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    The amount of effort that is required by law enforcement to persuade compliance by an unwilling subject is a description of use of force. There is not just one definition for use of force. A majority of the law enforcement agencies carry policies that define their use of force. Included in these policies is the actions that an officer can have to undertake in a situation. Whenever an officer has to use force, they need to understand and know what the appropriate force needed at the time. To help

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    stipulated that it could only be used for monitoring foreign agents has been made available to non-intelligence agencies that were not the subjects of the original bill to conduct more intrusive surveillance. Specifically, with the PATRIOT Act, law enforcement could now use the FISA Act as a precursor to obtain private information from “banks, businesses, credit companies, Internet providers, and others about U.S. citizens without a showing of probable cause” (Baker 15). This obviously were not part

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    Law enforcement does not pursue every suspicious report. A single suspicious activity report is nothing more than white noise in the system. Law enforcement uses the database to find a pattern, so reporting on a nice member's single eccentricity will not get that member into trouble with the law. It will only haunt that member if he or she is part of a criminal enterprise – a larger pattern that can be identified by analysis of transactions and activity reported in the database. Credit union staff

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    Organizational culture is the sharing of shared beliefs and values which help guide the organization. In police work, many organizations have their own culture and way of doing things, but law enforcement overall has the belief and culture of working hard and taking risks to protect the communities which they serve. When looking at an organizations culture, the following were given as dimensions to examine: (1) innovation and risk taking (2) attention to detail (3) outcome orientation (4) aggressiveness

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    You said: “The narrative they are presenting is a false one. Cops are not indiscriminately killing blacks.” I don’t believe that’s the narrative…I do believe that law enforcement has a different set of rules to which they are subject to, such as qualified immunity and Internal investigation. And who is the judge is a case of suspected wrongdoing? The same people that are accused of the wrongdoing, the fox guarding the henhouse. Personally, I would like to see some reform and more accountability when

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    these issues of appropriate extents of force and deadly force that is used by law enforcement. Society has always been observing law enforcement through the lens of a microscope and focusing on the negative light that has been shedding over

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    The implicit bias of law enforcement officers to perceive White Americans as innocent, and non-White Americans as criminals, has lead law enforcement officers to profile non-White Americans. This is an example of white privilege because white offenders are virtually immune to being suspected of drug use. And because law enforcement officers do not suspect white people of drug use in proportion to the number of them that actually use drugs, they do not arrest white drug users accordingly. Moreover

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    Lieutenants Process- Written Assessment Paper By Sergeant Shawn Whitley DSN 372 1. List 3 specific accomplishments in law enforcement: In 2001, after being a patrolman for 5 years, I earned an opportunity and was reassigned to the Detective Bureau, as a Juvenile Detective. My primary assignment was to investigate incidents involving juveniles, child abuse and sex crimes. I spent a great deal of time in the family courts system. In addition, I worked very closely with members of Division of Family

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    Introduction: Relevance Researching the cause, effect and treatments of PTSD within law enforcement is important because not only are these officers members of the community that deserve to live a happy life but they also have a family and they risk their lives daily, even hourly to make sure that everyone around them is protected. Introduction: Causes and Effects Posttraumatic Stress Disorder also known as PTSD is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event, either experiencing

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    expressive symbols” and societies pass their culture from generation to the next, but individuals build their culture during the early stages of their life (Sever, 2008, p. 1). Every field has their own culture and the organizational culture of law enforcement can be defined as “shared beliefs, opinions and prototypes that are taken for granted without questioning and shared by members within an agency” (Sever, 2008). Key elements of any organizational culture include: “observed behavioral regularities

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