Essays Tagged: "law enforcement agencies"

Gun control

to keep and bear arms. You must ask yourself; for what reason does the government want to restrict law abiding citizens from owning guns? Certainly government is not so naive to think criminals will ... to be trusted with weapons. How would we even begin to go about confiscating all the guns from the law abiding citizens. The law enforcement agencies of this country have stated that most firearm own ...

(3 pages) 345 3 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Arguement why guns should be outlawed in society. Cited work and bibiography of cited work. A good outline and base with good beliefs and opinions.

One of the biggest issues in the United States today seems to be gun control. Handguns should be outlawed with the exception of law enforcement purposes due to the injuries and deaths cause problems i ... gun control. Certainly the government is not so naive to think criminals will adhere to gun control laws. There just may be an underlying motive for gun control. Gun control is based on the faulty not ...

(5 pages) 397 2 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Government's Half-Witted Beaurocratic Laws in the US

cracy in itsmost creative state. Due to theenormous bureaucracy withintodays state governments, manylaws have been passed throughlegislation that really didn't need tobe passed. These laws are a displ ... e way government likes to showpower over the people using legalsuppression. Governments havecreated laws governing almostanything that the people do as an actof blatant suppression, even if thelaws my ...

(5 pages) 68 1 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

This is a different paper than my other Expolorer one.

David HopperENGL 1101Class Term PaperMarch 29, 2003An Introduction to Law Enforcement and Police ExplorersLaw Enforcement or Police Exploring is a subcategory of the Lear ... or Life Program, which is a division of the Boy Scouts of America. The program sponsored locally by law enforcement agencies and is open to either male or female youths age 14 to 21 years (Hess 154). ... d is open to either male or female youths age 14 to 21 years (Hess 154). The program, geared around law enforcement, gives youth self-confidence, discipline, and a feeling of community involvement. Th ...

(5 pages) 61 1 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Pick an article about racial profiling and write a summary.

ed a federal court to order the release of data that will help the public determine whether federal law enforcement agencies are engaged in racial profiling. On June 9,1999 the president then-Presiden ... in racial profiling. On June 9,1999 the president then-President Bill Clinton, ordered "Fairness in Law Enforcement: Data Collection" which mandates collection of data regarding contacts between Law e ...

(2 pages) 56 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Crimal Mind

ent that there is no foolproof way toknow in advance whether a person is prone tocriminal activity. Law enforcement agencies havebegun using a method called profiling to identifyserial killers and ter ... mals act aspractice tools until the time is right to graduateup to humans. But with the help of new lawscurrently being passed in several states, lawenforcement is now taking a closer look at theconne ...

(5 pages) 211 5 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Brian De Palma's 'The Untouchables': A Lesson in History? Complete w/Annotated Bibliography

ohibition era. As gangsters from rival gangs riddled each other with bullets, and deftly defied the law through slightly, less-than-honorable techniques, the 1930s were plagued with corruption on the ... cly put a stop to sale, and possession of alcohol and it was highly unpopular with the public. Many law enforcement agencies were brought into suspected areas of illegal alcoholic activity to put a st ...

(5 pages) 64 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

John. Edgar Hoover - The Legacy

has been a controversial but one permanently established in one of the most powerful and well-known law enforcement agencies in the world.When looking into Hoover and his character we can immediately ... en by its comment;"J. Edgar Hoover has achieved a status in American Life that is almost unique. In law-enforcement circle he is, we suppose, what Knute Rockne was to football, or Babe Ruth to basebal ...

(9 pages) 44 0 4.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Violent Crime on the decrease?

are from the FBI report "Crime in the United States," an annual survey of crimes reported by 17,000 law enforcement agencies throughout the country.Murders were up for the second year in a row after s ... The authors, Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago and John Donohue III of Stanford University Law School, argued that many people who would have been criminals of the 1990s were never born becau ...

(7 pages) 67 1 1.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

BUG, Inc - legal protection

nnecticut, designs, manufactures, and sells electronic recording devices. These devices are used by law enforcement agencies (police, FBI, etc.) to intercept and record sounds and voices. The equipmen ... riven by software written by BUG employees. BUG has exclusive contracts with most state and federal law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. This paper will discuss the legal protections ...

