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Police Operations

CJA 214 Week 5Final Paper

CJA 214 Final Paper

• Dangers of policing

• According to Reason Magazine, "police officers are about three times as likely to be killed on the job as the average American. It isn't among the top ten most dangerous professions, falling well behind logging, fishing, driving a cab, trash collecting, farming, and truck driving. Moreover, about half of police killed on the job are killed in traffic accidents, and most of those arenot while in pursuit of a criminal or rushing to the scene of a crime"(Reason Magazine, 2011).

• Less than lethal weapons

• According to US , "Less-Lethal weapons are weapons or any devices that are intended to be less likely to kill a living target than are traditional...