...questions later. In the past few years that have gone by we seen a lot of unarmed black males killed by white police officers and how the police officers got a “pat on the back” and let go. This caused an uproar among the black community and it caused them to come together and protest that justice be served. It all started back in 2012 when George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. But before Trayvon there was Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old who got shot by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009. Oscar and his friends were involved in an altercation on the train which needed the police to get involved. He was then...
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...When I saw we would be watching Fruitvale Station, I was overcome by memories. I am from the city Pleasant Hill which is no more than half an hour away from Hayward. In 2009 when Oscar Grant was shot, everyone had heard about it. For the entire week you couldn’t talk to someone without the shooting being mentioned. At the time I was only in 6th grade starting high school. I did not know anyone directly related to Oscar Grant, however during this tragedy everyone felt connected to him personally. His case is what sparked many protests in the Bay Area and moved the topic of police brutality into discussion. I thought I had known the entire story based on news reports but seeing this movie really made him seem as more than just a struggling black...
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...To the editor, the recent police shootings of mainly african-american men are very concerning and they raise a lot of questions about racism in the police and in the justice system. Many victims arte both unarmed and innocent. More has to be done to prevent these kinds of shootings from happening and to rid the American justice system of its racism. Minorities have been facing discrimation for a long time but in most ways things have improved. The justice system is one of the places were racism still exists and it's one of the most important causes of the problems black people are struggling with today. One of the early shootings that got attention was the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was shot multiple times by a police officer, but since then too many similar shootings have occured. These events are examples of how african-americans and other minorities are treated differently by the police and by courts. An african-american man isn't just more likely to be shot by the police. If he's found guilty of a crime he's more likely to end up in prison, recieve a longer prison sentence or to recieve the death penalty than a white man guilty of the same crime. There has to be more focus on preventing these shootings and eliminating racism in the justice system. Black lives...
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...Research by Harvard University suggest "that the frequency of mass shootings has increased threefold since 2011". Gun control becomes an issue when criminals steal guns and fires them. When mass shootings occurred around the world. Also preventing private gun sales with unlicensed people. The government need to enforce the regulation of firearms more strictly. So it can clamp down on unlicensed gun transactions, preventing criminals from firing stolen weapons, and stop mass shootings. "In report last year, counted 160 active shooters." Last year the FBI counted 160 shootings between 2000 and 2013. Research by Harvard University suggest that the mass shootings has increased since 2011. Two online news reports track shootings where four or more wounded or killed found there has been 335 such shootings since January in 221 cities and 47 states. Coinologist do agree that similar awareness of killings of unarmed citizens by police spiked after Michael Brown's death. Fear to increases that may make it harder to come to be some sort of resolution because feel a greater need to protect themselves by being armed, take defensive action, or blame certain people and contain those people....
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...issue? Argument Sentence: Prevention of gun violence should be considered a public health issue because preventing gun violence will stop thousands of deaths every year. Premise: Any preventative measures that stops thousands of deaths every year should be considered a public health issue. Every year we get reminded of the gun issue whenever we hear about a horrifying new shooting and every year we seem to forget until we hear about the new one. As long as it doesn’t involve people that we know personally it is easy to get desensitized to the reports on the news. The image of a deranged psycho mass murderer makes for...
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...School Shootings School Shootings are very serious and happen more than they should. There have been 142 school shootings in the United States since the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. People should be taught how to avoid school shooters. Not just turn off the light and lock the door in the classroom. The number of mass shootings increases each decade. School Shootings can decrease by Improving school Security, Cutting down on violence in the media, and doing something about gun free zones. The first way is Improving school Security. Scm said "Schools should have security entrances with armed guards and metal detectors similar to airports." All schools should have metal detectors at the very least and one to five security guards depending on...
