Purchase Solution

Police Functions, Practices and Integration and the Protection of Citizen's Rights

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

1. What are the roles of police? How does the law dictate their roles and functions? How can the relationship between the policing system and the law be improved?
2. What are the various policing agencies? How do policing agencies differ at the federal, state, and local levels? Is there a better solution for seamless policing at these levels?
3. Describe the functions of a police agency as it pertains to the constitution.
4. Identify how police protect citizens' constitutional rights.
5. Identify different types of searches and interrogation practices.
6. Explain probable cause and how it affects police officers and police.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The police functions and integration and protections of citizen's rights are determined.

Solution Preview

1. What are the roles of police? How does the law dictate their roles and functions? How can the relationship between the policing system and the law be improved?

Think about why police were created- the history of policing in America. Talk about how law enforcement created a task force made of police officers to ensure that laws were being followed. Talk about the authority given to officers to operate and enforce laws. Talk about how a unified approach could help enforce laws in a more effective way. Also think about how educational courses offered for free to police officers could keep them up to date with laws and how to effectively enforce them.

2. What are the various policing agencies? How do policing agencies differ at the federal, state, and local levels? Is there a better solution for seamless policing at these levels?

According to ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Title VII

This Quiz pertains to the spectrum of Human Rights through Title VII

Constitutional Law Rights

How much do you know about Constitutional Law Rights? Find out with this quiz!

Title VII Laws

Learn the basics of the laws under Title VII.

Evidence

Do you know your evidence objections? Find out with this quiz!

Criminal Defenses Review

Test your knowledge of the basics of criminal law and defenses with this quiz.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Ethics in Criminal Justice Administration

    This entails stopping suspects based upon the officer's perception of the citizen's race, which is in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal rights protection.

  • Fourth Amendment Violation

    The other guard sprayed Jack with pepper spray, tackled him, and handcuffed him. While waiting for the police to come, they searched his pockets and removed a pill bottle that contained little bags of cocaine.

  • Police Misconduct

    The overall outcome or goal of policing is the protection of constitutional rights. However, there have been times when police have engaged in unethical and immoral practices when doing their job which have resulted in important U.S.

  • Police Response to Conflict Within the Community

    This would require a calm demeanor and an ability to provide an oral explanation that thoroughly explains the rights of every citizen to engage in citizen's arrests for any misdemeanor that involves a breach of public peace.

  • Citizen's right to privacy

    The most important and prominent of those amendments is the fourth amendment that requires proper procedures for police and others to search and seize property without probable cause.

  • Digital evidences and privacy issues

    Thus there must be clear cut guidelines to protect privacy in the matter of digital evidence Hence certain good practices can be: ? No action taken by the police that may change data ?

  • role of law in business and society

    In business, consumer protection laws protect the rights of consumers from unfair practices of businesses. Law resolves disagreement and conflict among people. "Might is the right" settled the issues in the medieval ages.

  • Media Based AntiCrime Efforts

    What is important is that this vital information is with the police and not with the producer of the program.

  • The Fourth Amendment

    The seizure of an individual's personal property by police officers etc., without any justifiable cause, would be another example of a violation of an individual's fourth amendment rights.

View More Related Solutions