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Law enforcement
The collective name for the efforts of enforcing and ensuring observance, obedience to the law.
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legally arrested
Law enforcement; Police
Occurs when an individual is deprived of his or her liberty by legal authority and is under arrest or simply taken into custody. A police officer must have the intent to arrest, ...
computer comparison statistics (COMPSTAT)
Law enforcement; Police
An organizational model, first used by the New York City police in 1994, that allows police departments to blend timely intelligence, effective tactics, rapid deployment of ...
institutional theory
Law enforcement; Police
A theoretical framework for understanding the structures and practices of police organizations based on the premise that police organizations are social institutions that operate ...
community policing
Law enforcement; Police
A model of policing that stresses a two-way working relationship between the community and the police, in which the police become more integrated into the local community and ...
honest law enforcement
Law enforcement; Police
An approach representative of low expectations for law enforcement that states police would continue to patrol neighborhoods, answer calls for service, intervene in problem ...
disparity
Law enforcement; Police
Differences or inequalities that are not necessarily caused by differential treatment.
containment
Law enforcement; Police
A strategy used by police to confine the homeless problem to one area of a community to both minimize disorder and keep homeless people out of public view.
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