Legal
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Criminal activity can occur in any space that humans can access. Unsurprisingly, with the advent and proliferation of social media, some have seized the opportunity to perpetrate crimes in this digita...
Ethics
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In a democratic society, law enforcement must simultaneously deliver services in a fair, unbiased, constitutional, and legal manner, and deliver services effectively. To do both of these things is ver...
Community-Police Engagement
Irish police, An Garda Síochána, walking in Dublin
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While celebrating it’s 100-year anniversary, An Garda Síochána (“The Guardians of the Peace” in Irish) takes a look back at its story and how it came into being as the unitary police and natio...
Ethics
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College courses in criminal justice teach it; police policies proclaim it; detectives and investigators are instructed in it: “The fundamental purpose of a criminal investigation is to find the trut...
Ethics
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Police officers are vulnerable to a variety of moral risks. The moral risks stem both from officers’ routine duties and their ongoing exposure to critical and traumatic incidents. The moral risks ta...
Ethics
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Recent events have focused attention on police reform and led to public demands to “rethink” how police services are provided. The enormous amount of attention focused on restraint techniques, qua...
Community-Police Engagement
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Policing is at a crossroads. With the advent of mobile cameras and social media, the police face unprecedented public scrutiny. How policing responds matters, not just for agencies and officers, but f...
Technology
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Most law enforcement personnel in the United States are familiar with software programs like Google Earth that allow anyone with an Internet-enabled device to look at high-resolution, sometimes 3D, im...