Vancouver Police Department

Hurricane Katrina was the breakdown key infrastructure, namely the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). The law at the time of Hurricane Katrina mandated that members of the NOPD were required to live in city limits. As a result almost 80% of the NOPD member’s homes were destroyed, leaving many officers stranded and forcing others to focus their attention on their own families and situations. Moreover, police stations and police vehicles were also destroyed leaving the force short of any…

Meanwhile in the North, mass riots and deaths were occurring, such as the riot in Watts, California. It all started with a white police officer stopping what appeared to be a drunk black driver. In the end, the 6 day riot costed the lives of 34 people, and over 1,000 were injured. 600 buildings had been looted an set on fire, leaving the total damage cost at over $100 million. King wanted to help his people everywhere, not just in the South. So in January of 1966, King and his wife move into a…

Before discussing the history of police torture in Chicago, it is first important to discuss the history of the lack of value for the lives and well-being of people of color in the United States. According to Chowdhry and Beeman, during the era of slavery, Blacks in the United States were forced to work long hours doing hard labor and were subject to beating or even death if they did not follow the orders of slave owners. After, the Emancipation Proclamation, Blacks were forced to follow laws…

Canada is “classified as a prohibited weapon”: meaning only police officers may use this weapon (Brainwood ,pg7) .The purpose of the energy weapon is to gain control of an individual using an electrical current. Although there have been some cases where the use of the taser has ended in death or serious harm to individuals. The deaths and injuries have raised concern in the laws that allow use of tasers.…

Police are on the front lines of the opiate epidemic because of their close proximity to those who overdose. As a response to the growing number of opiate/heroin overdoses, most departments carry Naloxone in the form of a nasal spray Narcan. Narcan is a fast acting antagonist that almost instantly reverses the effects of an overdose by attaching to the opioid receptors in the brain and blocking the opium from having an effect on the nervous system. It is a miracle drug that has saved countless…

Many of you have probably heard on the news about of all the police brutality happening all around the world. It happens mostly in the United States, but also in other places including Canada. Police brutality has brought up many disputes between ordinary citizens and the law enforcement; it has also brought to the eyes of many of some of the corruption in some of the law enforcement. Racism is a major topic related to police brutality, since many of those assaulted, unlawfully arrested, or…

The photographs taken from the Franklin home were released by the Los Angeles Police Department last week. The women’s faces in the photos looked like they were unconscious, asleep, or dead. These women were mothers, daughters, and sisters who had families that will never get their loved ones back. It was a abhorrent case that is part of history today. Women left behind children, spouses, and families. I cannot imagine what the women who were captured by this Lonnie Franklin. At this time the…

As though police have increasingly interacted with people who have a mental illness, a number of problems have become easily noticeable; despite these problems, changes to police training and procedures seem to follow several circumstances. They are having an incident where someone dies, which is the most frequent preceding to change. An officer taking a personal interest in making change, having the support and mandates from the police infrastructure and implementing a problem solving community…

The Buddy Boy’s of New York Police Department (NYPD) 77th Precinct were placed into the failing precinct due to some form of wrongdoings at prior assigned precincts. Here, the NYPD upper management facilitated perverse behaviors by stocking the precinct full of officers who were troubled…

tragedies throughout the year, we always come together to help one another. In situations like these, Police officers are faced with the dilemma of who they are obligated to help initially, the public or their families. I believe during a natural disaster, public officials and first responders, such as police men have a greater moral obligation to their individual families. It is immoral to punish police officers for abandoning their jobs during a crisis, if the officer’s reason is seen…