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La Cosa Nostra Obstruction Of Justice
1,831 wordsWhat is the Mafia? Many people ponder the true definition of Mafia. The literal translation of the word Mafia means my daughter. According to Rick Porello of American Mafia. com, the Mafia, more specifically the Italian-American Mafia, is a group of criminals organized into "families, " and operating primarily in North America. Also known as La Cosa Nostra, at one time there were 26 families in the United States - roughly one for each major city. The Mafia "commission, " composed of bosses of nu...
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Police Department Video Tape
1,419 words... of so many people who live in the community. Now, there would be no jobs, no places to buy anything, no hope, no future. All because of these fires of April, 1992. For years to come, sociologist will be trying to find out why this happened. What were the deep roots that ignited this tragedy, this rebellion? There will be many questions and many answers. However, there was really only one direct, immediate cause that was the flash point; when the jury in the televised trial of the four office...
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Internal Affairs Unit York Times P
1,653 words... ely than they were pursuing drugs, ''s ays Assistant U. S. Attorney Steven Bauer. (Washington Post, Jan 18, 1993: p. 11) When cities enlarge their police forces quickly in response to public fears about crime, it can also mean an influx of younger and less well-suited officers. That was a major reason for the enormous corruption scandal that hit Miami in the mid- 1980 s, when about 10 % of the city's police were either jailed, fired or disciplined in connection with a scheme in which officer...
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River Falls Police River Falls Police Department Jeff
624 wordsSaturday nights usually involve some sort of stress relief for most college students. One Saturday, like many others involved some drinking to cope with college life. But, unlike other Saturdays this one ended with my roommate, Jeff, in the hospital and me with a two hundred and nine-dollar ticket and a new outlook on the River Falls Police Department. The clock said 9: 00 pm and Jeff and I decided we should head to a party. Freezing rain drizzled throughout the afternoon leaving a slippery walk...
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Physical And Emotional Police Officers
1,217 wordsPolicing and stress go hand and hand. I feel as tough many police officers can bring the stress on themselves. Throughout my essay I will talk about stress in policing, community policing and why it would decrease stress, and finally I would talk about how I feel about stress in policing. "Several studies have shown that stress levels are considerably higher among police officers than they are in the general population. As law enforcement professionals try to adapt to stressful experiences, they...
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Kurt Cobain Courtney Love
1,098 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, "I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time. " (Buzz) To many people, Cobain just joined the...
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Crime Scene Santa Ana
1,096 wordsAfter Kait was shot, her car traveled 719 feet, crossed the median, and came to a rest on the sidewalk east of the intersection of Lomas Blvd. and Arno Street. The first officer on the scene (not in uniform -- just passing by) observed two vehicles parked on the sidewalk, Kait's red Ford Tempo and a VW Bug parked next to it. He also saw a man standing next to Kait's car. The officer drove past the vehicles while he radioed in to ask about an accident (none reported), then returned to the scene t...
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Police Brutality Police Officers
486 wordsPolice Brutality. Police Brutality is abuse by law enforcement, where a police feels because he/ she has a badge and gun therefore it puts them above the law and can use unnecessary force against another individual. Police Brutality is not a new issue it has recently become popular due to the current cases that have occurred with in the past year. Cases such as the Amadou Diallo in New York on June 13, 2000 where four New York police officers shot a man forty one times simply because his wallet ...
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Law Enforcement Agencies Afl Cio
2,518 wordsBlack Flag Over Seattle by Paul de Armond Editor's forward Read any war memoir, and notice that veterans almost always comment on the battlefield stillness before the fighting begins. Often it is the only personal note in the writing; the rest of the account describes history book heroism and savagery, troop movements and general's strategies, cannon fire and the screams of the injured. But these preceeding hours of quietude always seem as memorable as the carnage that follows. Welcome to Seattl...
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Lee Harvey Oswald John F Kennedy
1,389 wordsJohn F Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in May 29 th 1917. He was the second of nine kids. He graduated from Choate School then entered Princeton College. Then quickly transferred to Harvard. After Harvard Kennedy joined the Navy in 1914. In august 1943 he was a commander of a U. S. Navy torpedo boat PT- 109. He rescued several crewmen after their boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Islands. He was shoot and received an honorable discharge. For all his bravery he ...
