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    51 Sex Offenders Essay

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    The major problem I felt as of great importance would be that there’s 51 sex offenders in the area of 90017 and that only 36 of these man have an exact location. There are eight schools near them‚ five elementaries‚ 2 high schools and 1 middle school. These sex offenders don’t care the age of the victim and this to me is a big safety risk we are taking. Not long ago‚ there was an incident of a girl about 15 years of age whom a man tried to kidnap her and I have you know this was in front of New Academy

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    Drug wars

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    America is at war. We have been fighting drug abuse for almost a century. Four Presidents have personally waged war on drugs. Unfortunately‚ it is a war that we are losing. Drug abusers continue to fill our courts‚ hospitals‚ and prisons. The drug trade causes violent crime that ravages our neighborhoods. Children of drug abusers are neglected‚ abused‚ and even abandoned. The only beneficiaries of this war are organized crime members and drug dealers. The United States has been engaged in

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    War on drugs

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    “DEA probes Silk Road‚ suspected online hub for illegal drugs by Kevin Deutsch. Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. Buying cocaine can you get arrested or killed. Have you ever imagined if you could buy and sell drugs online like I do for textbooks? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road. Silk road is the Ebay of the online drug trade and you are able to any drug imaginable such as cocaine‚ heroin‚ opioid pills‚ LSD‚ Ecstasy and other drugs. Silk Road’s customers buy‚ sell‚ trade and rate delivery

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    Final Paper Drug Courts

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    overflowed with people that suffer from substance abuse. For example drug and/or alcohol related crimes have been implicated in violent crimes‚ instances of domestic violence‚ child abuse and neglect cases. Therefore‚ drug court has come in to offer people arrested for substances abuse related crimes and opportunity to receive community-based treatment with judicial supervision to avoid potential incarceration. For this reason drug court has changed people’s lives in a variety of ways‚ which are often

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    Definitions Offender profiling is a method of identifying the perpetrator of a crime based on an analysis of the nature of the offense and the manner in which it was committed. Various aspects of the criminal’s personality makeup are determined from his or her choices before‚ during‚ and after the crime. This information is combined with other relevant details and physical evidence‚ and then compared with the characteristics of known personality types and mental abnormalities to develop a practical

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    movement‚ Martin Luther King Jr. is not an extremist; however‚ in response to being labeled an extremist by "fellow clergimen"‚ King considers himself an extremist of love and equality (King 1). In his letter written from the Birmingham Jail‚ King argues in favor of non- violence‚ placing his extremism in the context of religion‚ history and sociology. His ideology is the only outlet for a positive and peaceful outcome because the "do – nothinghism of the complacent" will fuel "the hatred and despair

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    Drug Policy

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    status quo of the drug policy is punitive prohibition and has a limited amount of treatment facilities. Punitive prohibition is the use of criminal charges with the goal of stopping the usage of drugs and all the harms that comes with it. This drug policy has been enforced and mostly unaltered since the MDA 1971. As outlined by the UK Drug Policy Commission the goals of the current drug policy is to reduce supply and demand whilst improving rates of recovery of those dependent on drugs. Status Quo Health

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    War on Drugs

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    declared a “war on drugs.”() The problem is that the department of corrections was ill prepared to house the newly made convicts. This created over population in prisons all over America because of a failed attempt to “crack down.” It is a fact that countries with overbearing drug laws tend to have more drug problems than those who don’t. Now that new studies and facts are coming to light we have finally entered a stage in which to rebuild drug reform. The American war on drugs is a failing system

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    Drugs are running rampant in our society today. Families and communities across America are being torn apart by all types of drugs. The criminalization of drugs has not done anything for addicts other than put them behind bars and misappropriate the useful time of government agencies. America needs to start focusing on the treatment of addicts‚ not the incarceration. Soon after‚ Americans will notice the decline in problematic drug usage that Richard Nixon promised when he declared the “War on Drugs”

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    Sex Offender Pokemon Go

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    actuality to look out allocated spots (PokeStops) which are to some degree self-assertively doled out by the beguilement‚ the hazard is that adolescents may be pulled in by the preoccupation to go hang out close where a sex offender happens to be‚ everything considered. Sex offenders are probably considered as the most belittled collect in the overall population. Restricting them from any social networking application‚ most likely faces some mind-boggling obstructions. The suggestion could without a

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