... is important to remember that blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities occupy many of the same areas that are targeted by police officers for drug offenses. Other researchers have had similar findings when researching the topic of race and drug enforcement. A researcher by the name of Kevin Burke states,that while blacks make up 13% of the national population and 13% of the country ... 's monthly drug users, they account for 35% of arrests for drug possession, 55% of convictions and 74% of prison sentences? (p. 28). Between 1986 and 1991, the ... , I will also express ways in which I feel...

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... problems that are encountered in police ethics is explained as issues that center around integrity and problems that involve harder choices in law enforcement which require additional ethical analysis. Police corruption is further explained through personalistic, institutional, and a systemic approach. This is witnessed in ... officers abuse the trust of the society they are sworn to protect. This can come in the form of lying, accepting bribes, robbing drug dealers, selling of drugs, or turning a blind eye when a fellow officer is using excessive force. The consequences of these acts ....

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... are regarded as patients rather than criminals. Accordingly, a comprehensive, differentiated set of preventive measures and care facilities has been established. The judicial authorities have always followed the principle that drug addicts should undergo medical treatment rather than serve a custodial sentence. Despite the sometimes disappointing results of treatment and/or the recidivism that occurs, this standpoint has been firmly adhered ... 100,000 in the U.S. Crime-related deaths as a percentage of population: 1.2 per 100,000 in the Netherlands (1994); 8.2 per 100,000 in the U.S. (1...

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... jurisdictions. Suggestions and recommendations that have come from these and other commissions and investigations, although insightful and accurate, have not resulted in a significant acceptance or change within law enforcement agencies nationwide (2). Policies are often general and imprecise (1). While departments may have increased the number of required ethics related classes, the training itself has not changed dramatically (2). ... day operating realities of police work, which provides considerable discretion and freedom of judgment for the typical patrol officer, may lead to ethical...

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... " in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. For a variety of reasons ... down doors without search warrants, stopping and searching anyone they choose on the sidewalk or street, harassing and arresting young people for wearing "gan...

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... the justice system on criminal's who have produced a peculiar idea of another social world with separate laws for them to follow. For example, drug dealers see dealing drugs as a profession and a tool of the trade. Although, criminal investigators are expected to find criminals and arrest them ... follow specific commands from the officer that owns them. The canines provide as a partner to the officers and aid them in foot chases, drug cases, and locating murder weapons and suspects. The officers from the Springfield canine unit spoke of a specific case where the suspect had ... famili...

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... 1992, AIDP released a report on computer crime based on reports of its member countries that estimated that only 5 per cent of computer crime was reported to law enforcement authorities. Law enforcement officials indicate from their experience that recorded computer crime statistics do not represent the actual number of offences; the term "dark figure", used by criminologists to refer to ... The growing sophistication of telecommunications systems and the high level of expertise of many system operators complicate significantly the task of regulatory and legal intervention by law enforcem...

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... poverty. These problems often are veiled by being conveniently grouped together under the category "crime" and by the automatic attribution of criminal behavior to people of color. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with then are relegated to cages. Prisons thus ... constriction industry. The architectural community has identified prison design as a major new niche. Technology developed for the military by companies like Westinghouses are being marketed...

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