(4 pages) 371 0 3.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Is privacy a right?

tter than many of our friends and relatives. The use of the information highway by marketing firms, law enforcement agencies, the me dia, financial and educational institutions to collect and compile ... h of E-mail litigation is one of the fa stest growing areas in the United States. Federal and state laws have not kept up with the varied use of E-mail (Posch 54).Besides computer monitoring in the wo ...

(9 pages) 366 3 4.5 Feb/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

The Doe Network

The Doe Network is a volunteer organization whose purpose is to assist law enforcement officials in solving cold cases concerning unexplained disappearances and unidentifi ... gh media exposure. The organization also readily makes the effort to cooperate with missing persons law enforcement agencies and medical examiners. Although The Doe Network provides a worthy se ... d victims' cases must have occurred prior to the year 2003 and the case must have been filed with a law enforcement agency. And lastly, either a photo or reconstructed image must be available. The cri ...

(1 pages) 1549 1 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

"Understanding and Responding to Youth Gangs: A Juvenile Corrections Approach"

uch acts as drug dealing, murder, and rape. Their acts receive negative publicity from society, and law enforcement agencies. Other characteristics of a gang include a formal leader, initiation requir ... y deal drugs; and scavenger gangs who have a common goal in mind ("Gangs"). According to a national law enforcement study conducted in 1996 by G.D. Curry for the National Youth Gang Center, the ethnic ...

(4 pages) 69 0 2.5 Aug/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The USA Patriot Act.

struct Terrorism Act of 2001) significantly increases the surveillance, and investigative powers of law enforcement agencies. It gives federal officials greater authority to trackand intercept communi ... ting to terrorism and computer fraud. The information collected from these may be shared with other law enforcement agencies for prosecution. Another area of the Patriot Act covers currency crimes. Th ...

(4 pages) 289 1 3.3 Oct/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Case Scenario: Bug, Inc.

e, U.S.A., designs, manufactures, and sells electronic recording devices. These devices are used by law enforcement agencies (police, FBI, etc.) to intercept and record sounds and voices. The equipmen ... riven by software written by BUG employees. BUG has exclusive contracts with most state and federal law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. BUG is thinking about expanding its sales to ...

(9 pages) 452 0 5.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies

Criminal Minds.

t that there is no foolproof way to know in advance whether a person is prone to criminal activity. Law enforcement agencies have begun using a method called profiling to identify serial killers and t ... ls act as practice tools until the time is right to graduate up to humans. But with the help of new laws currently being passed in several states, law enforcement is now taking a closer look at the co ...

(7 pages) 69 0 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

"The Art of the Stea"l by Frank Abagnale.

cedures and created manuals and educations programs utilized by over 14,000 financial institutions, law enforcement agencies and corporations. He is most famous for the recent film success Catch Me if ...

(5 pages) 52 1 4.4 Jan/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Law Inforcement History

The job of law enforcement agencies around the world is becoming increasingly more difficult. Weapons are more ... activities. The validity and accuracy of the information started to come into question.Now, much of law enforcement in the United States is connected through a vast network of computers. Many agencies ... ault. The man was injured before the trial and unable to speak on his behalf. The court appointed a lawyer, in the trail an expert said that he had positively identified the mans sperm in numerous spe ...

(6 pages) 57 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Technology in Criminal Justice: Information and Dispatch Systems

onse time is faster, the public safety and well-being is being met.Interoperability is important to law enforcement agencies and other emergency agencies to be able to talk and share data in real time ... 06).Software applications and hardware assist in the way management dispatches calls for service to law enforcement agencies and other agencies, this is called Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) (Foster, 2 ...

(2 pages) 104 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

BUG INC

BUG Inc. is a company that designs, manufactures, and sells electronic recording devices to all law enforcement agencies to intercept and record sounds. Bug Inc has exclusive contracts across the ... c information concerning their commercial practices and proprietary knowledge.Intellectual property laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, such that the acquisition, registration or enforcement ...

(4 pages) 137 1 3.7 Mar/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies