Category: Police

  • Mentoring Programs in Police Departments

    Table of Contents Introduction Design of the Mentoring Program How to Attract and Connect the Participants Process for Guiding the Relationship Identification of Measurements of Success Identifying Potential Risks Work Cited Introduction The given proposal revolves around a one-on-one mentoring program that can be used by police departments to improve officers’ competence, share critical experiences,…

  • Public Role and Control of Police

    The first thing that comes to mind when talking about police is that their role is to help people, protect them, and improve the quality of their lives. The implementation of these goals lies in the maintenance of law and public order, and crime control through the investigation and prevention of criminal activities. It is…

  • Beyond “Police Brutality”: Racist State Violence and the University of California – Article Review

    The article that will be reviewed in this paper is “Beyond “police brutality”: Racist state violence and the University of California” by Dylan Rodríguez. I chose this reading due to the rapidly increased relevance of this topic in the past few years, especially in the wake of recent protests from people of color. This paper…

  • Liability Issues for Police Departments

    Introduction Police departments are designed to guard ordinary citizens against crime and to punish those who commit it. However, the growing number of cases in which police officers committed crimes shows that unfortunately the authority given to them is being misused. Cases that incriminate the innocent, excessive use of force, lack of response to dangerous…

  • Role of Police Agencies in Law Enforcement

    For many years law enforcement agencies from different countries put little effort in controlling white color crimes. There were few laws enacted to deal with these crimes. Other factors that contributed to this were the lack of knowledge on how to identify white color crimes among the public as well as law enforcement agency crimes.…

  • The Rise of Police Brutality against African-American Males

    Introduction The problem of police brutality against minorities is actively discussed in the modern American society because of the public’s attention to each case when police officers demonstrate the excessive use of force. In most cases, those situations in which victims of police brutality are African-American males attract more public’s attention, and this fact requires…

  • Police Administration and Key Effectiveness Factors

    When evaluating the impact of a police force within a particular area and judging effective performance, the best indicator would be to examine repetitive police action in preventing the same types of crimes (Robinson & Tilley, 2009). What must be understood is that effectiveness in police action entails preventing the same type of crime or…

  • Report for the Chief of Police

    Table of Contents Abstract Definition and Description of the Uniform Crime Report Data-Gathering Strategy and Rationale Discussion of the Crime Trends Source Abstract Maintaining statistics is one of the primary tasks of police departments, and its importance is defined by the need to provide information on the current crime rate. Data relating to this indicator…

  • The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department: Most Pressing Issues

    This preliminary report is aimed to outline the most pressing issues with community policing in Savannah, GA, and to provide some discursive insights into how the functioning of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department can be made de facto consistent with the slogan ‘to serve and protect’. The most challenging obstacle on the way of reaching…

  • Police Use-of-Force in Graham v. Connor & Tennessee v. Garner Cases

    Table of Contents Graham v. Connor CA PC835a Law Comparison Differences and Similarities Restrictiveness Conclusion Scenario Analysis References A state police officer shot Garner to death as he fled the crime scene. Even though Garner was unarmed, the police officer felt he had the right to shoot him to prevent his escape. Garner’s father, the…