Essays on Law Enforcement

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...

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...

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...

Prenzler, Beckley and Bronitt (2013) Prenzler, Beckley, and Bronitt (2013) state that it is common for officers to take bribes because of the nature of police work. A free cup of coffee, on the other hand, requires police officers to spend time unequally between institutions that do and those that do...

David Kinley and Odette Murray discuss the state's duty to prosecute, deter and discipline severe human rights abuses committed by private military firms in the report,' Businesses that Kill: Suing Blackwater' (PMC). The Nisour Square killings involving Blackwater private security company have demonstrated the lack of civil enforcement on PMC....

System of Universal Principles and Ethical Policing A system of universal principles that are appropriate as criteria that are competent in a certain field requires ethical policing. The police should respect principles like bravery, allegiance, integrity, and fairness. Whenever they are in a crisis, officers of the law should proclaim their...

Introduction Given how they carry out their duties, police brutality is a hotly debated subject. Although the police department is meant to protect civilians and uphold law and order, they often disregard citizens' ethics, values, and rights. This paper outlines the perceived motives for the powers' use of ruthless mechanisms, as...

Texas coverage on guns regulates possession of firearm handling in public. The history of open elevate of handguns in Texas stated in 1871 when the legislatures in Texas passed a bill to ban carrying by way of its citizens outside homes. This ban was later altered in 1995 when the...