CROSS CULTURE STEREOTYPES AND COMMUNICATION Robert Lincoln Kaplan University CJ 246-02 February 15, 2014 INTRODUCTION This paper will analyze cross culture contact that police officers and civilian employees have with citizens, victims, suspects, and coworkers. It will also show how the misunderstandings can cause the system to become involved in a family’s life through courts, police, and child protective services. It will then show how important it is that the police and civilian employees
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and order, investigate crimes and provide assistance to the community. There are various functions that each level of policing agencies handle and are broken into local, state and federal levels. In this paper I will discuss the various functions of a police agency, compare the functions on a local, state and federal level, explain what would happen if various functions and policing were limited in a community. Law enforcement is one of the three major components of the criminal justice system. Communities
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Policing in US Society Local police agencies have rules and regulations that they are to abide by; however, these policies change between agencies and jurisdictions. The federal government does not have many guidelines to lead the local agencies into how their agencies should be ran, including how many officers there should be for a certain amount of citizens in a patrolled area. In 2003 the national average for local agencies was 2.5 sworn officers per thousand (Walker & Katz, 2008, p. 66)
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beating of a civilian that was under arrest. There have been countless cases where unarmed African Americans have been shot or physically harmed to the extent where they are killed when the citizen is unarmed. The police force is supposed to make America feel protected and should enforce the nation’s law. Officers should be prime examples for the youth of the nation. Throughout the years it seems police has especially targeted minorities. Citizens are being mistreated because of wrongful assumptions
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work toward protecting citizens’ rights and helping America become the land of the free. The United States of America is built from the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights and police play a major role in making sure American rights are met. Evolution has changed many of American history for the better; policing is part of those changes. As new issues in society arise, police must change and adapt to protect and serve the public. Early American policing strategies were based on the British model. Law enforcement
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place within the areas of policing, the courts and corrections. While discussing each division of the justice system and conduct a comparative analysis of each. This is important to discuss and determine how these systems have changed from 50 years ago to today. The history of criminal justice policy in regards to policing has experienced tremendous changes over the past 50 years. Between 1900 and 1970, an organized movement known as the Reform Era took place in policing around the country (Marion
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Policemen of the World Gina M. Scott Professor Stuart Collins History 105 June 15, 2014 Foreign policy, whether for or against, seems to be the center or major problem in most of the international incidences, that have occurred recently. A) Two or three (2-3) international events from the past five years that can be traced back to a foreign policy created after the Civil War. 1. Sri Lankan government policy towards India against support of China - Sri Lankan government had a foreign
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The United States of America is one of the most diverse countries in the world. People come from all over the world to the US in order to make a life for themselves. In the event that they ever have a run-in with the law, they also expect to be treated justly by the criminal justice system. While laws have been amended and created over the years, lawmakers have neglected to create a substantial amount of laws that take diversity into account. In the instance of selling drugs, certain drugs such as
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Predictive Policing CIS 500 Information System Decision Making January 16, 2013 In an effort to effectively compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets, we first need to examine what information technology is available to police and further more what information technology means. Information technology is “the collection of computing systems used by an organization” (Turban
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Michael Morlan HISTORY American policing has undergone a series of reform-periods in response to immediate, pervasive social concerns, from its early development in the first half of the 19th century, to its shift toward depoliticizing and professionalism during the end of that century, culminating in the ongoing response to issues that demanded attention during the Civil Rights Era, and, which continue to remain prevalent. The basis for modern policing lies in the principles outlined in the
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