Describe how three laws have affected police agencies and why.
Police Laws are those laws dealing with the regulation and code of conduct of law enforcement officials. These laws answer the question of "who polices the police?" by providing guidelines by which officers must conduct themselves and mechanisms by which law enforcement agencies can monitor their own, such as internal affairs divisions, oversight by state attorney generals, and so forth. Police forces are usually considered to be non-military organizations that operate under the authority of the government. Their only task is to police domestic issues, not fight foreign powers overseas, which is a military function. While in the common vernacular "police" usually refer to officers of a city police department, from a broader legal standpoint "police" can often refer to any person or organization involved in law enforcement. This can include an organization authorized to operate under federal, state, or local laws. Regulation of Police - It is important for society to closely monitor those who exercise these powers. Temptation to engage in the same activities that the police are supposed to prevent is very real and requires this body of law in order to prevent individuals from contributing to the problems of society rather than policing them.
Below are three laws that affected police agencies
Place-Based Strategies Place-based strategies focus resources on locations where crime is concentrated in order to prevent and to respond more effectively to crime. To a substantial degree, the Fourth Amendment implications of a high-crime-area strategy depend on the kind of efforts police departments take to deter crime in the identified areas. If, for example, a department uses closed circuit television to deter crime at a particular street intersection or in a public park, it may do so without triggering Fourth Amendment scrutiny because that policing practice monitors individual movements only in public places and therefore does not constitute a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
Equal protection The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies to all police activities, including policy decisions by departments to investigate suspects or to search or seize them. It guarantees equal and impartial treatment by government actors under the law. A policy or police action may violate the Equal Protection Clause either because it expressly singles out individuals for disfavoured treatment on the basis of their race or other impermissible classification or because, though facially neutral, the policy is selectively enforced against members of one race or other impermissible classification in an intentionally discriminatory manner.
Third Party Policing
Third party policing leverages the actions of third parties in deterring and reducing the opportunities for targeted offenders or criminal conduct. For example, as a means to indirectly control drug and disorder problems the Oakland, California, Beat Health Program focused on civil remedies for addressing conditions of physical decay and property management problems of specific commercial establishments, private residences, and rental properties