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Introduction to Criminal Justice Week 1 Instructor Ed Ramirez

Join the first week of Introduction to Criminal Justice with instructor Ed Ramirez, a retired LAPD detective/sergeant with 38 years of law enforcement experience. Learn about emergencies, syllabus, grades, and more in this engaging class. Discover the three main components of the criminal justice system: police, courts, and corrections. Gain insight into law enforcement officers' communication skills, culture understanding, and command presence. Get ready to delve into the world of crime in America and the criminal justice system.

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Introduction to Criminal Justice Week 1 Instructor Ed Ramirez

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  1. Introduction to Criminal Justice Week 1 Instructor Ed Ramirez

  2. Students • Each week, I will be posting an Agenda for the class • Class will start at 6:00 pm or so. • Class break from around 7:15 OR 7:30. This will be a 15-20 minute break. After the break, we will continue with the lecture or film if that is what we are doing. • Agenda will look like this

  3. Agenda (1st week) • Welcome • Cover Emergencies • Quick “go around” Regarding emergencies • Cover Syllabus • Begin, Chapter One • Next class, (Thursday), any issues to discuss?

  4. Current news • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clovis-new-mexico-library-shooting-leaves-two-dead-four-wounded-n797011

  5. Something about me Started my career with LAPD in 1978 Retired as a Detective/Sergeant , after 23 years with LAPD • Worked various assignments during my career • Patrol • Gangs • Narcotics • Vice • Investigated robberies, homicides, and Officer involved Shootings After I retired from LAPD, I immediately started my Second Career

  6. Riverside County • Worked 15 years as a Senior Investigator. Assigned to the • Major Crimes Unit, handling gang crimes including homicides • Retired from the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, • January 12, 2016 • My total career in law enforcement was 38 years.

  7. My Expertise • Narcotics • Surveillance • Robbery Investigations • Homicide Investigations • Gangs • Witness Relocation • Interview Techniques • Report Writing

  8. Education • Bachelor's of Science Degree in Business Management • Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice • Adjunct Faculty Member at Riverside City College for over 12 years • Previous Criminal Justice instructor at

  9. Safety & EMERGENCIES • What do we do in an emergency?? 1st thing we do is: What sort of emergencies are we thinking of??

  10. Emergency Evacuation and Emergency Situations Evacuation route or path • On Campus “active shooter” • Fire • Earthquake • Medical First aid

  11. Questions? Regarding emergencies or what we need to do?

  12. Brief Class Discussions • Why you are taking the class? • What you expect to learn in this class? • Tell us one of your favorite hobbies or things you like to do.

  13. Cell Phones Please refrain from using during class. If you have a family emergency, please take the call or text outside. If you are expecting an important call, please let me know as a courtesy

  14. Let’s go over the Syllabus

  15. Grades • Your total accumulated points will determine your final course grade as follows: • 600 – 540 points = A • 539 – 480 points = B • 479 – 420 points = C • 419 – 360 points = D • 359 and below points = F • Extra Credit may be assigned and available

  16. Syllabus Review As you can see from the syllabus, most questions can be answered. i.e. quiz days, homework due and most important, instructions on your papers

  17. In regards to the syllabus

  18. Once againWhat to expect each week in class • Each week we will have a lecture on Criminal Justice. I will have an agenda and, • I will/may call on students during my lecture for input!! • Let’s learn something about the criminal justice system and it’s many components • And, let’s have some fun as well • I want everyone to earn an A in my class

  19. Newspaper • As you can see from the syllabus, the first homework assignment is to bring in a newspaper article related to criminal justice. We will discuss “your” article in week two!

