Gotham City Police Department

The criminal justice system is compromise of three major elements police, courts, and corrections that all unite to achieve a unified goal. Courts are where the major decisions are made, judges can sentence offenders, accept or reject pleas, or oversee trails. They are the ones that make the impact on criminals has far of getting punish for their crimes. After that we have the department of correction whose is responsible of maintaining order within prison walls and ensuring…

Police officers in gun searches face disbelief in courts simply because judges do not believe them or their stories. This is an important issue because this has to do with both our court system and our law enforcement officers, which should be working together to enforce laws and provide justice to individuals that were wronged. For a judge to have this type of problem of disbelief in a court room from a police officer that is truly an ethical issue that should be fixed. I believe that police…

Corruption is a dire issue facing the US today. The most prominent corruption of them all would be the Police Officers who think they’re above the law and who like to kill innocent people in their spare time. Those corrupt cops is what feeds the media’s fire and quenches their thirst with blood that is on the officer's hands. Of course there’s other types of corruption in the police force today such as law breaking, fraud, taking things that are not theirs and unnecessary violence. The one that…

This article is on the research of police integrity (The Klockars Scale) and police corruption by Carl Klockars. This reminds me of a meeting I had with an officer a day ago where she said “police integrity is number one, it’s doing the right thing even when no one is around to see.” But with police corruption going on which is any misconduct whether it be with drugs, money, sexual, etc. any misuse of power is corruption. Now in the Klockars Scale research there were several researchers…

You may know Josh and Tyler as the 2 person band, Twenty One Pilots. Tyler and Josh are a group of cops that only work on, "special cases". The one were working on now is pretty violent. As we approach the scene there are less and less people, and police keeping people passing by away from the blood covered corps that lay there cold on the cement ground. "What do we have today?" Josh asked ask as we approach. Another cop spoke up, it was Andy Biersack a good friend of mine.…

There has been many incidents involving police using excessive force. According to Nick Wing, the senior editor for Huffington Post,states, more than half of the incidents using superfluous force had dropped over the year when using body cameras (1). Implementing body cameras can change how the world is today. Police officers should be required to wear body cameras because it will create equal opportunities for everyone, create a safer environment, and police officers cannot show racial bias…

The city of Chicago has faced controversy for quite for time. Many claim the city has become so corrupt, that the trail leads all the way up to the city’s mayor, Rahm Emmanuel. Corruption is one of the major problems Chicago faces and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is the face of the corruption that plagues the city. In an article written by Judith Valente, Can Chicago offer a path away from gun violence? She states “More than 2,800 people were shot in Chicago last year, and by December 2015 there had been…

facing police departments throughout the nation is the lack of trust between officers and the community. Some people are afraid to call police for help, out of fear for their own safety. To combat the issue, several police departments have adopted new strategies for handling the matter. In community policing, there are critical steps involved. Organizational transformation, community partnerships and problem solving are key to successful community policing. The Camden County Police Department,…

Executive Summary Reducing Police Related Injury/Death By: Aaron Miller, Enrique Reboyras & Evan McKernan Introduction: Today, the tension between the public and law enforcement has caused controversy and the outbreak of riots. The cause of this tension stems from many sources. Law enforcement officers must use the training and tools given to them to apprehend a suspect or suppress a threat. The quality of training and the diversity of tools provided to an officer may be the difference…

Justice is a concept that is hard to define. It is often defined by laws that society must follow, and everyone believes that it they are broken that person is a criminal. That is not always the case though. Sometimes if a law is unjust the only option is to break it to achieve true justice. That is the only way that change can happen. In Sophocles’s Antigone the main character breaks the law because it is unjust. Through her actions Antigone shows that if a law is unjust then breaking it is…