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Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Female Police Officers

The literature makes it very clear that female police officers face more challenges and have fewer opportunities than male office...

Collaborative, Problem Solving Police

The scenario is that a captain in the police force must give a report on how to set up a community policing unit. The paper define...

Federal Sentencing Guidelines

The law, as well intended as it is, can vary in regard to its application. The law is not always black and white in terms...

The Growing Interdependence of Public and Private Policing

when we think of policing we think of government paid employees that are paid to enforce the laws of the government entity. Publi...

A Police Officer Steals Guns

held to a higher standard that the rest of the society because they have power over the public. Even so, their behavior on-duty an...

Investigators in the Police Department

This essay offers an introduction to police investigators/detectives. Promotion opportunities for police officers are reported. Th...

Lying by a Police Officer

This research paper/essay describes a scenario in which a police officer is shown to have lied. The writer hypothetically takes th...

Code of Silence and Police Subculture

This research paper pertains to the problem of police misconduct, which is acerbated by police subculture and the acceptance of a ...

Police Dispatchers and Stress Effects

In nine pages the high stress job of police dispatchers is discussed with such issues as high turnover and burnout included along ...

Police Roles and Ethics

This paper pertains to police officers' roles, and police subculture and ethics. Three pages in length, six sources are cited. ...

Scandals in Law Enforcement

This essay discusses two large events of police corruption. One has to do with ticket fixing and the other was more involved with ...

Amadou Diallo, Eleanor Bumpurs, Chases More

This essay provides background on four real cases involving the police. In three cases, people were killed by police. In the fourt...

Bureaucratic Politics and Agency Administration

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the topics pertaining to modern bureaucratic politics and agency administration includes pol...

The Detroit Police Department and Affirmative Action

Most of the positions which were held by blacks were lower ranked. Only five percent of the departments sergeants were black and ...

Recruitment Problems of the Daytona Beach Police Department

In sixteen pages this research paper discusses the Daytona Beach Police Department in terms of its officer recruiting, selecting, ...

Overview of Police Brutality

by responsible officials to describe complaints is difficult to align with a genuine commitment to greater openness to diversity (...

Media Depiction of Law Enforcement Brutality

has been one of the biggest topics of discussion. It is difficult to ascertain what the truth is with all of the media hype going...

Due Process and the FDA

an issue is due process and agency discretion. The concept of due process is a critical cornerstone in individual rights of Americ...

Community Policing And Other Services Law Enforcemnt Provides

role of welfare sympathizers in an already-overwrought social work system. The disposition of law enforcement officers, com...

Approaches in Policing Old Verses the New

The question of how to address crime has plagued civilization throughout history. The old approach to crime was to make the punis...

Incorporating New Approaches in Policing

The question of how to address crime has plagued civilization throughout history. The old approach to crime was to make the...

Stun Gun Usage: Is It Really Helpful?

61 deaths in 2005 alone" (Link & Estes, 2008). Many believe that the reason for these deaths and any injuries sustained due to the...

Policing Models Compared

model go to long standing issues such as gang violence or traffic problems. In other words, the focus is not just on resolving a s...

Investigating Police Misconduct

There are many opportunities for the misuse of discretionary authority exercised by personnel in the various fields of the crimina...

The Threat to Democracy from Police Brutality

in this case reduced the problem to "four empirical questions" that, when answered, might shed light upon the issue, the two most ...