... are armed and will do anything to avoid incarceration. These issues have forced many probation professionals to reconsider and change their traditional practices including providing officers with defensive weapons (American Probation and Parole Association Board of Directors, 1994). Legislative initiatives and department policies require many probation officers to contact probationers at their residence, often unexpectedly and at odd ... The issue of arming probation officers involves a great deal of emotion, both in support and in opposition. Reports indicate that a discussion of this i...

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... number of them actually in possession of contraband. Therefore these people are arrested, reinforcing the idea that drug trafficking is primarily an Latino or African American thing. At the same time white drivers receive far less police attention, many of the drug dealers and use! rs among them get away ... . In a recent poll taken by the child advocay group Children Now the children included said that,"the news media tends to portray African American and Latino people more negatively than white and Asian people. Most of the major news media did not cover this story and the ones ... pro...

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... been an innocent victim of racial profiling in the city in which I reside and while visiting other cities in the United States. Famous African-American men such as Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee, Wesley Snipes, Blair Underwood, Christopher Darden, and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume have also been ... report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. Statistics such as these make it seem as if racial profiling is not the result of bigotry, and that the factual claim upon wh...

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... deaths, and facing societies ills that the strong culture of police (masculine/tough image) can potentially have a reverse or worsening effect on the shocking police suicide statistics presented above. The majority of their work consists of taking care of others where they are trained and hard-pressed to take on the minute they walk out of ... identifying some possible solutions and intervention techniques that can make a difference. Why Do Officers Commit Suicide? While officers share some features of suicide risk with the general population, other facts and statistics apply more specif...

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... Basics. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.). A 1996 survey shows that an estimated 9.5 million Americans, age 25 years and under, have used marijuana. For over 26, about 8.9 million have used. Statistics also show that of the nations local police and sheriffs departments, 80% of their officers primarily work with only drug law enforcement. 55% of state officers do the same. Instead ... : Drug Data Summary. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. 1-4. Retrieved from http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov). Due to this, the nation's prison population has risen 5.2% (Gilliard, Darrell. (19...

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... part of the solution I will propose to help decrease or even end the crime of racial profiling. Although there have been many ideas brought up to solve racial profiling in American, there still isn't one dynamic and problem solving solution. Many bills have been passed to help and protect minorities, who can bring their cases all the way to court, however ... , color, ethnicity, gender, and the reason for being stopped. Every 4 months or so, the committee shall evaluate each district and their statistics on what kinds of people are being stopped and determine which city has higher minori...

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... to be more serious than it had been in the past, people now have lost confidence in the people running major companies, and most American corporate executives are believed to be dishonest. The public's concern with corporate crime has grown recently, but has been evident for several years ... per cent of the risk to computer security was attributable to internal sources and only 23 per cent to external criminal activity. The American Bar Association conducted a survey in 1987: of 300 corporations and government agencies, 72 claimed to have been the victim of computer-related ... only 5 ...

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