Law Enforcement/ Police Call Classification
Emergency telecommunicators come in contact with many of callers and situations. There are three types of calls emergency telecommunicators will answer. The first type of call would be a police call. A fire call would be another type of call. And a medical call is the third emergency call. Emergency calls can be separated into three basic levels. If someone has an emergency incident happening right at the moment, the call would be labeled as a call in progress. Law enforcement also responds to calls when an incident already happen and involves people that has fled the scene, and that type call is labeled as a just occurred call. The last type of call is a past event call when a call is reported that occurred in the past and there is little likelihood that the suspects are on
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Call classifications involve sorting out what calls are the most important. Let us say that there is a call coming in that a person is breaking into someone’s house. Then another call comes in calming that they were a witness to a murder that happened a few weeks back. Both calls will be handled appropriately, but the first call is mandatory to respond to. Call classification in law is vital to the community and law enforcement as well. In-progress calls are the most dangerous calls, because a crime just happened and everything is heated up. Someone can be dead, hurt and or left mentally uneased. Just occurred calls can be dangerous very much too because law enforcement is on a search for bad people that may be capable of harming more people. Police handling just occurred calls have to be really careful, they have to stay alert to maintain other citizens save. Past event calls are more of the investigation calls. As dispatch you want to make sure all information the caller knows is given, also those calls are likely to be recorded for future references in
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” declared Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963. Over fifty years later, allegations of injustice remain at the forefront of our nation’s discussions regarding unnecessary shootings, excessive use of force and alleged unprovoked violence towards black males in disproportionate amounts to white males. There is little dispute that police use excessive force in certain situations; however, through research and examining statistics can we determine if there is actual bias in policing, whether such bias plays a role in the use of force in encounters with black males, or if the use of force is actual proper police technique with no application to the race of the arrestee?
There are many forms of intercommunication that law enforcement officers’ use. One is the radio system that’s placed in their car, the writing on the car is even a type of communication, the dispatcher, and police reports, and these are just a few. Officers used their radio system to connect with each from car to car, so they can call for backup and described the crime scene to each other. The writing on a police car is almost a giant warning or a giant sign that law enforcement is near and ready to protect. The dispatcher as the name already says is the person who tells which officers to go to which citizen distress call or which crime scene. Police reports may be one of the most important though this can make or break a criminal case. They include evidence found, witnesses statements, assumed time of death
Not everything in today's world is necessarily positive, and from shootings to domestic violence these are all situations operators are placed in through someone else’s point of view on the daily basis. Operators are often misconceived that certain calls they take have no emotional effect on them. Now although operators are not familiar with the callers and do not necessary have any relation to them, it does not take away from the fact that these calls can cause a roller coaster of emotions. Joe Lopez, a Madera Police Dispatcher, states in a personal experience with a situation where an officer was shot at while escorting a ride along, “At the time my heart was in my throat and I was scared for him and his family. After all was said and done he came back to the office. I was tearing up as he thanked me for being on the other side of the radio”. In his first years of working he explained a call of an unresponsive toddler that left him with high amount of anxiety and caused him to silently suffer from compassion fatigue, as he did not mention the story to anyone for years to come. Although emergency calls are a part of of a daily routine in an operator's world, certain situations still can leave a real burden on one’s heart, despite the fact that the caller is an anonymous non priority outside their
In order to diminish police brutality, excessive force, and prejudice behaviors in the police officers, several actions must be set in motion. The police hiring process, training, in-field monitoring, and disciplinary actions must be adjusted to eliminate discriminatory actions against citizens. Likewise, it is a necessity for citizens to be informed of their rights, civil liberties, and how they can resolve corruption within the justice system. These actions seek to shrink the number of minorities who are racial profiled and brutalized by police officers. A more stringent hiring process, it will help curtail unethical and unprofessional police officers. Police training must be altered so that situations are handled safely and impartial. In-field monitoring with eliminate police officers from managing to catch police officers who brutality handle citizens. Disciplinary actions help to prosecute police officers to break the law. Lastly, if citizen are informed of what they should about corrupt police officers and a poor justice systems.
To begin with police officers faces more dangers than the average American citizen, “generally police are about three times as likely to be killed on the job as the average American” (Blako). “Some of the most important hazards police face are assaults, vehicle crashes, being struck by vehicles, stress, overexertion, and falls” (LaTourrette). Traffic stops make up a majority of the police deaths, but most of those deaths do not have to do with responding to the scene of a crime or the pursuit of a criminal suspect. Most would believe police have the most dangerous jobs in the world, yet many do not die in the line of duty. Police shows like Cops give the American population a false sense of danger when it comes day to day work of an officer. They only show the action to keep viewers interested because if you watching the normal stopping of a citizen to get a speeding ticket or to tell them a lights out the show would not be on anymore. If you do see an everyday traffic stop it is because something bad is about to happen like an oncoming vehicle probably not paying attention resul...
Before reading this book I thought 911 calls and 311 calls were responded every time. But in Eastern District in Baltimore that is not the case. The residents in Eastern district are much different compared to Fargo/ Moorhead area where most calls are responded too. Moskos said that some criminals will call 911 for a shooting in one area so that cops will go there so they can commit a crime in the opposite direction. Now officers in the Eastern district know how to know which calls are fake. Example: if a call comes in for a shooting in one area and that is the only call then it is fake.
