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Drunk Driving Accidents Legalize Marijuana
1,684 wordsI am a law abiding citizen, who pays hard earned tax dollars to the state and I want a chance to be heard. This letter will be representing millions of citizens who want to legalize smoking marijuana responsibly. A question that I will state is why alcohol is legal and marijuana is not. Marijuana has many different uses such as medicine, paper, clothing, protein, and could be used a highly taxed product, in which the government could make a tremendous amount of money. I ask the state of Californ...
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1,507 wordsJurisdiction 1 Statement of the Case 1 - 7 Question Presented 7 - 8 Summary of Argument 8 - 11 Analysis of Issue 1 11 - 12 Analysis of Issue 2 13 - 14 Conclusion 14 - 15 Arizona vs. Hicks, 480 U. S 321 (1987) Illinois vs. Andreas, 463 U. S. 765 (1983) Michigan vs. Long, 463 U. S. 1032 n. 16 (1983) Texas vs. Brown, 460 U. S. 730 (1983) The Minnesota Supreme Court found the respondent Timothy Dickerson guilty of the possession of cocaine. The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed the decision. The S...
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Sir Robert Peel Criminal Justice System
2,005 wordsThere are many aspects of law enforcement that are not clear. One of the few certainties in policing is that there is about 17, 000 police departments in the U. S. A. The exact numbers are not important to most researchers. There most likely isnt a survey on how many of these departments use 911 operators or use handcuffs, because our findings would usually be accurate. Other factors, may be more difficult to measure, one of these factors is community policing. If I where to ask how many departm...
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Differential Association Theory Police Officers
1,391 wordsWilson and Kelling's article Broken Windows is an interesting take on crime prevention and the psychology surrounding it. There take on crime preventions strays from the idea of police allocation based on crime rate and the use of foot patrol versus the use of squad car patrol. The thesis offered by Wilson and Kelling in the article Broken Windows is that we must return to our long-abandoned view that the police ought to protect communities as well as individuals (Wilson 15). Wilson and Kelling ...
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Imprisonment Without Parole Death Penalty
1,983 words... ury selections, and expenses for expert witnesses. And the pursuit by most death row prisoners to overturn their sentences through appeals are also very costly (Bedau 402). Steven Barkan, a criminal sociologist, argues that since the death sentences puts the prisoners life at stake, death penalty cases are especially complicated from pretrial motions through sentencing and appeals, with the state usually having to pay for all the costs. Barkan estimates that the cost of each death penalty ca...
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1,679 wordsThroughout the 1920 s, the United States experienced a number of changes. From the granting of womens suffrage in 1919 to the stock market crash of 1929, the twenties were a time for change. Some changes were for good, such as the invention of the radio, the inexpensive automobile, and movies. Some changes, however, were for worse, such as the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the coming about of a communist party in the United States. But the United States felt one of the most negative impacts from ...
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Criminal Justice System Rule Of Law
2,217 wordsBenefits and Problems Associated with Police Use of Discretion Contemporary worlds police officers have quite enough discretionary powers and many times those powers are being questioned as to compliance with the rule of law. Walker once talking about police discretion stated: that discretion was discovered only in 1956 and that once discovered there were cries for its abolition (Kleinig, 1997: 81). In his statement he mostly talks about how to comply discretion's with the rule of law. From one ...
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Community Policing Police Officers
858 wordsCommunity Policing vs. Traditional Policing The way we police our communities is ever changing in society. As we approach the twenty-first century, communities differ in the way they police. The trend in the nineties is community policing, but the traditional approach is still there throughout the United States. The push has been for community policing, but there are still a great number of departments who like the traditional approach. Whether traditional or community policing, both have some g...
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1,190 wordsCommunity Community Policing Implementation Introduction Community Orientated Policing is widely held as the new and correct style for American policing. For the past decade the community policing movement has been gaining momentum acquiring the support of politicians, scholars, reformers, and the public. Police chiefs around the country are now feeling the pressures of implementation from citizens and local government officials. Many high ranking professional police organization have placed the...
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Life Without Parole Death Penalty Information Center
1,958 wordsJames Wheeler 3 / 6 / 00 Government 400. 3 The Costs of the Death Penalty in the United States Capital punishment has existed in the US since colonial times. Since then, more than 13, 000 people have been legally executed. Today, there are only twelve states which do not have the death penalty: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as Washington D. C. The locations of these states are important b...
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Gun Control Laws Law Abiding Citizens
1,265 wordsThe Second Amendment to the Constitution states that, A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and the definition of gun control is; government regulation of possession and use of firearms by private citizens. Gun control only takes guns away from law-abiding citizens and it does nothing to stop criminals from buying illegal guns, who are unlikely to obey the law and register their guns. I fee...
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Police Officers Police Force
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Bureau Of Justice Statistics Police Brutality
1,244 wordsPolice Brutality in the US Picture if you will a beautiful sunny afternoon in the middle of San Francisco, Ca. A local group of bicyclists, known as Critical Mass, gather for a peaceful ride through the city. The monthly ride was designed to promote the idea that bikes are a positive alternative to cars. Instead of the normal hundred or so riders a mass of 6, 000 or more cyclists gather for the ride. There was a speech from the mayor and then they set off to cruise the city, lead by their arrang...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Community Based Policing
2,535 wordsIt was Police Brutality Description: It was April 29, 1992 and it was my twelve birthday. My mom gave me a little chocolate cake with a plastic surfer riding a wave on top of it. We were watching television while I was getting ready to blow out my candles. There was a disturbance in South Central Los Angeles that the news helicopters were covering on every channel. There were crowds of people flooding the intersection of Florence and Normandy acting rowdy and getting aggressive toward passing ca...
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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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Community Based Policing Post Secondary Education
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Criminal Justice System Repressed Memories
2,741 wordsThe intention of this essay is to discuss the assertion that the human memory is fragile, in light of psychological research concerning encoding, storage and retrieval. This is a subject area with a vast quantity of information to draw from and to include all this in the essay would make it far too long. Therefore, for each of the process areas, one example has been researched and discussed. The conclusion of this essay is that from the three examples described, it would appear that the human me...
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Law Enforcement Officials Driving While Black
1,187 wordsRacial Profiling: Unfair to the Innocent The issue of racial profiling in America is one of great importance to the future of American society. This issue fairly new, in terms of being recognized is old in its ways. Racism and stereotyping are issues that date back to hundreds of years ago. Racial profiling in America is one that needs to be addressed by the government and society if we ever want America to truly be, The Land of The Free. One of the main examples of racial profiling is called DW...
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Commit Crimes Police Officers
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