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This paper four different television cop shows: "Hill Street Blues", "Dragnet", Law & Order", and "CSI". The paper contends that "CSI" and "Law & Order" are cookie-cutter, formula shows based on the original TV cop series "Dragnet"; whereas, "Hill Street Blues" delves into real social issues. To illustrate its point, the paper contrasts specific episodes to demonstrate the superiority of "Hill Street Blues". The paper concludes that "Hill Street Blues" shuns the good versus evil theme of other TV cop shows and instead examines the complexities, contradictions and frailties of its characters, the system and police work itself.

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"CSI Miami" is just a relocation of the same show, except more glossy as it is in Miami. In episode number 110, we see more of the same line whereby central investigators Horatio, Speedle and Calleigh root through the evidence in the homicide of a strange and unorthodox college professor whom they find tied to a tree. In another case, Delko and Megan investigate a car found in the water with a dead body in the trunk, and immediately suspect an insurance scam. Once again we are presented with clues and invited to join in the investigation as it unfolds, but with more shallow characters and predicable lines."

Tags:episode case, ensemble cast, complexity spinoffs

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This essay reviews "Vice Cop", which is based on a true story. The author Mike Mallowe tells the story of the life of Bill McCarthy, who was a tough Irish-American cop who refused to be pulled into the world of police corruption.

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COP- Leather apparel is currently a small boutique in the Aberdeen Centre, a shopping mall in Richmond, B.C. The plans are in place to move to a larger space and to feature modern trendy Japanese casual fashions, targeted at Chinese and other Asian women with a medium to high discretionary income. Thiss marketing plan includes ideas for advertising and promotiomn during the initial start-up phase, 2008, and projections for expansion for the next five years, along with financials appendices

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COP TOKYO RENAISSANCE MARKET ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION: On the following pages we will present the initial market analysis taken to assure the success of our venture. This plan covers the basics: A look at the advantages of the location. Optimum benefits of an existing customer base that will be interested in purchasing the lines of clothing in inventory, a look at their life-style and challenges and competition for the casual wear we expect to feature. We will discuss the price range and variety of goods, as well as continuing to explore optimum ties with manufacturers and shippers in Japan. We examine the opportunities,

Tags:markerting, projections, japanese fashion

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This paper sympathetically examines a growing problem in the law enforcement community known as "suicide by cop." These are instances in which a disturbed person knows that his actions will result in being killed by a police officer, and that is the purpose of his actions. The author explores how this phenomenon is being dealt with in the United States, and also comments on the difficulty of collecting statistical data on suicide by cop. Also discussed is a typical profile of an individual seeking to end his life this way. The paper details a police officer's psychological experiences following one of these incidents.

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"It may also seem to the suicidal offender that police officers will not take much time to decide whether or not to use deadly force, and will act as they are trained and will not take the event personally. This individual is determined on self-destruction and will engage in a life-threatening criminal act in order to force a police officer to kill them. Therefore, all the way around, suicide by cop is a means to end one's life using trained officers who will do the job efficiently. The act will go down as a tragic event, but not as tragic as it would have been if the person had used the gun on himself."

Tags:Police Officer, Criminal Justice, Suicide by Cop, Use of Force

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This paper takes a look at the emotional, psychological and physical problems many police officers experience after leaving the police force. These problems, often referred to as the "ex-cop syndrome", can be many and varied including alcoholism, higher incidences of heart attack, higher divorce rates, depression and addiction to prescription drugs. The paper also examines the police force culture that contributes to the behavior exhibited by ex-officers suffering from ex-cop syndrome.
Outline
Introduction
Factors in the Development of Police Officer Identity
Some Reasons Why Police Officers are Different to Civilians
Marriage and Family Problems Specific to Police Officers
The Effects of Stress
Police Suicide
The Effects of Shift Work
Conclusion

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"The average police officer, if he or she makes it to retirement, lives about 5 years if they don't have an action plan. For those officers who are forced to retire early, or are dishonorably discharged, adjusting to the civilian world can be nothing short of a nightmare. Those who have felt compelled to retire early may feel a sense of rejection from their colleagues-a loss of identity. They may harbor frustration at not getting promotions they felt they should have got. Very often the debriefing (such as it is), is a mere formality and does not adequately address mental health concerns that should be addressed. This can leave the ex-police officer feeling lost, confused and cast adrift from what has been a significant part of their adult life. Anger, violence, substance abuse, criminal behavior and/or suicide can flow from this unbalanced mental state."