Over the past centuries, Black community in Toronto have encountered and persisted violence and discriminations in many different ways. Racial profiling and carding are the two major roots of police brutality. Police officers often have biased perceptions and negative feelings about certain races. Carding can be defined as random police checks that target young African-Canadian men. Police might detain a driver for driving a specific type of vehicle or driving in certain areas that they have assumptions about. “This practice was a systematic violation of the rights of people in our communities, especially of racialized youth” (CBC ABC National, June 1, 2015). Carding results in police abusing their power which leads to assaults, shootings and death. However, police have said
Have you ever been followed by store officials or security while shopping in a department store? At first, all of the attention can be flattering but quickly becomes insulting once you realize they’re not following you to offer any assistance. Instead because of how you look you fit a certain profile that causes store officials to think you’ve come to their store to steal. This type of behavior is called racial profiling. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, racial profiling refers to the discrimination practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. Citizens need to be more aware of racial profiling and make laws that racial profiling should be illegal. Racial profiling is carried out by law enforcement airport security, and other security personnel that look to profile the minorities for no reason. Heather Sally Newton Driscoll ebscohost.com stated “The practice of profiling is rooted in centuries of discrimination and is based on stereotypes that have long been disproved. Profiling holds on entire population accountable for the committed by a small minority”.
Racism is a common and ancient social problem in the U.S.. African Americans spend many years on solving the problem. From the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Movements, they consistently fought against racism and gradually gained the justice and rights. During that time, many famous people were born, such as Martin Luther King. Because of their efforts, nowadays, even the president of the US, Barack Obama, has African American blood. However, racism becomes a headline in the news again recently. In the past few months, protests have happened in many big cities like New York and Washington. African Americans went on the street protesting against the discipline of the police department. They claimed that they
Most offenders and parolees return to their families and friends in their old neighborhoods and communities which are more often than not the same areas that got them in trouble in the first place. These areas are quite possibly the target of a previous hot spot policing detail, possibly leading to an individual’s incarceration. While I am not trying to say the return of one individual to a specific area will cause a spike in criminal activity and an immediate hot spot detail, I do want to stress that hot spot policing techniques and studies have not shown any sign of correcting criminal behavior in an offender or high crime area for a long period of time. Hot spot policing is used as a quick response to citizen complaints. Law enforcement
The most famous serial killers were at one point free and had the opportunity to do what they wanted to do. Ted Bundy for example killed over 30 people, The Atlanta Child Murderers killed 29 people almost all children, and the Green River Killer committed somewhere between 48 to 90 murders. All were eventually caught with forensics, but if police used criminal profiling it might have help catch them sooner. Teten and Patrick Mullany are the first two who have profiled difficult criminal cases. Teten’s first investigation was a woman who was stabbed in her home. He looked at the documents and the crime scene and came up with a profile that fit the description of the actual killer. Mullany and Patrick were
In today’s society, there are many ways that people perceive law enforcement officers. It is believed that all police officers like donuts. Some people picture all officers as being masculine or sporting a flattop haircut. Many believe that all cops must meet a ticket quota each month. And lately, police officers are perceived to violently arrest based on racial profiling and discrimination. All of these views are stereotypes of a law enforcement officer. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines stereotype as “to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same”. A stereotype is a broad generalization that many times is only true for a small minority. Stereotypes can be hurtful and incorrect. They
Our examination of the topic, violent crime(s), resulted into in the analysis of 29 scholarly articles which informed our literature review. The analysis focused on finding information on violent crimes, contributing factors, policing efforts like such as hot spot policing and its effectiveness, and the prevalence of violent crimes. Studies conducted in various cities in the U.S(.) and their result are used to inform some of the conclusions about the trends and effectiveness of the adopted policing strategies adopted. We then examine victimization and focus on how potential victims can increase the opportunities that result into them being victims, (. F)or example, the partying life style of college students which make them vulnerable to criminals College students who adopt the “party lifestyle” are more susceptible to being targeted by criminals.
Reporting a crime could save lives. Every minute that passes, the chance of a crime victim getting help, or the criminal being caught, lessans. In the article, Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police”, Martin Gansberg explains, “It was 3:50 by the time the police received their first call, from a man who was a neighbor of Miss Genovese. In two minutes they were on the scene.” In this article it tells a story of a woman who was murdered outside of her home, and how many neighbors heard the altercation but decided not to call the police. If someone who heard her being stabbed the first time would have called the police, there would have been a higher chance of her surviving. Even if the neighbors did not physically see the murder happening, many heard the disturbance. Witnessing or hearing a disturbance calls for you to report it to the authorities. A couple told the police, “We thought it was just a lovers quarrel.” Even if there was uncertainty, calling the police to be safe is crucial in today's age with crime.
First, you would call 911 as soon as you see, hear, experience or know of both crime that are being committed. The caller should give the dispatcher as much information as possible so the officers can find the crime scene, and try to describe as much detail of what the suspect or suspects look like or what they are wearing. The witness should only stay away from the crime scene and wait for the police to arrive on the scene. However, if the victim is hurt or need CPR. I think the witness should step in and help. Once the police arrive, the witness should write out the statement giving, as many details that witness know about the crimes that was committed. Make sure you answer any questions that the police have with as much detail as possible. Make sure you leave your contact information with the officers just in case they need to ask you any more questions about the crimes that was