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Rush Hour Security Guard
1,615 wordsThump, thump thump, thump thump, thump, rattled through my head like the beating of a Native American drum as the car charted across the highway 93 bridge into Boston. I was with three of my friends who lived in Massachusetts. We entered the city. The buildings were so huge, they were hypnotic, all I could do was stare in awe at the mighty achievements. This is gonna be dope, Ive been waiting all summer to skate Boston! I said. I hope we dont get pinched. I heard the cops in Boston didnt especia...
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J D Salinger S E Hinton
970 wordsImagine this: you write a novel, and it is banned. All that hard work down the drain. To J. D. Salinger and S. E. Hinton this is not a figment of their imagination. This IS reality. Salinger's Catcher in The Rye and Hinton's The Outsiders have been banned in many school districts and public libraries. These two mistreated novels, each of the authors most famous, are proof of their literary greatness. Their greatness can be found in their literary style. Although these authors are similar in some...
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End Of The Movie Beginning Of The Movie
1,331 wordsI was not really interested in seeing LA Confidential since everyone I knew who went to see it had bad things to say-too long, too boring, too confusing. After watching the movie, I became very interested in the movie. Its rare to see a movie with great acting and a story that keeps me wondering whats going to happen next. LA Confidential is a crime-drama adapted from an infamous novel written by James Ellroy. Curtis Hanson directs the movie. The film looks and feels like what you might imagine ...
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Gun Pointed At My Head Pointed At My Head Car
886 wordsIll never forget what happened one day while I was fishing. I had just caught the biggest fish I had ever seen in my life when suddenly I heard a siren, so I let go of the fish by mistake. There was a bridge above me, so I went on top of a hill so I could see what was happening. I saw nothing; I just heard it. I started walking down the hill when I heard a gun shot. I turned around and started to walk up the hill again. It was a horrible sight. I saw a red BMW being chased by two cop cars. The B...
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A Study Of The Negro Policeman Book Review
1,026 wordsby Nicholas Alex Appleton-Century-Crofts Copyright 1969 210 pages Intro. Criminal Justice December 2, 1996 Nicholas Alex, assistant professor of sociology at The City University of New York, holds a Ph. D. from the New School for Social Research and a B. S. from the Wharton School. He was formerly a research assistant with the Russell Sage Foundation, an instructor at Adelphi University, and has had working experience in his academic specialty-the sociology of professions and occupations-while a...
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Nypd Shooting Of Amadou Diallo
1,768 wordsNYPD Shooting of Amadou Diallo Police brutality remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States. The excessive use of force by police officers persists because of overwhelming barriers to accountability. This fact makes it possible for officers who commit human rights violations to escape punishment and often to repeat their offenses. Police or public officials greet each new report of brutality with denials or explain that the act was an aberration, whi...
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Fourth Amendment Probable Cause
750 wordsCars and the fourth amendment, 6 - 28 - 99 You should be forgiven for any sneaking suspicions you may have that the nine elders in black dresses who have the final word on matters legal in the U. S. dont spend much time driving. After all, the Supreme Court cant seem to get enough of stripping Fourth Amendment protections from Americans favorite mode of transportation. Any more decisions like Maryland v. Dyson and we may be forced to drive vehicles as transparent as Wonder Womans invisible airpl...
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Family Room Number Three
1,736 wordsParties and Cops, name a better combo? Running from the cops isnt a very healthy experience, but it is by far one of the more bizarre and exciting things Ive ever gone through. I cant say I wouldnt like to go through it again, but at the same time my Ego seems to suppress my Id on this one. I dont exactly know the single reason for my desire to repeat such a treacherous event, but my analytical mind definitely comes up with a few logical conclusions. I like treating this experience and the event...
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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
2,898 wordsTHE RODNEY KING INCIDENT According to Whitman (1993): Well before he heard the first siren, Rodney King knew he never should have slipped that key into the ignition. They had been having so much fun, he and his buddies Bryant Allen and Freddie Helms, just kicking back, sipping some inexpensive 40 -ounce bottles of malt liquor at the local park as they jawed and laughed while the daylight ebbed away. Afterward, they had stood in front of Allens moms house trying to croon a few tunes. King wasnt m...
