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    Have you ever been in driving around, looking at your surroundings, suddenly seeing a camera in an intersection? How did you react? Were you nervous? Were you confused? Did you have a feeling of safety? The use of CCTV cameras and public surveillance have made a jump in usage within the past couple of years. In society today, they play major roles in public safety such as reducing crime rate, gathering clues for court trials, and helping catch criminals. With technology getting better and more

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    How effective are CCTV cameras as a proven crime control and prevention measure? Describe the crime control literature which attempts to assess their efficacy and evaluate the impact such studies have had on overall proliferation of these systems. Illustrate your answer by reference to both official reports and academic and NGO studies supporting or contradicting such claims. This essay will aim to critically discuss CCTV cameras as a proven method of crime control and prevention tool. In order

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    Community Policing in Canada Essay

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    Community Policing in Canada  Community policing is a relatively new model of service delivery that is employed by the majority of police forces across Canada.  Community policing however, is not a “new” approach, it is more correctly a renewal or re-emergence of the old approach developed in Metropolitan London (Leighton & Normandeau, p.21). The amendments to the current system are evident in Leighton & Normandeau’s (1990) review of the future of community policing.  The ideas behind the

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    VernonReams peiord3 I think that cops should have body camera because they need it just in care they be in the wrong or the victim be in the wrong.If they dont have them they could like be in something that there boss can say so what happen and they cant tell what happen really happen like they start to lie Many people out there in the real world is not going to be true full that why them police office need it for there safety because there camera they have i can video record every time

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    1986. Jeanne’s parents, Connie and Howard, discovered that students hadn’t been told about 38 violent crimes on the Lehigh campus in the three years before her murder. They joined with other campus crime victims and persuaded Congress to enact this law, which was originally known as the "Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990” (College View,

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    Persuasive Memo Examples

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    Improving Law Enforcement Image Within Camden, New Jersey Dear Mr. Palfrey: When a police officer takes the oath, he or she must exemplify what it means to wear the badge: to serve the community, to be a friend. When a police officer puts his uniform on for the day, the last thing he wants is for the public to have a negative connotation of him or her. A police officers has one job, and one job only; to protect and serve the community. It is the police officer’s job to enforce the law, but it is

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    Civil Liability Cases

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    INTRODUCTION Police officers deal with both crime and the public on a daily basis, so they need to be diligent in their knowledge of Civil Rights Laws in order to avoid lawsuits that can come from those rights being violated. “The best way to avoid liability is logic and training” (Wells, 2014). The costs for civil liability lawsuits involving police officers/departments just for lack of or inadequate training based on a survey in 2000 were substantial as “the average award for plaintiffs was about

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    Crime Deterrence

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    From the study's literature review, what we already know about the research topic, which is whether police effects the levels of crime is limited. What we do know about this topic is that "A majority of studies surveyed found that either there is no relationship or increases in the number of police are associated with increases in the level of crime." (Tabarrok & Klick, 2005) Klick and Tabarrok got this information from a survey conducted by Samuel Cameron titled The Economics of Crime Deterrence:

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    increases exponentially. Yet at the same time, our police officers deserve to be protected from the threat of excessive force allegations. It seems as though the general public is demanding higher and higher levels of transparency with regard to law enforcement officers, yet they are not willing to accept the fact there is always going to be the risk of embarrassment from the captured footage body cameras

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    branch of law enforcement agency in the state of California that has jurisdiction over all the California highways. They use mathematics for many different things but the three main things math is used for in CHP are for accident investigations, chasing criminals, and shooting. The first thing that a California Highway Patrol officer uses mathematics for is accident investigations. The officer has to figure out the speed the car was going when the accident happened by using different laws of physics

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