...Chief Davis, by all accounts, appeared to have mastered the external role of a police executive as outlined by Cordner (2014). He was able to identify people who shared his vision and could represent him and the department well. He was a persuasive communicator when it came to dealing with community. He understood the importance of making his intentions clear and backing them up with facts to help others make informed decisions. There was little written about his internal activities, though there was mention of some internal issues surrounding dispatchers and shift bid process. I believe Chief Davis had an understanding of both managing and leadership; and demonstrated it not only to the department staff, but also the community and city leadership....
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...a discreditable record for police brutality and many incidents were reported to the department Internal Affairs Division and the Office of Municipal Investigations. Some officers were charged for using excessive force towards victims, sometimes without adequate cause, and some suspects died while in the custody of police. The New Orleans Police Department has a history of police brutality cases including the case of Robert Davis. Robert Davis, a retired elementary school teacher and a resident of New Orleans was detained, arrested, and beaten by four white police officers on October 9, 2005 on notion of public intoxication. Davis was 64 years old at the time of the incident and was charged with public intoxication, resisting arrest, battery, and public intimidation which he pled not guilty to all charges. Upon hearing the charges Davis stated, “I haven’t had a drink in twenty five years.” The officers were charged with battery and the use of severe force. All officers were released on bond after making an appearance before the judge, pleading not guilty. African American Police Chief Warren Riley stated that he did not believe race was a issue in the beating....
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...This case, in which Troy Davis was convicted of and executed for the murder of Mark MacPhail regardless of the lack of evidence and importance of doubt, drew international attention. We believe this case is not a question of “guilt” or “innocence”. It is important to keep in mind that no physical evidence was shown to the jury and the murder weapon never found. The case built against Troy Davis rested exclusively on witness testimony. Most of the key witnesses at Davis's trial withdrew or modified their testimony in sworn affidavits but these recantations were not taken into account because, as stated one of the panel-judges, “two of the witnesses had not changed their recollections” and there was “no DNA evidence was available to categorically clear Troy Davis”. Nine affidavits, containing evidence implicated another suspect, were written after the trial. In fact, one of the two witnesses who did not recant his testimony was this suspect. Regardless of the lack of evidence and serious doubt, Davis was sentenced to death and executed. Was the execution warrant setting Troy Davis’ execution unconstitutional?...
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...Oral Arguments in Supreme Court for Vance v. Ball State University were given on November 26th, 2012. The hearing begins with the Chief Justice Roberts and the Petitioner Maetta Vance’s attorney David R. Ortiz. Chief Justice and Mr. Ortiz go back and forth for the first five minutes before Justice Alito has an opportunity to enter the legal match. Roberts defined the case and set the pace immediately. His tone is firm without reliving a preference at all. Alito’s interruption is exactly aligned to the Chief Justice. First impressions are of guarded Justice that have second thoughts of this case on the docket. These first impressions are confirmed by just another Justice, but this time from one usually not in such alignment. Justice Ruth Ginsburg...
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...Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise ofjudicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams as Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia but whose commission was not subsequently delivered. Marbury petitioned the Supreme Court to force the new Secretary of State James Madison to deliver the documents. The Court, with John Marshall as Chief Justice, found firstly that Madison's refusal to deliver the commission was both illegal and remediable. Nonetheless, the Court stopped short of compelling Madison (by writ of mandamus) to hand over Marbury's commission, instead holding that the provision of the Judiciary Act of 1789 that enabled Marbury to bring his claim to the Supreme Court was itself unconstitutional, since it purported to extend the Court's original jurisdiction beyond that which Article III established. The petition was therefore denied. McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing...
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...Employee Retention Executive Leadership BY: Michael D. Jackson Assistant Fire Chief Department of the Air Force Mercury NV An applied research paper submitted to the National Fire Academy as part of the Executive Fire Officer Program March 1999 2 ABSTRACT Over the last five years (1993-1998), twenty-one members of the Range Complex Fire Department (RCFD) have left for various reasons. The problem is that because of a reduced personnel budget the department has not been allowed to replace all of the members that have left. The ensuing reduction in staffing has resulted in a fire station closure and a reduction in customer service. Operationally this reduction has resulted in increased response times, reductions of vehicle staffing and increases in overtime. The purpose of this paper was to identify why personnel were leaving the department and to suggest ways to improve employee retention. Descriptive and evaluative research methods were utilized to answer the following research questions: 1. 2. 3. Why have members left the Range Complex Fire Department? In general, why do employees leave the fire organizations they work for? What does the upper management team of the RCFD believe are the reasons personnel are leaving the department? 4. What retention programs are used by other federal fire departments? To identify why employees were leaving the RCFD nine interviews were conducted with former employees that had left the department in the last five years. A literature...
