Suspect

it is a tool officers use to protect your well-being. Searches are not meant to oppress minorities, but it is meant to oppress criminals. When an officer is pursuing a suspected criminal, he or she is likely not pursuing the suspect because of race, but because of the actions he or she has committed. For every life “ruined by being imprisoned” Alexander puts it, there are lives saved by searches of suspicious people and seizure of their illegal paraphernalia. Search and seizure…

pants. The reporting party had a severe laceration to her head and lip, her shirt was soaked with blood. The reporting party described the suspect as wearing a ski mask and she was unable to determine the gender, sex, race or ethnicity of the alleged suspect. The only information that the reporting party was able to give Officer Jones was that the alleged suspect stole her wallet and was holding it when they fled the scene. The incident occurred just minutes prior to…

There are many different types of force that police officers can use during a traffic stop and in the steps leading up to an arrest and within a suspect encounter. There is non- lethal force, physical force, non-physical force and deadly force. According to Henych & Thompson (2008) force is defined as “acts that threaten or inflict physical harm on suspects” (p.741). Whereas deadly force takes it several steps further as being defined as “ the application of force likely to cause great bodily…

Chapter 14 is titled "Pretrial Visual Identification Procedures." This refers to the process whereby eyewitnesses identify suspects of a crime. Most of these identifications are done through either a showup (where one suspect is shown to either a victim or a witness of a crime) or through a lineup (where several people are shown to a victim or witness at the same time). Eyewitness identification is not always accurate, however. Research has shown it is the leading cause of wrongful…

broken down into two categories, internalized and compliant confessions (Blair, 2005). The main difference between the two comes down to the suspect’s own belief in their guilt. If the suspect begins to believe they could have, or had to have committed the crime, the false confession is internalized. If the suspect still believes in their innocence, yet confesses for short term benefits, it is complaint. (Blair, 2005) Internalized Confessions Internalized confessions can appear voluntary and in…

times is vital. In the police pursuit video clip watched on 9/17/2015 courtesy Dr. Gregg Gibbs the suspect gets gunned down by police officers. When videos of this type get released by media sources they create great scandal within the community. As a police officer I would say that the two officers involved in the shooting acted accordingly and within protocol. As police officers blocked the suspect off he immediately gets out of his vehicle and proceeds…

it is set to go off in two hours. If it goes off, it will kill thousands of people and injure thousands more. It will destroy a large part of the city. The terrorist group that planted the bomb has been under surveillance by the police. The police suspect that a devastating terrorist attack has been planned; they have been monitoring telephone conversations and emails for months. They decide to bring in one of the terrorists for questioning. They know he has planned terrorist attacks in the…

confessions can be caused by mental impairment an individual to believe that he commit the crime. The police interrogation use tactics to cause the innocent suspect to doubt his memory in order for the police to persuade the suspect. During the long period of time, the police constantly blame the suspect of committing the crime, which causes the suspect to thinks that he is genuinely mistaken. One example of an individual facing…

Especially if you’re not the real suspect. July 25, 1984 in Burlington NC, Jennifer Thompson home was broken into and a suspect was armed with a knife and told her shut up or he will kill her and she was raped. Jennifer studied the features of the rapist so if she lives he’ll go to prison. Jennifer tricked her rapist into thinking she was going to fix him a drink, and she ran out the home. Later that night her suspect raped another women about…

Gary L. Wells, the psychology expert, he pointed the victim or eyewitnesses will choose the person who is the most alike criminal based on the memory. Even though the real criminal’s photo is not in the photo lineup, an eyewitness would most likely pick up the most similar person through the memory. Because of the facial appearance’s similarity between Ronald Cotton and Bobby Poole such as the shape of the eyes, eyebrows, lip, and etcetera, Jennifer had chosen and mistaken Ronald Cotton who was…