Police Enforcement Attempt to Catch Sexual Predators

In this paper, we will examine the multi policing agency taskforce, Operation snapshot. The focus of the task force is to protect children, specifically resulting from exploitation, and child pornography. The operations have been used on three different occasions; with police agencies from all over Canada participating. We will specifically examine the police units that were involved in the operation, and the roles that they were responsible for, and how they worked together as a cohesive team. We will also be looking at the issues relating to these cases, such as issues relating to the investigation, and more importantly the issues these professionals deal with when working on cases such as these. We will take an in-depth

Perpetrators of sex crimes committed against children often start by gaining the trust of potential victims and the adults in their lives’ by using a tactic called “grooming.” The purpose of this memo is to give the court a baseline understanding of what sex offender victim grooming is, its purpose, and techniques. Because of the extensive amount of research and information on this topic, this paper does not detail all of the grooming techniques used by child sex offenders to groom potential victims.

From the night watch in Boston, to the present day policing, law enforcement has behind in the world of technology. As time rolled through the political era, professional era, and community-oriented era, police patrols would use the rapidly advancing technology in their favor. "Those were desperate times for policemen in a hostile country with unpaved streets and uneven sidewalks, sometimes miles from the police station, with little prospects of assistance in case of need.... It took nerve to be a policeman in those days," this was reported by Chief Francis O 'Neill of the Chicago Police Department in 1903. With only having a printing press and a multiple-shot revolver over a hundred years ago, the advancement in technology today has helped improve the policing methods in patrol quite significantly. However, technology would eventually out-run the police.

The text, “Anything Can Happen With Police Around,” examines the several studies that have been constructed about the countless views and interactions with the police, also taking into account the more detailed interactions with the police in a matter of race or gender. These studies have included the importance of how school surveillance, youth perspective, the general public’s perspective, attitudes toward the police and even sexual harassment from police towards females impact the lives and experiences of those around them. Throughout the years, there has been a growing concern of the criminal justice system to secure problems, from troublesome youth to the increasing crime rate that has had an effect on urban cities throughout the nation. Statistics show, from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention website, that from the year 2009 to 2014 the crime rate has steadily increased by 6%. The studies constructed, have detailed responses and experiences of both the minority and majority races that have had encounters with the police or those of higher authority. The perspective of the youth has brought an increasing amount of attention to those concerned about the matter. This survey was created to engage the youth and allow them to express how they felt towards those in higher authority, in a sense of both a safety issue and safety concern. According to the many topics discussed most viewed the adults as untrustworthy, but leaned towards their parents,

Buntin, J. (2017, July). In Extreme Community Policing, Cops Become the Neighbor. Retrieved October 15, 2017, from

Isolation can lead to unchecked power and abuses of authority. One of the characteristics of covert policing is the isolation from other uniformed officers. This is a point of contingency for many scholars as it is believed this type of isolation insulates undercover officers from the consequences of abusing their positions. “The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence” (Sir

Gaines, L., & Kappeler, V. (2011). Policing in America (7th ed., p. 194). Waltham: Anderson Publishing.

It is not uncommon for someone to exaggerate the truth or to leave out facts about themselves on the web. In fact, you may even find that the person you thought you knew on the internet is nothing like their profiles in real life. Whether it is to stand out in the crowd or to fool someone into thinking you are someone else entirely, you should not believe everything you see or read online. With photo enhancements, little white lies, and the scam termed catfishing, you just never really know who you are talking to or what their intentions are. Michele Fleming and Debra Rickwood, authors of “Teens in Cyberspace”, determine that parents and the public share the concern of teens encountering predators and pedophiles on the internet and could lead to inappropriate relationships on and off the web. The young generation typically communicates with peers and people close in age, however, Fleming and Rickwood advise “Even though many teens appear Net-savvy, they still need to be reminded of the potential dangers lurking online. There may be many friends in cyberspace but there are undoubtedly a number of

Abstract In an exploration of requirements of undercover detections, what does an individual find ethically correct and incorrect? How does the undercover detective create a persona that they work as without morally destroying who they are? Every time a government or state official make the choice to go undercover they are briefed and give the information of what is approved and what is not. When going through the different articles, it was brought to light that detectives have to go through murky waters to gain the trust of some of the hardest criminals.

Do you believe that the television show Law & Order: SVU actually portrays the correct way our precincts handle how sex crimes are investigated today? This paper is about how sex crimes are being shown incorrect information on the TV show law and order. They are not showing actuality but they are showing what our justice systems should be like. For example, sex crime investigations rate of protocol of handling the law is low. Not enough time is being put into these particular crimes, more like burglary, robbery, or even theft. Just because those crimes are less time consuming, sometimes they don’t even take up much time to close these cases.

Gaines, L. K., & Kappeler, V. E. (2014). Policing in america (8th ed.). (S. Decker-Lucke, Ed.) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America: Anderson Publishing. Retrieved January 2017

In the 1800s, America became extremely industrialized. Due to all of the new upbringings there was a need for organized policing. Policing in America went through many different stages beginning with organized American law enforcement, to formal policing. Michael Moore and George Kelling inferred that there were three eras of policing; political era, professional era, and community era. The political era came first along, as that era began to go downhill, the professional era arose. As the professional era began to take drawbacks, the community era started up and is still going on in present day. There are many positives and some negatives in today’s society living in the community era.

One would imagine that the internet is a place to exploit on common interests, share spontaneity that occurs in their lives and communicate with those who are unable to be physically reached. However, a commentary section turns into foul play as predators take to the media to torment victims. Spectators tend to begin advocating to protect those affected.

Cultivating confidential sources is an integral part of police-work and today, more than ever in our history, prevents us from “going dark” despite encrypted technologies. In February 2009, I successfully completed the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Undercover Certification Course. In doing so, I became only the second New Jersey State Trooper to ever complete the course. I learned a variety of lessons, but was especially intrigued to hear those about confidential sources. I learned to treat sources with respect. I also learned that a source having a criminal record, does not stop them from being human. Most importantly, I learned that while performing in an undercover capacity with a source, that the confidential source is your life-line.

Online child predators have many methods of locating, grooming, and abusing their victims. These predators locate their victims online through chatrooms, instant messaging, email, as well as social media sites (Wolak, Finkelhor, Mitchell, Ybarra 2008). Once the predator finds his victim, he will then begin grooming the child. The purpose of the grooming process is to establish and gain the child’s trust (Enough is Enough, 2017). The predators grooming tactics include, but not limited to: flattering and complimenting the child excessively, send gifts, invest time, money, and energy to groom the child, develop trust and secrecy, manipulate the child by listening to and sympathizing with the child’s problems and insecurities, and make promises of an exciting, stress free life, tailored to the youth’s desire (Enough is Enough, 2017).”