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The NYPD (NY Police Department) stop and frisk policy is a policy introduced by the New York City mandating the police officers to stop pedestrians and frisks them for contraband, and weapons. The rules are cited in the Section 140.50 in the New York criminal procedure law. In 2011, the NY police force used the frisk policy rule to stop approximately 685,724 people, however, the number reduced to 22,939 in 2015. The policy has become a controversial issue because over 5 million people were frisked during the first decade after introducing the policy. In 2002, the numbers of the reported cases were 685,724 in 2011… Continue Reading...
worse today than it was back then). Essentially, election fraud had been a huge problem in New York, what with the Tammany Hall government attempting to get its Irish Catholic supporters to register at multiple locations in order to vote early and vote often (and thus keep Tammany Hall in power). Teddy Roosevelt, as a member of the Police Board of Commissioners at the end of the 19th century had pledged to combat fraud and corruption and crack down on this type of abuse of the elections process—which is why Lawless’ crime was significant. Roosevelt had moved on from the Police Board in New York—to the… Continue Reading...
Assessment of security at city hall New York, 15 Center Street
Introduction
The New York City hall is the seat of the New York City government. The building is located at the center of the city hall park, civic center, lower Manhattan. The New York City hall is the oldest city hall in the United States of America and it houses the mayor’s office, the staff of some of the municipal agencies (White & Willensky, 2000). Despite its age, the building has been installed with various traditional and new security systems. This essay is an analysis… Continue Reading...
the better it is the further it will draw from. This is New York, so competition is intense. The demographic will be mixed, reflecting the population of New York. Young people of all demographics enjoy the nightclub experience, and we aim to be a safe and open space for all to have fun, so we are not specifically targeting white, black, Latin, Asian or Middle Eastern in particular. As such, we expect the demographic to be predominantly white, but maybe only 60% so, and it could end up being less.
The nightclub will draw from the community of middle class and upper… Continue Reading...
New York: The New York Press, 2010, p. 2). ]
Based on the extensive impact the War on Drugs has on American lives, mass incarceration is a civil rights issue, and a human rights issue. Mass incarceration is not at all a response to increased rates of crime; the notion that crime automatically drives incarceration rates is a myth. Alexander notes that “especially black incarceration rates have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.”[footnoteRef:4] In fact, the… Continue Reading...
New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, the author of The New Jim Crow, is a professor at Union Theological Seminary, a New York Times columnist, and civil rights lawyer and advocate. I believe that the motive she had in writing her book was to explain how Jim Crow still exists in America even though people sometimes choose not to see it. It exists today in hidden and not-so-hidden ways, as it is part of the power structure that still dominates America. The prison industrial complex is just one example of how Jim Crow still exists, as Alexander shows. Her aim is to draw attention to the mass incarceration system that is… Continue Reading...
A) Write a summary of an article on the environment that was published in The New York Times between 1/22 and 1/28. This assignment is for 150 words.
ANCHORAGE — The people of Alaska, spurred by the threat of a massive underwater earthquake which could result in a tsunami, evacuated the safety of their homes at midnight. Authorities had transformed schools into temporary evacuation units and citizens flocked there, parking their automobiles at Walmart and Safeway parking lots. Several rushed to the safe higher ground provided by Pillar Mountain. However, fortunately, the tsunami didn’t occur and in 4 hours’ time, the tsunami warning issued between… Continue Reading...
Record. And That Was Without El Nino” in The New York Times focuses on how the earth’s temperature increased in 2017. What is surprising about this is that scientists at NASA ranked 2017 as the second hottest year since record-keeping began over a century ago. (The hottest year came in 2016, suggesting that a trend is shaping). More surprising still is the fact that there was no El Nino to contribute to the warm weather. In other words, the environment appears to be warming even without this considerable factor in past years. With that in mind, it is difficult… Continue Reading...
Criminal Investigation: Article Reviews
Eligon, J. (2011). Police sergeant to get jail term for perjury and illegal searches. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/nyregion/nyc-police- sergeant-admits-illegal-searches-and-perjury.html
This article highlights the problem of officers conducting illegal searches when they strongly suspect a suspect is guilty, even though they have no legally valid form of probable cause or a warrant to conduct such a search. These types of egregious actions are a source of mistrust and friction between members of the police force and the public. The officer’s lawyer, in an appeal for clemency, stated that the offending officer never arrested anyone who had not committed a crime after he had… Continue Reading...
if they hold the belief that they are in clear and present danger for severe bodily harm.
2. Consider the following:
a. New York tried Goetz for attempted murder and assault. The jury acquitted him of both charges. The jury said Goetz “was justified in shooting the four men with the silver plated .38-caliber revolver he purchased in Florida.” They did convict him of illegal possession of a firearm, for which the court sentenced Goetz to one year in jail.
b. Following the sentencing, Goetz told the court: “this case is really more about the deterioration of society than it is about me….I believe society needs to be protected from criminals.”
