Do Strict Budgets Lead To A Decline In Police Expenditure?

Similarly to the Oakland boys, finally, I too have suffered from over/under policing. Certain negative behaviors in my elementary were overlooked, such as bullying, despite the zero-tolerance policy. Most teachers would ignore the zero-tolerance policy and choose not to police my bully's bad behavior. When it came to pushing me down stairs, calling me fat and ugly, or rubbing my possessions into the dirt to ruin them, my teachers were lackluster in their policing. However when it came to minor, easily punishable 'crimes' that I committed, like wiggling in my chair, they were over-policing machines. This led me to the same distrust in authority as it did for the Oakland boys, I despised my teachers and thought of them as incompetent, unfair, and part of the problem- not to be trusted.

Sirens blazing as the man waits in the car with palpitating hands on the wheel as the authority in blue with sunglasses walks closer and closer. Vehemently knocking on the window; the man comes to see that a policeman accuses him of speeding. Getting a ticket for speeding happens to many Americans every day, but one may not know that there exists a secret police system operating in the background that demand these tickets, masked under mollified euphemisms to appear gentle. Quotas, and the synonyms that follow it, determine a number of arrests and citations a police officer needs to make. However, quotas impose necessities where it’s not needed, causing police officers to create false violations in order to meet their quantities by seeking

In recent years inequality has been on the rise in America. Not only has there been hate crimes but also police brutality, and objectification of women is on the rise as well. These are crimes against equality. Spikes in hate crimes targeting religious groups such as Jews and Islamics sweep the country. Jewish and Islamic centers burned to the ground, threats made to physically harm or kill people of Jewish or Islamic faith. What happened to freedom of religion? Jewish and muslims shouldn’t have to look behind their back everywhere they go because they live in fear. As well a videos are surfacing of a type of inequality that nobody expected. That is police brutality. Police are here to serve and protect everybody no matter their race, gender, or sexual orientation. However some cops use their authority over others to frame innocent people most commonly an African American males for a crime that they didn’t

Over the years, the nature of policing has changed and developed drastically. Their role not only entails crime fighting and emergency response, but also social enforcement and social peacekeeping. Bound by a code of ethics, this highly demanding role asks police to remain professional in their dealings with society, and ensure they uphold the law impartially and fairly. When it comes to enforcing the law, it is important to look at the methods and approaches taken by police in order to combat crime, and whether or not they meet current ethical standards. Although this may be the case, it is also important to acknowledge that aspects of police culture such as loyalty, deception and protection of colleagues will ultimately shape the nature of approach to resolving crime, gaining helpful information and protecting fellow officers. Police officers are granted large amounts of discretion within their roles, however, when officers deliberately abuse this amount of discretion and become display misconduct, it becomes challenging to limit discretionary authority of police officers because of the frequent circumstances they encounter where deception may provide highly constructive outcomes. Throughout this essay, methods used by police officers including entrapment, wiretapping and planting of evidence will be assessed for their strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, the ethical standards of these methods and approaches will be assessed as to whether or not they prove as ethically

Going back to 1658 policing as a whole has changed drastically. One aspect that has changed is community policing. Since the 9/11 attacks, community policing has changed in many ways. They are also always finding ways to better themselves and become stronger. Without community policing the community and the United States would not be as stable as it and there would be a lot of violence.

Underfunding is the greatest Challenge that is faced by the Canadian Criminal Justice System. This paper will discuss the Police Forces aging population and the challenges to replace them when they retire, it will also look at the insufficient quantity of officers needed to investigate all crime. The underfunding of the legal aid program and the effects on the courts and family law will be discussed. Finally the effects of long-term underfunding of the countries prison system and its effects on the most vulnerable inmates will also be measured.

When it comes to the topic of police reform, many agree that our country is long overdue for it, however, the questions are how exactly do we, as a nation, go about changing one of the most powerful structures to exist in the country. While some believe that reform must come from within the individually flawed police departments, others argue that the entire criminal justice system needs an overhaul. In this Response essay about Ta-Nehisti Coastes’ essay “The Myth of Police Reform,” Coates is saying, that the criminal-justice system is not working as well as it should. They are putting people, especially African Americans in jail or killing them. Some people have a mental or physical disability or a have a drug or alcohol problem that

Good evening Katelyn, good post. I agree with your response. Privatization of police in America is effcient in a way that it allow both public and private police agencies to work together to deter/prevent crimes, investigate a crime/incident, and respond to a hostage situation. A perfect example of private and public agencies working together including government agencies is the Virginia Tech shooting. During the shooting, virginia tech camous police did what they can to keep the situation under control and eliminate the threat. Public police was call to assist as well. After the shooting the FBI including the State Police both arrive on the scene to help provide aid for those in need and made sure the threat was eliminated. Both public and

I imagine the small town Rixton of 16,000 citizens experience with law enforcement is probably inconvenience and inconsistent. For example, one month the citizen might experience an officer being friendly and respectful versus the next month the citizen feels as though they been victimized or violated. Conversely, I think most police departments experience the inconsistency in their police department because a few percentages officers have their own way of policing. However, in the town of Rixton, a population of 16,000, that inconsistency may seem greater because 6 out of 36 officers are doing their own thing, which makes the percentage 17%, close to 20%. Nonetheless, Rixton population is similar to Ferguson MO, where the protest

On this week’s issue of “Historians Weekly” we’re finally going to be starting up our new and anticipated series “Policies of Aboriginal Australia”. To start us off I will be looking at the policy of protectionism and why it was replaced by the policy of Assimilation.

Among our travels to a variety of different facility 's in the united states and in England there are vast differences and some similarities within each of our systems. When it comes to police, prisons, and other facility 's there are vast amounts of things that are done in each system that we can learn form each other and things that should be taken away.

An important aspect of all police departments is their relationship with their community. The article I chose was “Community Policing Expands in New York, but Some Question if it Works” by Ashley Southall. This article was written fairly recently on August 17 of this year. The article went into detail about how the New York police are trying to make a stride closer to better community policing. This requires creating relationships with those in the community, but it is easier said than done. The New York police believes that creating this relationship with their district will lead to more effective policing. They would like to know all of the people in the neighborhoods that they patrol, and want them to not be scared to reach out to them.

Most would agree that departments need more funding. However, there are discrepancies regarding where to place these funds. "Police

The cost benefit analysis program for the justice system usually aims at advancing the use and application of various cost benefit decisions in criminal and policy making programs. Within the policing departments, the leaders usually place major focuses on improving the services offered by the police. However, in most cases, the police have not taken major step up on answering calls as it used to be done before. This has really affected the ways of how the public view the police. However, there are a number of things that can be done to increase the benefits achieved and reduce the costs of policing.

Over the last several years, most police departments have been facing numerous financial challenges. The main reason is law enforcement agencies are expected to do more with less and the stagnant economy. The combination of these factors has been placing pressure on many departments to begin imposing budget cuts. Evidence of this can be seen with a survey that was conducted by the University of North Carolina. They found that 67% of police departments made some kind of budget cuts for 2011. The most severe reductions were occurring in large police departments such as Los Angeles, Atlanta and Detroit. (Delfem, 2011, pp. 199 - 205) This is illustrating one of the most pressing issues affecting a wide variety of police departments across the country. To fully understand what is happening requires: examining the situation, how they are able to interact with other agencies (i.e. state / federal) and recommending the way this relationship can be improved. Together, these elements will offer specific insights about how police departments can effectively address this problem.