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the police use a person’s race as an important factor in their decisions to stop and question people. While this mostly happens with traffic stops, it can happen in other contexts as well. In a study done in the early 2000s, out of 1,087 police chiefs, they found that 60% of them believe that policing that was racially biased was not a problem in their jurisdiction and an additional to this, there was 29% that said it was only a minor problem (Fridell et all., 2001). One problem that police have…

Burlington, NC back in 1980, a young college student named Jenifer was raped. While being raped in her home she talked about how she studied the rapists to try and remember him for if she were to survive. She was able to escape and immediately went to the police. They showed her pictures of people she picked out a guy named Ron after studying all of the photos for a while. She then picked out the same guy in a line of suspects as well. Ron was convicted of rape. 11 years later was found to be…

class man who was targeted by the police. It was after 7:30 pm on October 21, 2016, when two uniformed police officers banged on Harry’s front door. (Tr. 18:23-24.) Harry answered the door and discovered that he was being accused of kidnapping a former student, Lyndsay Elliot. (Tr. 18:32-33.) Shocked by the accusation, Harry informed the police officers of his innocence and offered an alibi. (Tr. 18:33-34.) The police intimidated Harry into going to the police station to prove his…

crimes they did not commit. At the core of The Innocents is the idea that wrongful convictions are the result of the victims or eyewitnesses’ erroneous identification of perpetrators (“The Innocents”). Police officers call on the victims or eyewitnesses to identify the perpetrator from the lineup or a series of photographs. One of the main problems with this method is that the victims or eyewitnesses’ memory is vulnerable to change. Existing research studies show that victims or eyewitnesses’…

discretion the officer has to arrest. Ronald Cotton was charged with first-degree burglary, rape, and sexual offense. He was sentenced to prison for life plus fifty years. Rape is a serious offense, where a police officer will not hesitate to arrest…

industrialization spurred the development of municipal police departments. Philadelphia organized an independent, 24-hour police force in the 1830s, and New York created day and nighttime forces in the 1840s. Meanwhile, the old sheriff system followed the national expansion west, and still exists in many counties today. Today, sheriff and police departments are virtually identical in function. The main difference is that sheriffs are elected while police chiefs are appointed by local…

Implications from wrongful convictions cause greater harm among the society in which the offense happened. Law enforcement and criminal justice agencies suffer burdens of errors with correcting errors that were caused toward the legal processes. Wrongful convictions according to Mark Handler are the most serious of all miscarriages of justice. (p. 30) Due to the fact that individuals should not be put through the complications of being incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. Such an action…

This case was about Emanuel Balestrero. He was a musician who loved to play the string bass. Balestrero would play in many dance bands on Broadway. With his outstanding work ethic Balestrero was not only a religious man, he was also into horse betting, and maintaining his finances. Emanuel had good credit and in times of struggle he would go to the distance to make sure his family was secure. Unfortunately for Emanuel he would later find himself involved in a series of hold ups in his…

Eyewitness testimony is being able to choose the suspect out of a lineup or an array of photos. Sometimes the witnesses' testimony is not always accurate. When a witness falsely testifies they can send an innocent person to prison. An example of a case where the eyewitness testimony was incorrect was in the murder of 78-year-old Jack Sasson. The man who was convicted of the murder of Mr. Sasson was 18-year-old Kash Register. On April 6, 1979 in the middle of the afternoon, a 78-year-old…

Based on this study, these results do not support the role of investigative experience as the key to effective profiling but also, the trends among the police groups seem to be opposite of what would be expected. This study finds little evidence to support the hypothesis that investigative experience is the essential skill for effective psychological profiling. This study is good because it provides research…