Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

chronicle of policing in our country, the approach to crime control has been a difficult process to carry out. Over the years, law enforcement, either through departmental policies or community demands, had the responsibility to administer personnel in the pursuit of meeting the community’s needs and problem-solving with the resources that were made available to them. The law enforcement community has gone through many different theories of crime control as each political system has come into…

they are a necessary part of life. First and foremost is the oath of office that officers take. In the article by Timothy Roufa in Ethics in Law Enforcement and Policing, maintain that “[w]hen officers fail to do what is right, and especially when they do what is clearly and blatantly wrong, they erode the public trust just a little more and further degrade law enforcement's ability to work within the community and carry out its mission” (Roufa). The essence of the argument is that ethics are…

A group of masters candidates from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy compiled this report for their client, the SAFE Center, an anti-trafficking organization located in College Park, Maryland. The SAFE Center provides direct services to trafficking survivors (regarding legal, medical, mental health, and economic empowerment), engages in research to improve those services, and advocates justice for survivors. This report contains an in-depth explanation of trauma,…

Police brutality is a prominent controversial topic. It has been seen all over the newspaper, television, and the internet. Law enforcement use unnecessary force towards civilians' that is over and above the necessary requirement to handle a situation. On the streets of Fullerton, California a man with a mental illness named Kelly Thomas was unfortunately a victim of police brutality that resulted in his death. The confrontation was captured on a surveillance video camera that went viral once…

not having to call the police to force that person out the mall. Sometimes that isn’t the case as mall cops have the right to arrest people and even carry an armed weapon which is legal in some states. People don’t think highly of mall cops as law enforcement but with the right to arrest and carry a weapon you can beg to differ. Mall cops should be better understood for these reasons listed above for they are misunderstood…

I have been looking into getting into criminology here at UNI for my major. I always thought it would be a cool fun job to be a police officer. If I did become a police officer I would want to do it at a bigger city. This is why I choose to do my job shadow at the Waterloo Police Department. Waterloo is the biggest city with the most crime, that is closest to cedar falls. I want a job that you will always live on the end and that will be different from day to day. So, I called down the the…

22nd Day and 4th Moon, 17YRA Esteemed Lord, Understanding of the Inquisition: The Inquisition is an office within the Chancery who use get to the bottom of possible threats and or crimes of the highest level. They work with the Winter Watch when needed but the two are completely separate offices. The Inquisition too investigates sensitive or complicated crimes that must be approached subtly. Therefore members are expected to have absolute loyalty and trust to their job. This is not always…

of police. A less formal system of social control worked well for hundreds of years, particularly in more rural and sparsely populated regions, however the mass genesis to cities for work in the early 19th century made it a lot harder to enforce the law. (Mason, 2004). Initially, the public feared that a police force would act as part of the military. As result, there was reluctance to agree to them. In order to overcome this opposition, Peel created the primary principles of policing, which…

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…

looking at the differences in multicultural opinions before and after participation in one of the approved courses. I compared participants based on gender and sexuality in that I compared minority groups (homosexual, bisexual, female, or other) against the those in the majority (heterosexual, male). As well I aimed to determine if those with greater importance and centrality of identity based on their gender or sexuality were more apt to change after participating in a multicultural education…