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Big Jim Police Department
1,024 wordsFor several years after Capone arrived in Chicago, things were comparatively quiet among the various gangs that had carved up Chicago's rackets. Nonetheless, reform-minded William E. Dever succeeded the spectacularly corrupt Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson. With city government nominally in the hands of an earnest reformer, the daily process of payoffs and corruption became more complicated. Torrio and Capone decided to put many operations out of the city into the suburb of Cicero, where they could pu...
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Analysis Of Legal Case Between Hall And Mills
1,039 words... apple tree in lovers lane while hot-dog and popcorn vender's sprang up to ply their wares among the curious. (Passion in the Parish (9 - 10) The ability of the police officers to control the crime scene was very little. People were passing around the business card, taking pieces of the tree, and over just messing up the crime scene such as squashing the underbrush. It was said that the rector was shot once in the head, but the trajectory from the entrance wound to the exit wound was on a dow...
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The Canadian Justice System V S Aboriginal People
565 wordsTopic: Be it resolved that the Canadian justice system be significantly changed. The Canadian justice system has failed the Canadian people. It has failed the aboriginal people of this nation on a massive scale. The flawed justice system has been insensitive and inaccessible, and has arrested and imprisoned aboriginal people in grossly disproportionate numbers. Aboriginal people who are arrested are more likely to be denied bail, spend less time with their lawyers, and if convicted, are more lik...
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Digital Cameras Police Department
773 wordsThe use of digital cameras for procedures such as collecting fingerprint evidence is also gaining wide acceptance. Digital cameras operate much like traditional cameras except that instead of images being transferred to film, they are stored on the cameras hard drive. Up to 48 images can be stored and then downloaded from the camera to Macintosh computers or Pcs. In Newport Beach, Calif. , a small, affluent Orange County community with a population less than 70, 000, the police department is usi...
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York City Police Crimes Committed
2,165 wordsRobert Korn May 13, 2000 Sociology of the Police Dr. Vrettos The Police In todays society the police, play may roles. They are the peacekeepers, law enforcement and many other jobs. However, recently they have become the subject of a very heated and large debate. Many believe that the police should give up their brute type tactics for a more civilized and humanized approach, while others feel that the police should crack down on the most insignificant of offences to type and disparage crimes tha...
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Group Of People Opposing Viewpoints
2,439 wordsI d like Gangs Gangs I d like you to take a journey with me, would you please close your eyes and imagine yourself cruising along the streets of Oakland. You are driving and the light just turned yellow, you stop at the stoplight. You see a little kid walking towards you, while he crosses the crosswalk. You take special notice of him because he was around the age of about 11 years of age, but had a thick gold necklace around his neck. He looks at you, you smile politely at him as if to give a sm...
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Los Angeles Police Los Angeles County
914 wordsgeronimo ji Jan (preferred capitalization), also known as Geronimo Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, was wrongfully convicted 24 years ago for the murder of a woman in Santa Monica, California. geronimo has always maintained that he was 400 miles away in Oakland, California, at the time of the killing at a Black Panther meeting, and that he was a victim of the Fbi's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). Represented by Stuart Hanlon, Johnnie Cochran, Robert Garcia, Julie Does, Valerie We...
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Mumia Abu Jamal American Heritage Dictionary
1,930 wordsThe following paper will discuss the topic of racial injustice in the United States Legal System. Since this topic is so broad, it will deal with the trial of Mumia Abu Jamal in 1982. This paper will show how the " system" will try anything to keep a minority down. The system consists of upper middle class to upper class whites that believe minorities are inferior to them. The system is used is a " political machine" used by whites to keep these minorities from becoming power...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Police Department
442 wordsMonologue 2 / 25 / 01 Mumia Abu-Jamal Edward Vassallo Monologue 2 / 25 / 01 I dont know if you heard but last week Ramona Africa spoke at Penn State University. She discussed the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a so-called political prisoner. If youre from Philadelphia youre probably familiar with these individuals. Africa was a member of the MOVE organization in Philadelphia, which is against all forms of government, and technology. Abu-Jamal was a radio journalist, a member of the Black Panther Pa...
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Intervention Programs Police Department
394 wordsNarcotics are all compounds that produce insensibility to external stimuli through depression of the central nervous system. Most narcotics today are extracted from opium poppy. Narcotics investigators investigate, and arrest criminal suspects who are involved with the use, sale, and distribution of illegal drugs. Their work varies from drug raids, obtaining information about suspects, apprehending suspects, and completing paperwork. Narcotics investigations include the use of undercover officer...
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