The New City Police Department (NYPD)

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the third largest police agency in the United States. The LAPD has approximately 9885 sworn officers and 2718 support staff. They cover approximately 500 square miles and is for the protection of over 4 million people. With that in mind, managing such a behemoth agency is a complicated and problematic endeavor. Therefore, one of the LAPD strengths is the way they manage themselves and protect citizens. Another strength of the LAPD is created many various kinds of investigation divisions, bureaus unit and special operation units. The components allow the LAPD to address a different kind of crimes, services, and investigation. Some of these components are specialized units with members that specially trained to for the unit's purpose or the specific type of crime or investigation. For an example, they have counter-terrorism bureau, background investigation unit, commercial crime division, gang and narcotic division, juvenile division, robbery homicide division and also technical investigation division. The LAPD also addresses the needs of the community by setting up many stations to handle the needs of their constituents. The LAPD also has a support unit to manage the day to day operation such as the personal division, jail division, property division and administrative section to manage massive bureaucratic tasks.

The term stop and search is used to refer to the power of the police to search a person or a vehicle they believe, is likely to be involved in a crime. ‘Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allows a police officer to stop and search a person without suspicion. Section 60 stops and searches can take place in an area which has been authorised by a senior police officer based on their reasonable belief that violence has or is about to occur, and where it is expedient to prevent it or search people for a weapon if one was involved in the incident.’ (Liberty, 1934)[3]. This power that police officers possess has been effective in catching criminals, likely drug dealers and people carrying Illegal weapons, and has succeeded in making Britain’s streets safer in many cases. London’s Metropolitan police conducting 155,489 stop and searches between April

The New Jersey State Police does not experience much turnover. However, within a twenty-five year career, a trooper’s attitude, and how that attitude relates to job satisfaction and output can be measured. While a trooper with 10-15 years experience may be distrustful of command staff, junior troopers (those with 1-5 years) are viewed as zealots. Junior troopers are productive and engaged in their field. A trooper’s job satisfaction can be measured by his/her’s perceived organizational support. Job satisfaction has a direct correlation to employee engagement and perceived organizational support.

The Stop and Frisk policy is practiced in New York City and it involves a police officer stopping a potential suspect then they proceed to ask the person questions and/or pat them down. 84% of these stops recorded are young men typically of African American and Hispanic heritage. However, only 6% of these stops lead to an arrest. Many of these men are only being stopped because of the color of their skin, not because the police think they are suspicious of something. These statistics are leading people to accuse the police of racial profiling, and the abuse of privacy rights which has also led to a class action lawsuit. Even though these are the people who live in high crime areas, race doesn't

The Stop-Question-and-Frisk Program, more commonly known as “stop and frisk” or 250s, authorizes police to stop and question pedestrians and frisk them for weapons or other contrabands. This practice is based on the decision of the United States Supreme Court form the case of Terry v. Ohio. The holding establishes that if there is reasonable suspicion that the person may be dangerous or armed, police can stop him or her without violating the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits

Not only is the policy not very effective but there is data to support that it is used to target communities of color. The majority of the people stopped are African-Americans, and then the next largest group is Hispanics. The smallest percent of people stopped are Whites. “Roughly 85 percent of people stopped in any given year are black or Hispanic. In 2012, blacks represented 55 percent of stops, Hispanics represented 32 percent of stops, and whites represented 10 percent of stops.” (Haq, 2013) The reason why these numbers are alarming is because whites are the majority in NYC. This is a huge disparity between the population and the number of stops. The specific target group for the policy tends to be Black and Hispanic males between the ages of 14- 24. This group only makes up about 14 percent of the NYC population but 70 percent of this group stopped and frisk. On the other hand some people would argue that the stop and frisk policy should be using crime data and not population data. According to Heather Mac Donald author of “ Cops are Racist” African Americans commit 66 percent of the violent crimes committed in NYC and when combined

Stop and Frisk has been a very controversial topic for quite some time, especially throughout the last election cycle. It is defined as the circumstance where a police officer will temporarily detain an individual, who they have reasonable suspicion that the individual could be armed and/or dangerous, and pat down their clothing. This issue has been of grand concern for a multitude of individuals due to the increased fear in the minority communities, who have been declared more likely to be stopped and frisked, or ‘suspect worthy,’ which points in the direction of the unconstitutional use of racial profiling. In addition, the data — as explained in class — implies that the increase in stops and frisks during the time stop and frisks were

Finding the right candidate for such a high-profile position for a large city to replace a long-standing member of the force with extremely mixed reviews will be difficult and require expertise and many considerations.

Stop, Question, and Frisk is when police temporarily arrest a person and pat down his or her outer clothing base on a specific articulable facts which push a reasonable police officer to believe that this person might be armed or dangerous.

overall state rate of 501 and nearly 20 times the rate in the top U.S. performers. Children in

one and a half million from 2005 (U.S. Department of Justice, 2007). Thirty-five percent of

million in 1970, the first census after the act, to almost 34 million today(Emily)’’. I think there are many

In August 2013, Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the stop-and-frisk techniques utilized by the New York Police Department (NYPD) violated the constitutional rights of minorities (Stanley). In her ruling, Judge Scheindlin admonished members of the NYPD for stopping people without any articulable reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Judge Scheindlin further opined that the majority of those stopped were males and from a minority population. In her 195-page ruling, Judge Scheindlin ordered the NYPD to begin testing body-worn camera systems for possible implementation. Fast forward one year to August 9th, 2014, when Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Daren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department. This incident shocked the conscious of the American public and forced the conversation of body-worn cameras into the spotlight of American law enforcement tactics and practices. This conversation has centered on whether or not all law enforcement agencies should mandate the purchase and wearing of body-worn cameras for all officers. Are body-worn cameras a good idea or will this help to create an Orwellian environment (Eason)? Research shows that through the proper implementation of body-worn camera systems law enforcement encounters can become more professional while lowering the amount of force used.

Police: Breakdowns that allowed corruption are still uncorrected, study finds. The chief concedes that mediocrity became a way of life at all levels of the department. The Los Angeles Police Department failed time and again to take steps that might have headed off the worst corruption scandal in its history, according to a sweeping self-indictment prepared by the department's own leaders. In a letter accompanying the long-awaited Board of Inquiry report into the corruption centered in the department's Rampart Division, Police Chief Bernard C. Parks called the scandal a "life-altering experience for the Los Angeles Police Department" in which corrupt officers took advantage of lax supervision to

966,796 2010 1,308,558 257,664 1,050,894 2011 1,379,154 262,899 1,116,254 2012 1,300,955 256,307 1,044,648 2013 1,329,556 258,957 1,070,599 2014 1,336,555 259,388 1,077,167 2015 1,322,355 258,217 1,064,138 2016 1,329,488 258,854 1,070,634 2017 1,329,466 258,820 1,070,646 2018 1,327,103 258,630 1,068,473