Essays on Law Enforcement

Introduction Imagine taking a night out to dinner, a theater, a concert, or any public location and having to worry about feeling helpless or victimized by criminals. Well, this has been the case in many cities across the United States. It seems as though every week there’s a breaking story of...

Introduction State scrutiny and the constant warnings about the American culture and law has turned out to be a pertinent component of the surveillance systems in the contemporary livelihood (Fuchs 2013, p.673). Despite the surveillance warnings being typical and hence commonplace in the country, their application is hardly specific, considering that...

Australia: Decentralized Policing Australia is a federal state with six states. Each state has its police force. Policing in Australia is decentralized. On the other hand, France has centralized policing; its national structure consists of two chief institutions: National Police and National Germandalie. Many municipalities have their own local policing organizations...

The Discussion on Gun Control in the United States The discussion on gun control in the United States has on many occasions aimed to ensure that members of the public with questionable backgrounds are not allowed to own or even access firearms. Over the last five years, different states such as...

The District of Columbia v Heller ruling on 26 June 2008 marked a landmark decision on the gun debate (Burkett, 2008). The Supreme Court said that a District of Columbia law that banned the ownership of usable firearms in a household was illegal because it violated the Second Amendment (Burkett,...

Various Means to Tackle School Shootings Various means have been proposed as ways to tackle school shootings. However, none of them guarantees complete solution to the problem of school shootings. In fact the statistics are on the rise with a minimum of one shooting per week according to a report by...

Workplace electronic surveillance and eavesdropping Workplace electronic surveillance and eavesdropping at the workplace refers to the activities and systems put in place by employers to monitor the activities, location and communication of their workers either with the knowledge of the employees or not (West, Bowman, " Gertz, 2014). The surveillance can...

Social control can be used to give reference to the sanctions given by the government to keep away chaos erupting in the society. Different scholars have put forward several perspectives to try understanding social control. Classical Perspective Among the theories of social control put forward by scholars is the classical perspective which...

In the course of law enforcement, security personnel often find themselves requiring a lot more information in order to carry out their jobs completely and effectively. Two methods that they employ are interrogation and interviewing. Law enforcement officers can use interrogation in any situation involving a non-cooperative criminal reluctant to...

There are roughly eighty-eight firearms for each one-hundred persons in America that is almost 270,000,000 artilleries and the most noteworthy summation and individual scale worldwide. That is to say, approximately 22% of the United States nationals do own a single or multiple guns of which 35% are males, and...

Gun control has returned to the forefront of the debate nationally since the occurrence of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School attack which left seventeen dead. This was unlike previous massacres, many big companies and firms have come out firmly...

Despite being a world power and one of the developed nation of the world, United States of America is going through a number of social issues. Some of these have slowly accumulated, while others are more recent. Everything that the government and people of a country do have an impact...