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    Power is a key component that society bases their foundation on. Without power, mass chaos would occur. Taken in the hands of those who take advantage of power nor deserve it, show that power is no longer worth it, but instead an issue of good and evil: Geoffrey Chaucer’s justified this in “the Wife Of Baths Tale” portraying the knight and the wife’s actions. Therefore those in power abuses their authority and others observing follow in their footsteps. Abuse of authority and over use of power is

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    Apologies: Not the Only Form to Fix Bias and Corruption Within the criminal justice system, officials abuse their power. The officials of the justice system have a duty to protect and perform their duties with unbiased decision making. The abuse of power jeopardizes people’s lives who are not able to sustain oneself and their families. Some people do not understand that poorer people find themselves in jail more and once a person is released, that person is subjected to return to jail for the amount

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    policing has been a huge debate in society. Private police are law enforcement bodies who are owned and/or controlled by non-governmental entities and an off-duty police officer. The private agencies have gained great success for several reasons but there are still problems associated with private policing today. In this paper, I will be explaining three problems associated with private policing. These three problems are training, abuse of power, and corruption. There are two types of security

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    topic: Police corruption Research Thesis Statement: Police corruption involves the law enforcement engaging in ethical and unethical behavior including the abuse of authority and/or using their authority for personal attainment. Research Reasons Based on "Serpico." According to Ronald G. Burns police corruption can be defined as, "a form of police misconduct involving the misuse of authority for the personal gain of the officer or another" (Falcone, 2005, p.57). For several years, police corruption

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    Police are abusing their power, of their badge, instead of serve and protect; their ignoring and abusing. There's been many killings (almost about 5,000 people),abusing, and people being ignored from police, Why? For nearly 50 years, a deadly and effective attack has been orchestrated against local police departments all throughout the United States and most Americans do not even realize it is happening. News people like CNN, CBS, or Fox 4 News sometimes get a scoop of the police beating, but more

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    previous encounters with law enforcement in the United States and the abuse of authority that has resulted in the controversial deaths of young African American males that were suspected criminals but were not proven guilty at the time of their death. Staples highlights the issue of police brutality and discrimination towards people of colour, while also speaking on the feelings and fear held by victims of abuse of authority by police officers. Throughout the song, Staples creates a mood of fear and

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    Florida and wasn’t shut down until recently. The amount of abuse that took place there is absolutely disgusting and wasn’t discovered for many years. Colson Whitehead emphasizes within The Nickel Boys how discrimination divides us through trauma, The Jim Crow Laws, and the abuse of power. Whitehead expresses the traumatic experiences that some boys went

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    According to the law dictionary, police brutality is the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. This definition is extremely simplistic when we look at what is going on in the world today. We have seen children be murdered by a police officer, young men taken from their families because of a misunderstanding, and the worst thing about all of this, is it stems from an abuse of power along with stereotyping and racism. The job of a police officer is to protect and

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    gives the police too much power. “The primary purpose [of the body camera] was really for improving police officers’ behavior,” said Michael Scott, a clinical professor at Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. “But now the question is, should the produced video be confidential? Or should it be public?” Scott spoke at the Cholla library on August 26 at 2 p.m. to a small group of attendees. He addressed the issues with new technologies available to police officers

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    Police are supposed to enforce the law amongst people around the world, but unfortunately, some of the ways they enforce are unjust and unruly. Over the past decade, they have acted out in ways that have caused us to question whether or not they are fit for the job or if something should be changed. Police brutality is the malicious use of excessive force, often in the form of physical actions, but also common in verbal abuse and psychological intimidation by a police officer. The word “Brutality”

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