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Punishing the guilty and maintaining the decorum of the society has been the rightful duty of our judicial system. Conjunctly, law enforcing agencies and police department make sure that street and domiciles in our community remain hale and hearty, and the inhabitants prevail. However, with the growing technology and social media, this function of policing and adjudication has been morphed, and assumed by our society to a certain extent. Navneet Alang, in his article “Big Brother...Be Tamed”…

are racist. Racism is an unpleasant fact, along with hate crimes. I could site several references to render this point, but I would like to reference a recent case, which is the Michael Brown vs. Dean Wilson. Do you believe that Wilson, the white police officer killed Michael Brown because he was black? The media as in the community along with the nation felt that this was based on race. Do you think that Michael would still be alive if he were white? I will attempt to show how the media can…

Northern Territory’s Police Administration Amendment Act 2014 has sparked controversy among members of public and a variety of organizations including Amnesty International and North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency. It amends the Police Administration Act by giving Northern Territory police new powers to detain someone for four hours (or longer if they are intoxicated) if they reasonably believe the person has committed, or is about to commit, an ‘infringement notice offence’ . The new…

Why Police Should Wear Body Mounted Cameras Introduction Thomas Jefferson once said, “Whenever you do a thing, act as if the world were watching” (Mims). Recently, there has been a heated debate on the controversial topic of whether or not law enforcement agencies should be required to wear body mounted cameras. The problem that continuously emanates is human error. For example, millions of protests have been elicited by the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (Stanley). This…

College students that follow Criminology as a career, learn about different types of crime and how public responds to crime. This field focuses more in the psychology and ideology of a criminal (Criminology 2010). Criminology always is trying to solve the question, why crime occurred and why people commit them? This is why Criminology prepares a student to understand criminal’s behavior. Criminologists are mainly concerned with identifying the suspected cause of crime. Even though some…

Most times private security officers are only required to have a one state background check, drug test, and obtain a FOID card. The training that a public police officer must obtain is much more extensive. The typical training and screening usually consists of an extensive background check, psychological exam, physical fitness test, and the applicants must also have a minimum level of college credits. As time has went on private security companies are realizing that the need for better…

The way police serve their communities have been organized around different philosophies which are not always perfect but have had a lot of success. Traditional, problem-oriented, community oriented, and order maintenance policing models of policing are very different but ultimately have one goal, a way to solve problems in the community. Crime has evolved over the years and so must policing so that there is order. Some of these methods like traditional policing is still widely used and is the…

be practiced in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. When it was practiced though it significantly decreased certain crimes such as crimes related to drug sales and had overall positive outcomes. Community policing also improved the relations between the police and the rest of the community and reduced the perception of disadvantagement in the communities it was practiced in (Reisig & Parks, 2004). Another method that recently has started to be implemented is the use of body cameras by law…

Racial profiling occurs when police officers have a suspicion of crime based on ethnicity, race, religion or national origin (NJI, 2013). Obviously, arrests made upon criminal suspicions based on the physical appearance of an individual raise several ethical concerns as this is not…

United States has dropped dramatically. This drop in crime could be related to the adjustment in police tactics, adoption of community policing techniques, and to the combination of innovative police strategies. Policing changed from an incident based response to a problem-oriented strategy. Prior to the 1990’s police had the discretion to handle a situation with their own judgment to use force. Police were looked upon at the “enemy” and not the savior. In 1972 and 1973 there was an…