California Highway Patrolman Craig Peyer: How His Murder Case Affected The General Public's Trust Of Police Officers
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5 pages in length. In 1987, a California Highway Patrol officer was arrested for the strangulation murder of college student Cara Knott while on duty; he was convicted in 1988 after two trials. This case, which made legal history on several issues, served to add to the growing distrust the general public already held toward police officers, giving the populace reason to believe their safety was not necessarily protected under the badge. According to testimony from several women, Patrolman Peyer had a history of pulling over female drivers on a particularly dark and desolate portion of San Diego highway, at which point he engaged the women in long, rambling conversations that left many uncomfortable and scared. How are citizens – women, in particular – supposed to abide by the law when being pulled over when they fear for their very lives if they do? Is the general public justified in feeling scared and vulnerable with regard to the handful of officers whose conduct detrimentally impacts the entire force? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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California Police Officers: Certain Physique And Weight Management
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6 pages in length. The last one hundred years have served to transition the overall duties of police officers from highly physically demanding to duties shared between physicality and technology. Typically, big, strong men were representational of the early 1900s police force when walking was the only way in which to patrol the city. The ability to dart and dash after offenders was the primary means by which police officers could ever hope to apprehend, inasmuch as that era had little more than body-to-body contact for bringing down the perpetrator. Today, the advent of technology gives police officers a tremendous advantage over their historical counterparts with devices to stop and capture the offender, but that does not preclude the need for law enforcement officers to be in peak condition. Police work may not be as physical in nature as it was back at the turn of the century, however, it still entails a significant amount of maneuvering that requires officers be as physically fit as possible. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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California's Drug Policies
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A 4 page overview of California's approach to combating the problems caused by illicit drugs. Noting such laws as three-strikes-you're-out alongside the state's emphasis on treatment centers for non-violent offenders, the author concludes that California policy is based on considerations revolving around measures that best protect the interests of California's citizenry. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Case Of Jeremiah Mearday: Conflict Theory
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6 pages in length. The case of Jeremiah Mearday, where two Chicago police officers were invested for wrongly beating an eighteen-year-old African American man, illustrates the extent to which the conflict theory has overtaken any ethical aspects of the city's approach to law enforcement. Inasmuch as this particular criminal theory espouses how one's behavior is expressed through one's "self-interests in a material world of threat and violence" (Collins, 1974, pp. 56-61), white officers James Comito and Matthew Thiel of the Grand Central District took it upon themselves to violate Mearday's civil rights without provocation. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Causes And Effects Of Fatigue In Police Officers
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A 15 page paper. Fatigue in our nation's police officers is a very serious problem. This essay explores this problem. The writer begins with newspaper headlines that illustrate the effects of sleep deprivation among police officers. The literature review is divided into two sections: the many different causes of fatigue and the effects of fatigue. These sections first discuss the issues in general and then, as they specifically relate to police officers. Law enforcement officers sleep a good deal less than the average person, leading to persistent fatigue, which, in turn, leaves these officers less able to deal with the everyday events in their lives. The last section of this essay discusses what some departments have done to combat this problem and also offers recommendations for changing this dreadful condition among our police officers. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Censoring Dangerous Information on the Internet
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This 5 page report makes the argument that censorship of dangerous information on the Internet is an important consideration in preventing both domestic and foreign terrorist attacks. In particular, information regarding how to make a bomb is both harmful and dangerous and should be censored from the Internet. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Challenges For Policewomen: Recruiting, Training, Job Advancement and Retention
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5 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses issues pertaining to women on the police force. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Changes in Law Enforcement
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8 pages. Over the last thirty years there have been many major changes in law enforcement and the hiring of law enforcement officers. This paper looks at what has caused these changes, why they have come about, and why this is an important issue to consider. When one considers the many changes our society has gone through over the last thirty years it is obvious that law enforcement has had to change accordingly. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Changes in Police Hiring Analyzed
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This 8 page research paper examines the changes which have occurred within the last 20 years in the hiring of law enforcement officials. Specifically discussed are the Clinton Administration's federal grant program entitled, Police Supplement Hiring Program, designated to provide grants to law enforcement agencies with the most significant needs; the problems with ensuring that the grants get to the designated regions; the problem with appropriated funds being used for reasons other than police hiring; officers that are hired aren't necessarily placed where the need is the greatest; and the alleged discriminatory practices of the police-hiring testing process. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Changing Policy in a Police Department: Changing Tip Line Protocol at the Sacramento Police Department
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This 5 page paper discusses the implementation of a policy change in a police department. However, it also talks about the problems with tip hotlines. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Chapters of “Forces of Deviance”
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12 pages summarizing 5 chapters of this book by Kappeler, Sluder and Alpert. The chapters address issues both surrounding and explaining the reasons underlying the commission of deviant acts by police. The chapters address deviant behavior; prejudice and discrimination; police brutality; abuse of authority; and drug-related police deviance. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KScrimPolDev.rtf

CIA - Continuously In Action?
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(6 pp) The U.S. isforced to confront international relationships in a way that varies from the patterns of the past. President Clinton's rhetoric during the 1992 electoral campaign recognized these developments, and it is important to consider how this awareness, or change in attitude may influence administration policy. Management of the CIA and the U.S. intelligence community is a crucial part of the new administration's national security effort and merits careful evaluation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Coca, Erythroxylum coca, The Start of Cocaine
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This 7 page report discusses cocaine and the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca. The plant itself is native to South America where it has been cultivated since the time of the Incas. Most of the world's coca grows in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. Although the illegal cocaine market has changed coca production in a fundamental way, traditional legal uses of the plant for chewing and herb tea, with their export markets, remain. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Codes of Conduct in Law Enforcement
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This 7 page paper examines various codes of conduct in law enforcement professions. Codes of conduct concerning police officers, attorneys, judges and corrections personnel are examined and compared. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Collective Bargaining in the Law Enforcement Profession
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A 10 page paper which examines the impact of unionization in the public sphere of law enforcement, providing a brief history, advantages and disadvantages, and specifically considers how California police unions have been affected by collective bargaining. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Communication Processes Used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
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This is a 5 page paper discussing communication processes within the RCMP. Within the last decade, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) initiated a communications plan introduced by the External Review Committee which would increase communications internally in the organization and externally with the public and emergency personnel. Since the introduction of the plan several processes have been implemented which have seen the conception of this plan. Within the organization, several communication channels have been introduced such as the new conflict management program called the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Project which has created an open and interactive dispute process replacing the slower grievance submission process. Internally, the Review Committee is also responsible for making sure communication and reporting procedures within the organization run smoothly. Externally, several new programs have been introduced to improve communications such as the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP and the formation of new technologies which include the Wide-Area Radio Network allowing direct communication links between the RCMP, fire and emergency personnel services. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Community Police Academies
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This 3 page paper proves an overview of community police academies. Its beginning in Great Britain is duly noted but the paper concentrates on its existence in the U.S. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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