SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Military Police, Sunshine List, Shots Fired
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Policing: what is the police"s ability in reducing crime, black people have contact card filled out more frequently than other people. Contact card gives information about a person. (racial profiling) Other actors aside from police officers who conduct policing. Patrolling and going around responding to calls. Rules that police have to comply with; police have the right to. Legislation keep someone in custody even if they have not committed a crime. Police act- has a number of things police are not supposed to do. (highway act, control substance act) different authority. We have different levels of police who have: organization of police--, municipal, toronto, opp. Utm police have police powers but not: specialized police don"t drive in cruisers, but are policing at a national level. Central intelligence not wearing uniforms and: military police- own officer. Jurisdiction is confined to their base. members of military has their own police force.