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God And Jesus Grapes Of Wrath
2,450 wordsJohn Steinbeck passionately describes a time of unfair poverty, unity, and the human spirit in the classic, The Grapes of Wrath. The novel tells of real, diverse characters who experience growth through turmoil and hardship. Jim Casy- a personal favorite character- is an ex-preacher that meets up with a former worshiper, Tom God. Casy continues a relationship with Tom and the rest of the Joad's as they embark on a journey to California in the hopes of prosperity and possibly excess. Casy represe...
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Grapes Of Wrath Tom
1,289 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a story about a family? s epic Struggles of survival during the time of the depression. Tom, the eldest son of the Joad Family, finds himself in a unique when he must leave his home and head out to California with his family. As Tom and his family headed West on their journey, he found himself as the leader of the family after his grandpa had died and his father was not thinking straight. Throughout the journey, Tom and his mother took care of t...
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God And Jesus Grapes Of Wrath
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Violent Crimes Illegal Drugs
835 wordsThe Illegal Drugs Illegal Drugs The product is illegal drugs. The people who deal these drugs are criminals. Thats what makes the drug business different then any other. Alcohol is a drug, yet adults are allowed to use alcohol products. Nicotine is a drug, yet adults are allowed to use many different forms of tobacco products, all which have tobacco in them. The drug Caffeine can be found in many everyday items, like soda candy bars. Think of how many cops we would need if caffeine products were...
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End Of The Movie Beginning Of The Movie
1,350 wordsThe Bad Cop I was not really interested in seeing LA Confidential since everyone I knew who went to see it had bad things to say-too long, too boring, too confusing. After watching the movie, I became very interested in the movie. It? s rare to see a movie with great acting and a story that keeps me wondering what? s going to happen next. LA Confidential is a crime-drama adapted from an infamous novel written by James Ellroy. Curtis Hanson directs the movie. The film looks and feels like what yo...
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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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War On Drugs Prohibition Of Marijuana
2,049 wordsAs we Marijuana Argument Essay As we all know the government has some sort of control over the people living in the United States and play a role in our every day lives. They give us rules to live by even though we are guaranteed our freedom in the Declaration of Independence. These rules we are expected to live by are said to be for our own good and supposedly keep the citizens in order. I ve come to see that some rules make no logical sense such as the prohibition of marijuana. Marijuana was o...
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Golden Gate 6 Months
568 wordsVroom, Vroom the engine roared as Damian Ziek revved the engine. He sped off the street in his new stolen Ferrari Modena. He flew down 81 st street faster than lightning. He left two black trails behind his tires that will probably be embedded into the gravel. Damian Ziek is a 28 -year-old car booster. He is known for his speed in stealing a car. His fastest time is 22 seconds on a 66 Mustang GT 500. That was at his prime, but now he can t get lower than 50 seconds. It all went down hill ever si...
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Police Brutality Rodney King
707 wordsPolice Brutality Police Brutality seems to be becoming a much more larger problem then it use to be. It seems to be at least once a month we hear about another case of police brutality. Some of the most famous ones are the Rodney King beating, the beating of the two illegal aliens in Riverside, and the killing of Gustavo Soto Mesa by deputy Tom Langley. One of the main motivations behind these beatings seem to race. Right before the Rodney King beating, Officer Powell and Officer Wind were heard...
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People Of Color Police Brutality
478 wordsThe Police Brutality Police Brutality The latest outrage of police brutality occurred on August 9 at the 70 th Precinct station house in Brooklyn. At least two uniformed police officers tortured a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima by driving the wooden handle of a toilet plunger into his rectum and puncturing his small intestine. They then placed the filthy plunger in his mouth. During the attack the cops called Mr. Louima a nigger and threatened to kill him if he reported the incident. Most ...
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Housing Projects Lower East
1,373 wordsThe Hidden Homeless Have you ever dreamed of living in a house for free? You wouldn t have to pay the rent, and have yourself a roof over your head, and have more money to spend on things you would otherwise have to spend for a tiny piece of apartment. Think of it this way: isn t housing a right for everyone? As prices soar, the chances of finding affordable housing and low rents in NYC is nearly impossible and housing projects are rapidly getting filled up. In conditions like these, having nowh...
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