Police Tactical Unit

after it was passed, finding that it was impossible to implement and effectively maintain”. The amount of time and effort it would take to police and regulate these ammunition laws would take away from the smaller counties and areas in California. This would in turn make it easier for criminals to commit more crimes with the knowledge that these sheriffs and police officers are busy busting a man for giving his neighbor a box of shotgun shells. This money should be used to better train and hire…

Most, particularly attorneys do not like to admit a weakness nor do they like to give direct answers. Specifically, the strength of our police legal office is the fact our PLA is not generally involved personnel matters so officers tend to pay attention to him and do not carry a personal grudge against him. This allows him to get the most out of his presentations and conversations with officers…

General Information “The monster and the police. Dexter to Hobbes” by Mark Neocleous, published in Issue 185 of radical philosophy. The purpose of the article is to identify and respond to the similarities of Hobbes’ Leviathan (published 1651) and the current state of police power in bourgeois modernity. In addition to this goal, it examines the idea that the monstrous “Leviathan” enacted by our modern policing system shares many attributes (and thusly some of the monstrous attributes of) the…

When it comes to community policing there has been a shift in the basic orientation of the everyday police activity. This shift has changed from fighting crime through arrests to fighting crime needs a broader set of interventions. Community policing is defined by Weisel and Eck in 1994 as “a diverse set of practices united by the general idea that the police and the public need to become better partners in order to control crime, disorder, and a host of other problems.” There is no single…

Eradicating crime in it’s entirely is nearly impossible. With that being said, there is potential to decrease crime and victimization within the communities. Ways to reduce the crime and victimization would include better policing and other prevention strategies. In my personal opinion, I believe that the get-tough on crime policy is the best policy to decrease crime, which in return will decrease victimization. For example this kind of policy against crime would be the three strikes law. With…

Christopherson and Brad Barber details many individuals and their personal accounts regarding negative experiences with police officers. Throughout the documentary, person after person describes a time when they or someone they love fell victim to extreme police tactics. The film focuses on the story of Dub Lawrence, a former Utah sheriff, and the tragic death of his son in law at the hands of a police officer (Peace Officer). As evidenced in the documentary Peace Officer, modern policing…

has occurred other than police had to have played an important role because nothing else did (Zimring 2012). New police strategies and techniques had to have influenced the crime drop. Among these new strategies and techniques is community policing. Community policing is the practice of placing police officers in particular areas so that they become familiar with the local inhabitants, which then makes…

lighted poles come with a phone that will immediately connect the caller to campus police with a press of a button in a situation of emergency. To some universities, they find the Blue-Light phone to be outdated and useless to students because everyone in this day and age has a smart phone. Many including Florida State University find them to be extremely useful. In 2012 the Blue-Light pole helped Florida State campus police catch a suspected rapist who attacked a student. So why else do some…

The drug use extent is rather hard to measure considering you cannot measure private behavior. Like no other crimes the offender and the victim are the same. Data relies on self-reports of using drugs on the population or on information from known offenders. Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a well-known survey of drug use. This survey surveys high school students, college students, and young adults. The important information is the type and level of drug use. The most used drug is alcohol overall…

The study by Keverline, S. A. (2003), gives insight on how gender plays a role in criminal justice. Typically, criminal justice is a predominately white male field. Yet, during the recent years criminal justice has expanded its professionalism to a variety of backgrounds including women. What makes this study distinguishable from the rest is that it primarily focuses on a single group. It would have been great to see this study or any other study also focus on other minority groups as well.…