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Police Officers Police Commissioner
1,573 wordsCivil rights advocates in the city note, however, that there has been a cost to the new strategy, revealed by steady citizen complaints against more aggressive NYPD officers during the past several years and continuing impunity for many officers who commit human rights violations despite the recent reorganization of both the civilian review board and the police department's internal affairs bureau. In August 1997, after the alleged torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by police officers mad...
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Vice President Resist Change
1,507 wordsOne particular thing forms the foundation of all our work, is the glue that holds our efforts together, and is a necessary ingredient for our success. That one thing is trust. The role of trust is fairly easy to describe, and its contribution toward an organizations efforts can be easy to identify. Yet, trust remains one of the more elusive elements of organizational management. Therefore, change within an organization has to be fueled by trust. For some people change means uncertainty and skept...
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Upstate New York Millions Of Dollars
1,326 words... s responsible for the thefts, he declared war on Diamond's gang. The gang war claimed several casualties from both sides. Because he lived through numerous attempts on his life, Diamond became known as the "clay pigeon of the underworld. " For a while it looked like he was impossible to kill. But on December 19, 1931, Diamond was killed when two Schultz gunmen tracked him to upstate New York, burst into his hotel room, and repeatedly shot him. Schultz later told reporters that the dead gangs...
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Enron A History And How The Company Imploded
1,282 words... and Electric Company is one of the three major utility companies in the region, along with Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Company. August 14, 2001 CEO Jeff Skilling resigns stating "personal reasons. " October 12, 2001 Enron announces that it made a US $ 638 million loss during the third quarter of the fiscal year 2001. October 24, 2001 Andrew Fastow is ousted as the chief financial officer because of his involvement into questionable business transactions and pa...
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Sarbanes Oxley Act Code Of Ethics
2,338 words... have the incentive to free ride. So, from whence the motive for participation? Buchanan's answer was: Ethics. "[Becoming informed about, and participating in the discussion of, constitutional rules may require the presence of some ethical precept that transcends rational interest for the individual" (p. 155), an "ethic of constitutional citizenship" (Buchanan 156). This raises the obvious question: In a world of methodological individualism, utility maximization, and rational choice, where d...
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Ethical Decision Social Responsibility
927 wordsSelf-responsibility and interest can be examined in different perspectives. By nature, a person usually expects to reach his goal without considering the possibility of his or her decision and how it may affect the community around them. It is often times very difficult to differentiate responsibility from self-interest due to the fact that the consequences of being responsible conflict with the achievements of personal goals. According to the A Brush with AIDS case study, the character faces th...
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Board Of Directors National Culture
1,139 wordsCultural Policy in Taiwan Taiwan has its own very special government system. On the central government level (relevant to the federal government), there are both president and premier in the system. The National Assembly is the representation of all citizens to the president, and the Legislative Assembly is to the premier who is in charge of the Executive Yuan, the top administrative body of Taiwan. The current National Assembly is in charge of the change of constitution laws, while the Legislat...
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Civil Liberties Supreme Court
971 wordsUS HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT RESEARCH PAPER On may 21, 2001 - the supreme court ruled in a case involving the rights of journalists against the personal rights to privacy, that news organizations cannot be punished for broadcasting information that was passed to them unlawfully. The case began in in 1993, when a conversation between two teacher union officials-Gloria Barnicki and Anthony F. Kane Jr- was intercepted and recorded by an unknown source. One of the officials was using a car phone during...
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