Probation officer

Overview On November 24th, Chicago police officer, Jason Van Dyke, was indicted on six-counts of murder and one-count of misconduct in the shooting death of a 17-year-old, African American male, Laquan McDonald (Relerford & Maragos, 2016). A dash cam revealed the officer shooting the teen 16 times while he walked away from the officer (Relerford & Maragos, 2016). In late January, the officer’s attorney announced his plans to seek a different venue for the trial (Relerford & Maragos, 2016). The…

According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, human trafficking is the new form of slavery. While most people do not realize how big of a problem it is, it happens right in front of us every day. We do not hear a lot about it because “the victims are silenced” (Alvarez, 2016). If human trafficking victims speak up and say anything, there are serious consequences. That is why most of the victims do not speak up and tell anyone what is going on. “Most people who have been…

support initiating lethal force. For those reasons, police should not initiate deadly force. The impact on our society and children result and how police are initiating deadly force. Our children are going to schools getting checked by police officers to see if they have anything that is illegal in their possessions because of our neighborhoods are the past students doings. Our children hear about how a kid gets killed because he was wearing a black…

is not always a good idea. Sometimes police officers may receive false, anonymous tips that people are selling drugs and due to this policy, police react on it with great force. The war on drugs seemed to have increased the force that is used when dealing with drug allegations. The way that police force and policy makers deal with the social policies regarding drugs is unproductive and infringes terrible things upon (sometimes) innocent people. Officers are allowed to seize the property of…

as well, that blacks killed by police officers are more than likely white police officers. This is a false accusation as black and hispanic ethnic groups are more likely to shoot blacks than whites, this is according to the Justice department about the Philadelphia police department. This study was further conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Greg Ridgeway who majors in criminology and the final conclusion to the stats were that a black police officer were 3.3 times more likely to…

Seizures that are done unconstitutionally don’t normally occur, but I did recently read an article relating to your answer. Sadly, sometimes police may seize someone’s private property, even if they did not commit any crimes. According to the webpage ACLU (2013), 130 CAID patrons were innocent, but were detained by the police at an Art Institute in Detroit which resulted in confiscation and the impoundment more than thirty cars and citations. However, there were no drugs or any weapons found.…

The Good Samaritan Hospital of North Carolina was built in 1891. It was nicknamed “Good Sam” by the staff and patients. The money to build it came from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and their members. It was a private hospital built just to treat black in the Charlotte community. When first built it could only accommodate 20 patients. It gradually grew over the years: • In 1925, it expanded and doubles the size of occupancy • In 1937, a wing was added and it became a one hundred bed hospital •…

Officers all over the United States unknowingly take into consideration their own implicit biases when determining who to stop and how aggressively to act, and due to a lack of proper training, they tend to make mistakes that have recently resulted in tragedies. Police officers, just like normal individuals, automatically create associations between certain groups of people and certain behaviors (this phenomenon is most commonly referred to as stereotyping). However, training officers with real…

From my grandmother’s influence to my participation in various research programs to my commitment to community service, I have formed my research interests through deep introspection into what I feel is the most important to me. I am interested in the interaction between oppressed minority groups and majority groups, specifically looking at gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity. The interaction I am most interested in is how individuals in the majority of each of these groups form…

Police officers need to know how to work in a decision-making process whether and whom to arrest or if both parties need to be arrested. The first thing police officers should do in a domestic violence case, is to understand the significance of the offense. Sometimes police officers have to do a dual arrest, due to victims are the ones who uses a physical aggression supposedly as a self-defense. Is up to the police officers to make a discretionary decision on a domestic violence case. The video…