Warrant Officer

Police officers have more powers than the average citizen; they have the power to arrest, seize property, and use deadly force. Many officers have abused these powers, and when they do, you would think they would be fired and prosecuted, right? Wrong. In most of these cases, officers have only been suspended or given probation, this seems like a minor punishment for such an unjustifiable crime. Police officers have gotten above the law and are now able to abuse their powers as they wish. When…

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the police officers, detectives, and criminal investigators perform varies of duties that include protecting and serving the community by securing lives of the citizens and property and gathering data and evidence of possible crimes to ensure the safety of the community. Their main obligation is to pursue and apprehend for those who violates the law by issuing warnings, citations, or arresting them. The police officers tend to focus more on responding to…

property without any warrants. A search usually has to be based on probable cause- a reasonable basis to believe that the person can be linked to a crime (Remy, 2016). In this case, the topic about whether the police should wear body cameras is violating our right of privacy or is it not? One incident that really stood out about police officers should be wearing a body camera, is the incident about Michael Brown. On August 2014, an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by Officer Darren…

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…

I met with an African-American male standing in the corner with black shirt and blue baggy jeans. I, Officer Yatta Pewa told suspect to put his hands up, turn around, face away from me, hands above his head and spread his legs apart. As I was seaching the suspect, I heard a woman saying, “Excuse me, they are getting away.” I asked suspect if he had any weapon or anything on him that was going to cut or stick me. Suspect said, “No.” Suspect said, “Aint nobody jumped your kid’s dad. Look at me.…

Introduction Three common functions that police perform today are that of crime control, order maintenance, and social work. Looking back in history, the focus of police officers and departments were totally different than that of today’s enforcement. Police are better educated, trained, and equipped to deal with today’s society. Crime Control As we focusing on crime control first, it is less protective of individual rights. Crime control is in favor of the idea that individual rights must…

As a new member on the tactical team this officer was placed in the middle of an investigation. This investigation involved attempting to catch a well known narcotics and stolen gun dealer named Mr. Lincoln. The investigation has reached its pentacle, but the major player in the investigation was not caught doing anything illegal. Completion of this investigation all hindered catching Mr. Lincoln participating in any hand-to-hand distribution of guns or narcotics. If they observe Mr. Lincoln…

paper that was assigned, I wrote on the County of Los Angeles v. Mendez case, where the use of excessive force is argued in an instance that left the victims with a crippling injury on top of many bullet wounds. Mendez sued because the officers in question shot sans warrant and against the Mendez couple’s fourth Amendment rights. Thus, the policy issue reached the Supreme Court to rectify relevancy for excessive force in this particular case that could put more favor to the police or the…

Detective Junge is assigned safety equipment, which he keeps in his assigned unmarked vehicle. I have accompanied him on several search warrants and have observed that he wears the mandated safety equipment and keeps it in working order. Detective Junge operates his city-owned vehicle in accordance with the California Vehicle Code, WPD policies and the Standard Operating Procedures of the city of Whittier. Detective Junge gets along well with other employees. I have witnessed his…

power that benefits for the white race. This was accomplished for five basic roles. To begin with, it has constrained black individuals into servitude or low wage circumstances. . The legislature is no longer making law authorization a need and officers need think before acting when they ought to just need to stress over doing their occupations correctly. Individuals respond rapidly to these radical news updates, without addressing anything that the media offers.…