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Have the police become less accountable in recent years? How can police accountability be strengthened?
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Have the police become less accountable in recent years? How can police accountability be strengthened? This essay aims to focus on the subject of police accountability and whether this has increased or decreased over the years. The essay will also discuss ways in which governmental bodies are able to strengthen police accountability. Issues such as the number of deaths in custody and the failing powers of the police in administrating justice will be discussed, all relating to the question of whether the police are using their powers justly and whether they are being held accountable for their actions. The issue of police accountability and deviance within police practice has been a mounting concern since the eighteenth century. Corruption had not and was not a problem until allegations of malpractice and corruption within the practice brought serious concern, and as a result the Royal commission was established in 1959, and was later followed...
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