...Losing Count of Police Brutality Summary This article “King: So much police brutality that it’s hard to monitor” by Shaun King states that almost 2,000 people have passed away by the police. King also states that every day, at least 3 people are killed before they even go to jail and 8 people die in jail. He is saying that the amount of people killed by the police in America is impossible for civilians to keep up. He also mentions that he is ashamed that other loved ones are surviving but struggling because other families have lost a loved one due to police brutality. And he says, it is hard to imagine going through that. Can Police Brutality be Justified Summary This article “Justifying Police Brutality.” By Adam Serwer states that many people...
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... Deana Bohenek This is an interview with Justice Tom C. Clark one of the nine Justices for the United States Supreme Court. The case Miranda v. Arizona was argued February 28, March 1st, and 2nd 1966 the decision was June 13th, 1966. The vote was 5 to 4 in favor of Miranda v. Arizona. Q. Where did this case originate? Mr. Justice Clark Miranda v. Arizona originated in Phoenix Arizona, when Ernesto Miranda an immigrant was arrested for kidnapping and rape, he was taken into custody and question for two hours by police until he confessed. What the police did was not inform Mr. Miranda of two rights he is entitled to. The 5th and 6th Amendment, the right to protect himself against self-incrimination and the right to have counseling. The case went to court, the prosecutor used his confession as evidence along with other evidence. Miranda was convicted and sentenced for 20 to 30 years in prison. Q. Were there any other cases similar to this being considered by the United States Supreme Court? Mr. Justice Clark Yes three others Virgira v. New York, Westover v. United States, California v. Stewart, all three of these cases were based on the accused were not informed of their 5th and 6th amendment rights of remaining silent, and the right to counsel. Q. Just how did the case of Miranda v. Arizona get to the U.S. Supreme Court? Mr. Justice Clark Anyone convicted of a crime has the right to appeal the conviction if they believe a legal error...
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...STYLE AND USE-OF-FORCE BEHAVIOR OF POLICE OFFICERS by Tommy Sickels Copyright June, 2015 A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctorate in Educational Leadership University of Phoenix The Dissertation Committee for Tommy Sickels certifies that this may be the approved version of the following dissertation: The Dissertation Committee for Tommy Sickels certifies approval of the following dissertation: A CORRELLATlONAL STUDY IN LEADERSHIP STYLE AND USE-OF-FORCE BEHAVIOR OF POLICE OFFICERS Commiittee: Orlando Ramos, PhD, Chair Peggy Coplin, DPA, Committee Member Jack Phan, PhD, Committee Member ,,__.____ _ ,,__.____ _ Jeremy Moreland, PhD Dean, School of Advanced Studies University of Phoenix ABSTRACT Leadership style and police officer use-of-force are two important functions of law enforcement. What could be more important in a law enforcement agency than to have these two variables coexisting in an organization in a harmonious manner? By investigating whether a relationship exists between these two variables an answer to this question could emerge. In law enforcement today, the cost associated with excessive use-of-force civil law-suits against police officers and their departments can be staggering. Exposing police officers to a specific leadership style may influence the dynamics in the use-of-force behavior during arrests or other police actions. Evaluating a non-experimental...
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...Police Misconduct and its Social Impact Can Better Police Training result in a decrease of Police Brutality against minorities? A research paper submitted advocating the issues among police agencies in North America. This paper analyzes the protocol that determines the appropriate procedures for a safer community for the victimized minorities through use -of- force incidents. HSB4U1 December 11/12/2015 Summative Report Mrs. Kim By: Julianne Silva Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………Pg. 3 Chapter one: Police Issues American CCPSA Fixing Problems…………………………………………………………Pg. 4 America’s Flawed System……………………………………………………………………Pg. 6 Controlling the Police…………………………………………………………………………Pg. 7 Chapter two: Police Solutions The Debate over Body Cameras…………………………………………………………….Pg. 9 Changing Policies and Regulations...……………………………………………………….Pg. 10 Chapter Three: Community and Behaviour Police Subculture……………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Impact on Minorities…………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….Pg.14 Works Cited………………………………………………………………………………………Pg.15 Appendix A: Julianne Silva Survey Summary………………………………………………..Pg.17 Appendix B-1: ………………………………………………………………………………….... Appendix B-2……………………………………………………………………………………... Introduction One of the most controversial topics in police enforcement throughout history has been the issue between racial minorities and the misconduct of police officials...
