Critical Issues in Policing Lisa Harbin CJS/210 Timothy Murphy Critical Issues in Policing There are several critical issues in policing. The main critical issues of policing are: use of deadly force‚ police deviance‚ police prejudice and discrimination‚ violence‚ substance abuse‚ and police brutality as well as other police misconduct. Not only do law enforcement agencies have to deal with critical issues within their agencies‚ they also have to deal with critical issues that pertain
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Alternate Energy What would it be like to live in the dark? Finding new forms of alternative energy has been a major concern throughout the world for the past several years. Currently‚ our main sources of energy are coal for electricity‚ and oil for transportation. Alternative energy‚ also known as renewable energy‚ is defined as energy derived from sources that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment. At the rate we are using these nonrenewable resources oil is scheduled to run
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101-020 April 4‚ 2012 Girl Fight: Savagery in The Chicago Suburbs Summary of an Article and Reaction The article “Girl Fight: Savagery in The Chicago Suburbs” written by Susannah Meadows and Dirk Johnson‚ and published in May of 2003 by Newsweek still arouses controversy and shivers‚ especially for parents who have children that sooner or later will be attending high school. Not only the privileged Glenbrook North in Chicago suburbs in particular‚ but what Newsweek called savagery
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Sammy Siddiqui Paul Angelo Brienza Community Policing November 29‚ 2012 The Costs of Corruption In today’s society‚ the amount of crime that occurs can be quite difficult to deal with and responsibility ends up falling on police to curtail it. Unfortunately‚ the infectious nature of crime often drags these assigned “stoppers” into the same mud that they are trying to prevent others from falling into. When officers abuse their legally sanctioned position of authority‚ it is known as police corruption
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While community policing may seem like an understandable concept‚ the textbook informs us that it has proven to be an elusive goal to arrive at a single definition of the term (Lab 2016). Of the various definitions the table in the textbook provided‚ I most agreed with the definition provided by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services on page 246 (it is the last definition in Table 2.1) because it clearly defines community policing and some of its key features. Key Features of Community
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Sam Shepherd’s Chicago: The Drama of Absurd The term “absurd” is no stranger to the contemporary man. It seems as if for the last seventy years since the beginning of its popularization we haven’t moved away from the same existential philosophy it stems from. Therefore‚ it could be said that the notion of absurdity is a prevailing element of postmodern art and of postmodern way of thinking in general. Ever since the term “absurd” was used by Alber Camus in his essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”
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stands before a crowd of two million‚ as he looks out over a podium on the steps of the capitol building. American flags adorn his stage. This man is Barack Hussein Obama‚ and he is about to be the 44th president of the United States. The two cities‚ Chicago‚ and Honolulu‚ Obama lived in show how different kinds of racism can affect the lives of black Americans. In Hawaii Obama attended Punahou High School where he made up a large majority of his school’s black population. In Hawaii‚ Obama did not experience
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Amanda ****** Jeanna *** Eng 1A October 8‚ 2013 Alternative Medicine My daughter would not be here today of it weren’t for alternative medicine. My doctor had labeled me a “spontaneous aborter‚” meaning my body wouldn’t hold a pregnancy‚ six miscarriages in four years. I was going crazy and when I asked my doctor why‚ he just said “it just happens to some women.” Really? What was wrong with me? A friend of mine referred me to a chiropractor. “What can a chiropractor do?” I asked myself. Despite
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Community policing is sometimes used in conjunction with the standard model. It is when officers are placed in specific areas so that they are able to become familiar with the residents as well as the criminals. This way they are able to form a bond and they are often assisted by the residents when there is an issue because of the level of trust. For example‚ in Dekalb County‚ Georgia‚ the police officers are given specific zones to patrol when they are on duty. Most times‚ it is a zone that they
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observational activity on an article I found titled “After Death: 8 Burial Alternatives That Are Going Mainstream.” I randomly stumbled upon this article after researching eco-friendly/bio-degradable caskets and “natural” cemeteries. This article discusses eight ways a person’s body can be buried or rather handled after death that are not mainstream (ex. wood casket placed in a cement vault or cremation.) One alternative mentioned is resomation. Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St. Petersburg‚
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