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not get as far as he had hoped. He was stopped by off-duty police officer Kenneth Hammond of the Ogden City Police Department, who was at Trolley Square having an early Valentine’s Day dinner with his pregnant wife. When they heard the shots, she called 911 and he drew his weapon and confronted Talovic. Hammond was joined by Sgt. Andrew Oblad of the Salt Lake City Police Department. They pinned down Talovic, until a Salt Lake City Police Department SWAT team killed him. Hammond, a man with a…

Increasing Police Legitimacy. Since the deployment of the first police officers in the country, police have been faced with challenges to their legitimacy as an institution with the authority to control the freedoms of others. It has improved over time but suffered setbacks due to high profile incidents of police misconduct such as the Rodney King incident in Los Angeles. A divide exists in the public with their view of police. Often racial and ethnic differences feed the divide with…

to own property, and right to life. In this case, if a person is charged due to crime, the justice system ought to protect his or her rights under the model. On its part, the crime control model bases its law enforcement on absolute reliability of police in finding facts and treating the suspects as if guilty already (Cole, Smith, & DeJong, 2015). Thus, crime control model seems less preservative of human rights and is usually under the idea of putting aside individual rights for maintenance of…

class people. What we saw was the development of lower income and poverty driven people heading to the inner city where crime rate would increase with drugs, thieves and any inner city crimes that occur. And with this migration to the inner city we police have more of a central focus of these low-income areas, which would lead to higher crime rates to the African American culture. With high crime rate in inner cities we saw the 200 billion budgets be utilized by law enforcement using 60% of the…

of Florida student was tased at a forum with Senator John Kerry (Washington Post, 2011). While there the student gave his camera to a women sitting next of him to video tape his questions, but after asking many hitting question they cut his mic and police was called in. There was multiple officers that was trying to obtain him. After he was face down on the ground and yelling “Don’t tase me bro” shortly after an officer tased him (Wasington Post, 2011). Looking at this story the officers did…

Eventually, the criminals were figured out and caught. Due to security cameras in the bank their crime was captured on film. Douglas O. Linder explains how they were caught by the security camera in Patty Hearst Trial (1976). The criminals were caught by a security camera in the bank. After figuring out who was part of the crime some were caught specifically Patricia Heart a few months after the crime. (Linder, Patty Hearst Trial 1976) John Greenya described how Patricia was captured after…

What Is A Bail Bond? No matter if you are guilty or innocent; if you are charged with a crime, you feel intimidated of going behind bars and bearing the sentence. Anyhow, a judge often releases legally innocent people on the condition of getting from you some kind of guarantee of your return for a hearing. This guarantee taken in the form of security is dubbed a Bail Bond. A bail bond Houston majorly is provided to ensure that the accused would appear in the trial or hearing. The bail bond is…

In her essay Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the issue of the criminalization of poverty in the US. The author argues that as the poverty levels rise the criminalization of poverty intensifies. She focuses her attention on how federal, state, and municipal forces instead of coming up with the solutions for ever increasing levels of poverty in the US and implementing these solutions rather aggravate the existing situation through their actions and new legislations. Moreover, when concerned…

spotted him. This means that either people never did see him, or, more likely, he didn’t stand out in the crowd. The final characteristic a person would need to have to pull off murders like these is intelligence. To avoid getting apprehended by the police before he wished to, John Doe scraped off skin on his fingers so that he wouldn’t leave any of his own prints at the crime scenes. This act indicates a high level of intelligence. To complete these…

work. Then on the other side of the street he saw a young lady being mugged by someone who had a mask on. He had walked up to her casually and then pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot if she didn’t give him money. Will knows that calling the police won’t get the robber in time to save all of the woman’s valuable things in her purse. He wants to help but he really doesn’t know if he will shoot him if he tries to help the woman. When he works up the courage to go get him he starts to run…