Know-Legal Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_service_response...

    In the United States, response codes are used to describe a mode of response for an emergency unit responding to a call. They generally vary but often have three basic tiers: Code 3: Respond to the call using lights and sirens. Code 2: Respond to the call with emergency lights, but without sirens. Alternatively, sirens may be used if necessary ...

  3. Police code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_code

    Police code. A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or ...

  4. Selective enforcement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement

    Selective enforcement. In law, selective enforcement occurs when government officials (such as police officers, prosecutors, or regulators) exercise discretion, which is the power to choose whether or how to punish a person who has violated the law. The biased use of enforcement discretion, such as that based on racial prejudice or corruption ...

  5. Florida Department of Law Enforcement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Department_of_Law...

    www .fdle .state .fl .us. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement ( FDLE) is a state-wide investigative law enforcement agency within the state of Florida. The department formally coordinates eight boards, councils, and commissions. FDLE's duties, responsibilities, and procedures are mandated through Chapter 943, Florida Statutes, and Chapter ...

  6. Entrapment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment

    Entrapment. Entrapment is a practice in which a law enforcement agent or an agent of the state induces a person to commit a "crime" that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit. [1] It "is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or agent, and the procurement of its commission by one who would not ...

  7. Police officer certification and licensure in the United ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_officer...

    In the United States, certification and licensure requirements for law enforcement officers vary significantly from state to state. Policing in the United States is highly fragmented, and there are no national minimum standards for licensing police officers in the U.S. Researchers say police are given far more training on use of firearms than on de-escalating provocative situations.

  8. Case citation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_citation

    Case citation. United States Reports, the official reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States. Case citation is a system used by legal professionals to identify past court case decisions, either in series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a neutral style that identifies a decision regardless of where it is reported.

  9. Legal status of tattooing in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_tattooing...

    Del. Code Ann. Title 16, Ch 2 §122(3)(w) Florida 16: Must be accompanied by parent or guardian who can show proof of guardianship, both parent and minor must present photo ID, and a consent form must be notarized. for medical or dental purposes by a licensed physician or dentist: no restriction Fla. Stat. § 381.00787