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Chief Walton showed no interest in making sure officers in his department were properly trained on new or old policies and procedures. Focused policies need to be developed and implemented. While policing in the United States, and worldwide, involves many variables and diverse situations, the enormous potential for problem incidents resulting from police-public interaction can be greatly minimized with the right policy. In fact, most police officers welcome policies targeting specific incidents…

[Throughout the chronicle of policing in our country, the approach to crime control has been a difficult process to carry out. Over the years, law enforcement, either through departmental policies or community demands, had the responsibility to administer personnel in the pursuit of meeting the community’s needs and problem-solving with the resources that were made available to them. The law enforcement community has gone through many different theories of crime control as each political system…

Ethical standards in police work are stressed upon new officers from the first day on the job. Police departments have several ways to encourage ethics among their recruits because they are a necessary part of life. First and foremost is the oath of office that officers take. In the article by Timothy Roufa in Ethics in Law Enforcement and Policing, maintain that “[w]hen officers fail to do what is right, and especially when they do what is clearly and blatantly wrong, they erode the public…

There definitely have been some hot button issues as of late. The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri has become well known as the “Ferguson Effect” and sparked protests all over the United States, which turned into riots causing much damage to those cities and injury to many people. This type of behavior has been known as breaches of the peace dating back to English law (Hall, 2014). Breaches of the peace are when a breakdown in social order occurs or peoples right to live…

Caring for others or parental figures are the essential job for law enforcement and correctional officers. Police officers are confronted with circumstance consistently that obliged them to assume responsibility for individuals who are being taken advantages of. For years women were marked as the parental figure more so than men. From the early 19 century, when women stayed home and care for the children while the men would go out and work. The men were more so the bread winner. However, the…

their committed crimes. It will also show the human side of policing that the cops see every day. Weather it be in a routine traffic stop, riding in the police car, or in a high end arrest. These cameras can show people who want to be a police officer what it is really like to be on the force before they commit to the job. These cameras could also be used in training techniques to help prepare these trainees what they can and will see in the normal day on the job. So altogether these cameras…

he felt the car had been stolen due to the fact of the high crime rate in the community. When he (the cop) left his vehicle to order the victim to freeze, the victim turned slowly around and he then reached into his pocket. Seeing this unfold the officer did what he had been taught to do, and shot down the victim, which is something most of us would do as he saw a threat and for his own safety he did what he had to do and we definitely agree with his decision. Now we do emphasize the fact that…

Society is obsessed with monsters. Monsters surround us, they are in our schools, homes, and movies. Monsters are often identified monsters because society is unfamiliar or scared of them. They come in many different forms, some almost unrecognizable. Society is especially obsessed with serial killers, made up creatures, and ‘bad guys’ in books because we want to understand them. Serial killers intrigue society. They are broadcasted all over the radio, news, and social media. In reality, this…

policies, procedural guidelines for specific practices, memoranda, and communications with legislative bodies and Judicial are all forms of printed media. Poor communication for criminal justice professional, this could cost someone their life. Police officers need to have excellent communication because writing the wrong thing on a police report could very well set a dangerous criminal free rather than bring them to justice. It is a permanent written record that communicates information about…

of these cases are when white police officers are attacking weaponless black victims. Police brutality and racial prejudice is tied together because white officers are arresting blacks for being blacks. Over the Internet, there are a lot of videos that show proof of what the white officers are doing. Police brutality shows how the police officers are using the power they have to arrest any victim they find suspicious. Before, everyone felt safe around officers. But as more and more police…