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...Swan-Davis, Inc. Executive Summary We were assigned the task of analyzing Swan Davis’ capital value based on their current market performance. Currently, Swan Davis’ capital is comprised of bonds and equity. They have two types of bonds. Bond A is a highly liquid bond last priced at $1092 but has a fair market value of $813 due to the fact that the ratings of Swan Davis’ bonds decreased from A to BB. Bond B is an illiquid bond that was last priced at $850 but again due to the ratings of their bonds and that it is illiquid the fair value is actually $404. Swan Davis has preferred stock and common equity. Their preferred stock currently traded for $97 with dividend of $8.25. The after-tax return to investors for preferred stock was 1.53% for corporations and 5.13% for individuals. The cost of equity for common stock was 16.17% and 16.08% respectively. Valuation of capital is based on a number of factors such has ROE, debt management ratios and projected earnings growth just to name a few. These have to be calculated using current markets rates to determine if SDI’s performance aligns with the price that the market has valued it at. The methods used to calculate these figures may vary internally and externally given the information used in calculating them. Swan Davis’ performance has fluctuated given the level of competition and unstable profits. Although that may be they have managed keep their investors afloat with steady returns on equity. Their B bonds should be...
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...| | | A Historical Critique of Homosexual Exclusions from the Armed Forces using the concepts of Michel Foucault From 1989 to 1999, the time period of the Clinton Administration, a homosexual force entered the American consciousness. Court cases and rhetoric of the 80s incited a discourse in which homosexuality was "re-articulated, re-negotiated, and unmistakably re-repressed" (Davis 3). Supreme Court judgment and actions taken by Congress with the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy exemplify theories of sexuality and power expressed in the philosophies of Michel Foucault. Foucault was a French-born philosopher historian. He examined social institutions such as medicine, psychiatry, the prison system, and the human sciences in general. Specifically he focused on how these institutions relate to power interactions. For a time he was associated with structuralism, which is an intellectual movement in which the culture of humanity is semiotically analyzed. However he distanced himself from the structuralism movement after the 60s. He wrote on a wide array of topics from knowledge to power and discourse. He considered himself "Nietzschean" (Fox 169). In viewing his own system of philosophy this way, he rejected the postmodernist label attributed to him. In fact, he held that his work was in line with the modernity of the philosophies of...
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...The Supreme Court held that it didn’t matter whether Connor acted in good faith or not, because the use of force must be judged based on a non-subjective rationale. This is why there are limits to what an officer can do to any suspect. Any single individual walking across the street may be a criminal, but without the appropriate processing the police-force could end up arresting or injuring innocent civilians. When the situation warrants the use of excessive or deadly force then by law, the police-force should exercise their responsibility to use such forces. (Case Law for Cops, 2003, Section-Graham v. Connor, para....
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...liberties largely revolves around the provisions of the Bill of Rights (Baker, 2003). This paper discusses Chief Justices Earl Warren and William Rehnquist’s significant decisions and the effects they had on the balance between social order maintenance and individual liberties. Warren versus Rehnquist Courts Earl Warren held the position of Chief Justice between 1953 and 1969. He led a liberal majority, who utilized the judicial authority to consternate their conservative opponents. The Warren Court promoted the federal power, judicial power, civil liberties, and civil rights in a dramatic fashion. The Rehnquist Court, on the other hand, took a conservative approach in criminal justice (Pollak, 1979). The most significant case that the Warren Court decided with regard to civil liberties was Brown v Board of Education of Copeka, Kansas (1954). The court unanimously ruled that there is no place for the doctrine of separate but equal doctrine in the sphere of public education. The Warren Court demonstrated its value for liberalism and activism. The view of the Warren Court was that states are a hindrance in the enhancement of a just nation. In the sphere of criminal procedure and law enforcement, Chief Justice Earl Warren’s Court was associated with four chief cases: Terry v Ohio (1968), Miranda v Arizona (1966), Gideon v Wainwright (1963), and Mapp v Ohio (1961). These four cases establish the foundation for the application of the principle referred to as the ‘exclusionary rule’...