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...circumstances, however, the activities of the police come under public scrutiny. This article deals with police and the use of excessive force. This article discus the police use of excessive force. This is a research agenda on police use of force, giving special attention to problems of excessive force. A variety of questions are raised, both reflecting the complexity of use-of-force issues and the relative scarcity of our knowledge about use-of-force transgressions. Introduction Police use of force became a very hot topic during the beginning of the 1990’s. It became a very controversial issue due to the fact that police officers most of the time they justify their abuse of use force. Since there job is to secure the city streets and to protect the citizens, they usually say that they were just doing their job. This created fear in many people because they witness most of the abuse on television or heard it directly from the victim. The Rodney King case and the Amadu Diallo had a deep impact on society concerning the authority of police officers. Many were afraid of the police officers for the unnecessary excessive use of force used to make an arrest. The abuse of force has created a lot of doubt and lack of trust in between the officer and the community. Many people will not cooperate with the police because of their bad perception they have toward police. This has been going on for a...
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...Willie Hurst A: Plan of Investigation To what extent did the trail and riots for Rodney King bring exposure to Police brutality and racial tensions in the United States? On March 3, 1991 Rodney King was involved in a high-speed chase from the police department. Kings car was spotted due to reckless driving along with the high speeds he was traveling along the highway at. After being forced to pull over, King was beaten by the Los Angeles Police Department. King was taken to Pacifica Hospital where he maintained facial fractures along with a broken ankle and many bruises and lacerations along his body. During the beating a local witness filmed the incident and sent the footage to the local news. The tape shows four policemen surrounding...
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...A summary of the story is that Elie Wiesel was a Jewish young teenager, along with his family, that was(instead of “that was” try using including) his father, sisters, and mother. He was separated from all of them except form(from) his father. After 3 years of confinement, his father died 2 months before they were going to be liberated form(From) the camps. He had been injured many times by people doing sneaky things such as taking his shoes so his foot got infected and needed to be operated on to fix it. Other innocent people during the holocaust were staved(starved) to near death, worked past their limits, and much more. The guards that were in the Nazi death camps were a privately own army that worked for the Nazi party; they were called the SS...
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...Intruding Ima and the Falsified Report An 8-year employee of your police agency, Officer Ima Goodenough, is a patrol officer who often serves as a field training officer. Goodenough is generally capable and experienced in both the patrol and detective divisions. She takes pride in being of the “old school” and has developed a clique of approximately 10 people with whom she gets along while mostly shunning other officers. As an officer of the old school, she typically handles calls for service without requesting cover units or backup. She has had six complaints of brutality lodged against her during the last 3 years. For Ima and her peers, officers who call for backup are “wimps.” She has recently been involved in two high-speed pursuits during which her vehicle was damaged when she attempted to run the offender off the road. Ima will notify a supervisor only when dealing with a major situation. She is borderline insubordinate when dealing with new supervisors. She believes that, generally speaking, the administration exists only to “screw around with us.” You, her shift commander, have been angry about her deteriorating attitude and reckless performance for some time and have been wondering whether you will soon have occasion to take some form of disciplinary action against her. You have also learned that Ima has a reputation among her supervisors as being a “hot dog.” Some of her past and present supervisors have even commented that she is a “walking time bomb”...
