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    perfectly justifiable. Which is why it’s important to prepare for any situation that could happen. This kind of training points out week points and things to improve on. It improves communication and teamwork between other agencies. We can’t have a police officer or member of the National Guard to watch over every single school in the United States, so deploying rapid response law enforcement teams is a great alternative. With labs like the Lawrence Livermore lab and huge technological companies that

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    records requests as well as software licensing fees. (3) Approximately 25 percent of the videos that are collected are related to crimes and they must be kept for possible judicial purposes. One police department reported having 35,000 videos retained that met this requirement of possibly judicial need. (4) Police departments across the country that have already instituted the use of body cameras have seen the costs of maintaining these videos run into the millions of dollars just to manage the data not

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    The American Psychological Association (APA) is the style more usually used to cite sources within the social science. It is a resource that offers many examples for the general format of APA research papers, according to the sixth edition of the manual. An APA paper regulates: in-text citation, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. When you are creating an essay, this should be typed, with double-space, and should be printed on standard sized paper of 8.5" x 11", also with one margins on all

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    mean police officers have it easy. Police officers face many dangers in their jobs police officers never truly know the outcomes of nay situation they go into. Dangers that policemen face is the risk of getting shot/death, stress, biohazard exposure, dangers in making arrests and serious/minor trauma. All of these dangers occur is different situations. Such as arrest, vehicle stops, hazmat scenes, and even directing traffic. Police officers are constantly being faced with the unknown. Police face

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    Current Event 5: Ferguson. Alex Newkirk: 12/5/14 All across the nation, in the news the black community has been making their voice heard, in regards to white police brutality, and murder against the unarmed black community. Many of these brutal attacks and flat out murders of unarmed black people haven’t been largely prosecuted, some officers have even been acquitted of any wrong doing or murder. This has led to outrage in the African American community at large. The shooting of an unarmed

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    A woman arrived on the scene to pick up Crenshaw as the events were unfolding. She recalled the struggle appeared to be Wilson pulling Brown in the vehicle and Brown fighting to pull away from the vehicle. After hearing a gunshot, Brown broke free and began to run away. The officer followed Brown while shooting at him. She said she saw Brown’s body jerk, as if he had been hit by a bullet, and turned around with his hands up. Wilson continued to walk toward Brown and fired several more shots

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    aspects of discrimination unfortunately remain. This is particularly true in regards to police brutality. Though the correlation between the infamously brute force law enforcement officials and race continually remains, the fact of the manner is that all races succumb to this type of violence. Throughout the following analysis, the infamous police injustice

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    “HANDS UP! DON’T SHOOT!” The Rise of Police Brutality “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” These were the last words of Eric Garner, a middle-aged African American man. Garner died at the hands of multiple police officers who were trying to restrain him for selling cigarettes. These sorts of images are showcased on television way too often. To the point that some people feel helpless, they know that they alone do not have the power to overthrow the superiority of an officer. So they have really no

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    Can You Trust The Law: police brutality and socioeconomic status Cesar V. Trevino Sharyland High School Abstract [The abstract should be one paragraph of between 150 and 250 words. It is not indented. Section titles, such as the word Abstract above, are not considered headings so they don’t use bold heading format. Instead, use the Section Title style. This style automatically starts your section on a new page, so you don’t have to add page breaks. Note that all of the styles for this template

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    November 25, 2014 On August 9, 2014, a young, unarmed, 18 year old, black man named Michael Brown was shot to death six times by 28 year old, white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a town just outside of St. Louis, Missouri. Some say Officer Wilson was protecting his life, I call it police brutality. The brutality has led to an uproar of all day protesting and looting, and cops and even the National Guard are working double time to keep everything under control. There

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