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The inability of the police to report crimes because of political purposes is disturbing. The fact that Mayor Bloomberg would try to make himself and his city look better by underreporting on crime is a very disingenuous type of leadership: it indicates that people should lie and falsify claims in order to make the situation look better than it is. This is not how communities are transformed for the better, however. The police have a duty to serve and protect, and if the community feels it is not being served by them or is being underserved (because their issues are not being reported—such as shootings, assaults, attempted rapes and so on) then why is the community going to trust the police or its leadership? By urging the police to not report on so many crimes, the Mayor is undermining his own authority as well as that of the police department. It is evidence of a moral corruption within the authority structure and that corruption will trickle out in unwanted ways. This article is a reminder that it is always better to face facts and the reality of the situation than to try to mask that reality for political purposes or for personal reasons. People are not generally deceived by the facts on the ground and they can see with their own eyes what is happening—and that is bad for the relationship between the community and the police. Police have a duty to be not only good representatives of law and order, they also should set the bar for how people should behave. They should be exemplary citizens and show respect to all people, especially if they themselves want to be respected by the community. Stories like this just make one think that police officers want to be feared rather than respected. This officer clearly went beyond his mandate when he began to assault a citizen. That is why he is going to jail. And while I am sorry for his time that he will have to serve behind bars, it just shows that police need to have a better culture established for themselves. Officers who act like this are not well cultivated. Perhaps he was having a bad day, perhaps he was a bit off. Five years does seem like an excessive amount of time, so I wonder if there is not more to this case than meets the eye. Is the prosecutor trying to send a message to other officers? There is a lot of politics involved in these decisions that I feel should be left out as well. It is an unfortunate case all the way around.
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This type of story is not one I like because the details are sketchy and it involves a lot of “he said, she said.” What really happened? Did the senator get involved in a fight that he did not…
Based on the foregoing considerations, it is suggested that the DCMP restructure their existing training programs and administration so that a more unified and centralized plan is in place, as well as providing for better instructor qualifications, evaluation, learning retention and more efficient and effective use of resources which are by definition scarce. These broad general issues were refined for the purposes of this study into the research questions stated
Hybrid Gangs in South Florida On Public Policy towards Volatile Movements South Florida has an increasing prevalence of criminal gangs in their communities and it is posing a growing threat to their security and safety. It is clear that in that region criminal hybrid gangs are spreading violence and fear in their neighborhoods making places like their parks unusable, and even bringing corrupt behavior passages to work and school, stopping legitimate businesses
Justice, Crime and Ethics Prepping the President: Ethical Analysis and Future Policy Initiatives Suggesting the Use of Rehabilitation in Corrections The President of the United States has just scheduled a town hall meeting entitled, "Criminal Justice Ethics: Today's News and Tomorrow's Solutions." Many of the country's most interested individuals in the field of criminal justice's present ethical issues are attending the meeting and expect to be informed on the status of some of
College?) It's become a widely recognized fact. College is expensive, and saddles students with lifelong debts. Moreover, observation shows that people learn very little in college and that knowledge and talent in a field may be unrelated to the degrees that one has. There's a simple solution to this problem: the youth of this nation should refuse to go to colleges where they will be saddled with debt and useless
" According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). A "national security letter" (NSL) is basically a written demand by the FBI or other federal law enforcement agencies for a group or organization to turn over records or data or documents, with no warrant attached to the demand. They are given out without probably cause or any justice-related back-up, and have been used extensively since the Patriot Act; they are
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