Perry referred CNN to Lacher to answer why the kit was not submitted for testing. Since 2010, North Charleston police destroyed nine rape kits tied to cases that still could be prosecuted; four were never tested. Perry said that the victim’s history as a prostitute had no bearing on how...
In comparison to present-day usage, during the early modern period the term 'police' had a broader meaning. It referred to 'good societal order' covering a variety of areas of societal life such as public finances, commerce, professions, infrastructure, public health and poor relief, public ...
not hypothetical conjecture on what the police ought to be doing (Hoover, T. 2014). The period during which an officer is neither responding to calls nor conducting related investigative work can be referred to as uncommitted time. Uncommitted time has been found to be high as 50 percent of...
(cf. Becker 1998, Konecki 2008) Coupled with the centrality of violence as a concept to the theory of policing as it stands today, it seemed worthwhile to examine the processes of meaning-making involving violence to the degree that it was possible. Actual encounters between Revierpolizei office...
as a natural effect of rhetoric like Kenyatta’s. The commissioner said of the young man’s action: “he said he did it (shot the cop) because of what he’d heard.” The columnist, Tom Fox, likewise suggested that the killing could be attributed to media reporting on the violence of ...
*ForstudentReading*Aspecial(police)constable(SCorSPC)isalawenforcementofficerwhoisnotaregularmemberofapoliceforce,butisamemberofavolunteerpoliceauxiliary.ManypolicedepartmentsarecomplementedbyaSpecialConstabulary,membersofwhicharereferredtoasspecialconstables.SpecialConstablesholdfullpolicepowersandholdthe...
Senior officers can’t have known, Perry argued, as otherwise they would have taken immediate action. Plus, all the senior officers in close proximity to Kennedy deny knowledge of his behaviour. What followed was essentially a rehash of this point from different angles. All the blame lay with...
with the final lines of inquiry designed to bring meaning and identity a recurrent trends and variant manifestations as described by DeSantis and Ugarriza (2000). As such, the lines of enquiry were designed to capture and unify the nature or basis of the various context specific studies into...
the last traumatic event occurred, hereafter referred to as Trauma Distance, the continuous measure of months was converted into 6 ordinal levels: 0–0.5 years, 0.5–1.5 years, 1.5–3 years, 3–5 years, 5–10 years, and > 10 years. Officers who responded with "No" were assigned to...
Using local autocorrelation analysis, Chapinero was identified as a cluster associated with the perception of safety, meaning that a person’s sense of security depends on the perception of safety among their closest neighbors. Temporal and spatial patterns of crime are the focus of a study by de...