Definitions
A requirement that legal matters be resolved according to established rules and principles and that individuals be treated fairly.
What is Due Process?
A public official appointed to decide cases in a court of law.
What is the Judge?
A law enforcement professional who monitors and assists individuals released from prison on parole.
What is Parole Officer?
Enforce rules and keep order within jails or prisons.
What is Correction Officer?
A collaborative approach between law enforcement and the community to address public safety issues.
What is Community Policing?
A person whose job is to enforce the laws, protect the community, investigate crimes, and make arrest.
What is a police officer?
The person that is accused of the crime.
What is the Defendant?
An approach to restore the victims, the lawbreaker, and the community to a level of functioning that existed prior to the criminal event.
What is Restorative Justice?
Institution of incarceration of people convicted of crimes, usually felonies.
What is Prison
The selective enforcement or selective prosecution based on race or ethnicity, rather than individual suspicion or evidence.
What is Racial Profiling?
Illegal activities that take place in public place.
What is Street Crime?
They represent a defendant in a criminal prosecution.
What is Defense Attorney?
Is a court-imposed criminal sentence that, subject to stated conditions and restrictions, releases a convicted defendant into the community instead of confining them to jail or prison.
What is Probation?
This houses both the people who are awaiting trial and those who have been sentenced for a crime, usually serving one-year or less.
What is Jail?
From 1930 to 1970, police tried to address corruption and lack of professionalism.
What is Reform Era?
Programs designed to reduce reliance on pretrial detention and/or incarceration and operate in a manner consistent with public safety.
What is Alternative to Incarceration?
How many juvenile courts are located in New York City?
What is 5?
They are responsible for writing the presentence investigations.
What is a Probation Officer?
A minor criminal offense punishable by a fine and/or jail time for up to one year.
What is a misdemeanor?
The largest, and one of the oldest municipal police department in the United States.
What is New York City Police Department?
An act that is against the law and is considered harmful or wrong by society.
What is Crime?
They represent the city on Criminal Court and Supreme Court cases.
What is the District Attorney's Office?
An offense that occurs when you break the terms or conditions of your probation
What is Probation Violation?
An offense punishable by a sentence of more than a year in state or federal prison and sometimes by death.
What is a Felony?
This division within NYPD works to build partnerships with communities.
What is Community Affairs?