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    intruder or attacker. Those that do not have firearms trust that the police will take care of whatever situation might present itself. The average response time for the police is on average roughly 10 - 15 minutes. The average response time for a .357 magnum is 1300 feet per second. So using a .357 to shoot a target standing 1ft away is 900 times faster than waiting 15 minutes for a police officer. Many people have perished waiting for police while their home has been burglarized. With some sort of firearm

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    Police officers and those who supervise and manage them are only as successful as the environment allows them to be. With regards to the intelligence function, law and policy, citizen support, resource availability, agency cooperation, political environments, and other elements of the environments in which departments operate are just some of the issues that determine the ability and successfulness of agencies to create a useful intelligence product (Carter, 2010). Some beneficial means of working

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    the case Terry vs. Ohio, stop and frisk, racial vehicle stops, and the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act also known as Arizona SB 1070. In October of the year 1963, two strangers were visually perceived on a corner by Cleveland Police Department detective Martin McFadden Cleveland, Ohio. Officer McFadden stated that he saw the men pausing and staring suspiciously inside the same store window and both were seen making multiple

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    Introduction: Law Enforcement Foundations and similar programs in the Province of Ontario were developed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s to provide an academic foundation for those wishing to enter into the field of ‘Policing’. Prior to this time, Police applicants need only meet the minimum requirements of age (18 or older), High School Education, Clean Criminal Record and testing that were specific to the Agency that they applied to. Security Guards and Private Investigators had fewer requirements

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    of police use of deadly force than white citizens. When it comes to criminals, many people have a preconception of what a criminal is. Usually when people think of a criminal they picture a Black or Latino face. The thought of an Asian criminal is often related to Asian gangs. Interestingly enough, White people as a group are rarely associated with the thought of crime, even though they account for 70% of arrests and 40% of the prison population each year (Russel xiv). This seems to be

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    er 1 ISBN 0-558-46766-0 Law Enforcement in the 21 Century, Second Edition, by Heath B. Grant and Karen J. Terry. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. st Chapter Out line INTRODUCTION The Themes of the Book The Police Function: Social Control and the Use of Force Policing Within the Rule of Law: The Challenges of Discretion The Delicate Balance: Crime Control versus Due Process The Levels of Law Enforcement Municipal Agencies County Agencies State Agencies Federal

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    who never gave up if e was given a task. Ben caught wild cows and wild horses that were located in nearby hills. Ben Hall began running his own butcher shop in 1852 in a small town near Murrurundi, but he started getting into trouble with the local police for stealing horses and cattle. Later on in life, he got married to a lady named Bridget Walsh in Bathurst. In 1862, his life was then changed forever as his wife left him for another man and took their son, Henry with her. He went back to his

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    As stated above, that is how the prosecution works in both Germany and the United States. The defense council is the next topic that will be discussed. In German trials held in district courts, the right to counsel is mandatory and will be appointed even if the defendant does not want representation. However, this will only happen if the defendant has not already obtained private counsel. Germany does not have a public defender system intact whereas the American court system does. In Germany, the

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    “Kids For Cash” Reaction paper William Ecenbarger’s “Kid for Cash” book was a book that needs to be read by anyone interested in criminal justice. The kickback scheme was full of evil, greed, opportunity, public indifference, secrecy, and place (Ecenbarger, 2012.) For many kids, entering the courtroom would result in how their future and livelihood would remain for the rest of their lives. There are a lot of questions to be asked and very little that will ever get answered. One question may be why

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    Raskolnikov is a good looking, proud, intelligent man who has been forced to abandon his studies due to his lack of funds. He lives in a small apartment and is forced to constantly avoid his landlady because he has been unable to pay his rent for quite some time. Raskolnikov begins to think about killing a pawnbroker for her money to bring himself and others out of their abject poverty. Raskolnikov goes to the woman’s house for a test run of the murder but feels sick after just thinking of the act

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