  20. Example News Article Any Criminal Justice News

  21. OK, let’s briefly take a look at Chapter one

  22. AGENDA • HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES • CHAPTER ONE, CRIME IN AMERICA • QUESTIONS REGARDING FIRST WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT • REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS, DUE NEXT WEEK

  23. The three components • Police • Courts • Corrections

  24. Intro to ADJ-1 Law Enforcement Officers, what do they need? • Communication Skills • How do we deal with people that are different than us? Understand their culture • Command Presence (What does this mean)

  25. Criminal Justice • The criminal justice system consists of three main parts: • Legislative (create laws) POLICE Enforce • Adjudication(courts) • Corrections(Jail, Prison, Probation, Parole)

  26. Police • The first contact a defendant has with the criminal justice system is usually with the police (or law enforcement) who investigate the suspected wrongdoing. • Police are primarily concerned with keeping the peace and enforcing criminal law based on their particular mission and jurisdiction.

  27. Police Generally, the first contact most of the public have with the police are: • Citations Is this a positive contact? • Victim or witness

  28. The traffic ticket

  29. Witness Interview

  30. Courts • The courts serve as the venue where disputes are then settled and justice is administered. • Who is involved? • Judge,  • prosecutor, and the  • defense attorney. • Defendant, victim, witnesses

  31. Corrections • Offenders are then turned over to the correctional authorities, from the court system after the accused has been found guilty.

  32. Justice System • Simply put: • Police have the authority to arrest • Conviction comes from the courts • Imprisonment from corrections

  33. What is a Crime? • Take out a piece of paper and write what your definition of a crime is. • “conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, or a local jurisdiction, for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse”

  34. Brief history of crime in America • Criminal Activity • & Crime control • Crime during the last half century has been especially influential in shaping the criminal justice system

  35. Milestones A crime epidemic spurred by social upheaval brought on by large scale immigration Dramatic increase in reported criminal activity

  36. Continued Milestones 1992, Videotaped beating of Rodney King 2001, 911 attacks

  37. Continued Milestones

  38. Tough time for Law enforcement • 6 Police Officers Shot in Florida and Pennsylvania, 2 Killed and 4 Wounded • Officers Matthew Baxter, left, and Sam Howard, right, who were both shot and killed in Kissimmee, Florida, on Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Kissimmee Police Department Assaults on police officers rose significantly

  39. Ismaaiyl Brinsley • December, 2014 • 2 uniformed NYPD officers shot dead as they sat in their police vehicle • Brinsley posted anti-police threats on his Instagram page, referencing the “unjust” killings of Garner and Brown

  40. On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson • Ambushed and fired upon a group of police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five officers and injuring nine others. Two civilians were also wounded.

  41. Criminal Justice Figure 1-2 The Theme of this book Balancing the concern for individual rights with the need for public order through the administration of criminal justice is the theme of this book Page 7

  42. Individual Rights • A strong emphasis on individual rights rose to the forefront of American social thought during the 1960s and 1970s, a period known as the civil rights era. What historic, milestone occurred in the 1960s for individual rights?

  43. Civil Rights • Civil rights lead to the recognition of fundamental personal rights that had been previously denied illegally to many people on the basis of • Race • Ethnicity, • Gender, • Sexual preference or disability

  44. Individual-Rights Advocate • One who seeks to protect personal freedoms within the process of criminal justice

  45. Get tough on Crime

  46. Criminal Justice and Basic Fairness • Justice- The Principle of fairness (moral rightness) • Social Justice- Embraces all aspects of civilized life • Fairness, Right and Wrong • Civil Justice- The civil law, the law of civil procedure

  47. Criminal Justice and Basic Fairness Cont’d • Criminal Justice- Penal Law, the law of criminal procedure (TRUTH IN ACTION) • Protection of the innocent • The fair treatment of offenders • Fair play by the agencies of law enforcement

  48. Criminal Justice and Basic Fairness Cont’d • Administration of Justice • Justice, in the truest and most satisfying sense of the word, is the ultimate goal of criminal justice • The performance of any of the following activities: • Detection, apprehension, detention, pretrial release, post-trial release, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation of accused persons or criminal offenders

  49. The Consensus Model • The Consensus Model or Systems Perspective of criminal justice argues that the organizations of a criminal justice system either do, or should, work cooperatively to produce justice.Acriminal justice model in which the majority of citizen in a society share the same values and beliefs • Criminal Justice components work together harmoniously to achieve the social product we call JUSTICE!!

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