Riot control

Each and every-day of our lives we are protected by men and women in the police force. Police officers must handle extremely dangerous situations like fights, robberies, or even riots. During riots police officers use many weapons to subdue rioters, but sometimes the less lethal weapons can be just as bad as the lethal ones. What do you think the world would be like if you didn’t have anybody to enforce the law every day, or when you are in trouble and there is nobody is there to come and

explicitly designed and used so as to incapacitate personal or material while minimizing fatalities and undesired damage to property and environment.” (Nick Lewer) In the 21st century, we have various effective non-lethal weapons to combat and subdue riots. In order to protect rioters from their self’s and others, the police will commonly us incapacitating chemicals, flash bangs, or kinetic impact munitions. Tear gas was something that militaries were experimenting with and using in the first world

coming into contact with law enforcement. Given the emotional status to these situations, violent encounters started becoming more widespread. As such, less lethal methods of crowd/riot control became the focus for law enforcement. At the time, chemical agents/irritants were the most frequently used method to control riots. Other less than lethal weapons, but not limited to are, wooden, rubber, and bean-bag bullets/rounds, were also being introduced, but given restrictions on law enforcement budgets

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Today there are numerous reports in every newspaper/media about officer's over using their power/ authority in minor situations that can be easily de-escalated with other alternatives. I will be discussing the many alternatives that are available for officer's to reduced the amount of police related injuries and deaths. As the public already knows police officers have discretions to either use or not use deadly force when they deem appropriate. This authority has set policing apart from

Technology used in policing enhances law enforcement organizations’ ability to function because it has improved police databases, reports, tracking, and forensics (DOJ, 2004). In addition, a less-lethal weapon is designed to disable, capture, or immobilize a suspect without killing them. However, occasionally deaths do happen as a result of less-lethal weapons which include kinetic energy, electrical, acoustic, and chemical weapons. Furthermore, violence, disease, and infected evidence are dangers

Executive Summary The drone age is coming per Galeotti . It has been estimated that annual spending on drones around the world will almost double to $11.4 billion by 2022. New technology has been driven by the military, and drones are critical to military operations. Due to changing times, drone use is rapidly adjusting to commercial use by civilians. This drone revolution has massive implications, ranging from legal and moral to economic and geopolitical. It will be a deeply disruptive technology

On 09/03/2017 at 1030 hours, FTO Wheeler #4361 and I responded to 24th St. and Mission St. regarding a call of an elderly male bleeding from his neck and holding a knife. Officer Wheeler and I responded in full police uniform and in a marked patrol vehicle when we responded. Officer’s Wheeler#4361, McEachern#382, Phillips#2454, Claudio#1623, Fung#2159, Guillory#1806, Sutton#2446, Hayes#1116, Cathey#1090, Masilang#1344, Dudley#1497, Williams#2236, and Shablinskiy#2262 all activated their (BWC1) Body

The morals and beliefs the officer has also plays a huge role in his/her behavior. Unfortunately, there are officers that are sexist, racist, etc. Since there are officers with poor morals, there are the stereotypes of officers being racist. A person’s morals will determine how they react to a certain person or group. Racial Profiling is becoming more known and common when talking about police brutality, especially in higher-crime neighborhoods. More times than not, African American males have

On August 6th 2011, riots started in Tottenham, London, over the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by the police. Protesters attacked the police station and its officers. Over the next 3 days the rioting, looting, arson, criminal damage and assault rapidly spread throughout London and England. The speed at which the riots spread caught those in charge off guard so they didn’t call for reinforcements fast enough. This meant there were insufficient numbers of police officers on the streets to stop the