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as well, that blacks killed by police officers are more than likely white police officers. This is a false accusation as black and hispanic ethnic groups are more likely to shoot blacks than whites, this is according to the Justice department about the Philadelphia police department. This study was further conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Greg Ridgeway who majors in criminology and the final conclusion to the stats were that a black police officer were 3.3 times more likely to…

Seizures that are done unconstitutionally don’t normally occur, but I did recently read an article relating to your answer. Sadly, sometimes police may seize someone’s private property, even if they did not commit any crimes. According to the webpage ACLU (2013), 130 CAID patrons were innocent, but were detained by the police at an Art Institute in Detroit which resulted in confiscation and the impoundment more than thirty cars and citations. However, there were no drugs or any weapons found.…

The Good Samaritan Hospital of North Carolina was built in 1891. It was nicknamed “Good Sam” by the staff and patients. The money to build it came from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and their members. It was a private hospital built just to treat black in the Charlotte community. When first built it could only accommodate 20 patients. It gradually grew over the years: • In 1925, it expanded and doubles the size of occupancy • In 1937, a wing was added and it became a one hundred bed hospital •…

Officers all over the United States unknowingly take into consideration their own implicit biases when determining who to stop and how aggressively to act, and due to a lack of proper training, they tend to make mistakes that have recently resulted in tragedies. Police officers, just like normal individuals, automatically create associations between certain groups of people and certain behaviors (this phenomenon is most commonly referred to as stereotyping). However, training officers with real…

From my grandmother’s influence to my participation in various research programs to my commitment to community service, I have formed my research interests through deep introspection into what I feel is the most important to me. I am interested in the interaction between oppressed minority groups and majority groups, specifically looking at gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity. The interaction I am most interested in is how individuals in the majority of each of these groups form…

Police officers need to know how to work in a decision-making process whether and whom to arrest or if both parties need to be arrested. The first thing police officers should do in a domestic violence case, is to understand the significance of the offense. Sometimes police officers have to do a dual arrest, due to victims are the ones who uses a physical aggression supposedly as a self-defense. Is up to the police officers to make a discretionary decision on a domestic violence case. The video…

The three most important codes of ethics for a law enforcement officer is; In their behavior toward members of the public, officers will provide service when possible, require compliance with the law, respond in a manner that inspires confidence and trust, and will be neither overbearing nor subservient. I feel this is extremely important because the response time for rural areas is longer compared to suburban areas and the treatment for the individuals varies in favor of the suburban citizens.…

what the role of a police officer in society varies depending on who is doing the perceiving and under what circumstances judgement is made. Not necessarily how the criminal justice system actually works, but rather how people think that it works, whether accurate or not. Expectations of a rookie cop making a difference, being helpful and full of energy are sometimes stereotyped as being cocky by the public, while being described ignorant and naïve by senior officers. “Citizens’ experiences…

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed, black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown’s killing, and the grand jury’s subsequent refusal to indict the officer responsible for his death, sparked national outrage and demonstrations across the country. Pundits and advocates alike saw the incident as evidence of a pervasive problem of excessive use of force by police against black males. In the investigative report that followed the killing, the U.S…

In the United State, there has always been wars fight for equality, known as the civil rights movement. For African Americans, it started in December 1, 1955, the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person. Now, the main movement as of today is Black Lives Matter organization, Trayvon Martin got killed by a white person. Me as a person, I am a solution to this situation occurring with the civil rights movement. The current conditions in my environment is marches against fight…