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Law Enforcement Officials Convicted Sex Offenders
550 wordsMegan's Law has had a profound effect on not only convicted sex offenders and prosecutors, but also on the community including real estate brokers and apartment owners. Megan's Law is a collection of statutes that were passed in 1994 in response to the death of Megan Kansas, who was killed by a convicted sex offender who lived across the street from her home. Two of the laws are collectively known as the Registration and Community Notification Law (RCNL) and are composed of the: 1. Registration ...
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Police Brutality Police Officers
3,151 words... le Civics p. 1 Police Abuse In recent years, police actions, particularly police abuse, has come into view of a wide, public and critical eye. While citizens worry about protecting themselves from criminals, it has now been shown that they must also keep a watchful eye on those who are supposed to protect and serve. This paper will discuss the types of police abuse prevalent today, including the use of firearms and receipt of private information. I will also discuss what and how citizens' ri...
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Health And Safety Technological Advancements
1,017 wordsThe expeditious augmentation of consumer product transactions taking place on the Internet have developed new risk for the public's health and safety, especially with the rise of online self-prescription drug sites. Online Pharmacies have been created to benefit the consumer but pose many risks for credulous purchasers, increased health fraud, and unique challenges to regulators, law enforcement, and policymakers. With these latest technological advancements, former regulations utilized by the F...
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Strict Gun Control Violent Crime
1,242 words... handgun killings per 100, 000 people compared to 4108 in the U. S. over the period of 1977 - 1983 ." They also noted that the "American murder rates for handguns are higher than the total Canadian homicide rate" (249). According to Sproule and Kennett, "Canada's favourable situation regarding murder relative to the United States is to a large measure the result of Canadian gun control, and Canadians must be vigilant against any erosion of our gun control The works cited above are based on re...
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Huck Finn And Satire
916 wordsOne name from American Literature that probably all school children know is Mark Twain. Along with that, one book from American Literature that probably all school children have heard about is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Truly, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a marvel of its own time and is still a great classic today as it illustrates for its reader the pre-civil war South far beyond anything one could imagine. The book itself makes such great use of satire and humor and criticis...
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Marijuana Abuse By Teens
1,467 wordsAn effective solution for marijuana abuse by teens must be found! "Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in America today (Nation 5). "Marijuana refers to the leaves and flowering tops of the cannabis plant. Marijuana is usually smoked on form of loosely rolled cigarettes called joints or hollowed out commercial cigars called blunts (Nation 5). " Marijuana is put into these forms because they look like ordinary cigarettes or cigars. It's like a disguise. The street names for marijuana...
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Complete History Of Prohibition In The United States
1,278 wordsProhibition led to the bootlegging of liquor and the gang wars of the 1920 s. The most notorious gangster of all time, known as Al Capone, was the most powerful mob leader of his era. He dominated organized crime in the Chicago area from 1925 until 1931 Capone had liked that idea. Later that year the Prohibition act came into affect and Capone became interested in selling illegal whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. Al Capone was America's best known gangster and greatest symbol of destruction...
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Racial Biases Among Police Officers
1,304 wordsRecently racial profiling has become a prominent issue in America. After the incident with Rodney King, more emphasis has been placed on profiling. According to news reports, Rodney King was driving down the street in his hometown of L. A. when several police officers stopped him solely of the color of his skin. There are many conflicting information that reports that he was speeding doing about 100 mph before they stopped him. When he was stopped, he pulled out of the car, the police to deliver...
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School Violence Family Values
1,272 words... g long, black trench coats, carrying big machine guns, and only shooting the people that ridiculed them. Watching this film and thinking about what those children went through at Columbine and what the survivors saw is heartbreaking and extremely horrifying. Television causes another connection between children and violence. If children are exposed to various amounts of violence on television, then it is likely that they will begin to be desensitized to violent acts and possibly become more ...
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Health And Safety Task Force
1,239 words... 'very young, female, casually employed and thoroughly stigmatized by their work' (ibid. , 12). Five years after the Act was introduced, the New South Wales Attorney General and the Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning established the Brothels Task Force. Its brief was to monitor the regulation of brothels by local councils and to assess the success of occupational health and safety programmes for sex workers, their clients and the public (Brothels Task Force, 2001). The Task Force was ask...
