Essays on Law Enforcement

The Broken Window: A Policing Paradigm The broken window is a policing paradigm first discussed by Kelling and Wilson in a seminal article in 1982. (Kelling & Coles, 2010). The model's optimal role is to focus on the significance of diseases that produce and maintain violent crimes. However, the disorder is...

A variety of societal factors influences individual human behavior. Our immediate society teaches us the majority of our norms, beliefs, and history. As a result, our behavior and reactions to such circumstances are influenced by social tendencies (Ksir et al. 11-34). Following a thorough examination of the cases of a...

The Kansas City Gun Experiment: A Failure with Multiple Factors The Kansas City gun experiment was a failure for many reasons. Most gun studies failed to measure certain factors, including Location, Internal consistency, and Test-retest reliability. This article explores these issues. However, one aspect of the experiment that has not been...

Racism remains a global phenomenon that has been debated and written about throughout history, and the fight to end it continues, despite the contributions of pioneer abolitionists-such as Fredrick Douglas. The war against bigotry does not seem to be ending, and it seems to be intensifying with the passage of...

Surveillance and Government Monitoring Surveillance refers to the government s efforts to collect information about its citizens without their knowledge or access to private areas. Communication, physical, and transaction monitoring are all types of surveillance that are currently in use. In the United States, the concept of government surveillance dates back...

Gun Control: Background and History Gun control is a system of rules or guidelines that govern the manufacture, commercialization, distribution, ownership, alteration, or use of weapons by civilians. Many countries have stringent gun-control rules, with only a few exceptions deemed permissive. In the United States, gun regulations pressed for the passage...

The ban on gun ownership in the United States was enacted in response to a number of recent shootings (Wellman 145). As a result, several controversies have erupted over whether possession of such devices, which have taken many lives, should be controlled. Notably, gun possession has been a political concept...

Recent reports of illegal shootings and gun abuse in the United States have reignited the controversy about the need for gun safety. One side of the issue contends that gun reform is important to ensure public safety, while the other contends that it is futile because it would do nothing...

When a police officer uses excessive and needless brutality on people, he is said to be brutal. The police violence has been documented in a number of countries around the world. Several people have come to accept that police violence only happens against oppressed and marginalized communities as a result...

When the civil rights movement is mentioned in a discussion, nearly everybody in the audience thinks about Martin Luther King Jr. and his commitment to the movement. Many young Americans equate the Reverend from Montgomery with the efforts and commitment made in the pursuit of freedom and justice for American...

The rhetorical study to be undertaken is that of Robert F. Kennedy's iconic address, which he delivered without advance notice after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing in America in the late 1960s, and the nation was facing a...

The Rise of Drones The use of Drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has been on the rise since they were first used for observation and target shooting during military flights. According to Wagner 25, the first known use of UAVs occurred in August 1849 when Austria invaded Venice...