Police
The police are people empowered to enforce the law, protect property and reduce civil disorder.[1] Their powers include the legitimized use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police services of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility.
History
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The word comes via medieval French police, from Latin politia ("civil administration"), from ancient Greek πόλις ("city").[2]
Law enforcement, however, constitutes only part of policing activity.[3] Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order.[4]
Alternative names for police force include constabulary, gendarmerie, police department, police service, crime prevention, protective services, law enforcement agency or Garda Síochána, and members can be police officers, troopers, sheriffs, constables, rangers, peace officers or Garda. Russian police and police of the Soviet-era Eastern Europe are (or were) called militsiya. As police are often in conflict with individuals, slang terms are numerous. Many slang terms for police officers are decades or centuries old with lost etymology.
There has always been an issue where police don't like the public to film them. In 2013, Apple Inc. came out with a mandatory funciton on all its devices so that police could remotely prevent its devices from taking pictures and recording police officers, as well as turn phones off and disable wireless transmission.[5][6] Police can at times just take your money, car and all your legally-possessed belongings that you have and keep it forever with no chance of you getting it back. Asset forfeiture provides insidious incentives for police to apprehend people.
- No matter one’s political inclinations, most can agree that civil asset forfeiture is basically practiced unfairly. Its fiercest and most vocal opponents are libertarians and other limited government advocates, who string it up as a sinister example of a tyrannical state voraciously plundering its people. This author is less conspiratorial; civil asset forfeiture is simply a dumb, archaic policy that’s still around because not enough people have called for its end. Dick Carpenter, director of strategic research at the Institute for Justice, explains that “special interest theory” may explain civil asset forfeitures’ staying power. The idea is that those who stand to benefit from forfeiture—law enforcement—are a concentrated interest, and those who don’t are a diffuse interest. “Concentrated interest always has greater power than diffused interest,” he said. “The diffused interest is the public, you me everyone else, we don’t have power like the concentrated interest that organizes and lobbies on its own behalf.” Civil asset forfeiture laws differ from state to state in three ways. First, they vary on how much of what local agencies seize they can keep—some places can keep up to 100 percent of what they seize, while in other states law enforcement can only keep a fraction. Second, proof of culpability required for forfeiture is much more stringent in certain states, while in others its quite low. Last is the difference in owner-burden to prove innocence: some states assume the owner of property is guilty when charged, making it much harder for the owner to retrieve forfeited property, while other states presume innocence, making the process of retrieving stuff easier.[7]
This is actually against the the fourth amendment which includes as part of its text, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated", and the fifth amendment which includes as part of its text, "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation".
Police are generally softer on blacks due to fear of being called "racist". For example, they pulled over an elderly black woman for a headlight being out and then so she didn't have to get a ticket, they fixed her car for her.[8] terrorist groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter belong to the greatest adversaries of police, not just in the USA.
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- ↑ The Role and Responsibilities of the Police. Policy Studies Institute. Retrieved on 2009-12-22.
- ↑ Police. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
- ↑ Walker, Samuel (1977). A Critical History of Police Reform: The Emergence of Professionalism. Lexington, MT: Lexington Books, 143. ISBN 978-0-6690-1292-7.
- ↑ Neocleous, Mark (2004). Fabricating Social Order: A Critical History of Police Power. Pluto Press, 93–94. ISBN 978-0-7453-1489-1.
- ↑ Apple to Block Phone Features at ‘Sensitive Events’ 8 August 2013
- ↑ No shooting at protest? Police may block mobile devices via Apple September 05, 2012
- ↑ Police Can Just Take Your Money, Car and Other Property — and Good Luck Getting It Back
- ↑ Cops Fix Car of Black Criminal’s Mother Instead of Giving Her a Ticket
