CRIM 3655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Black Letter Law, Rodney King, Power Law
20 Jan 2016
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Another aspect of police sub culture is their relationship between law and the police. As a result for police officers law is a legal tool they use to negotiate conflicts or to get. For instance the danger authority nexus and the police officers working personality . But rather police rely on their legal power to act upon certain situations this legal. Sometime they will enforce the law and sometimes they won"t. Police make up the law rule of law doesn"t tell them what to do. Exigencies what they decide to do in their legal power law appears as a tool they choose to act sometimes law acts like a tool (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Would be stop and search, traffic stops, and the problem of carding which is on the and indicates (go to back to the notes) another example would the decision to use coercive force ex.
