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The Shore Road Mystery
1,107 wordsThe Shore Road Mystery The Hardy boys, Frank and Joe, were taking a casual drive down Shore Road when they heard a report about a stolen car. Frank and Joe raced towards the scene and actually saw the stolen car. Suddenly, a big red produce truck came right into the middle of the road. The boys had no choice but to slam on their breaks. They ended up crashing into a fence and were dazed but uninjured. The driver came out of the truck and apologized. "Something seems fishy about that guy. " Said ...
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Year Old Girl Seven Years
754 wordsIt was December 3 rd, and Father Monsignor Ferris went about his rounds of locking up the church. However, he did not know that Lenny, a skilled burglar, was waiting in the confessional until the moment Father Ferris left. He had come to steal a chalice with a star-shaped diamond and the daily collection of money. He got what he wanted and attempted to Meanwhile, an eighteen year old girl who had just given birth to a newborn baby decided that she really was not able to take care of this baby. A...
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2,084 words... d trial... the defendant is a normal as anyone else. Maybe a little neurotic. "Ultimately, it didn't matter because David Berkowitz pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 365 years in jail. In 1979, Robert Ressler, the FBI veteran, interviewed Berkowitz in Attica Prison three times. Berkowitz had been allowed to keep a scrapbook he had compiled of all the newspaper stories about the murders. He used these scrapbooks to keep his fantasies alive. Ressler made it clear that he didn't buy the demon...
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Dps Vs City Cops
744 wordsKnock! Knock! Tap! Tap! License and registration please. Where is the emergency son? The speed limit is 55 mph. Not 120 Mph. This is a highway not the Autobahn son. This is DPS not the city police. I will let you off with a warning this time I will take you to Jail for criminal driving. Are all cops like this? Some are and some aren't. Let's see if they are. People get certain kinds of cops mixed upshot. For instance when people get pulled over by a DPS officer people call them PIGS but they are...
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Fall River One Thing
497 wordsThis day I thought was like any other day, or I thought... It was a cloudy day during the middle of January and My Dad And I were riding our four wheel drive motor vehicles flying all around those great trails. The best thing of this whole trip was that they had just built some jumps. They were the biggest jumps that anyone has seen, so my Dad and I got as far back as we could, which was about five hundred feet back. So I just pinned the throttle and let her fly I hit that jump doing ninety mile...
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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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York Times P Police Brutality
1,854 wordsPolice brutality is a problem in our country today. There are many instances where the police have gone too far in dealing with criminals. There are many things that people are doing to stop police brutality. More and more bad cops are being caught in their wrong doings. There are many cases that go unseen. The police are good at keeping things quiet. They have a code of honor that says that police do not tell on each other. The Johnny Gammage case was a recent case in the news. One of the only ...
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Prejudice In West Side Story
511 wordsIn the book West Side Story by Arthur Laurent's there were many prejudices. Prejudice is a favoring or dislike of something without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge. There were prejudices in West Side Story that had to do with the types of people, their races and sex. Sometimes prejudice can be in small doses and can be meaningless, other times prejudice can be very serious and cause death. Prejudice was the theme of this story, there are many examples. For instance, an act of prejudi...
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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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Plea Bargain Im Glad
1,421 wordsAnthony, Im so excited for you, twelve months down, twelve to go, a woman says on the phone. Kari, this has been a long year. I miss you so much, Anthony says. Kari puts her hand on the glass divider and gives a long, loving stare into the eyes of Anthony, So what are you doing first when you come home? Coming to my house and she cuts herself off with a big smile and wink. Going to your house and get the key to my case so I can get what Im in here for. Then going back to your house and maybe let...