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...The D.C Sniper attacks After the shooting of 15 different people in Maryland and Virginia in October, 2002, this country would never be the same. One of the most challenging cases in history would draw the attention of not only police forces, but also the FBI, the US Marshalls and the Secret Service. In this essay, I will analyze the background information on the murderers, followed by the crime development, and finally police intervention and resolution, linked to the assailants John Allen Muhammad, and Lee Boyd Malvo. On the one hand, perpetrator John Muhammad, 41 at the time of the attacks, had served in the US Military for 17 years, and earned medals for his actions during the Gulf War of 1991. After being discharged in 1994 as a Sargeant, his wife, Mildred Muhammad claimed that he had returned...
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...of policies to work, it must be established and implemented with the full participation and support of school board members, administrators, parents, students, community members, emergency response personnel, and law enforcement.” (Kramen, 2008.) If these responsibilities were not shared, the success rate for safe school policies would be very low. Parents send their children to school and think that during that time they are studying and doing other productive, educational things. The last thing parents expect is something terrible happening to their child while at school. School violence is happening more frequently than it should and something needs to be done to stop it. Not only does an act of school violence, especially a school shooting, affect the individual student it reflects poorly on the United States school systems but it also reflects poorly to our nation as whole. Some people may argue that there is more pressure on kids these days than ever before and this can lead children to acting out and ultimately leading to unexpected actions. People may argue that children are inspired by movies and video games. Parents and school officials may argue that students idolize...
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...hands, leading to a school massacre, provokes schools to restrict firearms on campus through school policy. Even though facilities of higher education have been deemed generally safe places, school shootings have periodically disrupted that ideology, triggering debate of how students and faculty should defend themselves in the event of a shooting. Restricting firearms on campuses, a notion praised by gun-control advocates, raises the argument of the constitutionality of that decision by gun advocates. In order for an individual to be able to properly exercise his/her right to self-defense, college firearm policy shouldn’t ban carry of handguns by CHL holders, because it infringes on the second amendment, infringes on the ability to defend oneself, and would deter the effects of violence and crime on college campuses. Colleges shouldn’t ban the carry of handguns by CHL holders as it allows individuals the right to defend themselves in event of a shooting. In the past few years, there have been many instances of violence on campus from killers who did not have a CHL license. Theses shooters appear randomly and the amount of damage they can do is unpredictable. Campus security and police are only so available, and are most likely too late to the scene in the instance of a campus shooting. The ability to have a concealed handgun means that when a perpetrator tries to shoot a classroom up, the owner of the handgun can prevent death or injury and classmates and self. A campus full of...
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...Jett, April Hope The Significance of the Columbine High School Events CRJU 2110 Assignment #2 Introduction: The Columbine High School Shooting Event occurred at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. At the time of the shooting, I was in the seventh grade of junior high school. I can remember thinking for months after this that it could occur anywhere and I was afraid to go to school. This shooting was the most significant shooting in a school in the history of the United States of America. During this incident, two high school seniors planned and carried out a massacre. These two students were Eric Harris (eighteen years old) and Dylan Klebold (seventeen years old). After all was said and done, thirteen people plus Harris and Klebold were dead and twenty-three people were injured. These events showed this nation that schools are no longer safe and that incidents that occur in schools should be dealt with swiftly and harshly. Schools now focus on security, bullying, and response to these type incidents. Topic I – Security A. Zero Tolerance in Schools B. Preventive Measures Topic II- Bullying A. Profiling B. Communication C. Anti-Bullying Laws Topic III- Incident Response A. School System Response B. Emergency Responder Response C. Post Response I. Security A. Zero Tolerance in Schools Schools in this country have adopted a zero tolerance policy. This means that the school deals with any infraction basically...
