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Your Son Is Deceased Your Son Is Deceased By Rachel Aviv is an article regarding an occasion which a Sargent from the Albuquerque Police Department used lethal force on a response to an arrest warrant at the alleged offenders residence. This article brings to light ethical issues concerning how Albuquerque Police Department’s officers respond and reacted to fatal situations. The conflicting issues presented in this article have many residents of Albuquerque concerned with the policies…

Recently there has been a lot of controversy regarding whether policemen should be required to wear body cameras or not. Body cameras are a video system worn by policemen to record their interactions with the public or gather video evidence from a crime scene. The idea of policemen wearing body cameras has been taken into consideration because of the numerous incidences between the community and police resulting in either police brutality or the death of a civilian. One popular case is that of…

Being a police officer in today’s society comes with a heavy price to pay. The external pressures police face prevent them from being able to do their job safely and effectively. There is no other job that faces such criticism and sometimes deadly consequences more than being a police officer. Every which way they turn there are social, political, and economic pressures that force them to adjust their way of working. Fear of losing their job or life prohibits them from adequately and safely…

When I started in law enforcement the only technology we had were the police radios, which had two or three channels, typewriters and a few of the lucky officers bought their own expensive word processors. Today the radios have banks of 50 channels or more, there are in-car computers, automated finger printers, body cameras, personal cell phones that are as robust as computers, eTickets that printout in an officers car to surveillance cameras that can turn complete darkness visible. In the…

The structure of American police departments, and those in many other countries are easy to understand. The departments, like the ones here in this country, are organized in a para-military manner, following the principles of Sir Robert Peel (Bohm, 2010). As Peel stated, policemen should be able to command their tempers, and they should be of good moral character. That is the easy part, but as we know, police departments are made up of officers from many different backgrounds and cultures. How…

For many years the NYPD has been using stop and frisk as a strategy for combating illegal acts. Police officers stop suspects and search with their hands through the person 's outer clothing to check whether the individual is carrying a weapon or other forms of contraband. The search is done to most suspected individuals (Dale, 2011). Beginning in the 1970s, in an attempt to reducing crime, New York City started urging its officers to stop individuals they viewed suspicious, to question…

The Local Structure and Organization of the Police Force Introduction Communities have a complex police structure, because there are different levels of policing agencies. Even though there are different levels of policing agencies, the manner in which they arrange them are all the same, because they have the same goal. The police organizations are hierarchical and they are outlined with separate departments, units, and structure (Cascio, 2010). The components work jointly to form a completely…

I am probably complicating an easy question, but I’ll try to answer. I’m not convinced there should be any particular order of importance. I would, however, suggest that all three in fact compliment each other and no one element has a corner market of success over another. Although formal education has long been used as setting the benchmark towards a foundation in a variety of professional disciplines, I 'm not convinced it serves as the gold standard for success. In reading the biographies…

On August 9, 2014 an unarmed man was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO. There are many conflicting witness accounts as to what happened that night which could have answered if the officer involved in the shooting was wearing a body camera. This incident as well as many others has led to a push by citizens, civil rights groups, as well as President Obama for police officers all over the United States to begin wearing body cameras. Studies have shown that there are less…

President Obama’s Task Force Plan differs from the Anti-corruption Task Force plans in circumstances and purpose, but some of its strategies would greatly benefit Hanahan by adding more structure to the Department and in turn preventing Police Corruption like Sheriff Dewitt’s DUI and hit and run, which is a major goal for the implementation of a plan (Knapp). This situation that initiated the development of President Obama’s Task Force Plan is different from Sheriff Dewitt’s in several ways, but…