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Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

The Criminal Division develops, enforces, and supervises the application of all federal criminal laws except those specifically assigned to other…

Tags: Criminal Division, Criminal Law, Department of Justice, DOJ, Law Enforcement

Bureau of Justice Statistics, The United States Criminal Justice System, Bureau of Justice Statistics, None

The flowchart of the events in the criminal justice system (shown in the diagram) updates the original chart prepared by the President's Commission on…

Tags: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, United States

Bain News Service, Arthur Woods, New York Police Commissioner, Library of Congress, Unknown

When Arthur Woods was a journalist, his articles about the local police caught their interest, and they soon recruited him as a Deputy. He believed in…

Tags: Arthur Woods, Law Enforcement, New York, NYPC, Police

Bain News Service, Mayor Richard H. Sylvester, Washington, DC Chief of Police, Library of Congress, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

Richard Sylvester implemented many police procedures that we still use today. He was the one to coin the ‘third degree’ phrase we commonly use today,…

Tags: Law Enforcement, Police, Richard Sylvester, Third Degree, Washington D.C.