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    gaining public support and involvement is critical for successful police services. (Yuksel & Tepe 29). Improving relationships with communities and the police is important towards gaining public support and involvement. Building trust and support through cultural competency, diversity, education, and accountability can help improve these relationships. Much of the issues in a lot of communities where there are bad community-police relationships extend beyond the actions of law enforcement, and as

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    Do you think cops do their job the right way? Do you think cops could do their job better? In recent years more and more police brutalities have occurred from the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL on 2012 to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO on 2014. Many people now do not respect or trust the cops anymore because of the way that cops have been doing their job. What is one way that the cops can gain the respect of the people again. What is one tool that could help capture what a

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    In the research conducted by Smith and Holmes on police use of coercive mechanisms they tested three hypotheses regarding excessive force, which consisted of the minority threat hypothesis, the place hypothesis, and the community accountability hypothesis. The minority threat hypothesis states that the greater the proportion of minority residents in a city, the greater the use of coercive crime control mechanisms. The place hypothesis argues that segregated minority populations are the primary targets

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    since passed and enacted laws that provide some sort of immunities and exemptions for officers that may violate laws in the process of administering their works. [1: G. Marx, Undercover—Police Surveillance in America (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1988); and C. Fijnaut and G. Marx (eds.), Undercover—Police Surveillance

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    The book list that four values that they think deserve special emphasize as efficiency, legality, equity, and accountability (Cordner, 2016.) They also listed some of the examples of values used for police departments as Portland Police Bureau highlight on (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Service) and Madison Police Department values as (Human Dignity, Service, Community Partnership, integrity, Proficiency and Continuous Improvement, Diversity, and Leadership) (Cordner

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    Dilemma of a Police Officer Professions are guided by codes of ethics to aid them in performance of their duties and to ensure maintenance of high standards of conduct. Police officers are faced with a maze of obligations in the performance of their official duties. The “Law Enforcement Code of Ethics” and “Canons of Police Ethics” were created to make explicit the conduct considered appropriate for police officers and to guide them in the performance of their duties. Although police have these guides

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    Overview Canada’s Criminal Justice System and its personnel’s may not be as perfect as it is portrayed. Authorities such as the police and judges are shown as making ethical decisions in favor of peace, equity, and justice in society, although, they may go beyond their boundaries and abuse their powers and authority and are subject to review. In this paper I will discuss how police and judges abuse their powers and authority within the Canadian Justice System and how it is dealt with as well as critique

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    “Police are people and the people are the police” CJA 214 January 9, 2012 Jeremy Leach In Bury, Lancashire, on February 5, 1788, the “Father” of modern day policing was born. Through his work and studies of public service, Sir Robert Peel developed principles and policies that have impacted what is considered modern day policing. He created what is commonly known as the Peelian Principles. While Sir Robert Peel’s principles still stand out in law enforcement policies today, nine points of

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    New Public Management; the case of U.S Police Department Name: University: Faculty: Professor: Date: Abstract The purpose of this research paper was to understand the new public management (NPM), its writers and/or inventors and its applicability to the U.S police department. The design and methodological approach for this paper was in such a way that, it reviewed the various literature and history that existed concerning the use and application of this theory on public departments, that

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    The excessive use of force and the racial profiling violates several human rights. The treaties that have been breached by police officers are Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials, and the International Convention on the Elimination on all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Two of the human rights that are violated from the UDHR are article 2, freedom of discrimination, and article

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