On 07/15/2017, members of the Little Rock Police Department Downtown Division arrested Zachary Hicks, W/M, DOB: 10/07/1986, at 6100 Mitchell Drive, Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Hicks was charged with Possession of Methamphetamine, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Loitering. Mr. Hicks was transported to the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility and held in lieu of bond. Mr. Hicks was assigned Street Narcotics Suspect #2017-SN-459, in reference to this incident.
RELATED CASES: None. SUPPORT DOCUMENTS: One Page ERC Correspondence, Two Pages EOS CCA Correspondence, One Page Pasco Sheriff`s Office Affidavit Of Identity Theft, and One Page Photocopy of Jean Weeks`s Florida Driver License. On 04/26/2016, I spoke with Jean Weeks and her daughter Kathryn Weeks in the District II Lobby of Pasco Sheriff`s Office in reference to Identity Theft that occurred in another jurisdiction. Kathryn Weeks advised her mother received a collection notice from ERC dated 03/16/2016 in reference to a Sprint bill in the amount of $1,580.45. Kathryn said she contacted ERC and learned a Sprint account was opened in 01/2015, using her mother`s personal identification (name, date of birth, and social security number)
Melvin Santiago of the Jersey City Jersey Police Department was not simply shot in the line of duty, he was viciously ambushed by a man determined be a cop killer and, possibly, to commit suicide by cop (Kulbarsh, 2015). The attacker, Lawrence Campbell, age 27, assaulted an armed security guard inside the Walgreens pharmacy, took the guards pistol, told witnesses he was going to be famous (New Jersey police officer shot, 2014). Campbell waited in the parking lot for the first cruiser to arrive and opened fire on officer Santiago as he stepped out of his vehicle. Thirteen shots were fired, and Santiago was struck in the head. As the shooting was happening, other officers arrived and began firing at Campbell from their vehicles.
Rutherford County Sheriff One of the largest sheriff offices in the Middle Tennessee area, covering over 626 square miles, with a force of 178 sworn law enforcement. Of the 178 deputies, 37 are resource officers, 7 assigned to courthouse security,135 Audit Detention Personnel, and 68 civilian personnel. In addition, the responsibility of approximately five square miles of Percy Priest Reservoir that lie inside the county. The Rutherford Sheriff’s offices have three primary areas: • Law Enforcement • Adult Detention • Court Security and Enforcement
Detective Dana Hughes, Metropolitan Police Department- I would not want to put Detective Dana Hughes on the stand. Often times it’s valuable to have the responding officer who at first hand witnessed the crime scene, although Hughes seems more like a bias hazard. It’s clear she has a bias to battered woman syndrome when in her affidavit she says, “it’s just a new excuse for committing murder. She never said anything about being beaten to me.
In The Devil in the White City, a world’s fair is being built in 1893 and Chicago is the chosen destination. Two architects, Daniel Burnham and John Root, are awarded the job of setting up the construction of the fair. Their main goal being to surpass the amazement of the building of the Eiffel Tower in Paris a few years before. Burnham faces many problems throughout the construction of the fair, one important one being that his partner, John Root, dies at the beginning of the organization process for the fair. Burnham is left to be the main architect and is faced with a lot of pressure coming from Chicago and the rest of the United States.
He then drives up to the men and asks them peality to move to the sidewalk because walking down the middle of the street at night is dangerous and they were blocking the road. The two young males refused and started swearing/ cusing at officer Wilson. The bigger stature one Michael even approached officer Wilson in his police car when things started to get violent. Michael punched officer Wilson in the face a few times. That’s when Wilson requested for back up but in the mean time Wilson started to fear for his own life.
“Frequent exposure to media reports of police abuse or corruption is a strong predictor of perceptions of misconduct and supports the belief that is common.” (France-Respers 1). But unfortunately, it also brings me disheartened feelings. Recently, I was on twitter and I stumbled across a video of a young white male who was roughly about twenty to twenty-five years of age who was being handled so aggressively by about six officers while he was NOT resisting.
The officers failed to consider the broader context and potential ramifications of their actions. It could be argued that alternatives, such as engaging with the youths, building a rapport and educating them, as well as treating them with respect and fairness, rather than escalating the situation and disparaging the character of the youths, could allow officers to not only comply with policy and legislation, but also more effectively police their community by building positive relationships, channels of communication, and reduction of future crime (Chan, Bargen, Luke and Clancey 1997). However, these alternatives require the appropriate use of discretion which the officers failed to
No one sees it but it happens. Police officers are characterized as enforcers with actions of tyranny and usurpations, to hold our rights or enforce power wrongfully. No one likes no one.
Since I 'm not ready to be a police officers I decided to join the police auxiliary program, it 's a way to give back to the community and try to help the community and the police department build better relations. On YouTube there 's a study done by a group of young people showing how police officers view African American differently because of theirs race, the video shows two examples. The first example was one white man walking around with an AR-15 (AR 15 is an assault weapon) in a state that people are allowed to carry as long they have a license for it. A few minutes pass an officer walked up to the guy and asked him is there a reason for him to be walking around with his weapon and he simply said he have a license and it 's his Constitutional right and the officers checked the license and went about his
However, research demonstrates that often times men of color are treated harshly which leads to negative perceptions of police officers. Police brutality is a crime that is has been surfacing in the news recently. Some people are just starting to realize that these injustices against the black community really occur, while others are well aware. The recent shootings, different run-ins with officers being filmed while doing such harmful actions against African American men is an example of police brutality and, that reminds us that as a society work needs to be done to improve police and community relations. A black male cannot even walk down the street on a cold night because he might be a suspect from something or he may be of danger to the people around.
A poor innocent African-American boy was shot to death, because his image brought him up to look like a robber, according to a white cop. The white cop did what anyone apparently is expected to do, and shoot what was somehow “threatening” him. Is the cop in jail? No, they let him go because it was meant to be an act of “self defence”. The fact that he murdered an innocent boy for completely no good reason, has been totally ignored. "
The media makes the severity of the situation much worse. In some instances, a situation is represented in way that conveys a case as deceptive. Police misconduct, in this situation, is preposterously distorted. For example, the scene one sees on television may be completely inaccurate. In the article Unpacking Public Attitudes to the Police: Contrasting Perceptions of Misconduct with Traditional Measures of Satisfaction, Miller states, “…research found that people's fear of crime was related to crime content in the newspapers they read…”( 6).
Depending on who you ask, what one considers police abuse of power, another may not. Today, regardless of many views to its legal contrast to police organizations, abuse of police power can be realized in forms of action such as verbal, harassment, false arrest, assault, excessive use of force, and illegal killings. However, regardless of what one considers, when those consistent actions of abuse by the police become the norm, it not only creates abuse, but also a stigma towards the police. Police harassment, use of excessive force and/or deadly force is destroying police-minority community relations.
