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Canada Policing, Powers of Police, and Use of Discretion

force they can join an existing municipal force or contract with the RCMP or the provincial police in order to police the area (Mc...

Police Discretion's Mythological Aspects

is the responsibility of the criminal and juvenile justice systems to prosecute all violations of the law, and ... failure to do s...

The Use of Discretion in Police Work

2004). Also, it is important to note that sometimes the public wants certain rules enforced and at other times, it does not ("Poli...

Discretion in Policing

must always play a part in police work, discretion is a more arbitrary practice (Bronitt and Stenning, 2011). For example, where a...

Community Policing and Terrorism

firing guns and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic, then turned over the ominous recording to a clerk at Circuit City in Mount Lau...

Law Enforcement Models

Four decades ago, police departments began considering other models of policing that would bring them closer to the people. Team p...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Process of Becoming An Auxiliary Police Officer

In an essay consisting of twelve pages the process involved in becoming a New York City Police Department auxiliary police officer...

Function of Policing

This paper consists of eight pages and discusses policing function, trends, and issues including training and powers of discretion...

Community Law Enforcement and Discretion

In sixteen pages this paper examines the importance of discretion in community policing with issues including training, ethics, Fo...

Police Discretion and Domestic Violence

if they will make an arrest it is apparently the case that they do not need to witness the crime, but can make their own judgments...

Police Discretionary Power

punish and which to ignore, they are said to be using discretion" (Gaines and Miller, 2009, p. 155). For example, it is not even f...

Its Past, Police Discretion and Juvenile Justice

This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...

Is Community Policing a Shaky Proposition?

been stretched into prevention efforts. Based on a wide range of viewpoints and actual criminal activity within each of th...

Irish Police Culture

biased toward the unionist side and, therefore, this generated sympathy for the IRA (Clark, 2008). The British government, therefo...

Judaism in the Works of Franz Kafka

In five pages the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...

California Police Officers: Certain Physique And Weight Management

weight management in California police departments is now a focal point to maintaining a strong police force and decreasing the po...

Proactive Approaches to Street Racing and Underage Drinking

is bothersome to the point of creating fear and ask for their help in reaching a resolution. From this interactive encounter, the...

Police Ethics

for an ethical faux pas. That is, if someone errs by brutalizing another human being, even if they are technically correct in resp...

Is Disciplinary Action Against Police Officers Who Deserted Tier Post After Hurricane Katrina Ethically Justified?

but is also accepted as a result of the consensus paradigm. The consensus paradigm means that there is a general consensus regardi...

Criminal Justice as a Career Choice

support at various law enforcement agencies (1993). There are a variety of jobs necessary at the federal level because areas such ...

Command of Temper

Police reputation with the public they serve is based on many different factors, one of which is their command of temper. That phi...

Using Force and Discretion in Law Enforcement

In five pages this paper discusses police brutality, the excessive use of force within the context of the law enforcement motto 'T...

Sexual Harassment in the Police Department

conduct of a sexual nature ... when ... submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions ....

Identification Procedures & Mirada Issues

It is a fact that there is a tendency for memories to be constructed so that missing information is drawn from "expectations" or "...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...