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...“Twilight 1992” is a series of monologue which is based on the interview Smith conducted with different individuals who were involved in the L.A. riot. Among them, Rudy Salas, Stanley K. Sheinbaum and Jason Sandford intrigue me the most. In “Twilight” Rudy Salas, Sr. the Mexican sculptor and painter seem almost consumed with hatred towards white police officers. Because of his Mexican heredity he says he was called inferior in school by the “nice white teachers” (2). No wonder he called them “the enemy”. Even so he doesn’t exactly hate them. But rather he says he has “an insane hatred for white policemen” (Smith 3). That is because of the fact that he was beaten and turned deaf by four cops when he was a teenager. He was kicked in the head and his eardrums were fractured. Here Salas contradicts himself by saying “I don’t like to hate, the way my uncle Abraham told me that to hate is to waste energy and you mess with the man upstairs” (Smith 3). But then again he can’t deny how he feels towards white policemen. Rudy Salas, Sr. is one of those citizens who were wronged by police, to be more specific “by white policemen”. Just as Rodney King case, Salas’ was also the one that had racism written all over it. In “Twilight” he further says that while reading the paper about cops being shot down on the street he can’t help but think “maybe he’s one of those m*****f*****s that, y’know…” (4). This clearly shows that his...
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...Miranda v. Arizona: Half a Century Later by: September 2nd, 2014 I. INTRODUCTION A. Executive Summary – In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court deliberated the case Miranda v. Arizona the most important aspect of due process and criminal procedure ever affecting law enforcement and prosecutorial conduct of an investigation. The main issues in this case were: * The admissibility of a defendant’s statements if such statements were made while the defendant was held in police custody or deprived of freedom of movement in a significant way; * What procedures were required to guarantee the defendant’s privilege against self-incrimination according to the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? This case is considered the summit of the criminal procedure evolution establishing specific procedures to safeguard the rights of defendants beyond the courtroom and onto the police station. The procedural details and the breadth of civil rights tangled in these four cases, made this decision the pinnacle case in the area of criminal procedure. Nowadays, this decision gave the name to what is widely known as the “Miranda Warnings” which include: 1. The suspect has the right to remain silent, 2. Anything he/she says may be used as evidence against him, 3. He/she has a right to the presence of an attorney during questioning, and 4. If indigent, he/she has a right to a lawyer selected for him without charge. II. STATEMENT OF FACTS RELATING TO THE...
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... Abstract During the 1960’s, police officers executed arrests and dealt with problems in a way that greatly differ from law enforcement of today. This time frame involved racial riots, women rights, civil rights and important court cases. Mapp v. Ohio was concluded in 1961, and concluded that the fourth amendment applied to state courts and not just federal. Women achieved major milestones in the 1960’s, and Civil Rights were one of the biggest topics of the times. In the criminal justice field, a law enforcement official is expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner on and off duty. Part I – Policing Research Police Trends and Issues during the 1960’s During the 1960’s, law enforcement was completely different from what it is today. Officers were taught to handle situations in a way that would be illegal and in some opinions, morally wrong. When there was a riot, regardless of what is motivating the crowd, law enforcement officials would use excessive force and various, unnecessary tactics. People today probably wonder what made police officials believe that this type of crowd control was an acceptable response to any type of situation. Unfortunately, police officers were taught this in the academies and honestly believed that what they were doing was right. Also during this era, the first female officers came into play for law enforcement. In conjunction to females being allowed to be become officers, the first black police officer was hired in the 1960’s...