Criminal… Continue Reading...
Central Park
New York City is a very complex city. It is full of public spaces and areas. Examples include the subways, the sidewalks, the roads and so forth. However, something that is commonly missing is green space and massive areas of vegetation and landscaping. There is one best example of an exception to this that is also a public space. This, of course, would be Central Park. There are many good to great things to say about that area. However, there are other things that are less than positive, although it… Continue Reading...
outset of Scott's film.
After a sweeping view of New York City at night, blue skyscrapers lit up by electric light, while the music that modifies the scene consists of a slow, nightclub type of song sung by a crooner -- the film settles over a view of the New York City suburbs -- and cuts to the interior of a small home, where guests are pouring in through the front door, some in civilian dress, others in their police uniform. The halls and rooms are densely packed, and many hugs, kisses and smiles are seen. The home is… Continue Reading...
of crime. He later claimed that he acted out of love for the then American president. According to the New York Times he stated that he was in love with Forster like Romeo and Juliet. He was later tried. He was acquitted because he was found to be insane. He was sent to a psychiatry facility for help (Biography.com Editors, 2017).
The McNaughton Rule was adopted in the US and UK and was applied to judge the standard of right and wrong for many years. In fact, the rule is used as a standard of insanity test in nearly half of the states in the USA. The Durham Rule… Continue Reading...
region lying between the Chesapeake (i.e., Virginia and Maryland) and the New England colonies encompassed New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware (i.e., "middle colonies") which were formerly Dutch colonies. By the year 1670, the largely-Protestant migrant group from the Netherlands boasted the world's biggest mercantile fleet as well as the loftiest living standards. They were in control of trade in the northern European region and grew into one among the most liberal and multicultural European communities, in addition to being the British's fiercest rival in international trade. They welcomed and supported religious and cultural diversity unlike a majority of America's other colonizers from the European continent.… Continue Reading...
result in young inmates being jailed for long and dying or being released when they are aged and cannot fend for themselves.
New York's Broken Parole System
The parole system is meant to reward inmates who have shown they have changed, grown, and are ready to rejoin society. This is the real essence of the prison system. Reforming inmates and ensuring they are ready to rejoin society after their jail term or on parole. However, this has not been the situation because most parole boards do not consider the inmate's behavior while in jail, age, education level, and what home the individual would be returning to. They seem to only focus on… Continue Reading...
in secondary and college.
The significance of the necessity for awareness of the national heritage has led to the adoption of the New York social studies curriculum in the common core state standards (CCSS). The common core standards provide the learning objectives for students in the entire state ("New York State K-12 Social Studies Framework EngageNY", 2017). The standards are crafted to be relevant to the real world scenarios and equip students with knowledge and skills necessary for them to succeed in their career pursuits. The new social studies curriculum not only prepares the students for their careers but also prepares them with the knowledge that will be necessary for their civic… Continue Reading...
of CIA operations officer Valerie Plame and former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon penned an op-ed for The New York Times entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa" -- a piece that described how neither he nor Ambassador Owens-Kirkpatrick had uncovered any evidence of Niger uranium sales to Iraq.[footnoteRef:1] Both Owens-Kirkpatrick and Wilson, moreover, had submitted briefings to the CIA to this point. Nonetheless, the CIA along with British intelligence stood by as the narrative that Iraq had purchased uranium took hold in the Oval Office. Both British and American intelligence were wrong about Iraq's WMD program in 2003. This paper will explain why, where, when and how… Continue Reading...
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Week 3 Discussion
The state in consideration is the State of New York. One of the dominant cultures of the state correction facilities and institutions in this state is that of violence. According to Rose, juvenile detainees in these institutions are subjected to routine violence not only by other inmates but also by correction officers within the institutions. For instance, statistics indicate that in 2014, more than 40% of these juvenile detainees were subjected to the use of force by institutional guards at least once, and were in need of medical assistance for a significant figure of 450 times (Rose, 2014).… Continue Reading...
International Perspectives, ed. Peter N. Stearns, Peter Seixas and Sam Wineburg (New York: New York University Press, 2000), 127.]
Although the abovementioned pool of information was by no means perfect by the middle, or even the end, of the last century, it increased in magnitude and reliability sufficiently enough to contribute to global historical examination endeavors. Secondly, professional world history's development suggested a novel sense of global duty and concern. The last century was witness to a couple of global-scale, colossally devastative wars, in addition to several conflicts of a smaller… Continue Reading...
Child Development
What follows in this brief report is a review and reaction to a New York Times article about child development. While great strides have been made when it comes to knowing about child development and how to positively move it along, there are still new theories and ideas every day on how to react to setbacks and how to make the child development process even more advanced and positive for the child as they grow and learn for the first time. The article was indeed very intriguing and for a number of reasons that will all be described in this essay. While it… Continue Reading...
