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Bow street runners

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Henry Fielding

  • working for reward money
  • “runners” would pursue felons across the country
  • widely feared
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• London Metropolitan Police

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Sir Robert Peel

• Centralized police force of 1,000 me under the control of the home security

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• August Vollmer

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Father of modern professional police practices in the U.S

• began the first police school

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Who does the majority of law enforcement in the country

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Local PD

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FBI

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Investigates

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Marshall service

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Oldest agency

• provides security for federal courts

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Secret service

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  • protects government officials (president)
  • counterfeiting
  • forgery crimes
  • matters relating to national security
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• ICE

US immigration and customs enforcement

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Responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the nations: 
• border
• economic
• transportation
• infrastructure security
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1st US state police

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Texas Rangers

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• 8 major hypothesis about policing and crime

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  1. number of police
    - more cops = less crime
  2. rapid response to 911
    - shorter travel time to scene = less crime
  3. Random patrols
    - more perceive “omnipresence” of the police= deterrence of crime
  4. Directed patrol
    - mote precisely patrols concentrated in “hot spots”
  5. Reactive arrests
    - more arrests police make in response to reported or observed offenses = less crime
  6. Proactive arrests
    - the higher arrest rate of serious violent crimes
    Ex. Police arrests because he is most likely to get a DUI
  7. Community policing
    - more and quality contact between citizens and police = more crime
  8. Problem oriented policing
    - the more police can identify and minimize promimate causes of specific patterns of crime = less crimes
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Discretion

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The implicit authority that an officer has to act on the basis of
• his professional judgement
• personal conscience

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• Factors influencing discretion (7)

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  • background of officer
  • characteristics of the suspect
  • department policy
  • community interest
  • pressure from victims
  • disagreement with the law
  • available alternations
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Cynicism

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The belief yhat most peoples actions are motived solely by personal needs and selfishness

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Blue curtain

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The secretive, insulated police culture that isolates officers from the rest of society

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Symbolic assailant

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They are systematically trained and culturally reinforced to consider everyone a potential assailant

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Danger

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The possibility of confrontation is always there

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Social isolation

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Officers are treated differently by the public

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Solidarity

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“Us against them”

• to cope not only with law violators, but also the public in general

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Police use of force

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Use of physical restraint by a police officer when dealing with a member of the public

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Excessive force

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The application of an amount or frequency of force greater than that required to compel compliance from a willing or unwilling subject

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Deadly force

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Force that is likely to cause death or serious bodily crime

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Tn vs Garner

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Changed the way police can use deadly force

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Graham V Connor

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Objective reasonableness
• excessive or deadly force should be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the sense and not with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight

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Defense of life

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Only when gave a probable cause to believe that the subject poses an imminent danger or death or serious physical injury to the agents / others

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Fleeing subject
Committed a felony involving injury or death and escape would pose an imminent danger to agents / others • cant shoot because they are running
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Verbal warnings
Should be given before the use of deadly force, if doing so does not endanger agents
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Warning shots
Agents may not fire warning shots
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Vehicles
Agents may not fire weapons solely to disable moving vehicles • can fire at vehicles occupants if they will cause serious bodily injury or death
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Suicide by cop
Actions motivated by the offenders desire to commit suicide = justifiable homicide by officer
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•Watchman style
* focuses on the maintenance of order * very dependent on discretion * found in declining industrial city, mixed racial/ethnic composition, blue collar, rural
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• Legalistic style
* concentrates on enforcing laws * requires little discretion * large city government, mixed SES composition
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• Service style
employs alternative strategies: • Official warning or diversion programs • discretion is used, but subject to formal review and evaluation • middle class suburban community
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• Problem oriented policy
* many crimes caused by existing social condition within the community * attempts to involve citizens in crime prevention * makes use of community
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Zero tolerance policing
• punishment for every infraction of the law
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Community policing
Collaborative effort between police and community
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4th amendment
Unreasonable search and seizure • fastest way to lose 4th amendment protection - consent
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Consent
* voluntarily and have the legal ability to give * no legal obligation to inform suspects about rights * Florida v bostick
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Legally seized evidence
Evidence seized without regard to the principles of due process
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• Exclusionary rule
Incriminating material must be seized according to constitutional specifications of due process or it will not be allowed as evidence in a criminal trial
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Weeks v US
Exclusionary rule at FEDERAL level
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Mapp v ohio
Exclusionary rule at STATE level
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Fruit of the poison tree doctrine
Excludes from introduction at trial any evidence later developed as a result of an illegal search or seizure • silverthorne lumber co v US
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Grabble area
Officers can only search physical areas within easy reach of the defendant during arrests • chimel v california • lunge rule
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Good faith exceptions
Officers who conduct a search or who seize evidence on the basis of good faith and who later discover that a mistake was made may still use the seized evidence in court • US v leon
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• Probable cause
A set of fact and circumstances that would induce a reasonable intelligent and prudent person to believe that a particular other person has committed a specific crime • total of circumstances
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Harris v US
The ready visibility of objects that might be seized as evidence during a search by police in the absence of a search warrant • dont need a search warrant if its in plain view
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Horton v California
Officer must have a legal right to be in the viewing area
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Emergency searches
A search without a warrant which is justified on the basis of some immediate and overriding need • warden v hayden
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Katz v US
Placing of a warrantless wiretap on a public phone booth constitutes an unreasonable search in-violation of the 4th amendment
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Arrest
The act of taking an adult / juvenile into physical custody
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Search incident to an arrest
A warrantless search of an arrested individual conducted to ensure the safety of the arresting officer • US V Robinson
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Terry V ohio
Reasonable suspicion
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Michigan department of state police v sitz
Sobriety check points are reasonable as they are essential to the welfare if the community as a whole
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Indianapolis v edmond
Cannot be used to “detect evidence of ordinary criminal wrong doing”
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Florida V Riley
An officers naked eye observation from the vantage point of a helicopter did not constitute a search requiring warrant
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Kyllo v US
The use of thermal imaging as a search function is not a viable reason for a warrant
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Ripey v California
Warrantless search exception following an arrest exists does not apply in the search of digital data (cellphones) (Violates the 4th amendment)
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Illinois v Gates
Overruled Aguilar | • totality of circumstances
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Police interrogation
The information- gathering activity of the police officers that involves the direct questioning of suspects
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Brown v Mississippi
Cannot use direct coercion | Abuse
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Escobedo v illinois
(Lawyers) | - when suspect asks for an attorney, they must get one
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Miranda Warnings
The advisement of rights due criminal suspects by the police before questioning begins Ex. “You have the right to remain silent”
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Miranda v Arizona
Have to issue rights while arresting them * only required for questioning/interrogation
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Brewer v William’s
Waiver of rights
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Fitzpatrick v New York
Inevitable - discovery
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New York v Quarles
Public safety
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Line up
Requests to look at a group of people to choose a suspect
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Show up
On the scene of the crime - just shows one suspect
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1 reason people are falsely accused & sent to jail
Eye witness misidentification
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Domestic terrorism
Terrorism WITHOUT any foreign impact
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International Terrorism
Terrorism WITH any foreign impact
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US Patriot Act | ????
Seeks to further close US borders to foreign terrorists and detain and remove terrorists within our borders

Criminal Justice (3 decks)

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