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...misconduct or deviant behavior by police C. Occupational deviance 1. Criminal and non-criminal behavior 2. Committed during the course of normal work activities or under guise of police officer authority 3. Includes improper behavior that is not illegal (EX: sleeping on the job) D. Abuse of authority--action by an officer that 1. Injures, insults human dignity 2. And/or violates inherent rights of citizens III. The costs of police corruption A. Criminal activity by a police officer undermines basic integrity of law enforcement B. Corruption usually protects other criminal activity (EX: bribes to protect illegal gambling or drug trafficking) C. Undermines the effectiveness of the criminal justice system 1. Officers routinely testify in court 2. Reputation for dishonesty damages their credibility in criminal cases D. Undermines the professionalism of a police department 1. Corruption encourages police lying to protect other officers 2. Lying can spread to other areas of policing (EX: lying to cover up excessive force) E. Costs taxpayers F. Undermines public confidence in the police IV. Types of corruption A. Gratuities 1. Most common form of police corruption a. free meals b. discounts on other purchases 2. Some departments prohibit gratuities, others do not 3. Mixed motives for business owners a. some cases represent a "thank you" to officers for their job b. other cases i. reflect self-interest ...
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...MCN BOOK CLUB BOOK: ARUNA’S STORY AUTHOR: PINKY VIRANI SUBMITTED BY: AKANKSHA, HRM C (2014-16), H14127 SUMMARY: “One man. Plus a savage twist of one chain. And the thirty seconds for his sperm to release. Equals one broken woman.” These intense words leave me stunned long after I had turned over the final few pages of Aruna’s Story. Like most of us I too was familiar with the heart wrenching story of this unfortunate case of a bright, young nurse at King Edward Memorial hospital who was brutally raped and assaulted with a dog chain and is rendered to live in this horrendous existence for the past four decades. But I came to know the details of this incident only through this story and I can’t think of a single word that would describe my emotions while reading it. Pinky Virani’s powerful depiction of the incident, building up of the characters, portrayal of imagined conversations between Aruna and her co-workers, her lover, transports the readers back into Aruna’s world in November, 1973. I could relate to that vivacious, headstrong girl who had come to the city of dreams to make her identity, who worked hard and excelled in her field, who had that jittery anticipation of an impending wedding and the wonderful aspirations of a beautiful future ahead with her betrothed (Dr. Sundeep Sardesai). The book progresses in three segments, the first one dealing with the actual incident, the second part delves into Aruna’s life before and the final part discusses the present state of affairs...
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...enforcement oath of honor is as follows. “On my honor, I will never betray my badge, my integrity, my character, or the public trust. I will always have the courage to hold myself and others accountable for our actions. I will always uphold the constitution my community and the agency I serve.” On a daily basis police officers risk their lives to protect citizens and defend liberty. It is a noble and selfless occupation that makes a difference in the quality of life. Before taking the Law Enforcement Oath of Honor it is important to comprehend its meaning. Honor, means your word is given as a guarantee, Betray is breaking faith with the public trust, Badge is your symbol of office, Integrity is adhering to the same code of conduct in private life and public duty, Character is distinguishing qualities of an individual, Public Trust is the faith of those you serve that your conduct will be ethical, Courage is strength against danger fear and non-ethical pressure, Accountability You answer to the office of your oath and are responsible to it, and Community is the jurisdiction of the office and the citizens within it ("International Association of Chiefs of Police"). Officers are public servants who have authority over others and make decisions that contribute to public welfare. We expect them to wield this power without favor or prejudice. As a public servant ones life will be judged by the community....
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...Human Rights “The Essence of Constitutional Governance“ “Problems can be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” Introduction * Human: (noun) A member of the Homo sapiens species; a man, woman or child; a person. * Rights: (noun) Things to which you are entitled or allowed; freedoms that are guaranteed. * Human Rights: (noun) The rights you have simply because you are human. * Human rights are commonly understood as "inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being.” Human rights are thus conceived as universal (applicable everywhere) and egalitarian (the same for everyone). These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national and international law. The doctrine of human rights in international practice, within international law, global and regional institutions, in the policies of states and in the activities of non-governmental organizations, has been a cornerstone of public policy around the world. * Every person has dignity and value. One of the ways that we recognize this fundamental worth is by acknowledging and respecting a person’s human rights. * Human rights are concerned with equality and fairness. They recognize our freedom to make choices about our life and develop our potential as human beings. They are about living free from fear...
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