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    David Leon Riley was pulled over by a police officer for driving with expired license plates. Once pulled over for operating the vehicle without valid registration, the officer discovered that Riley also had a suspended license. Following police policy for suspended licenses, the officer impounded Riley’s car. At that point another officer performed a mandatory inventory search of the car that led to the discovery of two handguns under the hood of the vehicle. Police proceeded to arrest Riley for the

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    I would like to become a detective, but first I have to attend the police academy. Therefore, this is why I would like for your opportunity to enter the police academy and finish it with high standards and expectations so that I can officially become a police officer. After serving my necessary years as a police officer, I would become a detective. I would like to go through all of this to become what I wanted to be, since I was a child. I want

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    approved and what is not. When going through the different articles, it was brought to light that detectives have to go through murky waters to gain the trust of some of the hardest criminals. I have chosen: Ethical Dilemmas of an Undercover Police Officer (2015), Rutledge (2007), and Harfield (2012), McCartney, & Parent, (2015), because they were the authors that stood out,

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    According to the probable cause statement filed on September 26, 2016, by Chesapeake Police Officer Allison Ostman, the following occurred in the city of Chesapeake: “On September 18, 2016, at approximately 03:30, I made contact with a suspicious occupied vehicle at the intersection of Drum Creek Road and Taylor Road that was occupied by several juveniles to include a Mr. Darren DelPapa. Due to an odor of marijuana in the vehicle, I performed a search of the vehicle for illegal narcotics. During

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    around it all my live and I have always found it very interesting. Once I am old enough to I plan on enrolling in to the police academe. I know some of the things you have to do, are to complete a physical training test to completely pass the academe, but that is all I know with academe besides the basics of learning of what to do as a officer. I have an idea of what police officers do, they will run drug and drunken test. As a cop you make or get warrants to search though peoples house, vehicles or

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    Starting out as the coal and iron police later turning into the great peace keeping force that exists today. A trooper is an employee of a police force that is warranted by law to enforce written laws. Working for the PA State Police comes with many opportunities in getting promoted to being apart of SERT (Special Emergency Response Team). The job outlook for police officers is roughly 4% from 2014 to 2024. As a PA State Trooper there are many benefits that come with this profession. Such as a clothing

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    Martin Luther King Jr.

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    been brought up several times among the year. People around the nation mourned the deaths after the tragedy happened. At the same time, similar issues happen repeatedly lead people to self-examine. No matter the massacre occurred in Charleston, the police shooting in Cleveland or Boston, all of these facts lead us to a same destination: the conflicts between the people in different skin tone. Although 52 years from the date of the speech delivered have passed, these issues are still there. Moreover

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    if you just walk outside you will know that in the past couple of year that racial profiling has been a big thing. I will be talking about the relationship between police officers and the community that they are sworn to protect. This isn 't a new issue because you can go back many years and find many cases of supposedly police officers racially profiling people in its community. Many people have different ideas of how we should solve this issue because this issue is very serious because it can end

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    Theory Of Crime Essay

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    lation to broader crime trends, and apply and appraise the theories of crime you think are most appropriate to helping us understand this event and this type of crime. Delinquency amongst young people has gained a lot of attention recently from the media, the public and even policy maker’s, as young people are now being criminalised and negatively portrayed by the media. In addition, research has shown that in 2016, there was an estimate of 16,300 sentencings given by the courts to young people

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    On the other hand, Behind the Beautiful Forevers emphasized the importance of police encounters. Boo described the brutality of police officers when father and son, Karam and Abdul, were arrested and severely beaten to force a fake confession. The author stated, “the idea was to get terrified prisoners to pay everything they had and everything they could secure

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