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Instructions

Police prevent BBC journalist Adam Brookes from gaining access to the courthouse where Chinese dissident Wang Dan was being tried in Beijing Wednesday, October 30, 1996. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) Research and analyze one law enforcement system/police agency in a city (or district or region) in one of the model nations.

Newspapers on the Internet from the city or area may be used for research as well as other sources. Be mindful that some nations censor their news media. A person who has lived in a city or area for a reasonable time may be used as a reference. Include the approximate dates and reason that the source lived in the city or area.

You should focus on the structure and organization of an agency as well as provide analysis to include interactions with citizens, offenders, and victims, attitudes by and toward the police, and other aspects of the law enforcement organization that may be of interest. The length of this paper should be approximately 1,000 words.

Essay Example

New York Police Department

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With roughly 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian personnel, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is one of the oldest municipal agencies in the United States. It is also the largest municipal police department in the country. Please review the most recent demographic data available for the Department in order to gain further comprehension about its makeup. This paper will focus on analyzing the structure and organization of the New York Police Agency.

Established in 1845, the New York Police Department (NYPD) is currently tasked with maintaining order in a city with a population of 8.5 million people by carrying out a diverse range of public safety, law enforcement, traffic management, anti-terror, and emergency response responsibilities.

In the past 25 years, the department has accomplished remarkable reductions in both violent and property crime. As a result, New York City now has the lowest overall rate of serious crimes when compared to the country’s 25 largest cities.

The New York City Police Department is organized into many primary bureaus that handle administration, investigations, and law enforcement respectively. The entire city is covered by its 77 patrol precincts, which are staffed by both patrol officers and detectives. The agency also includes nine police service areas (PSAs) that are responsible for patrolling the city’s public housing buildings, which are home to more than 400,000 residents and 12 transit districts that are responsible for policing the subway system and its almost six million daily riders.

In addition, uniformed civilians work as traffic safety agents on the city’s major streets and highways, and as school safety agents, they defend public schools and the more than one million pupils that attend them. These roles are performed in the city.