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    Profiling By Police

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    other countries and even use them in the law enforcement area. Which there lies the question. Should police use robots in their attempts to confront suspected criminals? Yes, I think they should be able to. It will save many police officers' lives. It will also show that the police aren’t just kidding around, it will be a show of force. And lastly is will save time, which turns into saving money. Police officers are like soldiers in some ways. And like soldiers they are fighting a war. But their war

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    Police Discretion

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    Police Discretion Police discretion is the ability to choose a course of action because of broad limits of power. It "refers to the autonomy an officer has in choosing an appropriate course of action" (The Police In America, 113). It "includes authority to decide which of the various means of helping the helpless, maintaining order, and keeping the peace are best suited to particular circumstances" (www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1989/january/Sa15878.htm). The police need to have discretion

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    Police officers risk their lives everyday in the line of duty. Whether it 's pulling someone over, responding to a breaking and entering call, rushing to the scene of an accident, or even driving home after work, they risk their lives doing it. Lately, police have been ridiculed while on duty on a daily basis. Citizens seem to dislike officers more and more leading to an all around negative view of police. Something needs to be done to stop all this hatred towards police officers. The Grayling police

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    significant progress in improving police-community relationships. The major challenge creating friction between the police and the community today is police use of deadly force. It is an age-old problem of which only in recent years has their public become aware. The fact this problem existed for such a long time before receiving widespread attention can again be related to the culture of police. Popular discourse and academic about American policing sometimes assess police corruption and misconduct. More

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    Police Brutality

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    others were family members, friends, and co-workers. The entire group of contributor attended high school, but not all graduate. Only six of the participants have obtained any college credits. The entire group had some experience with dealing with police officer some positive, others negative. Four of the participant’s ether had family members that were in law enforcements, wanted to be part of law enforcement, or new a family member that was trying to get into law enforcement. Those with a higher

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    Order Police

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    background on the relation of Order Police and its relation to Nazi policy. Order police was the result of Germany creating large police formations following their defeat in WW1. In fear of being wiped out by their enemy, Germany formed co-revolutionary paramilitary units, Freikorps 1. The freikorps were soon merged with policemen and became increasingly large in population as they obtained military training. The Germans that were drafted began to falsely identify the Police Order as an alternative to military

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    Michael Carle 4-15-2016 American Studies III Mr Boyd Mrs Whitehead Police Corruption Imagine, you and your friends are driving around listening to music and having a good time, you guys have no drugs or alcohol. A cop pulls you over no reason, probably the loud music, maybe you were speeding, who knows. The cops come up to your vehicle, one of them start talking then he “smells” something. The officers make everyone get out as they search the car.You think to yourself, we

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    Police Acception

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    Police office officers lie for many reasons, some are accepted and some are not. Lies could be important parts of an investigation or violations of law (Peak et al, 2010). “Accepted lying includes police activities to apprehend or entrap suspects” (Peak et al, 2010, p. 224). A good example would be, “We picked your partner up a couple minutes ago and he's being interviewed by the detectives right now. Do you really think he's going to protect you? Maybe you should help yourself out and tell

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    Militarization Of Police

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    The two topics that I decided to research are the Militarization of the police which was first presented in Chapter 1 (Module 1.2) and Diversity in Police Departments presented in Chapter 3 (Module 3.5) and Chapter 7 (Module 7.4 and 7.5). I chose these two topics because they are actively being discussed, many issues and questions are centered around how militarized the police have become and how they, the police officers, handle themselves and other civilians. Another issue that has been receiving

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    Police Discrimination

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    negative ways in present day. Police officers are more likely to accuse black people of smuggling illegal substances. Jason Williamson, an African American ACLU National Attorney, talks about a social experiment he took part in where he was pulled over for nothing major, but while the officers were searching the car “to their dismay the only thing of interest that they [police officers] could find was that makeup case” (Williamson). There is no solid evidence to lead the police officers to search the vehicle

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