Tag: Police
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Police Legitimacy
Police Legitimacy in Community Policing In this area, a meaning of Police Legitimacy is available: When the police department has earned the community's trust and mutual respect, resulting in community acceptance of police officers and the law as legitimate sources of authority.
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Neighborhood Policing
Neighborhood Policing in Community Policing In this area, a meaning of Neighborhood Policing is available: Policing structures and services organized around geographic areas reflecting neighborhoods of a city. Often incorporates the concept of community policing. See also community policing.
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Police Misconduct
Police Misconduct Police Misconduct is part of the law enforcement topic and related to Police Brutality. There are reports on victims of police brutality. Some topics covered by the legal doctrine and the courts include: Organization that provides assistance to victims of police misconduct. Resources for fighting police misconduct, police abuse, brutality, harassment, and corruption.…
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Police Misconduct
Police Misconduct Police Misconduct is part of the law enforcement topic and related to Police Brutality. There are reports on victims of police brutality. Some topics covered by the legal doctrine and the courts include: Organization that provides assistance to victims of police misconduct. Resources for fighting police misconduct, police abuse, brutality, harassment, and corruption.…
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Policemen
Priest, Doorkeeper, Policemen, Arrest From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Priest, Doorkeeper, Policemen, Arrest (1): A priest who was in charge of a parish and had control of the temporalities consisting of pew-rents, Sunday and other collections, graveyard, church, […]
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Terrorism Definition
Terrorism Definition Introduction to the Problems of the Terrorism Definition There is “no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism. The plurality of terrorism definitions reflects the disagreement that exists over the politically sensitive issues of the “purposes of terrorist aims, actors, and activities… [and is] symptomatic of larger ideological arguments over who the ‘bad guys’…
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Discretion
Discretion Definition of Discretion Discretion is defined as ‘liberty of deciding as one thinks fit, absolutely or within limits’ (Concise Oxford Dictionary). Discretion and Policing Philip C. Stenning wrote in the SAGE Dictionary of Policing all the following about Discretion: “It is a central feature of every stage of the administration of criminal justice within…
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Police Power
Real Estate meaning of Police PowerIn the words of the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms about Police Power: The power of promoting the interests of society as a whole by limiting the freedom of an individual to act or use his property at will. In particular, the constitutional power available […]
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Police Law
Police Law…
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Secret Police
Introduction to Secret PoliceSecret Police, special police force organized by autocratic or totalitarian regimes in defense against their enemies.Secret police were known in ancient Greece and Rome, in the Muslim caliphates, and in premodern monarchies, and they continue to function…
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Police Forces
Police: History of Police ForcesIntroduction to Police ForcesThe conception of the police force as a protective and law enforcement organization developed from the use of military bodies as guardians of the peace, such as the Praetorian Guard of ancient Rome. The Romans achieved a …
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War on Terror
War on Terror The war on terror, according to Mathieu Deflem and Stephen Chicoine (1) “refers to a series of counterterrorism measures authorized and enacted by the U.S. government following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Occasionally also capitalized as War on Terror and sometimes referred to as the War on Terrorism and the…
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Intelligence Agencies
Intelligence Agencies Intelligence Agencies and Terrorism “(L)anguage barriers, poor inter-agency communications, and aged equipment among police are seen as hindering police investigations.”(1) “Ironically, in view of the technological focus in counter-terrorism, police and intelligence agencies have been criticized for not having been efficient in curbing terrorism or for predicting the September 11 attack. Efficiency as…
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Counter-Terrorism
Counter-Terrorism Since September 11, 2001 “terrorism and counter-terrorism have become central topics of research across a multitude of disciplines, including the social sciences and sociology.”(1) However, within the “broad multidisciplinary field of terrorism studies, the dimensions of counter-terrorism have generally been much less addressed than the behaviors associated with terrorist groups and individuals.”(2) Counter-Terrorism at…