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Special government unit empowered to enforce the law.

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Municipal police

Law enforcement; Police

Also known as city police, denote the most important component of American law enforcement. Representing the majority of all law enforcement agencies and sworn officers, municipal police are ...

A management information system that systematically compiles and analyses data on problematic police officer behavior, citizen complaints, police officer use of force reports, and other indicators to ...

Broken windows hypothesis

Law enforcement; Police

Developed by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, argues that police should focus their resources on disorder problems that create fear of crime and lead to neighbourhood decay.

Selective contact

Law enforcement; Police

A lack of cross-sectional contact and communication between police officers and a community that leads to misperceptions about public attitudes toward the police.

Residual deterrence

Law enforcement; Police

Also called the phantom effect, involves assuming the police are patrolling an area from having seen them at another time or place, leading to the presumption that the police are present when there ...

Hackers

Law enforcement; Police

Individuals who crack into computer networks for either the thrill of the experience, to make an illegal financial transaction, or to create computer viruses that have the potential to destroy ...