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    Percentage of Minority Inmates There are over millions of people incarcerated but African Americans and Latinos make up most of the prison population. To attempt to stop certain problems‚ the criminal justice system just put people behind bars and expects that everything will be fine‚ when in reality it isn’t because now the jails are becoming overcrowded. Dealing with the drug war‚ racial profiling‚ and people growing up in low-income neighborhoods and high-poverty rates‚ minorities have a higher

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    “Community Oriented Policing is concerned with the relationship between the police and the community‚ and problem-oriented policing is more concerned with solving a problem and having an outcome” (Dempsey & Forst‚ 2016‚ p. 372). Community Oriented Policing involves making efforts to solve problems and have positive results. The relationship between policing and citizens in my community is called CPB (The Crime Prevention Bureau) and CRP (Community Relations Program). These community programs primary

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    with community policing. In some ways it turned out good but in some ways it turned out bad. It seems as if most of these have failed. Community policing programs are being embraced by many different police departments all over the world. The police officers that are assigned to community policing are asked to engages in problem solving. In a recent survey of the heads of law enforcement agencies across the country‚ a full 46% reported that they had implemented a community policing program (Wycoff

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    Minority groups started a very long process of work to have their rights and protection from the trade unions. Minority groups had different strategies and methods that need to be taken for further their interests within the union. Minority groups had it rough especially in the early 20th century. Because there were a lot of lack of support from trade unions towards the minority groups (Hunt & Rayside‚ ). The trade unions ignored many different minority group’s needs and minority groups were suffering

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    the minorities that establishes cultural differences related problems. It is often heard that minorities are deprived from certain freedom and the majority avails most of the best previleges that could be given. Minorities are often judged by different steoreotypes and prejudices that establishes conflict between the groups. The main point of Prof. Hans Ingvar Roth‚ head of the sweden research team of the University of Lund in his article “Liberal Principles and Minority rights‚” minority groups

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    states sovereign power and the rights of minorities which international law has been extremely succinct about which affirms the commitment of international actors and policy makers to human dignity. From the year 1990 to 1995 there was an attempt to strike this much needed balance between sovereignty and national minority rights by the Organization for Security in Europe and the Council for Europe. These two organizations saw the need to have national minorities given a say in the running of the affairs

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    place in policing and it has important implications for those in city government tasked with planning. This uprising is called community policing and it brings police work into a domain traditionally inhabited by community planners. This paper will be the basis for the recommendation of a community oriented policing program. It will include a definition of what community policing is‚ as well as some core elements that are involved in a community oriented policing program. Community policing is really

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    Minority Authors Should be introduced in the classroom In talking about the kinds of literature students are reading in the classrooms‚ one only needs to look back on their own high school education to find the books that are considered “canonical” in Ontario classrooms. Works commonly cited will be Shakespeare‚ Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Golding’s “The Lord of the Flies”. As you can see in Table 1 (Stability and Change in the high school canon‚

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    totalitarian government centered on war and hatred. Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002) is a film in a futuristic setting with a system which predicts future murders so that citizens live a homicide-free utopian life. Winston Smith is the main character in 1984. His rebelious views on his society and government cause his arrest for ‘thoughtcrime‚’ for which he is brainwashed until he complies to his society’s views. In Minority Report‚ John Anderton (Tom Cruise) begins by completely trusting the

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    The book Fahrenheit 451 and the movie Minority Report are similar in many different ways such as the main characters‚ they both change there opinions in the end and the technology. The main character in Fahrenheit 452 and Minority Report are similar in many ways. In Minority Report‚ John goes against his job and same with Guy. John goes against the pre-crime while Guy goes against burning the books. They both have family troubles. John got a divorce with his wife and lost his son while Guy and

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