Since the war on drugs began police use anything they can to stop a vehicle. Traffic stops are motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs, not to enforce traffic laws. (p. 67) Unfortunately only the guilty people of color are heard from, not the innocent people of color. This is because they fear harassment or retaliation.…
Officers only need a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. The term “Stop and Frisk” is a technique which is utilized by police officials for the reduction of crime through stopping and searching the individual(s) they suspect of committing a crime or in possession of illegal weapons or drugs. This policy has been under a constant debate based on the facts that it promotes racial profiling, that stops can be considered illegal, and this policy invades the privacy of all individuals.…
The stop and frisk policy is this idea that police officers can stop, question, and pat someone down on the street if there is reasonable suspicion or probable cause that they are committing, have committed, or is in the process of committing a crime. In addition, police officers are able to stop and frisk an individual if they are concerned with the safety of themselves or others. This practice exists as a way to what is supposed to reduce crime rates and help keep communities safe. However, the stop and frisk policy does not help prevent harm from occurring in communities.…
It encompasses assigning the law enforcement officers to an area for the purpose of proactive investigation of suspicious activities, as well as, enforcing the laws that already exist. Ashcroft, Daneils & Hart (2002) assert that traffic stops is a common approach toward the directed patrol. Furthermore, it entails increasing the number of police in an area and also their number of contact with individuals in that locality. The incorporation of the approach is based on the preemption that intensified traffic enforcement is likely to result in a general deterrence effect. This is due to the fact that it not only increases the detection threat but also punishment for a criminal…
Racial profiling happens everywhere, even in your own neighborhood. Also a main area of concern in the case of racial profiling is at traffic stops. A lot of police departments have been conducting research on routine traffic stops. The controversy over this issue is an unsupported assumption that some traffic stops are made based on the officer’s “racial prejudice”.…
Racial profiling is seen on a regular basis in traffic stops. This discrimination within the criminal justice system is composed of mainly African Americans and Hispanics. These minorities are targeted within the streets as criminals by police officers. A video from The Orland Sentinel showed major evidence of racial profiling by police. Within the video, there were more than one thousand people’s roadside stops shown.…
Professional Police Traffic Stops There are three purposes for every traffic stop that a law enforcement officer does. These men and women get specific training which will develop into standard policies and procedures after they started the law enforcement academy to a daily roll call on the job. The first purpose is to help stop a violation of the law to help with public safety. The second purpose is to basically be a warning to other drivers. The third purpose is to help modify a driver's driving behavior in the future (Onder, 2001).…
I have seen various types of weapons in law enforcement used on people under the influence of drugs with little to no effect during the course of my career. I have seen people shot while under the influence of drugs only to continue advancing until they bleed out and succumb to their injuries. In law enforcement, recognizing how drugs effect people is essential to survival. The DRE program, drug recognition expert, is a very useful tool for law enforcement. What is the DRE program?…
Normally a vehicle is stopped by the police because the person driving has made some type of traffic infraction. With racial profiling, you are stopped because of your skin color and your ethnicity. Racial profiling began with our stance on the war on drugs in the 1980s and 1990s. Because drug trafficking was believed to be disproportionately committed by racial/ethnic minorities, police departments around the country used this tactic as a premise to conduct a traffic stop. Although anti-profiling laws have been passed and several Presidents of The United States have spoken out against racial profiling, it is believed to still exist (Briggs, 2013).…
The career occupation I chose is Law Enforcement. This is why I chose Criminal Justice as my major, so that it could help and with the information to be in Law Enforcement. Since I done many assessment in class, I got to see my personality and I also got to find out my skills. In this paper I’m going to explain why this occupation, and why it’s a fit for me by my personality, values, interests, strengths, and skills. On the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, my personality profile was Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging, also known as ESTJ.…
Crime in the United States has been very bad in the last couple decades, though in the more recent years’ crime has been steadily decreasing. The police have been implementing a way of reducing crime by using the method of stop and frisk mostly in cities such as New York City or Chicago which are more prominently used. Stop and frisk is when a police officer has reasonable suspicion that a crime is going to happen, about to happen, or has happened before stopping a suspect. The officer then goes on to do a quick pat down to see if they have anything suspicious on them. There are different points of view of whether or not the act of stop and frisk should be legal or not.…
Advantages of Stop and Frisk Procedures Stop and frisk procedures are used in situations that present a potential threat to the officer or public. It serves as a key component to prohibit a threat from escalating and catching individuals who have, will, or are in the process of committing a crime. According to interviews with the New York Police Department, stop…
Discuss the main ways in which police officers are personally held accountable for abuses of power. Are these measures effective? Police accountability has been a widely discussed issue from the very beginning of its official establishment under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829. Through the years public trust has been of great importance, as the public is one of the main groups, which the police is accountable to. In this essay, we will focus on accountability on an individual level rather than on an institutional level.…
Why I want a Career in Law Enforcement I value the officers that serve and protect the community and it has always been my desire to have a career in the law enforcement profession. As a child, I remember a local police officer that came to my elementary school. His name was Officer Howey. Every year he would discuss a variety of topics, from staying away from strangers to the dangers associated with drugs. I always felt that I was safe and could approach him with any questions or concerns I had.…
No matter what the interaction is or how often they occur, everyone builds a relationship with the people they encounter. When it comes to police officers and those who work in law enforcement this is especially true due to the fact that their entire jobs revolve around being involved with the public since it is their jobs to protect the citizens in their community. A statement that speaks to the extent of how far up and down the ranks of law enforcement their relationship with those that they serve goes is one that states “police/community relations is the job of every officer and not just the person conferred with that title”. This statement means that whether a person carriers the title of officer, is the sheriff or chief of police, a detective,…