Police procedural

challenges for police to effectively respond to domestic violence. Police do not need to always arrest the batterer. It was found that most battering suspects discontinued their aggressive behavior even if they were not arrested by police (Miller, Hess, Orthmann, 2014, p. 437). This shows mandatory arrest policies for all batterers may be unnecessary and tie up a communities limited resources away from identifying the worst offenders and the victims at the greatest risk. By police simply…

In 1976, an innocent man named Randall Adams was convicted and imprisoned for the murder of officer Robert Wood, after the presumed killer David Harris gave a false statement against him. This case inspired the documentary, “Thin Blue Line” and led to widespread controversy about the investigation. The documentary features several interviews of individuals involved in the case and these interviews highlight many aspects of how human memory works. The interviews reflected different ways that…

5 days after the murders Lizzie burned a dress that supposedly had paint on it. To contradict the possibility of it being blood, Lizzie actually handed the dress she was seen wearing over to the police. The dress she was seen wearing was blue and the one she burned was red. Although back then, the police wouldn’t’ve checked through her closet to check all her dresses therefore this was a possible…

INTRODUCTION: This case involves Suspect Winter being arrested for H&S 11377(a)-Crystal Methamphetamine. Suspect Meretta was cited and released in the field for H&S 11364(a)-Drug Paraphernalia. LOCATION DESCRIPTION: This incident occurred in the parking lot at 700 E. Washington Boulevard (Washington Park). EVIDENCE: • 2-Glass pipes approximately 3 inches in length with a bulb at the end, resembling a crystal methamphetamine pipe, with a white burnt residue inside. One pipe was found in…

On the evening of July 15, 2003, Cole Cannon went to the home of Evan Miller to make a drug deal with Millers mother (Miller v. Alabama, 2012). Evan Miller and his co-defendant Colby Smith followed Cannon back to his own trailer where all three of them smoked marijuana and played drinking games. After a while Cannon passed out and Miller stole Cannon’s wallet. Miller and Smith split $300.00 between them (Miller v. Alabama, 2012). While Miller was putting the wallet back in Cannon’s pocket,…

In Chapter 4, Heyman discusses the narrow view of the virtual wall, advanced technology and surveillance used to protect the border. Urrea (2004) illustrates this point, in Chapter 1 of The Devil’s Highway. He describes the Welton Police Station, the building is deteriorating, but on the inside, sits a “high tech command center." The computer system connected to the GPS satellites operates 24 hours, 7 days a week. The reader is able to gauge a picture of the building, technology and how the…

combat it. The Innocence Project works at exonerating individuals who have been falsely convicted. In 2006, Richard Leo stated that over 170 DNA exonerations of convictions, approximately 20 to 25 percent of which resulted in whole or in part from police- induced false confessions. This shows that about one out of every four exoneration cases is due to a false confession. This is clearly a very prevalent problem facing the criminal justice system…

In case one, State of California vs Turner, Brock Turner, 20-year-old Caucasian male and was a resident in California was charged with rape of three out of five counts in 2015, penal code PC261 (a)(3), PC261 (a)(4), PC220 (a)(1), PC289 (e), PC289 (d) (Official California Legislative Information , 1993). Turner was found guilty in March of three felony charges: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person PC220 (a)(1), penetration of an intoxicated person PC289 (e), and…

variety of corporations; he even worked on the Apollo space shuttle reentry vehicles. Congress cut funding six months later, and Mr. Havens lost his job. Living in an Indian Village, he became a reserve officer for Detroit; then he went to the police academy. The police academy is where he learned about how to conceal and use a weapon because he had training about the proper components; any citizen was allowed transport of a weapon as long as it is unloaded, stored from one abode to another.…

most uncommon mental illnesses are: Capgras Syndrome, Fregoli Syndrome, Cotard Delusion syndrome, Reduplicative Parmnesia Syndrome, Alien Hand Syndrome, i.e. As you can see some of these disorders maybe common to everyday individuals, but how can police officers serve and protect society when they are unaware of some of these mental disorders. Those in law enforcement can only go through so much training to learn how to handle and deescalate confrontation with an individual who…