Police and Prisons Archive

High speed vehicle chases have been banned in most police jurisdictions. Still, some police departments realize the importance of not letting criminals get away, simply by speeding up. When police begin a high speed pursuit, …

Prisoners shouldn’t be punished for something that was done before entering the prison.  Being sentenced to time in prison is punishment enough and certainly, the criminal has an idea of what goes on in there …

Police Officers are on the front line in an endless domestic battle of good versus evil.  While there are many rules, policies and laws in place that govern the authority granted to police officers, there …

Excuse me, but I am not sure whether I have heard or read right or whether this question should indeed have ever been asked in the first place, you know the one that asks “Should …

Prison should be a place of reform. All people make mistakes and injure others, but to varying degrees. Some mistakes are minor and without long lasting consequences, other mistakes are severe and never forgotten. Mistakes …

Charles Manson, one of the most clever brainwashing masterminds in recent history. Convicted of murder, yet he never killed a soul, he did however brainwash an entire group of people to do the deed for …

Title: Police abuse: Sovereign Immunity protects the abusersArticle: Police Abuse: Sovereign Immunity Protects the Abusers Police abuse is a national problem with officers over stepping theirbounds and deliberately doing harm to the people that they …

John Gotti, the superstar mafia prince who reveled in the spotlight and strutted through New York’s Little Italy in his two-thousand-dollar Brioni suits, spent the last decade of his life housed in one of the …

The misinformation effect is memory impairment after exposure to misleading information. It occurs when misleading data is received after the memory was originally made, causing memories to be altered. This is not a deliberate attempt …

Police officers often forget that an arrest can be a very scary experience for the person being arrested.  Members of law enforcement deal with arrests and similar situations regularly.  Sometimes on a daily basis.  They …

I had been married for 3 days to a man I had never touched. Saturday dawned while we were halfway to Tennessee Colony. Dallas is flat, strangely so actually for a city, but I was …

Anyone who has ever lived in small towns or rural communities has their own local sheriff’s office. It may have two to four officers and is in charge of local problems and provide a sense of …

CHEERLEADERS GONE WILD: A LESSON IN POWER Plugging “Cheerleaders gone Wild” into a search engine will currently pull up more than rather risqu pictures of cheerleaders frolicking. Texas, the land of living large, has once …

Probable cause is an integral ideal of the justice system of the United States. The fourth amendment discusses undue searches and seizures as well as probable cause. Verbatim from the U.S. Constitution “The right of …

In the United States, there are a variety of different types of Law Enforcement agencies. First of all, there are municipal or city police departments. These can range in size from two or three officers …

What are the myths about rape? Can we explain the existence of these myths?A few people have given us definitions of rape myths. Here’s a good one: “generalized and false beliefs about sexual assault that …

While the issue of formally charging individuals with war crimes is a fairly new one, brought about in an age of powerful court systems, world government, and the slow abolishment of the infallible monarchies of …

Do innocent people get convicted of crimes they didn’t commit?  The answer is yes.  If you work in a prison type environment you will see that all convicted felons claim their innocence. This is why we …

Aside from being wrongly accused, one does not find them self in a U.S. jail or prison without breaking the law. Committing a crime must be followed by some form of reprimand and punishment, regardless …

“BUSTED”:  Practical application of your rights if arrested If (when?) the time comes that you find yourself arrested and taken into custody, a long-winded, theoretical, “legalese” study of your legal rights, discussing a “best case …

As I witness how people are acting nowadays, it’s hard to simply reason with stubborn citizens. I think there is nothing wrong with using tazers as a form of discipline. Let’s face it. If I …

Here’s what’s legendary about the great Texas Cheerleader Scandal of 2007. It’s not just that you have teen-aged high school girls behaving very badly. (“Boozing, bikinis and bullying,” wrote Newsweek.) It’s that you also had …

Everyone deserves a second change; even a criminal.  Being called a criminal usually means that the person has been caught, tried, convicted and had to do prison time or probation; maybe even both. Once they …

Terrorism is a method of using the fear of violence and retaliation to coerce one group of people to conform to the wishes of another. In America, Black History contains volumes of episodes of terrorism …

A Brief Understanding of Prisons, and Victims by Marquis D. Canaday The justice system is handled by the United States of America by a series of institutions that are connected to each other. With judges …

Throughout American history, people have recognized the need for law enforcement officers to act as both protectors and defenders of the general public. Most law enforcement agencies recognize this traditional role in their departmental motto …

The use of electroshock weapons by the police has generated substantial controversy over the last several years. There have been a number of suspect deaths that have been attributed, rightly or wrongly, to the use of …

Reality of living life in Jail If more of today’s children knew the true reality of living life in jail; they may choose to take a much different course. Television has made jail and prison …

Manic BC Woman Arrested and Charged for Uttering Threats News Article by… Sorry, can’t reveal that info here Vernon, British Columbia. A Vernon resident, who will remain nameless, was arressted and charged with assault for …

According to statistics compiled by the U.S. Justice Department, 4.5 percent of all state and federal inmates in the United States reported seual victimization of some form in the year 2007.  In that year the national …