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    media report. As this survey is sampled and not censes, it does appear to create sampling issues which are resulted in the data. This appears when respondents do not recall an incident, recalled crimes which were not within the time frame of the survey, crimes which haven’t been recorded to the police or simply incidents which have been miscoded when entered. The police recorded crime is provided from the ONS, the Home office who are responsible for the collection of the recorded crime reports throughout

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    been on the rise between blacks and police, moreover, it only seems to keep getting worse due to the falling justice system of police not being held accountable for their actions. Furthermore, in this article it talks compares percentages of how Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics feel about the police in their local communities. Also, there are racial gaps on how each views the performance of police. The Black and Hispanic community agree that fatal encounters with police are a social problem than whites

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    Proper procedures that are consistent with every test are important when administering tests. The following details the steps police use when giving roadside tests with the Alco-Sensor FST. Before a test is to take place, an officer must record the serial number of the breathalyzer being used and attach a clean mouthpiece (Canada. British Columbia Association of Chiefs of Police, 2017). As seen in figure 2 below, the Alco-Sensor FST, shows the direct testing mouthpiece and LCD display. (Figure

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    The National Crime Victimization Survey is a yearly self-report survey that is a nationally representative sample for the United States. This is 38,000 households who are replaced every three years to different household. This is about 68,000 people. The interviews have many questions and take place twice a year. Questions involving the nature of crimes, injury, and weapons are asked. The victim’s and offender’s age, sex, race, and relationship are disclosed along with the victim’s marital

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    gender and urban policing. The authors argue that important insights about police misconduct with the minority group members can be gained by doing in-depth interviews of African American youths in St. Louis, Missouri. The sample participants in the study consist of 75 American American youths where 35 of them were young women and 40 of them were young men. The findings state that from the sample, 33 men experienced police harassment when compared to women where only 16 of them experienced harassment

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    target population for the survey is residents of Bakersfield. 4.2 Sample The sample will consist of a total of 100 male and 100 female residents from Bakersfield, who are aged between 18-65. It will be selected by using the stratified sample technique, which will involve dividing residents into groups based on their gender and then using those groups to conduct our sampling. This will ensure that we are able to obtain an even sample of male and females and allow for determination of any difference

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    by the police and other official agencies’ (Moore, Aiken, Chapman 2006, p. 267). These records are gathered and published by the Home Office. According to Moore and Sinclair (1995) for an action to be officially categorised as a crime it should be considered as deviant and reported to the police. Then, the police should respond in the way which will start the legal process. There are two main types of official crime statistics: police crime records and court and prison figures. The police systemising

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    of crime statistics published annually in the UK namely police recorded crime and the Crime Survey of England and Wales. According to the Crime Survey of England and Wales, in total there were 7.1 million incidents of crime in 2013-2014. Although there has been an 11% reduction in crime, several categories of crime such as sexual offences, fraud and public order offences are up from the previous year. In comparison, latest figures from police recorded crime shows no overall change from the previous

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    experienced 3.4 police stops in the past two years, compared to 0.7 stops for white males and 0.5 stops for Chinese males. Although black females are less likely to be stopped and questioned by the police than black males, they are significantly more likely to report police stops than white or Chinese females. In fact, black females (9%) are more likely to report three or more police stops than white (8%) or Chinese males (6%). On average, black females report 0.7 police stops in the past

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    Rape On Campus Analysis

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    student perpetrator who is a sex offender” (Kingston). According to the author Anne Kingston of the article “The Real Danger for Women on Campus.” Most females that report their rapes when they were under the influence of alcohol or dressed a certain way were seen as consenting sexual partners not as rape victims. For example, in Toronto a police officer made a remake saying women would protect themselves from rape if they didn’t dress like sluts. People tend to focus on the victims’ clothing, reputations

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