Police state

persons’ view that he or she is superior to another because of racial differences” (Hanser and Gomila 2015). Racism has going on since before the United States was founded. Police officers are supposed to be treating every person who they deal with on an everyday equally, no matter what the color of their skin is or where they came from. Police officers have to follow a strict code of conduct, which includes ethics and morals. Ethics can be described as doing something that you know can get you…

In every modern civilization, the role of police has a significant importance. Policing has undergone an evolutionary process to develop to the well-established agencies that are existent today (Purpura, 1997). Police are tasked with maintaining public safety, enforcing laws, apprehending offenders and testifying in courts (Wilson, 2012; Purpura, 1997). Though the functions of police are the same across the board, the laws that govern how they administer themselves and enforce the law are quite…

of chief of police has a trained organization for law enforcement global. Since 1893 IACP advocated for law enforcement, managing research, and providing other proactive services for their members across the world. International Association of Chiefs of Police administrators seeks to improve the practice of all departments in police work. Direct police cooperation and exchange of information and experiences among all departments. They also consider loyalty has the strength when police…

Introduction The United States established its first centralized Police force in 1838, following a century of police “watches” that consisted merely on a volunteer workforce. The city of Boston Massachusetts became the first State to modernize policing, and was shortly followed by New York City in 1845, and Albany, and Chicago in 1851. By the 1880s all major U.S. cities had municipal police forces in place (Potter, 2013). Compared to the “town watch” the new police Force consisted of four…

Todd Beer states that 50.9% of Caucasian citizens have been killed by law enforcement, and 26.5% of African Americans have been also killed by law enforcement, in the year of 2015-2016 in America. Fellow Americans, many of us think about the protests around America with the subject of “Black Lives Matter”, citizens started these protests for the fact of showing that police violence needed to stop against unarmed African Americans. With the protest and the investigations on the violence between…

The Expansion of Law Enforcement American policing systems today seem organized and strict to the point where many people have criticized the police for excessive militarization. The arsenals found in some police departments are often excessive, expensive, and unneeded. Those police forces are akin to the standing armies that our founding fathers feared. In England, it was common practice for criminals to be pardoned in exchange for military service. Often, these criminals were quartered in…

which is written by Robert Staples, mentions that the court officials in Philadelphia gave permission for the police stopping any Negro who wander and walk on the street in 1963. (31) This discriminatory practice still exists until now in the United States. Racial profiling is a longstanding problem in our country. This discriminatory practice usually occurs on African-American by the police officers…

Police Brutality: When is Deadly Force Justified? On February 4th, 1999 at 12:44 AM an unarmed black man, Amadou Diallo, found himself in a storm of bullets coming from four white New York City police officers. In total, forty-one shots were fired and twenty-one of those found their mark, as the twenty-two year old stood on the balcony of his apartment building. The four police officers never wore uniforms and drove through neighborhoods in unmarked cars looking for occurring crimes or people…

Annotated Bibliography Walker, Samuel. “Police Accountability and the Central Problem in American Criminal Justice.” Holding Police Accountable. Ed. Candace McCoy. New York: Urban Institute Press, 2010. Print. The source by Walker offers a comprehensive review of literature of the history of political reformation and public criticism related to police discretion in the United States since the 1960s. It is important noting that Walker, in the source, relies a lot on the research work of Fyfe, and…

information about those three agencies police, corrections, and the court. Finally I will let you know more or less what of these agencies I have more interest on and could be the one I will join soon. I am going to enter in the field of the criminal justice and in this paragraph I am about to explain some details of what consist criminal justice. Like the family, schools, organized religions, or the law, criminal justice…