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Conflict
The government, including the criminal justice system is meant to be answerable to people, however, there are instances where the law and the people will may conflict. This can be due to evolving social preferences that lawmakers have failed to catch up with or it can also be due to different communities having different standards. Resolving the conflict between doing what is required by the law and serving the will of the people is in many cases a black-and-white decision.
The police should always make sure that they enforce the law in every situation. However there are some cases which we can term as being minor and not too serious. They should have the ability of selectively enforcing laws that the public wants to be enforced. Even though the police are required to strictly enforcing law and order there ought to be some exceptions. There are instances where a law might not be...
In such a case the police should ignore such offenses since it is obvious that the individual might not even know what they are being charged about. There are also some offenses that the public is aware of and hence the police should concentrate on such offenses as opposed to the ones that are not popular.
The police or prosecutor should have the power to decide against charging a particular offender if it is clear that the local population does not want that person prosecuted. This is because the people might know something about the individual that the police or prosecutor might not know. Incase the people are all for an individual not to be charged then there has to be a good reason behind this and hence this should be put into consideration before a decision to change an individual is made. For instance there was a young man who was caught picking…
Community Policing Efficacy The Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994 heralded the beginning of a massive effort to reform policing strategies in the United States, in part through implementation of community-policing programs at the local level. Congress has allocated billions of federal dollars over the years since to support such efforts and by the end of the 20th century, close to 90% of all police departments serving communities
As this study points out, these encounters can lead to negative situations and even to death, injuries and legal issues. In essence, the relationship and involvement of the police from a formal point-of-view is based on two common law principles. These are, the facility and the responsibility of the police to protect the safety and welfare of the public, and secondly the principle of parens patriae, which dictates protection for
Police Culture and the Perpetuation of the Officer Shuffle Martha L. Shockey-Eckles conducted this ethnographic study in her pursuit to understand social change in the society. She aimed to identify key areas in need of change. The author worked tirelessly to mobilize and encourage local residents to combine efforts towards imparting change, where it is most demanded (Rushkoff, 2013). The ethnographic approach served as the instrument for picking up data about the
Frequent town meetings where residents can air concerns to representatives of the force likewise fosters a sense of community empowerment. Finally, it goes without saying that officers must, to establish trust, always seem ethical and not act as if they are above the law. Not abusing police privileges, not accepting things 'on the house' such as free food, upholding the law when engaging in searches, stops, and seizures, and including
1).This study reports that it is important to weigh both "...legal and extralegal factors" in the attempt to understand police misconduct. Furthermore, "...implications for issues of racial and ethnic stereotyping..." must be given consideration in incidents of police misconduct and allegations of misconduct on the part of police officers is critically necessary. The work of Judith a. Greene entitled: "Zero Tolerance: A Case Study of Police Policies and Practices in New
The events occurred within a month in the UK and reported even by international media. A radical re-examination of the conduct of UK's leaders needs to be done for the future of its population (Cockindale). More or less of the same disaster occurs within the service itself. A study found that four out of five police officers who resign do so because of poor management ((BBC News 2008). Despite record-high