Police procedural

Within the criminal justice system one of the most renowned weapons used, is a handgun. It has been around as early as 1364, when the first firearm was built. The invention of handguns started off as a tool of protection and tactical defense, but later evolved into many more uses such as hunting, sports and even hobbies. Many have considered it to be one of the greatest inventions but like any other inventions there are flaws that comes with it, like being known as one of the biggest cause of…

order maintenance role, they handle crime by tying to prevent before it happens. This role is a lot about peace, they want to keep peace like the crime-fighting role, but in the end, they don’t want to battle to be rewarded that peace. The police role has more focus on terrorism since 9/11. I don’t want to say that terrorism was not an issue in America before 9/11, but it was for sure not focused on as much as it now. Especially…

Police corruption in law enforcement has been one of the most important issues brought up by citizens in the past and present. Also police corruption and its detrimental consequences can lead to the collapse of public confidence in law enforcement. A police officer is corrupt when he or she is acting in their official capacity and is able to receive a benefit from that action, by either doing something or not doing something. Law enforcement and there extreme…

getting treated equally. The criminal justice system gives consequences to those who break the rules of society. Police, courts, and corrections are all a part of criminal justice system. The criminal justice system components altogether work to apply the laws of the country and make sure everyone follows the laws of the government. To accomplish this goal each individual, police, courts, and corrections, have a specific job they need to work on, they succeed their job by working together.…

According to the innocence project’s official web page, only few studies have revealed that between 2.3% and 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent, equivalent to 20,000 innocent people; a number that continues to grow with the progression of time (How Many Innocent People). The fact of the matter here is that innocent individuals are paying time that are not meant for them to serve. Time which cannot be refunded, nor compensated for. Another perspective is that, often time prison…

Should marijuana be legalized? This is a debate that has persisted for some time now. Some people argue that legalizing marijuana would allow the government to be able to regulate its production and distribution thus reduce the adversity of its negative effects. Besides proponents of this school of thought also believe that legalizing the drug would help save the tax payers money that is often spent to try to curb the use of the drug. Instead the government would earn revenue from marijuana…

purchase the supplies. At this time SWAT teams were established to help with race tensions and riots. Police started to be viewed as an aggressive and cruel social institution. President Ronald Regan increased the amount of militarized SWAT teams to help combat the war against drugs (Schultz, 2014). This is where the criticism of SWAT began with the ACLU. It was believed that seeing police decked out in riot gear, not being able to see their faces, and carrying large guns, caused tensions…

"Homeland Security Hasn 't Made Us Safer" Anne Applebaum exposes several incriminating facts about the DHS and the TSA. Airport security agents "fail to spot the majority of fake 'bombs '" (Applebaum 303) and the DHS gives enormous amounts of money to police forces nationwide, some of it unnecessary. "$67,000 worth of surveillance equipment purchased by Marin Country, California [was discovered] in its original packaging"…

meet a young boy named Roberto Martinez, who two years ago had an operation for the installation of a pacemaker. Tragically Roberto dies and the police are called in for investigation. In the course of the investigation, police soon realize his death was not an accident, but a case of medical negligence. With the continuation of the investigation, police learn that the pacemaker was previously used and reported stolen by the Manhattan Medical. The investigation lead to the discovery of…

The aim of the study was to determine the accuracy of the predictions of offender profiles, which allows law enforcement and investigators to theoretically prioritize certain subjects. Profiling is used to find a particular subject which committed the particular crime. The profile must be accurate meaning the construct of the profile must allow for a certain individual to be identified. The construct has been criticized as being too general with its statements and the profile being overall to…