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...8-year-old Arizona boy suspected in the deaths of his father and another man can be heard in a videotape of his police interview telling officers that he shot both men after he came home from school. Vincent Romero and Tim Romans were found dead in Romero's home in St. Johns, Arizona. Vincent Romero and Tim Romans were found dead in Romero's home in St. Johns, Arizona. Authorities released the tape Tuesday. The boy, sitting cross-legged in an overstuffed armchair, initially denied involvement in the shootings but later said he shot his already wounded father "because he was suffering." The two officers questioning the boy press him to tell the truth, with one saying at one point, "If you're not honest with me, if you're not truthful, it's not going to look good." The boy later appears to admit to shooting his father, saying, "After I shot him once he was still moving, I think I shot him again." He says on the tape he shot both men twice. Police released the first 12 minutes of the tape, which did not include the alleged confession, earlier Tuesday and released the remainder of the tape late Tuesday afternoon. Video Watch police interrogate the boy » The boy is charged with killing his father, Vincent Romero, 29, along with Tim Romans, 39, a man who rented a room in Romero's home in St. Johns, Arizona. Police have said the boy confessed to shooting the men with a .22-caliber handgun. At the end of the footage, the boy buries his face in his jacket as one...
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...5/2/2012 Police Innovations American policing over the last three decades has gone through many changes and innovations. Police and researchers try to create innovations in order to prevent or reduce crime. Following the white flight and the development of suburban towns, police started to switch from their standard practices to improve their procedures. This paper will explain and compare ten police innovations in order to show how police officers and researchers work to reduce crime. These innovations include problem-oriented policing, community policing, “broken windows” policing, Compstat, hot spots policing, “pulling levers” policing, evidence-based policing, third party policing, Intelligence-led policing, and predictive policing. In addition, it will contain a personal recommendation of which reform police agencies should implement. The paper will explain specific examples on how this reform will be helpful to police agencies. Police and scholars work to enhance reforms vigorously in order to decrease crime, assist with community needs, and prevent further delinquency. Certain police reforms provide more decision-making power to the individual beat officer, and problem-oriented police gives vast amounts of discretion to them. Problem oriented policing (POP) is a logical way of looking at the problem in policing. The POP reform works to understand and analyze crime and policing tactics to try to prevent the crime or at least manage to slow the frequency of the crime...
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...find a solution to all the street shootings that were happening around the Phoenix area. After narrowing my research question and basing it off my major in secondary education, I decided to incline more towards the protection of schools from rage shootings. I inclined to the protection of schools because in my first semester of college, I met new people who have suffered from this issue either by experiencing it personally or having heard about it. Realizing how much they have been affected and how they refuse to talk about it, I realized that similar to them, other students have been affected as well. I am curious to find an urgent and effective solution to prevent school shootings due to the fact that the issue of gun control is of extensive controversy....
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...within a residence who are supposed to look out for suspicious issues and incidents and report them to the police before anything happens (cityofboise.org, 2012). This helps in deterring potential crimes and offenders from committing their crimes. It ranges from block watch, community watch, home watch and citizen alert. Neighborhood crime prevention programs arose because of emphasis in the involvement of citizens in enhancing prevention of crime. It is one of the oldest programs of deterring crime in the United States. It was officially launched in 1972 where citizens were required to organize themselves and work with the police and other law enforcement authorities in deterring crime. Since its initiation, statistics have correlated it to safer neighborhoods. Overview of history and objectives In 1972, a model of neighborhood watch program was created by the National Sheriffs Association. It was in a search of a crime prevention program to address an increase in crime especially burglary (cityofboise.org, 2012). However, its development started towards the end of 1960s after the rape and death of Genovese where several neighbors were witnesses but did nothing to help their neighbor. This resulted in people forming groups to watch over their neighbors. Since then it has continued to grow across the country. Recently this year, it was emphasized even more after the shooting of a teenage boy by a man claiming to be on a neighborhood watch. He left his car to...
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...Schools are no longer a safe environment for children and teenagers in today`s world. On average, there are 13,000 deaths in the United States resulting from gun violence each year. 150,000 students have experienced a school shooting since the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, and that number continues to rise. It is obvious that something needs to change to protect children of all ages in schools, but this will not happen on its own. Everyone must get on board, students, parents, teachers, politicians, citizens, to implement better mental health care, education, and support, improved threat assessment protocol, and change gun laws and regulations. It should not be a battle to end students dying in schools; we all play a part in ending...
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