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Smoking Marijuana Drinking Alcohol
1,027 wordsseriously detrimental. Are they looking at the facts? Or do they just believe the same myths that our parents created when they were trying to stop us from becoming drug addicts? Let& risques take a closer look at the facts. Violence surrounding drug dealing would be lessened by legalizing marijuana because small time drug dealers would essentially be forced out of business. Larger companies who could produce high quality marijuana at lower cost would prevail. Most people would buy from thes...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse War On Drugs
2,524 wordsLegalization of Mariana: For Its time we put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity, engaged in only by those on the margins of American society. In reality, marijuana smoking is extremely common, and marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of mainstream, middle class Americans. According to the most recent NIDA data 1, between 65 and 71 million Americans have smoked marijuana at some time in their lives, and 10 million are current smokers (have...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Reform Of Marijuana Laws
1,396 wordsThe Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana is a drug that comes from a variety of common hemp known as cannabis indica. The much more potent hashish is also derived from the plant cannabis indica. What is sold on the street as marijuana, hemp, weed, pot, or bud are the dried leaves and the flowering tops of the plant. The primary psychoactive component in marijuana is the trans-delta-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. By 1937, marijuana had become illegal in 46 states. Penalties for its use were similar...
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Law Enforcement Officers M P H
2,192 wordsDevin Maier October 23, 1999 English 102 McCrady Life in the Fast Lane Humans in the twentieth century live in an era characterized by an unrelenting desire for speed. The ability to go faster and accomplish more often seems to be the option of choice. Everything from the information super highway to the interstate highway is dominated by this need for speed. Whether it is fast food or fast cars, more powerful search engines or automobile engines, the fact of the matter is people rarely stop to ...
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Gun Control Advocates Twenty Four Hours
1,554 wordsTeens of the decade are having an easier time obtaining firearms with which they are jaunting around on killing sprees. The most recent incident occured on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. That fateful Tuesday began as any other day with a 6: 15 a. m. bowling class which both murderers, Dylan Klebold- 17 and Eric Harris- 18, attended. Both of prominent backgrounds, Eric's father a retired Air Force officer and Dylan's father a geologist, the two belonged t...
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Oriented Policing Community Oriented
328 wordsLouie Freeh Louie Freeh grew up a normal boy in a normal family. He had the respect of his parents and those in the community. His actions and attitude fit his job as director of the FBI. His leadership tactics can be compared to that of community oriented policing. Community oriented policing involves satisfying the needs and requests of citizens as well as the department. In a police department the chief or sheriff or that person who is in charge must be personable as well as those in the chai...
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Criminal Justice System Equal Justice
544 wordsThe American criminal-justice system, writes Georgetown law professor David Cole, has effectively become a two-tiered system, with differing levels of regard depending on the race or class of a given citizen who comes into contact with it. The thousands of African Americans who have been confronted by law-enforcement agents nationwide for fitting the description of alleged perpetrators would likely agree, but, according to Cole, it isnt just the cops that operate this way; judges, prosecutors, j...
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Long Periods Of Time Members Of Society
1,817 wordsSerial Killer 1 The Male Serial Killer: Who is a Serial Killer and How Childhood Experiences Contribute to their Personality Development. Serial killers are the cream of the crop they stay on the street for years. Some never get apprehended at all (Egger, 1986). Serial killers do things that the rest of society finds deplorable. They murder with incredible depravity, with no outward show of remorse, and evade capture for frighteningly long periods of time. Most members of society ask themselves ...
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Record Keeping Private Sector
429 wordsPublic service is essential to protecting America and its citizens. It is responsible for ensuring that our air and water are clean, food is fresh, and material products are safe. Without public service, our society would be prone to impurity, and consequently, decay. Thus, the government does a great deed in providing civil service that is often taken for granted. Coming from a family that has been public service oriented has shown me the value of public service, and even steered me in that dir...
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Racial Profiling Police Brutality
350 wordsRacial profiling is a law enforcement strategy that encourages police officers to stop and question African-Americans simply because of their race. Employers and government agencies that require job applicants to list their race or ethnicity on employment and contracting applications perform racial profiling thousands of times every day. Thus employers can hire the right number of the right colors, according to federal law. This is defined as good racial profiling. Bad racial profiling occurs wh...
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