Police

Police

Special government unit empowered to enforce the law.

Industry: Government; Law enforcement

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Analysis

Law enforcement; Police

The second stage of the SARA model of problem-oriented policing, in which the police collect information about a problem to help identify its scope, nature, and cause.

Fleeing-felon rule

Law enforcement; Police

Declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1985 (Tennessee v. Garner), allowed police the legal right to use deadly force in apprehending a felon attempting to escape.

Despecialize

Law enforcement; Police

To replace specialised police units with neighbourhood officers who are more knowledgeable about the problems their neighbourhoods face.

Based on the belief that aggressive enforcement of disorder will motivate residents to better care for their community, a policy that calls for the police to focus primarily on disorder, minor crime, ...

Social control

Law enforcement; Police

The capacity of a society to regulate itself according to desired principles and values without the use of repression or coerced conformity.

Occupational deviance

Law enforcement; Police

Criminal and improper noncriminal behaviour committed during the course of normal work activities or under the guise of a police officer's authority.

Behaviorally arrested

Law enforcement; Police

Occurs when taking a suspect into custody involves a number of different actions, such as a stop (in which the officer tells the individual not to leave), a verbal statement that the person is "under ...