Law enforcement and society

Law enforcement agencies have significantly changed over the past several decades and they will only continue to change as time goes by. The new technological advances that have occurred over the past several years have allowed agencies to adopt newer and more efficient gadgets. One of these new gadgets that many law enforcement agencies have adopted is the stun gun. According to Michael D. White and Justine Ready from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, there are over 8,000 law enforcement…

1. How is the patrol function affected by the officer’s shift assignment? What would you expect to be the major differences in your city? The duties of an officer and the way they approach those duties depend on their shift assignment. Day shifts are usually more routine shift addressing traffic controls, community events, etc. Swing shift are a little more active since the community is getting out of work and are more out and about. Graveyard shifts are more centered on guarding as individuals…

Society if full of criminals, gangsters, and mob members. There are many laws set in place to protect citizens, but not everybody chooses to follow them. In the TV show, Sons of Anarchy, Jackson Teller, Vice President, is a part of a biker club that gets involved with the drug mafia and many other biker clubs. Every day they risk their lives and the lives of their families by being a part of this club. He does everything in his power to protect his wife, son, and mother. During the show his son…

ATF also has many career opportunities beginning with internships all the way to an ATF special agent. The reader will better understand regulations regarding ammunition for all firearms and explosives. It is important for all citizens to know the laws of the state they reside in if he/she plans to use/own a firearm. Sports enthusiasts and citizens with firearm training…

countries such as Brazil have suspended apps that don’t abide by child exploitation laws. Some more advanced tools allow for the creation of watch list that make up key words, phrases, file types, names, and other identifiers hat can be highlighted and brought to attention if triggered on the device. All these new features can really make a difference as long as they are in the right hands such as law enforcement and forensic technology…

A law enforcement officer is held to a higher standard than those they serve. Not because they are better but because they wear a badge and a uniform that represents honor, integrity, and service to the people they have sworn to protect. They are not only a representation of themselves but also of the police department they are employed by. It is vital that all law enforcement officers demonstrate professionalism, proper ethics, and integrity at all times. To ensure that police departments…

“The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of nearly 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention. Since 1930, the FBI has administered the UCR Program and continued to assess and monitor the nature and type of crime in the Nation.” (Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics…

New technological advances provide new options for police and law enforcement agencies, also it presents new challenges. Nowadays a great percentage of population owns some sort of portable recording device, they can range from a simple camera phone with very poor image and sound capacity, to a very sophisticated drone with high pixel camera, magnifying zoom, and global positioning system, but no matter what it is there is always something new and more advanced every day. Police need to keep up…

Federal law enforcement does the best job possible protecting American citizens. However, they occasionally will infringe on the civil rights of their citizens in their pursuit of this protection. Louis Brandies address this concern in his dissenting opinion in the Olmstead case: "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." In the fight between Apple and federal law enforcement over a locked iPhone, the government is…

policing technology, law enforcement agencies forecast the people and places most likely to contribute to future crimes based on information gathered from local and national sources. Depending on the desired forecast, the agencies analyze the information using various forensic processes. Around the country, law enforcement agencies report substantial performance improvements resulting from predictive police technology implementation. Policing in the 21st Century Law enforcement agencies have…