... give solutions to the problems from our short stories that I have read this week, and also criticize the authors" point of view. Furthermore, I am going to answer the questions being raised by the authors", by showing good solutions or points that I have found in some articles while I was researching ... do at Pg4 night. So far these meetings have lowered the amount of sport being done in there barrios". This same important idea about gang crimes is brought out in my first library article. This article, entitled "FEDS JOIN WAR ON GANGS" from the "Daily News of Los Angeles" on December17...

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... removed with my instruction by other officers on the scene. I then instruct my two assisting officers to interview surrounding neighbors and witnesses. With the community being a quiet and elderly environment I am almost positive that someone had to have heard or scene something to add to the report. Since the suspect has not yet been arrested on the scene and the incident ... planning of the scope and depth of the scene and the investigation. Once the scene briefing has been established I reconstruct the offense and try to analyze exactly what happened. Since I am the investigating off...

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... the justice system. An important question to address would be whether standard forms of prosecution would be better without the TRC's.? When a case is brought to trial, lawyers question people; no one speaks freely, especially not those on trial who usually just answer pre scripted questions by rote. Also, ... guaranteed by these trials, as is evident by Nuremburg. These forms of prosecution are perhaps necessary, but is this in itself enough? While I am in favor of conventional forms of criminal prosecution, again they do not encompass all aspects of true justice. So, though I agree with...

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... then to around 2,000 annually. The number of actual lawsuits filed in any given year is somewhat lower but still substantial. More than 3,000 State and Federal civil lawsuits were brought against the City of New York alleging police misconduct for the years 1992 through 1995. The number of cases actually disposed of in any given year is much lower, as ... now common police brutality in the city of New York. Excerpt from http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-idaho/2003-February/000107.html "My name is Davy Vara (Davy V.) I am a video producer/filmmaker in Rochester N.Y. In 2001 I...

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... reader into understanding the crucial role that capital punishment plays in the advancement and well being of our American culture. By When European settlers came to the new world, they brought the practice of capital punishment. The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608. Kendall was executed ... doubt? After all, the victim and his/her family members are the individuals who have been jeopardized. Thus, those arguing against capital punishment are solely taking the criminal into consideration. I am cer...

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... me and know that you will be dealt with in the after life and be judged by God himself, but there are no religious backings in the court system I Thatcher 2 Am not the one to tell you of an accurate penalty for this type of crime but capital punishment is the ultimate form of hypocrisy. Who are we any better to ... in a court system that is legalized so that makes putting someone to death just. What happens when the court system is wrong and there was tampered evidence or new evidence brought to the open after the death sentence has been carried out? The main flaw in capital punishment ...

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... or response due to the fact that the violation involves a different person or circumstance it is ethnically wrong. This behavior seems to actually strip our rights away from us. If I am going to get a ticket for something that the same officer didn't give another person a ticket for and there is no difference then that is wrong. It is wrong because according ... objects of law enforcement and social control rather than as citizens entitled to civil protections (Bass 8). Miranda v. Arizona and Escobedo v. Illinois are two cases that highlighted illicit police practices and brought them i...

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... they receive additional education? Do they receive counseling for aggression or anger management? Are we trying to rehabilitate them to be released into the community as productive citizens of society? I am afraid that the answers to these questions would be a weak affirmative. There are programs in place, but with overcrowding and lack of trained staff, they are ineffective and lacking in ... . It consisted of not institutionalizing juveniles for minor offenses, and never incarcerating juveniles with adult offenders. In the 1980's, the movement was more toward punishment for juvenile of...

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... 's case, both of the lifestyles of the girls who testified against him, Hannah Downes and Sally Chase, were used against the girls in court to demoralize their characters. The defense brought in witnesses for the sole purpose of testifying against the character of these girls. Two such witnesses were boys who accused Downes of being a "loose woman." Later, in the final ... inconsistencies shown in the discussed cases should give the reader a sense of the dynamic changes that law in the United States has undergone in these last 160 years. I, for one, am glad that the present United States...

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... Psyche Biology of AIDS Criminalizing AIDS (I would just like to say that this paper includes some of my thoughts, but is not completely my opinion. And that in some parts I am simply playing Devil'sAdvocate.) In Africa, some time in the 1950's the first person transmitted HIV to someone else. Thus starting a chain reaction, which quickly led to the infection of ... dollars to legal fees that could be better spent on AIDS programs such as prevention, education, and research and development in terms of finding a cure. Many innocent people would be brought to court and forced to deal with ...

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... treated for other goods. Racism existed long before the enlightenment period but it did begin to gather pace at this period. Philosophers such as David Hume 1753 for example wrote "I am apt to suspect the Negroes and in general all other species of men to be inferior to the whites". The knock on from comments like this is that throughout the ... prominence and was highly publicised which gained much needed attention to the problem of institutional racism. The results were shocking and did not look favourably on the police force, and brought the term institutional racism to the forefront...

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... common form being crucifixion (www.encyclopedia com/crucifixion). The country with the greatest impact on the American system of capital punishment is England. When settlers came across the Atlantic, they brought British Common Law with them, which allowed for capital punishment for crimes such as treason, heresy, and murder (Grant, 2004). The first recorded execution took place in Jamestown, Virginia in ... moral duty to defend the safety and security of their decent citizens and leaves them at the mercy of violent criminals, they are not being "civilized," they are being negligent. I ...

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... punishment would be senseless. He wrote: "destroying their lives for the sake of vengeance merely compounds one senseless act of destruction with another." I do not agree with that statement, but I am for rehabilitation. A homicide is a homicide no matter the case being 12 years old or a 30 year old. Killing someone is stealing a life and it will be never seen again. "The ... looked at the two children you wouldn't believe they would do anything so bad, but that just shows how surprising our world can be. Killing someone that raised you and brought you life? How could anyone think of su...

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