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...Tomorrow's Products Internal Correspondence To: Mr. T.J. Cerrillo From: De'Lisa L. Davis Subject: Companies Financial Statement Analysis BYP2-8 Date: September 17, 2013 Mr. Cerrillo, as the new Chief executive officer of Tomorrows Products, the Accounting Department would like to welcome you to the company. We would also like to stress how important it is for our company financial statements to be accurate as possible for our Board of Directors meetings at the end of every month. As the Chief Financial Officer, I would like to extend any help from the Accounting Department to assist you at anytime you feel you have any discrepancies in our statements. The owner brought to my attention in our last board of directors meeting that you were having minor issues with the reports; I want to setup a meeting with you to show you specific tools that you can use to analyze the companies financial statements. I would like to point out the three main ratio analysis we use for analysis of primary financial statements, the profitability, liquidity, and solvency ratios. Profitability ratios measure the income or operating success of a company for a given period of time. For example, from the last income statement I emailed to you Wednesday, you will notice that the companies sales increased by net income decreased during the period. To evaluate the companies profitability we will use ratio analysis. The liquidity ratio measures the short term ability of the company...
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...situation is escalated. Today, there is much scrutiny of excessive force, corruption and brutality within our local police departments and among law officials. According to Sir Robert Peel’s first principle, the main goal and accomplishment for the police is to hinder disorder and criminal offenses (New Westminster Police Department, 2013). It is of the police ethics and duty of not wavering by one’s threats or any type of language, especially offensive. The advantage of displaying such ethical behavior is in the event that the police needs any help the by-standers and/or witnesses will be more willing to assist the officer (Ethics, n.d., para. 3). There are too many police-involved shootings and in many cases, the victims or suspects are unarmed. For instance, a case in Jacksonville, FL where a man was moving and fumbling around in his car when he was pulled over for a traffic stop. The officer shot the man six times...
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...08 Fall 08 Fall Director of Immigration v. Chong Fung Yuen has caused a series of problems in Hong Kong. In order to resolve the problems, there are three alternatives. First, requesting the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) to interpret the relevant articles of Hong Kong Basic Law by government officials or courts. Second, the Court of Final Appeal (CFA) rules the case again. Third way is to amend the basic law. These resolutions will be analyzed based on the effects on Hong Kong in the aspect of the constitutional framework, rule of law and separation of power. The Hong Kong constitutional framework bases on basic law. Though “One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) and high autonomy is ensured by the PRC, there are still restrictions, e.g. the removal of chief executive can only be performed if he is not able to discharge his duties or refusal of passing the budget for consecutive times after dissolution of Legislative Council (Legco), by Article 52. While the Chinese government has the powers to remove a chief executive, by Article 73(9), removal of chief executive must be “reported” to the Chinese Government. According to Dicey, the rule of law contains three elements: absence of arbitrary power, equality before the law, and supremacy of ordinary law. For Unger, autonomy is essential for the rule of law system, with no interference of externally factors. For Lord Bingham, it includes eight elements. One of the most important one is that different...
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...3 RUNNING HEAD: INTELLIGENT DESIGN Intelligent Design Paper James L. Jones CRJ 311 Forensics Mrs. Rebecca Nieman Nov 17, 2012 Good evening everyone. My name is Mr. James Jones the superintendent of the El Paso County school district and the topic that I will be discussing in today’s speech is the concern of thought of being intelligent design into the school system. The intelligent design movement is a neo-creationist religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the idea of intelligent design, which asserts that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not a possibly undirected process such as natural selection. Its chief activities are a campaign to promote public awareness of this concept, the lobbying of policymakers to include its teaching in high school science classes, and legal action, either to defend such teaching or to remove barriers otherwise preventing it. The movement arose out of the previous Christian fundamentalist and evangelistic creation science movement in the United States, and is driven by a small group of proponents. The overall goal of the intelligent design movement is to overthrow materialism and atheism. Its proponents believe that society has suffered devastating cultural consequences from adopting materialism and that science is the cause of the decay into materialism because it seeks only natural explanations, and is therefore atheistic...
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...Native Americans, Struggles, Mascots, and Controversy There has been a national debate for years over Native American athletic mascots. “Members of the North Carolina Mascot Education and Action Group and the Guilford Native American Association, however, repeatedly told us that they perceived the use of Indian mascots, logos, caricatures, and similar images by our schools as a clear form of institutional racism” (Grier 2005: 51). In this paper we will discuss the controversial impact of the Native American stereotype used as mascots. In the early 1900’s when the threat of colonization was abolished Americans started to use the Native American mascot to show their acknowledgement of their struggles. Although this was symbolic it has been an ongoing controversy within schools and sports. California is the second highest state that uses the most Native American imagery and symbols. The importance of this contemporary issue is an ongoing debate in California that has impacted the true history of Native Americans and the battles they went through. The truth is crucial because their imagery and interpretation is misunderstood in American history. In the early 1900’s it became acceptable to use Native American imagery for advertisement. “One of the reasons why most Americans find the mascots unremarkable and do not turn a critical eye toward the mascots is because of the prevalence of similar images throughout U.S. popular culture” (King, et al 2002:391). Although years later...
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