Cops need alternative to Tasers
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Cops need alternative to Tasers By MARTIN ALAN GREENBERG
Published: Times Union (Albany, NY), Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, p. B1
The New York Civil Liberties Union recently issued a 40-page report, "Taking Tasers Seriously: The Need for Better Regulation of Stun Guns in New York." Unfortunately, the report failed to mention how community policing and police volunteers might help decrease the need to resort to Tasers.
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Fall 2011 Conference
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Internationalization: The Challenge for the 21st Century University
VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATORS
FALL 2011 CONFERENCE October 8, 2011
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Residents, police can stop crime
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Residents, police can stop crime By MARTIN ALAN GREENBERG
First published: Sunday, June 8, 2008, pp. E1 & E3
The random slaying of 10-year-old Kathina Thomas shocked many Times Union readers and may have stirred some West Hill residents into civic action. In fact, a few Albany-area residents already have promised to reclaim their gang- and drug-infested neighborhoods. Governmental leaders, however, have noted that in recent months there has been a consistent pattern among city residents of refusing to provide necessary information so that the police and prosecutors can do their jobs.
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The Police Chief
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The Police Chief By Martin Alan Greenberg
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York
In 1944, Oliver Cowan, a District of Columbia police officer, remarked: “Many of these kids never had a chance. . . . They never were important in their classes. . . . They get into mischief. Now, in the clubs, they all get an important job to do.”1 Cowan was referring to the members of his new youth program—the 13th Precinct Junior Police and Citizens Corps. Probably unknown to Cowan, about 40 years earlier and more than halfway across the United States, a similar organization had been started by George Richmond, the police chief of Council Bluffs, Iowa. In recent decades, coinciding with the spread of community policing among law enforcement agencies in the United States, the idea of “junior police” has been reborn.
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