Unit 9Housekeeping

Final Essays—Due Date: August 9

No Seminar next week

Review for Finals

Time to kick it in gear

Thug Code

Decline in morals and manners Outward Signs: obscene language, sleazy

dress, sexual promiscuity, vulgarity, and incivility

Behavior is not limited to the poor, uneducated

Behavior can be found in all racial/ethnic groups and in both males and females

Social Stigma

Informal control mechanisms that approve or disapprove of certain conduct

Need to know how it can positively and negatively effect police departments

Need to support with examples

Racial Profiling

Definition: “the detention, interdiction or other disparate treatment of any person on the basis of their racial or ethnic status or characteristics.” Dellatre 2006, p. 378.

Police may legitimately stop or arrest a suspect based on race if– The suspect fits the witnesses’ description– The police officer has probable cause or a

reasonable suspicion

Terrorism

How has terrorism affected the police mission?

What are some of the disagreements within law enforcement regarding the fight against terrorism?

Guantanamo Bay Detainees

Can they use the U.S. Courts to contest their detention?

If we close Guantanamo Bay, what do we do with the detainees?

Are they entitled to a trial or can they be held indefinitely as “enemy combatants?

Military Tribunals vs. Federal Courts

Where do we try suspected terrorists?

The controversy over trial of 9/11 leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 Co-defendants in New York federal court

What’s the difference?

Federal Court

Bars the use of evidence obtained by coercion

Hearsay inadmissible unless it fits under a recognized exception

6th Amendment Right to Confront Witnesses Credibility: Federal Judges are independent

and the Judiciary is a co-equal branch of government

Military Tribunals

New Law bars the use of evidence obtained by torture or other harsh interrogation techniques, but coerced testimony may be admissible in limited circumstances

Allows greater use of hearsay evidence Right to Confront witnesses relaxed—may

use written statements Credibility: Military Judges independent?