Law Enforcement

Throughout police history in the United States and around the world there have been numerous incidents of reported police brutality and other forms of corruption including taking bribes, theft, sexual deviance, and many more. In our present time corruption has decreased significantly from what it once was decades ago but still exists. One of the most publicized cases of police brutality, if not the most, was the beating of Rodney King. Most people have heard about the case and seen the video of the brutal beating that took place in Los Angeles on the night of March 2, 1991. The video shown to the public contained officers appearing to beat Mr. King while he is on the ground while

Have you ever sat back and thought of the multiple different people that need the criminal justice professionals? A lot of people think that the police, child protection and probation officers are a waste of time but they actually save lives. Adolescents who can no longer live with their parents are placed in others home until it is safe to go back home, homeless people without homes are placed in shelters as well as women that are abused in domestic violence situations. People from every walk of life, race and culture experience these situations. People within the criminal justice profession protect these individuals and help them find a way out of the environment they are in.

New officers need to know that no profession demands a higher ethical standard than law enforcement. Whether or not there are other careers that require a similar dedication to doing the right thing, it is undeniable that there is a tremendous degree of expectations placed upon police officers. Every officer knows, or at least should know by now, that they live in a fishbowl. Friends, relatives, neighbors and strangers watch every move law enforcement officers make, both on and off duty. The fact is that the public scrutinizes police officers more than most other professions, either because they are cynical or hope to catch them screwing up or because they are hopeful

Law enforcement officials face several challenges while in the line of duty. Every day their put their lives at risk with the expected traffic stops, gun violence, and domestic violence. One risk that most citizens might not realize is police officers are also held liable for their actions towards the citizens they serve. Imagine having to knock on the door of a known suspected criminal, only to have that suspected criminal breakout numerous gunshots. That is the tail of events that occurred in Topeka, Kansas, on April 23, 2016. While gun violence can be bad and dangerous, it did help stop a Northeast Kansas wanted criminal that was the cause of several gunshots, a standoff situation, and fire at a local Topeka motel.

Law enforcement officers are constantly bombarded with different types of situations that they need to make split second decisions on. Their decisions in any given situation can fall under scrutiny from the citizens, the news media, and even the courts. This makes the jobs of all law enforcement personnel extremely complex. Policing is a difficult and challenging occupation. A law enforcement officers’ duties are plenty, but the main focus is protecting people and property. To do this, they patrol specific areas assigned, respond to calls for service, enforce laws according to their state, make arrests, issue citations, conduct traffic stops, and appear in court to testify. Law enforcement officers do this knowing full well that their actions,

Many people grow up to believe that police officers are here to protect citizens and to serve the community. Police officers are sometimes seen as community heroes for stopping a bank robber or saving a child that was in a harmful place and they are praised as a superhero. Many people forget that cops are also human beings and with every human being they have a dark side to them. There isn’t stating that everybody has a bad side but some people do and they could be an officer of the law. Many people say and hear the cops using excessive force or abusing their power but one thing is saying it and another is seeing it. By seeing and capturing what the officer was doing on video we could say that the officer did its duty legally or illegally.

The relationship between law enforcement officers and their community is something that is very important to have. There needs to be trust that goes both ways in this relationship. However, law enforcement officers need to be held more accountable to the community that they serve. They need to be held accountable to the community that they serve because law enforcement officers should not be able to do whatever they want to do because of the power they hold. Law enforcement officers are there to serve and protect their community and there are a couple of ways that they can be held accountable to the community that they serve.

Law enforcement agencies together with the entire criminal justice system of the United states have for a long time been accused of exhibiting biasness when it comes to the implementation of the law. The two systems have been accused of being harsh on particular ethnic communities and being too lenient on other communities. One perfect exemplification of the discrimination and bias exhibited by law enforcement agencies regards the criminalization of Black and Latino communities. Recent statistics indicates that members of the black and Latino communities are increasingly being exposed to harsher treatment by the criminal justice system and law enforcement, and the rates of victimization for these two communities are at all-time high. Incidences of random stopping, questioning and frisking of black and Latino people have been on the rise particularly in large cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago and so on. In addition, the number of prosecution and conviction of Latino and Black suspects in courts is also very high. Perhaps this is why a large percentage of incinerated individuals is made up of members from the black and Latino communities. The observed victimization and criminalization of blacks and Latinos has been the subject of much literature and press releases. This essay aims to explore how this criminalization has been reported in books, media outlets and so on.

