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Police Brutality Excessive Force
626 wordsFor those people who feel racism is not a factor in causing the use of excessive force, here is a startling fact. In Tampa Bay, Florida, five men died while in the custody of the Tampa Bay police Department (C. C. 27). The thing is, the Tampa Bay Police Department is made up of mostly white officers, but of the five men who died, none where white. Four of the five men that died where African Americans, and the other man was a Mexican National. If the incident in Tampa Bay does not show a person ...
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Police Department Personal Safety
480 wordsDo you know how to remain safe on campus? There has been a rise in campus crime over the years due the increased dorm population, according to Maj. Susan Norred, assistant director of safety and security for the University Police Department. Norred, a police officer for approximately 17 years, has primary concern for students that walk or jog alone at night. She has served in her current position for two years. Whenever a person is out alone at night, they are providing an opportunity for an ass...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,533 words... egotist strategies to combat white intimidation and violence, the effectiveness of whites to fight against integration and residential segregation began to fail. Eventually 'white flight' occurred, as white residents began to move into the growing suburban areas that flourished in the 1950 s, leaving the city areas of South Los Angeles behind. This left the central city of Los Angeles as a primarily black enclave, with blacks accounting for 71 percent of the inner-city population (Brunn et a...
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Serial Killer Crime Scene
1,910 wordsSince Drugs In Sports Perfection Since the beginning of time, society has constantly been competing with one another. Every human being is always trying to be, better than his / her neighbour. No matter what the task at hand, humans essentially believe that they can achieve bigger and better things, and eventually reach perfection. Perfection is defined as being a quality or state of being perfect, or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, ...
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Wide Area Network Relies Heavily
3,075 wordsCompany provides auto insurance coverage for licensed drivers in the state of Indiana. The company? s headquarter is located in the city of Speedway where it has two strategic business units located at the cities of Waterloo and Corydon. In all, BWAIC employs approximately 150 people with internal departments consisting of the Policy, Claims, Payroll, Personnel, and Insurance Agents. Currently, BWAIC insures 50, 000 policyholders statewide. Last year, BWAIC? s net profit was $ 875, 000. With cer...
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Los Angeles Police Los Angeles Times
2,973 wordsThough sparked by the Rodney King verdict, there were many other causes of the riots that erupted on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The Los Angeles riots in 1992 were devastating. The obvious issue portrayed through the media was black versus white. If you did not live in Los Angeles or California chances are you did not hear full coverage of the story, you heard a simple cut and dry portrayal of the events in South Central. If you heard one thing about the riots, it was that ther...
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Kurt Cobain Courtney Love
2,172 wordsOn April 9 th the world woke up to the news of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Those who followed the grudge music of Cobain's band, Nirvana, were angry, but not surprised. With songs such as I Hate Myself and Want to Die and constant references to suicide and drugs, suicide was the obvious explanation for his death. Kurt put it best when he said, Im thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time. (Bozza) To many people, Cobain just joined the club...
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Kurt Cobain Courtney Love
2,222 wordsOn April 9 th the world woke up to the news of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Those who followed the grudge music of Cobain's band, Nirvana, were angry, but not surprised. With songs such as " I Hate Myself and Want to Die" and constant references to suicide and drugs, suicide was the obvious explanation for his death. Kurt put it best when he said, " Im thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time. " (Bozza) To many people, ...
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Los Angeles Times U S Department
2,785 wordsPolice brutality has been a long lasting problem in the United States since at least 1903 when police Captain Williams of the New York Police Department coined the phrase, ? There is more law at the end of a policeman? s nightstick than in a decision of the Supreme Court. ? In the 1920? s the Wichersham Commission had a number of instances of police brutality. Many of these included the use of the? third degree? (beating to obtain a confession). This is a very effective way to get a confession o...
