Many police authorities use racial profiling as a tool to pick up anyone they suspect is carrying arms and/or drugs. Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. ... Increasingly the police are seen by...

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A second responsibility criminal investigators must maintain is enforcing the law and bringing criminals to justice. It is difficult to enforce laws created by the justice system on criminal's who have produced a peculiar idea of another social world with separate laws for them to follow. For example, drug dealers see dealing drugs as a profession and a tool of the trade. ... The canines provide as a partner to the officers and aid them in foot chases, drug cases, and locating murder weapons and suspects. ... Police experience fatal incidents, abuse cases, and drug trafficking daily and w...

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The set time period is given to the offender and during this time they have to abide by certain rules such as; unpaid work, curfews, exclusions, drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment (http://www.inbrief.co.uk). ...

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Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with then are relegated to cages. ...

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