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    Officer Discretion

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    The topic of this week had a few questions concerning officer discretion and the amount that officer could exhibit in the course of their job. Where does the line between officer discretion and obligation does began and end? The answer is about as clear as mud and varies depending on the interaction. After reading a post from a fellow classmate I was informed that he had the discretion to asses a warning citation in light of a teenager observed to by the officer breaking many traffic laws. He had

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    Police officers are the people who protect the community. Lately we had a couple pf incidents with police officers and citizens. Many citizens are now freighted by police officers. We have some citizens who do attacks against police officers, causing the loss of innocent lives. Police officers should be required to wear body cameras because the videos could be used for evidence at trial, and police officers can look back at the videos to evaluate themselves. One reason police officers should wear

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    I’ve lived in Chicago almost all my life. There’s a lot of neighborhoods in Chicago; Good and bad. Living on the south side of Chicago most of my life would make you think there’s nothing but violence in the city. Even though Its bad, I enjoy the neighborhood I live in now. The neighborhood I live in is Roseland, but I grew up in Englewood. Both neighborhoods are similar, but they have their differences. Roseland and Englewood are both known neighborhoods for Some of the same reasons. They both

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    Jerry Kane Fraud

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    them was during a routine stop in West Memphis, Ark by two police officers in 2010. Jerry Kane was stop with his 16 old sin Joseph. Jerry was doing speeches all across the country about sovereign citizen movement. A little bit after the stop the son stepped out of the car with an AK-47, opening firing on both officers and killing them both. A major manhunt was on looking for them both and it took about 2 hours to find them. When the police found them a second shootout accord with more officers getting

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    Why Police Should Wear Body Cameras Close your eyes for a minute. Imagine the world if everything bad was recorded. People like Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Jonathan Fred, and Keith Scott. How many more names will have to become a hashtag before it all stops? It would be easy to prove evidence if people were recorded by the police because it would increase safety in the community if police officers wore body cameras. Like Keith Scott, who was killed

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    Growing Scourge

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    in Lincoln Park Demand or More officers” by Mina Bloom expresses the concern for the crime rate in Lincoln Park. Due to the increase in crime rate after a woman was robbed and suffered a head injury has brought the idea and concerns of wanting more police men in Lincoln Park. She is getting her sources from the spokesperson and witnesses from the incident. The voice missing within the article is the victim herself. Furthermore, the article, “Geja’s Café Just Got even More

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    Brutality Of Policing

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    Police departments have been in existence for a long time. Over the period of their existence, the police departments have a history of upholding the law as their main objective. Moreover, they protect the citizens and offer help through preventing and responding to any emergencies (Kesic, Thomas and Ogloff, 2012). With all these responsibilities, therefore, police officers often find themselves with a lot of duties and, as a result, they sometimes find it hard to have appropriate interactions with

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    Transgender Police Profiling Police profiling is far from a thing of the past. Recent events in American society have exposed not only racial profiling, but now discrimination and bias-based arrests on transgender individuals. While many corrections officers believe they are doing their jobs by arresting transgender people that they perceive as criminal or engaging in illegal activity, at times some officers take their harrassment too far and use their force in a bias-based manor. It is the responsibility

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    The Battle of Police Misconduct The war on crime fought on the streets is far too often waged against innocent individuals unaware of, or intimidated into surrendering their constitutional rights. Police officers often make bad judgment calls on a possible offender and resort to using more force than needed. With the two parties involved in the situation, misunderstandings of communication play’s a major role in why police misconduct is becoming more and more of an issue. As minority citizens are

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    Being an FTO myself before transitioning into investigations, I know rookies will have many deficiencies throughout the FTO program. However, that is the sole reason senior officers are FTO’s and we have an FTO program. To work out the kinks and help that rookie become the best officer he or she can become. All recruits are different and recruits all have strengths and weaknesses. It is the FTO’s job to complement their strengths and improve their weaknesses. Some of the most common deficiencies

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