Case Analysis: LAFD The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) is still plagued with a culture of hazing‚ even though hazing was officially prohibited in the 1940’s; as the department became more diverse the pattern of hazing became stronger towards minorities and women. LAFD officials tried to change such culture by increasing diversity and trying specially to recruit more women‚ but their approach to recruiting and retaining more diverse recruits was also troubling and later led to ethically wrong
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Los Angeles Police Department EVENT Escorting the client‚ David Foreman‚ from his home to the Metropolitan Courthouse and provide security to Mr. Foreman’s estate. LOCATION Laguna Beach‚ CA Metropolitan Courthouse‚ Los Angeles‚ CA DATE Monday‚ November 3rd‚ 2014 TIME 0900am-1200pm BACKGROUND CLIENT: David Foreman 40 years old High profile Outspoken Attention-seeker‚ i.e. loves to talk to the media/press Controversial white supremacist Wheelchair-bound
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(then officially known as Entertainment and Sports Programming Network)‚ strove to build a brand that was synonymous with sports. After progressively acquiring broadcasting rights to college basketball and football and then‚ one after another‚ to each of the major professional sports leagues‚ ESPN became the dominant sports network on television as well as a cable-industry model for success. Indeed‚ the proliferation of specifically targeted cable channels in the 1990s and 2000s owed a great deal
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The Los Angeles City Fire Department employs over 3‚300 people in order to provide quality public service to the residents of Los Angeles. With the recent economic turndown that began in late 2007 and the budget crises within the City of Los Angeles‚ an Early Retirement Incentive Program (“ERIP”) was introduced and approved by the City Council and Mayor on October 30‚ 2009. The purpose of this program was to reduce annual ongoing City payroll costs by providing incentives for eligible Los Angeles
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This case study involved William Robertson‚ who served as Director of Street Services for the city of Los Angeles from 2003 to 2011. Robertson utilized “multiple tools in his efforts to manage relationships with his stakeholders (Cooper and Bryer 2007).” Robertson never ran from interacting with the community and its citizens always showing them that he had a general concern for their issues and was working to solve their problems. Robertson felt it was important to attend neighborhood council
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In the words of Robert E Park‚ “The city is a mosaic of little worlds which touch‚ but do not interpenetrate.” Park suggests that a city is a place of microcosmic worlds that have contact‚ but they do not mix. On a similar note‚ German Chancellor Angela Merkel remarks that people of different social backgrounds lead increasingly separate‚ parallel lives. Los Angeles is a manifestation of Park and Merkel’s commentaries‚ where people from all walks of life share micro-spaces. Even though they may cross
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of Public Space in Los Angeles? I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man‚ and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I do too; have affection for big cities‚ although maybe in a different context than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I enjoy the multiplicity of cities and their way of blending it all together. Until now‚ I have only been to Berlin‚ London and‚ the only American city‚ New York City. Each time I visited one of
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Timothy W. V. Rochester School District Abstract The provision of resources to handicapped children is subject to a wide variety of federal and state laws and statutes. However‚ due the varied and spectacular range of disabilities and combination of disabilities it is often difficult to easily decide who should receive benefits and who should not. Often debated both within the court system‚ and without‚ is the subject of whether the child with a severe disability can actually benefit from the
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Roslyn School District Case 1) The primary individuals involved the Roslyn fraud were former assistant superintendent for business and finance Pamela Gluckin and Former superintendent Frank Tassone. Also the former accounting clerk Debra Rigano was charged with the fraud too. 2) Frank A. Tassone; the former business manager‚ Pamela Gluckin; and an accounting clerk‚ Debra Rigano‚ who is a niece of Ms. Gluckin embezzled money in a scheme in which Dr. Tassone and Ms. Gluckin and nine of their
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The focus here will be the 1992 Los Angeles riot that occurred shortly after the verdict of innocent was announced for the killing of Rodney King. This allowed four police officers who were involved to walk free in Los Angeles of 1992 causing an uproar in communities and neighborhoods across the city. I will analyze the 77th division police officers who responded in large numbers to a call in South Central neighborhood where they heard that another officer got shot. This was one hour after the King
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