Test 2 Flashcards
Bow street runners
Henry Fielding
- working for reward money
- “runners” would pursue felons across the country
- widely feared
• London Metropolitan Police
Sir Robert Peel
• Centralized police force of 1,000 me under the control of the home security
• August Vollmer
Father of modern professional police practices in the U.S
• began the first police school
Who does the majority of law enforcement in the country
Local PD
FBI
Investigates
Marshall service
Oldest agency
• provides security for federal courts
Secret service
- protects government officials (president)
- counterfeiting
- forgery crimes
- matters relating to national security
• ICE
US immigration and customs enforcement
Responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the nations: • border • economic • transportation • infrastructure security
1st US state police
Texas Rangers
• 8 major hypothesis about policing and crime
- number of police
- more cops = less crime - rapid response to 911
- shorter travel time to scene = less crime - Random patrols
- more perceive “omnipresence” of the police= deterrence of crime - Directed patrol
- mote precisely patrols concentrated in “hot spots” - Reactive arrests
- more arrests police make in response to reported or observed offenses = less crime - Proactive arrests
- the higher arrest rate of serious violent crimes
Ex. Police arrests because he is most likely to get a DUI - Community policing
- more and quality contact between citizens and police = more crime - Problem oriented policing
- the more police can identify and minimize promimate causes of specific patterns of crime = less crimes
Discretion
The implicit authority that an officer has to act on the basis of
• his professional judgement
• personal conscience
• Factors influencing discretion (7)
- background of officer
- characteristics of the suspect
- department policy
- community interest
- pressure from victims
- disagreement with the law
- available alternations
Cynicism
The belief yhat most peoples actions are motived solely by personal needs and selfishness
Blue curtain
The secretive, insulated police culture that isolates officers from the rest of society
Symbolic assailant
They are systematically trained and culturally reinforced to consider everyone a potential assailant
Danger
The possibility of confrontation is always there
Social isolation
Officers are treated differently by the public
Solidarity
“Us against them”
• to cope not only with law violators, but also the public in general
Police use of force
Use of physical restraint by a police officer when dealing with a member of the public
Excessive force
The application of an amount or frequency of force greater than that required to compel compliance from a willing or unwilling subject
Deadly force
Force that is likely to cause death or serious bodily crime
Tn vs Garner
Changed the way police can use deadly force
Graham V Connor
Objective reasonableness
• excessive or deadly force should be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the sense and not with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight
Defense of life
Only when gave a probable cause to believe that the subject poses an imminent danger or death or serious physical injury to the agents / others
Fleeing subject
Committed a felony involving injury or death and escape would pose an imminent danger to agents / others
• cant shoot because they are running
Verbal warnings
Should be given before the use of deadly force, if doing so does not endanger agents
Warning shots
Agents may not fire warning shots
Vehicles
Agents may not fire weapons solely to disable moving vehicles
• can fire at vehicles occupants if they will cause serious bodily injury or death