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Police

Special government unit empowered to enforce 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, must communicate ...

computer comparison statistics (COMPSTAT)

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 personnel, and vigorous ...

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 in relation to their ...

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 citizens assume an ...

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 situations, and try to ...

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.