State police

On February 11, 2015 Rhonda K. Robertson, Chief of Police for the Fort Worth Police Department, sent out a letter of correspondence to the city’s Mayor, Betsy Price and members of the City Council. Letter’s subject: 2014 Racial profiling report. In 2001, Texas Legislature passed the Texas Racial Profiling Law, which states, “racial profiling is prohibited” (http://www.aele.org/texprofile.html). On September 1, 2009, revision were made…

The extended definition is as follows: Community policing is a philosophy and an organizational strategy that promotes new partnership between people and police. Community policing compels a department-wide engagement from everyone, citizens and sworn members, to the community policing philosophy. It is based on the premise that both the police and the community must work together to identify, prioritize, and solve contemporary problems such as crime, drugs, fear of crime, social and physical…

prevent it. Prevention of crime can be a big help to law enforcement because the ultimate goal is to have very little or no crime. Community policing does not just make the public feel better about the police, but it helps police to feel better about the community they serve. It is easy for the police to get burnt out about the people they serve because most of the time the people they deal with on a regular basis do not appreciate what they do. Nonetheless, when officers develop a better…

Crime mapping software helps law enforcement researchers discover hidden opportunities to improve public safety. The technology produces fact-based reports, providing comprehensive overviews of the people and places involved in criminal activity. Police departments around the country are incorporating the technology into their crime fighting toolkits to separate fact from opinion, reduce illegal activity and increase departmental efficiency. Making Sense out of Big Data Crime Statistics Law…

“The Massachusetts State Police is an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ' Executive Office of Public Safety and Security responsible for criminal law enforcement and traffic vehicle regulation across the state. A Massachusetts State Trooper is known to be part of the Law Enforcement, and one of the largest in New England, holding 2,300 officers.” Known as “State Troopers”, they are primarily hired by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety.” In order to…

answered when completing an internship with a police department. The quote from above were the words, an officer I had been riding along with, spoke as we waited for the Crime Scene Investigation Division to appear on scene. Through the ten weeks of interning at the City of Griffin Police Department, I have been given the opportunity to learn about policing and police departments through shadowing and observing officers and detectives. The Griffin Police Department has many divisions and roles…

The correlation between poverty and the rate of juvenile offending which you have outlined seem to align with the broken windows theory. The broken windows theory states that if a community appears to be dilapidated and neglected due to poverty, as well as minor crimes such as vandalism and littering, there will be a perceived lack of social control that will encourage offenders to target these areas over areas that appear to be maintained and monitored (Caudill, Getty, Smith, Patten & Trulson,…

entities, the police force of a community and the general public it serves and protects are intertwined; each must be able to interact with no fear of repercussions on either party. Too often in the United States does this ideal become violated by the actions of racial profiling. With recent increased social tensions in racial and institutional matters, the issue of suspecting an individual…

Use of Deadly Force Police officers, or any type of law enforcement are here to protect us from any harm. Discretion is something that law enforcement uses and plays a major role in policing. Many people have their own opinion on whether police officers are doing their job the right way. Of course we all have our own views and what the “right way” is and how it differs from people to people. What I believe is that many police officers are not doing their job right due to the fact that there…

comes to the police. While the race distrust is more well documented, the wealth divide is something that as mentioned in the article “less studied” (Cole,171). There is a clear of differences in percentages in the trust in police as stated,” When asked to rank police officers’ use of force, 31% percent of the wealthy but only 17% percent of the poor ranked the police as “excellent(Cole,171). I do wish the article went to more in depth with the economic divide in the perception of the police, as…