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From this project I learned that there are 4 different types of police reports and what is needed to be included in these reports in law enforcement. Type 1 police report the officer records information and takes action. Type 2 police report the officer records the information and takes action. Type 3 police report the officer becomes part of the scenario. Type 4 police report the officer is the initiator. An important thing to note is in a type 4 police report the officer must include probable cause in that report. Each report builds on the previous one. Examples of a type 1 police report is an incident report because the officer just reports what happened. The officer doesn't take action and doesn't become involved in the scenario. An example of a type 2 police report is a traffic accident report because the officer sometimes have to take action and doesn't just take down the information about what happened. An example of a type 3 police report is a domestic violence repo...

On Saturday, Trump lashed out at the FBI describing its failure to follow up on a tip about Florida school shooter Nickolas Cruz. Normally I don't agree with Trump on most stuff but i agree with him that the FBI did not do their job. This horrific shooting could've been prevented if the FBI did their job. The FBI acknowledged receiving 2 tips that appeared to relate to Cruz before the shooting that took place at his former High School in Parkland. One was on January 5 to a tip line from someone close to him and the FBI failed to act on it. The caller provided information about Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting. Its very sad that the FBI missed signs that could've prevented this deadly school shooting. Nickolas Cruz killed 17 people, if the FBI would've acted on the information given to them at the time these 17 people probably would not of lost th...

A New York police officer was brought before the State Supreme Court on perjury charges after prosecutors said he lied about how the police found a gun in an apartment. Officer Joseph Moloney is accused of providing false stories under oath. On May 6, 2016 officer Moloney and another officer made an arrest at an apartment. When Moloney and the other officer left to process the arrest, their sergeant told the officers to come back because he found a gun and baggies of marijuana in the apartment. The sergeant then told officer Moloney to get a search warrant but when he got to the district attorneys office Moloney claimed he had found the gun in the apartment when it was the sergeant that actually found the gun. He also said the arrested man had tried to hide the gun. Prosecutors charged him with perjury in first degree and misconduct. Moloney pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him. Moloney said it was an error based on a lack of experience. Within the New York Police Dep...

The name of the published review I read was “Highlighting a Tragic Chink in the Criminal Justice System”. It was published by Stephen Holden on October 21, 2005. I noticed a few similarities between his review and my reflection, one was the issue of capital punishment throughout the film. The review mentions that there is a problem with capital punishment because people who are on death row are being found innocent of the crimes they were on death row for. I also agree that there is a problem with capital punishment. Another similarity is we were puzzled about Dedge’s story because he was proven innocent three years before he was released and how unjust this was. We both believed his story is so important because he was proven innocent 3 years before he was released from prison using DNA evidence. He was not released for 3 years because his DNA evidence was taken five years before the law provided for testing. It took 3 years for them to finally release him for a crime he did not com...

Recently, a study was done on police body cameras in the United States. For 7 months over a thousand Washington D.C police officers were randomly assigned cameras and another thousand were not. Researchers tracked civilian complaints, use of force incidents, charging decisions and other outcomes to see if the cameras changed behavior. The results of the study showed officers that had cameras used force and had civilian complaints at about the same rates as the officers without the cameras did. Many people think that cameras have the ability to make changes in the way police do their job. In 2014, after the police shooting of Michael Brown many police officials turned to cameras as a way of reducing violent encounters. By 2015, 95% of police departments reported they were using body cameras. That's why most people think that cameras have a way of changing the way police do their jobs but they honestly don't. The results from this study proved that police officers that had camera...