Unlike the movies, where the cops and the robbers have gun fights and violent encounters, and it seems that the same officer has several within the same day. It is unnatural for a human being to intentional harm another human being, that is why society is so shocked when they see a violent encounter between two human beings on the news. Furthermore, when that encounter is an law enforcement officer and a citizen, the shock value is multiplied by an x value. However, there are several reasons why these videos are so shocking to society, such as, failure to report all facts from the media, failure of law enforcement to be transparent and forthcoming in a timely manner, or the advent of Youtube or Facebook along with the ability to live stream.

In this country we are seeing an increase in ethical violations in the field of law enforcement. I will go into detail about some of the main ethical issues we are seeing today and what can be done to prevent such acts from happening. When one officer is being unethical it has a huge effect on how the public views law enforcement as a whole. Many officers go undetected for a long time before getting caught, but an officer committing ethical violations will have their day it’s just a matter of time. In order to improve this growing problem we must first understand why there is such a problem in the field of law enforcement.

As a law enforcement official, it is their job to serve and protect the community. In order for them to be able to serve and protect efficiently, their community has to trust them and be aware that they are safe having law enforcement on their side. However, there are many citizens that do not trust law enforcement officials because of the negative stories that media outlets publicize. Media outlets leave the majority of the positive law enforcement stories out of the news and headlines, which makes citizens not aware of the positive actions that police officers actually do. This author believes citizens should not be quick to form a judgment on law enforcement until they have experienced negative actions from law enforcement at hand.

The militarization of local law enforcement was started by the Nixon administration 's declaration of the war on drugs in the early 1970s. In the 1980s, as result of President Reagan 's escalation that poured millions into the war on drugs, moving the focus of local law enforcement away from violent and property crimes to mostly small-time drug offenders.

Law enforcement in the United States is an extremely large and complex area comprising of over 23,000 local, state and federal agencies working alongside security service providers, and industry that hires more than one million people. Among the over 90,000 officially declared police personnel, 13% are specifically working for federal agencies, another 13% hired by special or state agencies while 74% work in the local law enforcement agencies. These law enforcement agents are mandated with various roles and responsibilities, with the main aim of protecting the society. These responsibilities include prevention of crime, maintenance of law and order, and public service. The agencies are segmented into federal, state and local agencies. However, they operate in unison towards controlling, deterring and fighting crime, although, in certain situations, every agency may work independently from the others. It should be noted that all the levels of law enforcement are governed by outlined set of rules, responsibilities and procedures (Carter, 2004). The local policing agencies are made up of the local police, sheriff’s department, campus police as well as the municipal and park police. They are all charged with the duty of protecting societal needs like patrol work, traffic duties, response to calls for service and provision of general help to the public. They are

The purpose of this paper is to define and give as much detail information about Homeland Security in the United States and law enforcement and how they are integrated. I hope after reading this paper you will be well informed on the duties and responsibilities of these agencies. People have always lived in fear but with the help of these agencies we will no longer have to live in fear. I will try to give as much detail information as possible to help with any problems or situation that might come up. Homeland Security in the United States and law enforcement have extensive research skills and knowledge in serving and protecting citizens and other important groups and agencies. Homeland Security is a new agency that was created by the president to handle terrorist threats and to aid the country in an emergency situation. Since September 11th the threat level for terrorist attacks on America have increase over years. The Presidents of the United States vows to never let an attack happen on American soil again that’s why Homeland security was created. According to the Homeland security act the mission statements is to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur is Homeland Security Actions. The Department of Homeland Security is responsible in making the nation safe and secure by protecting borders and transportation

Police and other agencies within law enforcement receive multiple calls for service daily. They enter a world of the unknown, while being required to serve and protect the general public fairly, without bias toward race, religion, gender, or political affiliation. They are confronted with serious crimes that they must deal with at any given moment, on any given day. Law enforcement officers may receive a call-for-service to handle a domestic dispute where weapons are involved, respond to call where a pet was tossed in traffic from an overpass, and become involved in a [shots fired – officer down] police run, all during an eight-hour day. Police and other law enforcement agencies must always be prepared for the unknown aspects of the