Essays Tagged: "police departments"
Frank Serpico: An Honest Cop
A Fight for JusticeFrank Serpico was an honest cop. He worked in the NYPD. He worked in many police departments and precincts in different boroughs, but mainly he worked in Brooklyn in the eigh ... erent boroughs, but mainly he worked in Brooklyn in the eighty-first precinct.When he came into the police, he saw that everything was wrong. Police officers were taking bribes from people and drug de ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Should there be restrictions on where level 3 sex offenders can live?
r. Level 3 offenders, being the most serious, are considered a high risk to re-offend, according to police departments and experts who have done research on the topic. To be a level 3 offender, the pe ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Police Corruption.
Corruption within police departments falls into 2 basic categories, which are external corruption and internal corrupt ... nformation and background data came from various books cited that have been written on the issue of police corruption. Those books helped me create a basis of just what the different types of corrupti ... n happens.In simple terms, corruption in policing is usually viewed as the misuse of authority by a police officer acting officially to fulfill personal needs or wants. For a corrupt act to occur, thr ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us?
al to our society or mere novelties among business and marketing professionals? Medical facilities, police departments, and manufacturing plants have all been changed by AI but how? These questions an ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
Police Pursuits.
Police pursuits are one of the biggest questions facing police departments today. Some people feel t ... engage in pursuits at all. On the other hand, some feel that this power should not be taken away. A police pursuit is the act of chasing after a fleeing motorist. This act could be rewarded by apprehe ... rewarded by apprehending the motorist or can have serious consequences. The question remains should police have this power.Police officers should have the right and authority to engage in pursuits. No ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Police Corruption In Major Cities
Police corruption is a complex issue. Police corruption or the abuse of authority by a police office ... g leadership organization, and community support are just a few considerations in the prevention of police corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication in an urban ... elated publication in an urban city during any given week would most likely have an article about a police officer that got caught committing some kind of corrupt act. Police corruption has increased ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Police Corruption
Police CorruptionPolice corruption is a complex issue. Police corruption or the abuse of authority b ... g leadership organization, and community support are just a few considerations in the prevention of police corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication in an urban ... elated publication in an urban city during any given week would most likely have an article about a police officer that got caught committing some kind of corrupt act. Police corruption has increased ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Artificial Intelligence -An essay on how can artificial intelligence help us?
ty or mere novelties among business and marketing professionals? AI has changed medical facilities, police departments, and manufacturing plants, but how? These questions and many others are the conce ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
Policing Gangs in Society
cide rates, particularly incidents involving firearms have increased dramatically. In the past, the police would assign responsibility for gang control to units such as patrol, juvenile bureaus, commu ... gations, and crime prevention (Policing Gangs and Youth Violence 2003, pg. 17). In the 1980's, many police departments established specialized units for gang control including what is known as the pol ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Police Corruption
Police corruption is a complex issue. Police corruption or the abuse ofauthority by a police officer ... ng leadership organization, and communitysupport are just a few considerations in the prevention of police corruption. Anexamination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication in an urbanc ... related publication in an urbancity during any given week would most likely have an article about a policeofficer that got caught committing some kind of corrupt act. Police corruptionhas increased dr ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
Racial Profiling in America. This is a look at a specific problem in policing today. The subject is Racial profiling during traffic stops
ular occurrence has become a problem threatening the very well-being and respectability of Americas police departments. This problem is racial profiling. Racial Profiling occurs in many places but is ... any other ethnic group as a group of wrongdoers (Harris, 2001). It undermines the civil order that police organizations strive to maintain because racial profiling causes police organizations to be s ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
TO REGIONALIZE OR NOT TO REGIONALIZE? A STUDY IN THE POLITICS OF POLICING IN GREATER VANCOUVER
INTRODUCTIONPolice regionalization is a recurring theme in British Columbia (BC). The Oppal Report (1994) notes ... teen years preceding its publication and four of these had addressed directly the specific issue of police regionalization in Greater Vancouver (British Columbia Police Commission 1978; de Haas 1980; ... 0). However, despite generally favourable findings the political will to create a Greater Vancouver Police Department has not been forthcoming. In considering why this is the case the political nature ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Problems and Solutions for Community Policing.
ms that continually plague the philosophy of Community Policing. Some of the largest obstacles that police organizations face with the community policing program are the initial implementation and und ... that need to be understood in order to have a functional and beneficial community policing program.Police departments around the country are now feeling the pressures of implementation from citizens ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Policing study notes
Module three test notes1.Identify the three traditional methods of doing police work?RAPID RESPONSE TO CALLS BY CITIZENS TO 911RETROACTIVE INVESTIGATION OF PAST CRIMES BY DE ... CALLS BY CITIZENS TO 911RETROACTIVE INVESTIGATION OF PAST CRIMES BY DETECTIVES.2. Identify types of police patrol and how they are conducted?The majority of police patrol today is performed by uniform ... jority of police patrol today is performed by uniformed officers in radio-equipped cars or on foot. Police also patrol on motorcycles, scooters, boats, planes, helicopters, horses and bicycles. Office ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Police Corruption: Examples And Solution
sts in systems that somehow relate to the control of the public. Johnson (2006) uses the example of police departments because they maintain order and, peace by controlling society. He states that a p ... e needs to keep accomplish (Para. 1). With this may being one of the main causes of corruption in a police organization, it would further lead to "the misuse of authority by a police officer acting of ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Security Assessment: Network Proposal
I have been asked to perform a security assessment of the local police department's incident reaction capability, focusing on the lack of technology integration at ... local database integration, and data retrieval through the use of Intranet-based technology. Giving police officers the ability to access information in their patrol cars can be done by mobile computi ... ion in their patrol cars can be done by mobile computing and wireless data communications. When the police officers in the street connect to the intranet services, information is available on their wi ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
UCR
istics"� (Siegel pg. 51). The Federal Bureau of Investigation takes records from over 17,000 police departments nation wide and compiles all the data into statistics. These statistics look at m ... hat it only looks at the crimes that are reported. In a lot of cases crimes are not reported to the police, therefor they can not be reported on the UCR. An example of a crime that is not reported to ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Pba
Have you ever wondered how the FBI and your local police department take citizens fingerprint's. Well ,you are about to find out. Here's some very int ... ts. Did you know that in almost every crime scene Have you ever wondered how the FBI and your local police department take citizens fingerprint's. Well ,you are about to find out. Here's some very whe ... 's. Well ,you are about to find out. Here's some very where a person may have touched something the police will search for fingerprint's. The most common example of a crime scene where fingerprints ma ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Inside a Convict's Mind
l lead to bigger things that you do wrong, until finally you break the law. When you are young most police departments will just send you home with your parents so you do not learn anything from that. ... ls something or vandalizes something the first time, he needs to be picked-up by his parents at the police station, so he knows he will not get away with it. If he does it again, there needs to be som ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Should The Police Have More Power?
ave. With all these rights and all these freedoms, there is a need of regulation. At one moment the police officer is a hero, the next a monster...to people in trouble he is a savior..to criminal susp ... monster...to people in trouble he is a savior..to criminal suspects he is a demon (Geller 53). The police in this country protect citizens everyday and yet need protection themselves. Police officer ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law