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    Are you being punished for stopping for the police? While pursuits do not always end how we want them to, they are an unfortunate necessary evil in the law enforcement profession. The purpose of the speech is to inform you of the need for law enforcement to pursue fleeing drivers and the consequences those convicted of fleeing police need to face. As a police officer, I have been in more than one (1) vehicle pursuit and have had countless drivers flee from me. Let me start this speech with a

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    necessary exercise in the ongoing pursuit of criminals. Search and seizures are used to produce evidence for the prosecution of alleged criminals. Protecting citizens from arbitrary searches, the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is our right to limit and deny any unreasonable search and seizure. More often than not, police officers tend to take advantage of their authority by the use of coercion. Although it is unlawful, most citizens do not know what police officers can and cannot do in respect

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    Kappeler, Sluder, & Alpert (1998) explain that through the police subculture deviance enters into law enforcement. The police character that is developed can be attributed to several paradigms such as psychological, sociological, and anthropological. The individual personalities of an officer and the authoritarian personality, characterized by cynicism, aggression, and conservatism, is that the psychological paradigm analyzes (p. 85). The socialization process which officers experience when they

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    because they can be hazardous to society. There are three important reasons why this act should not be allowed: police high speed chases cause a countless number of

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    On Thursday, February 17, 2017 at around 12:09 am, I, Sergeant Bever heard over the radio the Officer Etheridge was in pursuit of a vehicle in the College Park Subdivision and assisted him in the pursuit. I caught up to the pursuit when the vehicle being chased turned onto West Park Dr and headed west. The vehicle then turned right onto Ridgeway Dr, heading west, made a U-turn and turned left onto West Park Dr and headed north. The vehicle then made a right turn onto Northbrook Dr, a right turn

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    Motorcycle Rider Suicide

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    I chose this video which is about a high speed pursuit involving the police and some motorcycles. The video clearly shows that the motorcycle riders were speeding excessively. It also clearly shows that the police officer was also speeding in his pursuit of them. This high speed chase actually led to the death of one of the motorcycle riders (please note, in no way, do I agree with the motorcycle riders and their disregard for the law). I feel that this video shows two different things: one being

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    arrest? • The essential elements necessary to constitute probable cause to arrest are there must be reason to believe that a crime has been committed and the person to be arrested committed the offense (p. 69). 3. When may a police officer arrest a person without a warrant? • A police officer may arrest a person without

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    common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person 's property and impound any related evidence to the offence. In other words, it is a pursuit by law enforcement officials for possessions or communications alleged to be evidence of the crime, and the act of taking possession of this assets. The law of search and seizures is very essential in helping fight the current pursuit of criminals. The evidence from

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    Kappeler, Sluder, & Alpert (1998) explain that through the police subculture deviance enters into law enforcement. The police character that is developed can be attributed to several paradigms such as psychological, sociological, and anthropological. The individual personalities of an officer and the authoritarian personality, characterized by cynicism, aggression, and conservatism, is that the psychological paradigm analyzes (p. 85). The socialization process which officers experience when they

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    Police Chief Roles

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    An internal role of a police chief involves managing the police organization itself. The internal role is concerned with everything that takes place within the boundaries of the organization (Cordner, 2016.)An external role is a preceding discussion focused on the police executive’ internal role of managing and leading the police organization and its members. The external role of the police chief involves managing the organization’s interaction with its environment (Cordner, 2016.) The internal roles

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