Law Enforcement: The following case study is from the state of California concerning the California Highway Patrol. One August afternoon, a dispatcher from the California Highway Patrol call center received a phone call from an anonymous driver from Mendocino county, concerning a driver in a silver Ford F150 had recently had driven them off the road. The dispatcher alerted officers in the area at 3:47 PM. By 4:00 PM an officer spotted the Ford F150 and followed the truck for five minutes. Even though
Organizations Current State The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a state run government law enforcement agency who is the primary law enforcement agency for the entire state of California. The CHP’s mission is to provide the highest level of safety, service and security to the inhabitants of California. The mission of the CHP is accomplished through five departmental goals 1) Protect life and property. 2) Provide superior service to the public and assistance to allied agencies. 3) Enhance public
Business Issues Two business issues facing the California Highway Patrol (CHP) are narcissism and organizational culture. Narcissism can be detrimental to the success within the organization because of the individual's self-centered motivations (Kinicki & Fugate, 2016). Another business issue facing the CHP is organization is the organizational culture and the influence leadership within the organization has on the culture. The purpose of this discussion board is to identify two business issues
reached two huge stone angel monuments with arms and wings stretched toward the sky. The sight of them invoked religious desperation from me as if a I was lacking from divine intervention. Parked on either side of the two towering angels sat two highway patrol cars. One on each side of the statues like vultures ordered by the sherif of Nottingham to victimize taxpayers. I felt desperate and uneasy as I stared into the troopers eyes as I passed by and they stared back. I am not paranoid but that doesn't
The Ohio Highway State Patrol has a long history of enforcing laws and keeping the wellness and safety of all Ohioans everywhere. The patrol has a responsibility to the public to uphold their duties as officers to protect life ,traffic and public; to provide safe roadways, emergency support, and investigate criminal activity. The Ohio Highway State Patrol went through a seventeen-year struggle to get a state police force to patrol roadways. In 1917 Senator Davis of the 23rd district introduced a
recently Justin Ross was named Trooper of the Year and Heather Carr was named Dispatcher of the Year. Ross' selection came by way of a resounding vote from his peers, said Post Commander Lt. Stephanie Norman. And, although he's only been with the patrol for five years, she said, “When you say 'Justin Ross,' a lot of people know who he is. I haven't heard a bad thing said about him. “He has a great working relationship with all the departments. He's a very agreeable person, and he does everything
I chose to write about the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the families behind it because of my own family’s connection to the Patrol. Before my brother went into the force, I never paid much attention to Ohio State Highway Patrolmen. I did not know what they did besides give out traffic tickets, and I feel that many others in society have the same basic knowledge I once had. Now that I have a close family member involved in the Ohio State Patrol, I have come to realize that they do some much more
The vehicle code of the state of California has many rules and laws that are directly related to vehicle operating, owning a vehicle, registering a vehicle, and insuring a vehicle. Department of Motor Vehicle and Highway Patrol in California perform their duties and apply these rules and laws by proceeding the vehicle code of the state of California. The key elements of the policy: 1. All vehicles in California must be registered. Vehicle registration must be renewed annually. According to Article
The Devils Highway, More than Just a Name. The Devil’s Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea, New York: Little, Brown, 2004. 220 Pages. Reviewed by Patricia Castillo. Luis Alberto Urrea is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, an American Book Award, a Western State Award, and a Colorado Book Award. He has received the Latino Literary Library Wall of Fame for this book and was one of the finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. The book, The Devils Highway, gave me a very different perspective
The author of the book The Devil's Highway: A True Story, is Luis Alberto Urrea, who was born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1955. Urrea grew up in poverty and was raised in California, his father is Mexican and his mother American. (Urrea, 2017) Urrea graduated from the University of California and completed the graduate program at the University of Colorado. He has written 16 books and also writes poetry. Correspondingly, the book The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, won the Lannan Literary Award and was
Arizona Border Patrol The Border Patrol is a strategic group of specially trained people who prevent terrorists and terrorist’s weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, from entering the United States. The Border Patrol is specifically responsible for patrolling nearly 6,000 miles of Mexican and Canadian international land borders and over 2,000 miles of coastal waters surrounding the Florida Peninsula and the island of Puerto Rico. Agents work around the clock on assignments, in all types
Above is a photo of the officers who beat Rodney King with nightsticks after a high speed chase in 1991. The officers were responding as backup for California highway patrol. A highway patrol officer attempted to arrest Rodney with his weapon aimed at him telling him to get on the ground. At this point the sergeant of LAPD Stacey Koon ordered the highway patrolmen to put their weapon away because LAPD was taking control. The officers swarmed Rodney, and after he resisted arrest they tased him twice
Soto talks about crossing the border from Mexico into the United States, where he tells presumably the border patrol officer that he is an American. “And I shouted that I was an American. ‘No time for lies, he said’ and passes a dollar in my palm, hurrying me” (8)...”Since I was on his time, I ran”(11)..."Who would clock me" (19)..."As I jog into the next century" (21). The border patrol officer is not doing his job correctly, as he lets Soto into America. These lines also suggest that Soto has
The U.S. Border Patrol is the organization that polices the access of illegal immigrants into our country. The bureaucrat task of the United States Border patrol is to defend the boundaries of the United States by preventing illegal admission, and by detecting, interdicting, and detain illegal aliens, smugglers, and illegal imports. Today, the United States Border Patrol is accumulative of 21 sectors. A chief patrol agent controls each sector. There are 145 stations placed throughout the continental
A law enforcement leader must be able to call people to action, motivate, and lead individuals who otherwise would not react. Gone are the days of leaders leading from a managerial perspective, now more than ever leaders in law enforcement are the patrol officer working the streets and calling to action everyday citizens.
“confined to a sufficiently narrow geographic area” (Edwards, 2013). California, home to many active earthquake faults, has
literary technique known as pathos. To start the article, the author Jeffrey Tobin wrote, “On October 31, 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman named Nikki Catsouras slammed her father’s sports car into the side of a concrete toll booth in Orange County, California. Catsouras was decapitated in the accident.” This is an issue that creates sympathy for the family of Nikki Catsouras and gets the reader to empathize and side with the argument in the article. With a lack of privacy due to the Internet, the right
research about the impact of illegal immigration into the United States including migrant deaths, deaths of non-migrants at the border, border security and the challenges faced by United States border patrol officers. The main purpose of the article was to provide an explanation as to whether the Border Patrol has any effect in saving the lives of people attempting to enter into the United States (Guerette, 2007). TYPE OF DATA USED The author has employed the use of qualitative data in order to draw
1980s, his life was put in the hands of the California government. Kraft was linked to over 60 different murders, even though he was not convicted of that many. He was on a deadly streak of murders until his luck eventually came to an end when the police caught him. Kraft is known as one of the most famous serial killers in American history and will likely not be severely punished for his actions. A seemingly normal night, May 14, 1983. California Highway Patrol responded to an out-of-control car. In
A Bag Full of Trouble In the state of California a man named Jerry was speeding. When a highway patrolman pulled Jerry over he noticed several plastic bags with white powdery residue in the passenger’s seat. The officer asked Jerry what had been in the bags and Jerry said, “What bags?” The officer pointed at the bags and asked him to step out of the car. When Jerry got out of the car, the officer asked him to put his hands behind his back and said, “You are under arrest.”