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Police Officers Police Force
507 wordsRacism has come along way in the past 30 years. But it s still exists and is a constantly reoccurring issue. Racism not only deals with color or nationality, but also includes, age, sex, and physical characteristics. The problem is that racism affects the way that people perform their jobs, specifically the police force. Some officers of the law have racist feelings against different groups of people. What effect does this have on the public and the reputation of the police force? The citizens o...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Black Panther Party
2,004 wordsNear 4 AM on December 9, 1981 Mumia Abu-Jamal was working a second job as a nighttime cab driver in the hope of making additional money for the upcoming holiday season. He was driving west on Locust St. when he saw that his brothers Volkswagen had been pulled to the side of the road by a Philadelphia Police cruiser. Mumia pulled into a parking garage on the North side of Locust so he could question his brother to make sure he wasnt in any trouble. After emerging from the parking garage he saw Of...
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Serial Killers Police Agencies
692 wordsFederal bureau investigation, the FBI, is considered the strongest police agency in the United States because it has control over other police agencies around the states. The FBI as a police agency has its pluses and minuses; therefore, looking for searching for serial killers and control other police agencies are some of its pluses. In the other hand, the over react of dealing with civilians, and the unsupervised job that they do hold to be some of its minuses. One of the most important jobs th...
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Victimless Crime Violent Crimes
1,335 wordsWhat is prostitution? Prostitution is the After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. This is from section one of the eighteenth amendment of the constitution, making alcohol illegal in the United States. To this day it is still the only am...
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Internal Affairs Unit York Times P
3,297 wordsPolice corruption is a complex phenomenon, which does not readily submit to simple analysis. It is a problem that has and will continue to affect us all, whether we are civilians or law enforcement officers. Since its beginnings, may aspects of policing have changed; however, one aspect that has remained relatively unchanged is the existence of corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication on any given day will have an article about a police officer that got b...
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Law Enforcement Agencies Law Enforcement Officer
2,009 wordsYou are pinned down near a parked car by gunfire crisscrossing from two rivaling gangs with an innocent child you managed to grab from the street before the child was bout to be caught in the crossfire, you have the child in your arms with a gun in your other hand while you try to radio in for backup, the noise of the bullets across the street as the gangs are taking revenge on each other, the child in your arms starts to cry from all the noise from the guns, he cries for his mother. What do you...
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Human Rights Watch York City Police
1,934 wordsIn the past decade, many police departments have adopted a new theory that says serious crime can be reduced by controlling minor disorders and fixing up obvious signs of decay or litter. The theory is called broken windows, after a 1982 Atlantic Monthly magazine article by James Q. Wilson and George Killing. The article argued that when low-level quality-of-life offenses were tolerated in a community, more serious crime would follow. According to this view, broken windows, abandoned buildings, ...
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Racial Profiling Fourth Amendment
1,229 wordsRacial Profiling can be defined as the identification of racial factors, such as skin color, hair texture, facial structure, physical attire, gender, spoken language, accent, or religion. As noted above, there are many ways in which someone can be racially profile. Racial profiling has been used for many years. It started with segregation in the early 1900 s and recently with cases such as Major Aaron Campbell vs Florida. Yet, racial profiling has been overlooked and not investigated thoroughly ...
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Make Them Feel Plays A Major Role
3,039 wordsMany attempts have been made around the world at reforming current legal systems in search of a better one. As the amount of crime rises worldwide, people are constantly on the lookout for new and improved ways to fight it, and prevent it. Three such attempts involving attempts to change legal systems have been discussed the last half of this course. The change from the system put in place when a country was under colonization, as in Kilamanjaro, and Papa New Guinea. An attempt to revert to the ...
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Houston Chronicle Gang Violence
1,053 wordsGangs are becoming a growing problem in American society. More young people are turning to gangs to solve problems in there lives. When youths join gangs they drop social activities with family, friends and school. Members fall behind their classmates in school and do not try. A study shows that less than 1 % of gang bangers is literate 1. Gangs destroy teenager lives and destroy their chances for a good education and happy life. Gangs are now a haven for rats. Teenagers are joining gangs every ...
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Los Angeles Police Armed Forces
1,290 wordsShould Woman Be Allowed To Fight In Combat? PROS: In my opinion, there are lots of women who have the right attitude, drive, concentration, moral flexibility, physical stamina, and confidence to match which would, given the proper training, make them ready for combat or serve in combat roles in the military. There is already woman Military Police Officers who have the necessary skills. Sexist attitudes cause people to over look womans potential. You will find 85 - 90 % of people in the military ...
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