racial…

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    are not necessarily involved in illegal behaviors but are performing activities that are ethically wrong. To understand the ethical issues facing each of the parties involved in the criminal justice system, the first step is to understand the importance of the criminal justice system. If we divide the role players…

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    City police department SCORE unit’s main mission is to reduce violent crimes through patrol and surveillance. The main function of this unit is to supplement patrol operations. They are available twenty-four hours a day to respond to any critical incidents within Kansas City and they are also the tactical component of the police department (SCORE Unit: Kansas City, KS Police Department, 2008). In 2011 several members of the SCORE unit where the target of an FBI sting operation to catch police…

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    Police Legitimacy

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    The British police service has notoriously been subjected to allegations of corruption and miscarriages of justice: allegations that would undoubtedly ruin their reputation as a legitimate service that maintains authority over everyone. Taking this into account, it calls into question why should society obey the police (Tankebe 2012). Ultimately, if legitimacy is a product of how the police treat the public, and how they make their decisions when they are exercising their regulatory authority…

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    experience factors into perception of the police. The researchers used two different approaches to justify their study, Instrumental and Procedural. Instrumental deals with the idea of when police are effective in their work, the community will gain more confidence in the institution (Callanan & Rosenberger, 2011). The procedural method dealed with the hypothesis of positive interactions or encounters with the police, leads to a higher level of trust with police institutions. For the study,…

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