Examples of police action in the following topics:
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- Congress is given several powers to engage in foreign policy, but also to check the president's actions foreign policy, especially in the event of war.
- Instead, they maintain that they have the Constitutional authority, as commander in chief to use the military for "police actions. " According to historian Thomas Woods, "Ever since the Korean, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution — which refers to the president as the 'Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States' — has been interpreted to mean that the president may act with an essentially free hand in foreign affairs, or at the very least that he may send men into battle without consulting Congress. " Some people have argued this could pass as offensive actions, although historically police actions fell mostly under the purview of protecting embassies, U.S. citizens overseas, and shipping such as the quasi war.
- Some debate continues about whether the actions are appropriate.
- Some legal scholars maintain that offensive, non-police military actions, while a quorum can still be convened, taken without a formal Congressional declaration of war is unconstitutional.
- The police action spiraled into a war-like situation quickly, although it was one war never waged by Congress.
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- Peaceful protests were met with police militarization, and some areas of the city turned violent.
- The event stirred public protests and rallies, with charges of police brutality made by protesters.
- On April 12, 2015, Baltimore Police Department officers arrested Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American resident of Baltimore, Maryland, for possessing what the police alleged was an illegal switchblade.
- On April 18, 2015, the residents of Baltimore protested in front of the Western district police station.
- Since the Ferguson protests, participants in the movement have demonstrated against the deaths of numerous other African Americans by police actions or while in police custody, including those of Tamir Rice, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Jonathan Ferrell, Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castille.
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- The exclusionary rule is also designed to provide disincentive to prosecutors and police who illegally gather evidence in violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
- In strict cases, when an illegal action is used by police/prosecution to gain any incriminating result, all evidence whose recovery stemmed from the illegal action can be thrown out from a jury.
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- Affirmative action prevents discrimination against employees on the basis of race, religion, gender, or nationality.
- Further impetus is a desire to ensure public institutions, such as universities, hospitals, and police forces, are more representative of the populations they serve.
- Affirmative action is a large subject of controversy.
- Affirmative action as a practice was upheld by the court's decision in Grutter v.
- If problems are discovered, OFCCP will recommend corrective action and suggest ways to achieve equal employment opportunity.
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- Further impetus is a desire to ensure that public institutions, such as universities, hospitals, and police forces, are more representative of the populations they serve.
- Affirmative action is a subject of controversy.
- This argument supports the idea of solely class-based affirmative action.
- Other opponents of affirmative action call it reverse discrimination, saying affirmative action requires the very discrimination it is seeking to eliminate.
- Some opponents believe, among other things, that affirmative action devalues the accomplishments of people who belong to a group it is supposed to help, therefore making affirmative action counter-productive.
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- The term police 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.
- In most Western police forces, perhaps the most significant division is between preventive police and detectives.
- Preventive police designates the police that patrol and respond to emergencies and other incidents, as opposed to detective services.
- Transnational policing pertains to all those forms for policing that, in some sense, transgress national borders.
- Explain the relationship between the police and the state, differentiating between preventive police and police detectives
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- When a delegation of black soldiers protested the government’s discriminatory actions, Wilson told them "segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen."
- This led to clashes with local authorities, including an incident in which police beat a black soldier and set off a nighttime riot by 156 African-American troops resulting in the shooting deaths of two soldiers, four police officers, and nine civilians.
- A police officer and a soldier died later from wounds sustained in the riot, while another soldier died from injuries he received during his capture the next day.
- Army 369th Infantry Regiment, which won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action in World War I, pictured in 1919.
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- Red tape is excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
- As opposed to bureaucrats carrying out "desk jobs," street-level bureaucracy is the subset of a public agency or government institution containing the individuals who carry out and enforce the actions required by laws and public policies.
- He argued that state employees such as police and social workers should be seen as part of the "policy-making community" and as exercisers of political power.
- Street-level bureaucrats include police officers, firefighters, and other individuals, who on a daily basis interact with regular citizens and provide the force behind the given rules and laws in their areas of expertise.
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- Meanwhile, leftist guerrillas accounted for 6,000 casualties
among military and police forces as well as civilians.
- By the early 1970s, the
consolidated guerrilla groups that remained were kidnapping and assassinating
high-ranking military and police officers almost weekly.
- The extreme left
bombed and destroyed numerous military and police buildings in its campaign
against the government during this time, but unfortunately a number of civilian
and non-governmental buildings were targeted as well.
- In 1975, Isabel signed a number
of decrees empowering the military and the police to step up efforts to destroy
left-wing subversion, particularly the ERP.
- The government coordinated actions with
other South American dictatorships as well.