DELIBERATION PROCESS OF BUILDING STANDARD LAW ENFORCEMENT ORDER

Development of a hearing performance standard for law enforcement officers.

A hearing performance standard for new police officer candidates in the State of Michigan was developed by a task force consisting of the authors and four members of the Michigan Law Enforcement Officers Training Council. Ratings of the importance of hearing sensitivity and speech intelligibility in performing each of 135 specific job tasks formed the basis for pass-fail criteria. The standard,...

The corruption process of a law enforcement officer.

The public does not want all laws enforced. In the closed society of law enforcement institutions, police discretion, the conspiracy of silence, the lack of an administration with integrity, and susceptible law enforcement officers contribute to the development of corruption from occupational deviance. Corruption in law enforcement agencies may have similar roots in business, law, medicine, and...

Law Enforcement; a Function of Criminal Liability or Civil Liability

Despite the fact that in investigations and legal writings enough consideration has been paid to the founding principles and rules governing civil and criminal liability as well as damages of crime, the legal or disciplinary responsibility accompanying these two types of legal responsibilities has not been taken seriously into account and the people involved it - in particular, the authorities ...

Psychotherapy as law enforcement.

Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of court decisions, psychiatric patients are being convicted of crimes by virtue of actions by their psychiatrists or psychotherapists purportedly based on the duty to warn. One recent case has featured surreptitiou...

Wanted: Uniform Law Enforcement