Tags:abuse, domestic, violence, spouses, corruption, risk, post-traumatic, stress

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This paper answers four questions, including the qualities that make up a good police officer, the two elements that define the working personality of police officer, a description of the process by which the police working personality is developed and finally, how police should be efficiently measured by society. The paper answers these questions based on research of peer reviewed journal articles and two personal interviews.

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"The use of subjective terms such as "good" and "efficiency" invite varied responses depending upon the forum, background and position within the police department. Police officers tend to give different opinions in private to the statements made that will be subject to public scrutiny. The traits that may be important to co-workers may not be important to management. It is this tension between the stated goals of the department and the inner-workings of the day to day on the job stress of the beat cop that form the working personality of the officers. Where the department as a whole may be judged for its success in meeting the public policy goals..."

Tags:working personality, police, burn, out

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This paper explains that, if diffusion of innovation is to be effective within the UAE Community of Practice (CoP) network, the synchronization of the factors of communication channels, rate of adoption and characteristics of the social system within the social and communication structures need to be understood. Next, to comprehend the CoP within the UAE healthcare community, the author proposes empirically derived research to understand the role of opinion leaders as change agents, their optional, collective and authority innovation decisions, their unique structure relative to process and medical product innovation diffusion and the development of role-based models. To achieve these objective, the paper presents the study's methodology and timetable.

Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Relation to Previous Research
Proposed Methods
Face to Face Interviews
Computer Aided Telephone Interviews
Internet Based Data Collection Survey
Reflections
Conclusion
Timetable

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"The diffusion of innovation throughout healthcare organizations often begins in the knowledge management, support services and decision support systems areas due to these processes having a direct impact on quality of care . The propensity of a CoP to serve as the catalyst for creating greater levels of knowledge transfer and corresponding trust is also a key determinant in the productivity of healthcare communities throughout communities and regions. For the UAE healthcare community to nurture and grow CoPs, there must be a concentration on knowledge sharing, the evaluating of new medical products (Carter, 20) to more efficiently and completely treat patients, and a recognition of the fact that continual improvement will require continual measurement as well. From the qualitative aspects of the steps required to create a CoP and continually grow it through the use of knowledge sharing and the creation and maintenance of a knowledge management system, there must be strong leadership for this type of socially-based community to stay in existence and grow over time.
"Any CoP must also be outward centered, looking at the unmet needs of those professionals in the UAE healthcare community who seek to continually improve and learn."

Tags:optimization, leadership style, velocity processes transformational

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This paper discusses Community Oriented Policing (COP), a program based on the view that emphasis should be placed on prevention of crime through a program placing the police and the community in closer contact and making them partners in achieving a reduction in crime. It explains that the approach has gone by several different names but is based largely on a proactive view of the role of the police and on making the police more a part of the community and less a last refuge for victims after a crime has been committed.

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"Community Oriented Policing (COP) is a developing paradigm for law enforcement that places an emphasis on prevention of crime through a program placing the police and the community in closer contact and making them partners in achieving a reduction in crime. The approach has gone by several different names but is based largely on a proactive view of the role of the police and on making the police more a part of the community and less a last refuge for victims after a crime has been committed. This approach started as Community-Based Policing (which did not lend itself to the sort of descriptive acronym that COP does). Kenney and McNamara (1999) state, "Community-oriented policing . . . emphasizes improved police-community relations in hopes that that will assist in solving many problems in particular neighborhoods" (p. viii). The idea of community-oriented policing has been applied in different ways in ..."

Tags:community, oriented, policing

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"The recent confrontation in Waco, Texas between officers of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and members of the Branch Davidian religious sect points to the vulnerability of law enforcement officers to injury--and death--in the line of duty. The concurrent news of the slaying of several Los Angeles police officers underscores the risk involved in fighting crime. These two examples tend to focus public attention on the particular dangers of urban and federal law enforcement. Yet they fall short of giving one a complete picture of the profound menace many police confront. This paper will look generally at the risk of death that officers face, how they cope with that risk, and, finally, the effects and policies that police death produces. Furthermore, it will demonstrate that risk to death and injury is common to all elements of law enforcement--and just as great ..."

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"There are different ways of looking at culture, and these may involve methodological differences, each of which may be applied to the same culture. "Culture" looked at as an intrinsic and universal aspect of all social life would then discern differences in each society based on variations in core values, institutions, and behaviors. Viewing culture as distinct and explicit practice reflects each culture as essentially distinct, manifested in different explicit institutions, values, and behaviors. Within every culture there are also subcultures, groupings of people with slightly different cultural roots who conform on one level to the norms of the larger society and on another place a higher value on the norms of their particular group. In the film A Stranger Among Us (1992), there is an explicit emanation of the meaning of culture, the value of a.."