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Fourteenth Amendment Death Sentence
1,239 wordsIf you " re ever driving down I- 95 through Philadelphia, you will notice an exit for Allegheny Avenue. Allegheny Ave is one of the most dangerous parts of Philly you can drive through. Predominantly black with some Puerto Ricans and a handful of whites, Allegheny is situated between the Delaware River and abandoned industrial complexes. Windows are kept closed and doors are locked as you drive past bums, drug dealers, scorched abandoned cars, sleazy strip bars, cops and crack heads. You can buy...
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1,326 wordsCivil rights movement (African-Americans) 20 th century The number of books, films, and other media that recount the Civil Rights Movement uniquely demonstrates Americas insatiable quest for knowledge about this unparalleled moment in our countrys recent past. In Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr. , Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement, Donzaleigh Abernathy, the youngest daughter of the late Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, offers a rare look at this troubling and inspiri...
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Quot Quot Voice
2,650 wordsLove in 20 th century is entirely different from when Marie De France lived. In her time, she wrote a sweet story of two women who love the same man, Eliduc. He leaves his wife, Guildeluec to go fight in another country even though she is devastated by his decision. During his excursion he ends up with a younger woman named Guilliadun. The two fall madly in love. Ultimately, Guildeluec detects the affair and behaves with not a spread of jealousy or desire for revenge. The way she tells the story...
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George Get Back Back In Time Thought
1,735 wordsLog Nebular Time Nebular Time Log Date, 2490 Were traveling past the new system Plutonomy at Warp 2. I have been informed that there is a new nebula forming past the 6 th planet. They say there is valuable plasma gas inside. My plan is to be the first there to collect it all and sell it so I can stop wandering in space. Log date, 2492 Two more days have passed and my co-pilot and I have been hearing about a race to be the first there. We are in the lead and shouldnt have a problem getting there....
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Law Enforcement Officers Police Officers
1,505 wordsLaw enforcement officers carry guns, are given special privileges and great responsibility. Public safety officers are trusted and expected to respect society as a whole. Taking all of this into consideration, do cops actually break the law? Yes they do and they do it quite often. Some of the best criminals (or best at being criminals) work in law enforcement, and your fate lies in their integrity (Epperson 215). Continuing high crime rates of today have resulted in more police officers being pl...
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Los Angles Police Brutality
861 wordsPolice Brutality By Matt Howard Composition Period 1 Mrs. Kolar December 20, 1996 We were following are training as L. A. P. D. officers, said officer Stacey Koon who was one of four officers accused of using excessive force against Rodney King. {Brutality in Los Angles 7 } Koon along with fellow officers Timothy Wind, Lawrence Powell, and Theodore Brine's chased King through downtown Los Angles. King had allegedly committed numerous traffic violations and was thought to be high on PCP. After a ...
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496 wordsThe Police Coercion Police Coercion The police exist to protect the public from harm, abuse, murder and infringement of personal rights. They are here to sustain those persons who have committed a crime against the laws of the land. Basically, the duty as a police officer is to protect the good from the bad. Ironically, however, in many cases this is not true; sometimes the police will play the role of the bad man. In one recent case, police officers were convicted of over-excessive use of force...
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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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Fall River One Thing
511 wordsThis Quad Flight Quad Flight This day I thought was like any other day, or I thought. It was a cloudy day during the middle of January and My Dad And I were riding our four wheel drive motor vehicles flying all around those great trails. The best thing of this whole trip was that they had just built some jumps. They were the biggest jumps that anyone has seen, so my Dad and I got as far back as we could, which was about five hundred feet back. So I just pinned the throttle and let her fly I hit ...
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Side Of Town Social Class
1,798 wordsThe Outsiders By: The Outsiders Summary The Outsiders By: S. E. Hinton This story is about a young boy of 14 named Ponyboy. He is part of a hood group called Greasers on the east side of town, a group of lower-class teenagers who wear their hair long and greasy, wear jeans and ripped-up T-shirts, and are at odds with the rich-kid bullies known as the Socs. This group of hoods are born into rich families from the west side of town, are of a high social class, drive around in Mustangs and Corvairs...
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