Less-lethal weapons

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    The Onset I chose to interview Officer Michael Alway of the Rocklin Police Department. I selected him because of the rapport I had with him from him being a former instructor at the community college I went to. This rapport made it more comfortable to ask more complicated questions. I originally made contact with him through my csus.edu email account. In a few days, he was able to get back to me and we set an appointment date via email. I initially send him the interview questions, so he would know

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    policies that are currently in place to reduce tension between police officers and the minority groups that they serveLaw enforcement officers and the community have been disconnected. Violence and brutality of any kind, particularly at the hands of the police who here to protect and serve our communities. When Ferguson, Missouri exploded after the police shot an unarmed black teenager, the tension between the community and its protectors was laid bare. Ferguson is not the first and certainly not

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    World All over the world kids that are sometimes even less than 10 years old contribute up to three- quarters of the world soldiers as stated in by www.cfr.org.This is a problem. What's surprising is child soldiers are being used more today than long ago. This paper will be specifically focused on Myanmar. In fact, child soldiers make up a little less than half of the Myanmar army and sixteen resistance groups with weapons claims Kaplan Eben, author of Child Soldiers Around The World. One

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    Today in law enforcement we have a major dilemma with the African-American community and white society including law enforcement. Police officers have a dilemma with using the proper protocols on as scene to properly handle an investigation. Some mindsets are trained to kill. With a uniform and a badge enforcement feels that they have more authority over the whole community and they deserve more respect. Some issues are simply that law enforcement takes people with different requirements; as far

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    The use of force, with regards to law enforcements use of it, is a complex topic that should be looked at in all perspectives. There is tension between the police and the community they work for, on whether this is a power that the officers should have or not. There are ambiguous laws that do not give law enforcement offices much guidelines on what is exactly permissible when it comes to force, and all the different situations it could occur. The line that the use of force leis on is often a fine

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    conceal the weapon, generally a pistol. Benefits of concealed carry do not just benefit those who carry them or use them in self-defense. The very fact that those weapons are concealed keeps criminals uncertain as to whether potential victims will be able to defend themselves with lethal force. The most support for strict gun laws are in large cities where crime rates are the highest and shall-issue laws would help out tremendously, people that are uneducated on the real use of weapons know how useful

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    including more than 900 assaulted with a knife or other cutting instrument (FBI, 2016b). The public can reasonably expect an officer to face an edged weapon attack every eight hours and be injured during such an attack every third day. The public can also reasonably expect law enforcement officers to use lethal force to repel such attacks. The use of lethal force is generally permitted when an officer has a reasonable belief that such force is necessary to prevent “imminent danger of death or serious

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    Gun control is an issue that is dominating the current media coverage as well as political discussion. Democrats have been pushing for more gun control but Republicans haven’t been as reactive. The Republicans gained control of the House, Senate, and executive branch of government in 2016 at that put the issue on hold. However, recent mass shootings have caused the issue to come to light again, and this time there’s increased pressure, more so than ever before, to present legislation that controls

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    In United States v. Jones, the Court determined it was a “search under the Fourth Amendment” when an FBI task force attached a GPS tracker, for a four-week period, to a suspected drug dealer’s vehicle for surveillance purposes and thus used the GPS tracker to learn the defendant’s “totality and pattern of his movements”. It should be noted however, the Court came to their conclusion based upon a theory of trespass, that is, the act of placing the GPS tracker on the defendant’s vehicle. “The Court

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    desire to carry a concealed weapon, you must provide reason such as domestic abuse or proof of stalking. A generalized fear of personal safety is not valid. excuses such as past robberies and burglaries are still not valid as said by the police chief. The police are they only people who can judge whether or not someone could be a threat by looking at them. The next article i read is about how to correctly carry a concealed weapon. They say that there would be less crime if you didn't know who

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