Critical Issues in Policing Introduction Police officers are indispensable to the execution of the law. However, this employment is dangerous because police officers must regularly interact with criminals in the course of their responsibilities. Nonetheless, in order to make their jobs easier, police personnel typically employ community policing. Community policing consists primarily of engaging with local […]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, in delivering the opinion on Smith v. Texas (1940), wrote: It is part of the established tradition in the use of juries as instruments of public justice that the jury be a body truly representative of the community. For racial discrimination to result in the exclusion from jury service […]