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The Role of the Police Director in the Ivory Coast

(Camerer, 1997). This study will look specifically at the issue of the question of the ethics of these behaviors in the National ...

Rampart Independent Review Panel Report and What Can be Done to End Deviance within Law Enforcement

to cooperate with LAPD officials in exchange for a five-year prison term. Perez charged that several members of the CRASH unit en...

Investigating Police Misconduct

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bureaucratic Politics and Agency Administration

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

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...

Overview of Police Brutality

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

Australia and Community Policing

In seven pages this essay considers community policing programs in Australia and how these programs have been affected by police a...

History and Progress of Community Policing

In seven pages community policing is considered in terms of history and impact of 1994's Crime Act that established a COPS grant p...

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 ...

1919's Boston Police Strike

This paper consists of eight pages and presents an overview of the 1919 Boston Police Strike and examines the reasons of pay, work...

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, ...

An Overview of Field Training in Police Work

This paper discusses the various aspects of field training associated with police work, with an emphasis on training for new recru...

Teaching Police Ethics

In thirty five pages various philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant are incorporated into an ...

National Instability and the Contributing Factors of Treaties

In eight pages this paper examines global treaties and how national instability can result if a delicate balance between executive...

Post 1970 Texas Law Enforcement Brutality

In twelve pages this paper discusses post 1970 police brutality as it pertains to the Houston Police Department's treatment of Afr...

Police Brutality in Community Policing

has it helped? After all, stories of police brutality continue to surface despite positive changes reported in policing overall. O...

Jack Maple's Crime Fighter

In five pages Maple's book is critically reviewed and lauded for its thorough research and is described as an essential read for t...

History of U.S. and Ecuador Policing

In seven pages this paper discusses policing in the U.S. and Ecuador in a historical overview that includes a study review regardi...

Susan L. Miller's Gender And Community Policing Walking The Talk

In five pages an overview of this text is presented in a focus of community policing efficacy, male and female police officer perc...

Community Policing and Ethics

In twelve pages community policing is considered from an ethical perspective in terms of virtue, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism wi...

Camden, NJ and Corruption in Law Enforcement

In six pages this paper examines the issue of police corruption as it pertains to Camden, New Jersey with the emphasis upon the re...

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the Contemporary Police State

This 5 page paper argues that Thomas Hobbes' classic work Leviathan and its negative view of what he called the state of nature is...

Preventing Crime and the Role of Law Enforcement

both in the business community as well as in the private sector. "Business Watch" of the Seattle Police Department is designed to...

The Police as Portrayed in La Haine by Mattleu Kassowitz

This essay discusses the function and characterization of the police as they are portrayed in Mattleu Kassowitz's movie La Haine (...