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supervisors identify officers at greater risk of engaging in misconduct” (p. 16). Police organizations must develop innovative strategies in order to be effective and efficient when faced with “technological advances, globalization of crime and increased scrutiny” (Chrismas, 2013, p. 2). Innovation could improve police and citizen relationships, and it could also help police supervisors counsel their subordinates regarding police misconducts such as excessive force. Law enforcement executives…

Regulatory Law on American Criminal Justice- Are there too many laws? by Vincent Del Castillo provides an overview of the results of having regulatory laws. While the book talks about a variety of topics, we will mainly focus on illegal drugs, guns, the police, and also the societal consequences. We must understand that regulatory laws are created to make sure that people are not violating the laws. If someone is violating the law, they should get punished. But it must be in the officer’s…

Issues Relating to Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement Law enforcement officers often use the term profiling, which refers to a practice of describing individual behavior (positive or negative) and/or certain personal characteristics. At some point in time, the term profiling has evolved from its original specific intent and shifted from an individual’s actions to the individual’s race, ethnicity or national origin of an individual. Many individuals have seen law enforcement officers from…

The image of police officers has gone from “good cop, bad cop” to “bad cop, bad cop.” Due to the actions of some officers, the media’s coverage of said actions, and the coverage of what appears to be the militarization of police, people are quickly attaching negative connotations to the term “police officer.” For example, The Daily Targum, a newspaper run by Rutgers University students comments on the issue of police brutality by saying, “When cops are getting hired based on connections…

The role of balancing individual and collective rights is one role that, like many others, shifts over time. By taking on the role of balancing individual and collective rights, police maintain a delicate balance between crime control and due process (Walker & Katz, 2002). If too much discretion is allowed, police may gravitate toward crime control and be faced with a moral dilemma, in which there are two decisions presented to an officer, each with undesirable consequences. This phenomenon is…

The Start to a Much Needed Change: Body Worn Cameras In recent months, police brutality has been a prominent focus on the media, with cases such as the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner this July. Michael Brown was only eighteen years old when police officer, Darren Wilson, shot him, resulting in a controversial divide in the nation about which side to believe: the eyewitnesses from the community or officer…

Introduction Law enforcement is an aspect of every society that started many centuries ago since it was a requirement for a society to have people and agencies that will ensure that people obey the laws. This was also the case in the United States of America whereby law enforcement in the early history of the United States was simply developed using the Common Law System that was used in the Ancient England. This was a system that primarily relied on its citizens to work as volunteers as well…

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…

After spending some time delving into the contents on the website of the Mobile Police Department, a few things became apparent to me. Mobile Police Department’s website meets its intended purpose of informing the public about threats to its safety in an easily understood way. While this is a simple purpose for thee website is community engagement, there seems to be a lack of content. Far too much of the content on this website focus on the department’s organizational structure, it could…

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…