As innocent people, it's a not only illegal but disrespectfully intrusion to invade our privacy without our acknowledgment or consent. ... This puts many innocent people in jeopardy of unlawful invasion of privacy. ... Around the United States innocent people's lives are being intruded daily without their acknowledgment or consent. ... Although the FBI and CIA are able to obtain information helpful to criminal activity, it still doesn't give the right to invade every single person's privacy as a whole. ...

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Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person's race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. ... In other words, a person is judged by the description of others and not by their actual character. ... Despite training to avoid discrimination, officers may still rely on cultural stereotypes and act on their perceptions of a person's characteristics (such as age, race or gender)("Racial Profiling," 2013). ... Racial profiling forces individuals that have done no wrong to endure the burdens o...

• Word Count: 1975
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Officers too frequently bombard their weapons in a procedure and in certain conditions that place an innocent onlooker in danger; accidentally firing their fire arms, sometimes fortuitously hitting nothing and other times shooting innocent people and severely injuring them. ... At times, this strength appears to have been applied as punishment for the person's earlier verbal or corporeal resistance to an officer's command, and is not based on a current threat posed by the person. ...

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Whether the civilian is innocent or not is an issue for debate but the fact remains that police officer use excess and unwarranted force to perform their duties (Lawrence, 2000). ... For instance, when a criminal surrenders to police officers, the person is not supposed to be shot or assaulted, but this is not usually the case. ... The victims of police brutality are usually innocent civilians or criminals. ... It is highly probably that a police officer will assault an individual and they let the person to go scot-free. ... Once an individual has been assaulted the next move is to arrest the ...

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This is essential to protect the innocent from unjust convictions. ... Consent now is widely held to mean a consent freely and voluntarily given by a person with the mental cognition to give such consent, and without in any way affecting or limiting the meaning otherwise attributable to those words, a consent is not freely or voluntarily given if it is obtained by force, threat, intimidation, deception or fraudulent means. ...

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In the past this would possibly have gone unnoticed until perhaps the offender re-offended, causing unknown amounts of harm and suffering to innocent children (DeMichele 3). ... The handheld Breathalyzer that has been in circulation for years and used to detect the use of alcohol in a field setting was the starting point for an alcohol detection device that prevents an intoxicated person from starting a motor vehicle (Burrell). ...

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Persons taking part in the riot may lose a sense of their own identity and give up beliefs for survival or conformity (Deane-Drummond 1975) The United States Department of Justice has labeled groups with a greater potential for causing or participating in civil disorders and violent demonstrations. ... Shooting to wound rioters is also a very risky task because of the risk that a bullet may ricochet off of a sign or a car and injure an innocent civilian or another officer. ...

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Everyday in the U.S. there are numerous crimes being committed in which law enforcement must take action in order to protect innocent civilians against lawbreakers. ... This states for any person injured by racial profiling to bring a civil suit filed against that department. ... One thing they can do is providing on-going diversity and ethical training for officers, so they can be more prepared to decide whether they are targeting a person because of their race, or because they just merely seem suspicious of criminal activity. ...

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This case doesn't turn out well - although Tom's lawyer tries to convince the jurors and the judge that Tom was innocent, they still didn't believe him because Tom is African American. ... On the night of February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed and innocent African immigrant, was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx. ...

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"The purpose of the criminal justice system is to deliver justice for all, by convicting and punishing the guilty and helping them to stop offending, while protecting the innocent" (Collins par 1). It is meant to provide equal protection to all persons under the law and to fairly administer the law. ...

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This clearly identifies that the government needs to find a way to prefect a program that can pick up the movements of a person to match up faces with similar motions. ... Odds are, if the person has been convicted once on a home burglary charge and a similar incident happened, it would be a lot easier to match a possible suspect. ... Unless under investigation, and granted a warrant; officials should not be able to access person e-mail conversations. People do not like to have their privacy invaded - it often makes a person feel extremely unsafe. ... It is unfair that good, innocent people ha...

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These should also be ample supplies in a police officers locker, and before going out officer should always check the mail slot, daily offense bulletin, beat file, bulletin board, missing persons, daily arrest sheets, computer printouts. ... Officers must make permanent records of events which are used to aid interrogation, and they can also counteract changes in persons study and can also serve as a layout of the overall picture of conflicts. ... But the filing of photographs and descriptions of arrested persons by Alphonse Bertillion began the identification process. ...

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These records should include the person's race; the reason stopped; how long the car was detained; and whether a ticket was issued, the car searched, or any illegal goods or weapons were found when the traffic stop was made. ... I personally, have repeatedly been an innocent victim of racial profiling in the city in which I reside and while visiting other cities in the United States. ... As a reasonable person I firmly believe that even if the suggestions I recommend to end racial profiling are enacted and routine racial profiling is profiling is prohibited, the practice will not cease qu...

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Of this massive number, an even more staggering 605,328 of those people were completely innocent (NYCLU). ... Although it is police officers' duties to patrol the community and monitor suspicious activity in the congested city of New York, does the race of a potential "suspicious" person play a factor in the subsequent stopping and frisking of the individual? ...

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Disparity in Profiling on the Streets "Racial disparities affect not only guilty but also innocent minorities. ... Of numerous studies of death penalty outcomes reviewed by the GAO, 82% found that imposition of the death penalty was more likely in the case of a white victim than in the case of a black victim.11 To give another example, defendants charged in Georgia with killing white victims were 4.3 times more likely to receive the death penalty than defendants charged with killing black victims.12 The Baldus study also found that more than 50% of those sentenced to death for killing a white ...

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