Police

Police

Special government unit empowered to enforce the law.

Industry: Government; Law enforcement

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deformalize

Law enforcement; Police

To eliminate many of the rules and policies that stifle creativity and discourage problem solving within police organizations.

police-community relations

Law enforcement; Police

Relations between the police and racial and ethnic minority communities.

selective perception

Law enforcement; Police

The likelihood that police officers will remember traumatic or unpleasant incidents with citizens, even though only 2 to 5 percent of contacts involve hostility or conflict.

problem-oriented policing

Law enforcement; Police

A model of policing that stresses increased police response to identified crime problems.

illegal immigrant

Law enforcement; Police

An illegal immigrant is a person that enters a country throughout the proper channels, that is, without obtaining a visa with the host country.

A controversial stop-and-search policy that allows a police officer to temporarily detain somebody and pat down the person's outer clothing when there are specific and articulable facts. Such facts ...

spa shooting

Law enforcement; Police

A Wisconsin man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked Sunday and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself, a ...