Police have a wide range of discretion in their multiple daily duties. ... There are different variables that seem to affect police discretion. ... The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department adopted a policy whereby it can classify police reports as secret, according to the Nevada Press Association (NPA). The NPA said that the department has broad discretion to list police officers" reports as "secret investigative files." ... These actions by the police against Latinos were a result of harsh police practices in Mexican neighborhoods. ...

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Another mishap by Dallas Police included the shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby in the basement of police headquarters. ... Hopefully these were not the real police officers (JFK movie) If this was not the authentic police force, the true cops must have been on the scene somewhere. ... Later secret service officials were interviewed and confirmed that at least 3 times as many men would have been on duty for the motorcade. ... I could only imagine why someone in the secret service, FBI, or police department would want to do that unless they had some sort of prior knowledge. ... The Secret S...

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A Secret War in America Battered women who kill their abusers should not get harsh punishment or the same punishment as other murderers. ... Police intervention rarely provides a woman any real, immediate protection. ... Police often fail to deal with domestic abuse adequately and often don't file reports or make arrests. Police take the men for a "cool-off walk around the block" and abusers believe they can get away with it. ... In most cases the police were called to the house several time before a battered women has killed her husband (Browne10-11). ...

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An example of intimidation in the novel is the Thought Police. The Thought Police are the secret police of Oceania. ... The Thought Police, "plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. ... The Thought Police are used to frighten people, which prevent them from committing thought crimes. ... The population lives in fear because they are scared of the consequences that will occur if they are caught by the Thought Police. ...

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The establishment of the secret police, the Okhrana was successful to an extent in preserving autocracy during 1855-1900 as they prevented earlier assassination attempts on the life of Tsar Alexander II but did not achieve complete control on revolutionary movements who used terror. ... However under the Soviet rule between 1917-1955, secret police institutions like that of the OGPU, NKVD, Cheka and Red army to an extent, were rather used to inflict terror on the Russian population to suppress opposition and preserve autocracy. ... Democracy was banned and a one-party police state was es...

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Stalinwhipped his people into shape by collectivizing agriculture, by police terror, and by destroying remnants of individual prosperity. ... Another item that is similar in both Animal Farm and Russia are the dogs and the secret police. ... Stalin trained his secret police to do his bidding whenever he issued an order. Stalin had his secret police kill between 60,000 to 70,000 people. ... Mass Grave Seen as Evidence of Massecure by Stalins Police. ...

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Stalin "whipped" his people into shape by collectivizing agriculture, by police terror, and by destroying remnants of individual prosperity. ... Another item that is similar in both Animal Farm and Russia are the dogs and the secret police. ... Stalin trained his secret police to do his bidding whenever he issued an order. Stalin had his secret police kill between 60,000 to 70,000 people. ... Mass Grave Seen as Evidence of Massecure by Stalins Police. ...

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Oswald was also declared the murderer of Police Patrolman J. ... The commission finished its report by recommending reform in presidential security measures, and it offered specific proposals to improve the Secret Service. ... It was a military style operation with many people on a need to know basis in order to keep the plot secret. ... There were men with Secret Service identification when officially there were not agents in the vicinity, cars roaming the area behind the famous grassy knoll with out of state license plates with extra radio antennas, an assortment of people pumping umbrel...

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They mainly suffered the persecution of police. In 1936, Heinrich Hammer, the leader of the German police in the Reich Ministry of Interior, gave orders to the police that the freedom of Gypsies should be restricted. ... The 'Euthanasia' Program for Children Hitler organized in 1933, a top-secret committee, called the Kef, Kinsley des Fuehrer, to head this program. ... The SS, Gestapo, and the police provided most of the medicine needed. ...

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For her son's health growing, she kept all the things as a secret. ... If I can, I want to kill the police instead of Selma. (I think I should add an instruction about this police. ... Selma wanted to console him so that she told him her secret. They promised that they will keep the secret for each other. ...

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He tells the police that he has visions of the rapes and murders. ... Secret tests were done on the suspect for these crimes, Ronald Lott. ... Years later a secret element in the District Attorney's decision to drop all charges against Miller was revealed. ... The Charleston Gazette wondered if there was a dark secret hidden behind the fast big payoff. ... These are the words that appellate courts use to absolve police officers and prosecutors of misconduct (pg 171)." ...

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If they do, then the shoplifter is arrested and prosecuted by police or store personal so they can take the thief to Jail. ... How do the Thought Police compare to undercover cops and secret agents? ... Right when they"re making the final deal, the teams of police swarm in, arresting the Jon and all of his accomplices. The Thought Police, like Mr. ... Nobody ever knew who the Thought Police were until it was too late. ...

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The Junior Spy League is a Party-run organization that takes children and educates them in the ways of the Party and then uses them to spy on people and if they notice anything out of the ordinary to report it to the Thought Police. ... Parents live in fear daily that their kids will betray them to the Thought Police and they will be arrested. ... By torturing someone you can force them to reveal their deepest secrets and you can also commit them to a cause and make them believe something they didn't originally believe in. ...

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To what extent does The Secret Agent operate in a grey rather than a black and white moral universe? ... Throughout The Secret Agent Conrad uses the ironic mode, a fact he was conscious about and satisfied with its success. ... So far The Secret Agent has provided us with one vision of a black-and-white morality, yet it is a morality unavailable to the adult human being. ... Though Conrad's insight does seem to criticise the Professor we can see that it is not entirely unreasonable, as ultimately it provides us with an indication of the moral structure of The Secret Agent. ... Throu...

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Heinrich Himmler of chief of Hitler's secret police, recruited farmer/member of the SS, Rudolf Hoss, for a special job. ... It was used as a place to experiment with torture, where the Police summary court was located, and also where the original Auschwitz executions were carried out. ... I learned through this book that there were other companies such as Bayer who used Auschwitz as an opportunity to secretly run experiments, that were unfit for even animals. ...

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In some cities, Bologna for example, the Fascists were the police force. ... In the next few years Mussolini set up a secret police force, the OVRA, and built concentration camps on the Lipari Islands for his opponents. ... A secret police force crushes any resistance. ...

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Children use television to visit the worlds beyond their doors and to live vicariously through the lives of police, doctors, secret agents and family life sometimes better than the one the children are living in. ... Even if a child does watch a violent cartoon or show they might also watch a show on doctors or police and want to become a cop or doctor when they get older not act violently just because they saw it on a show. ... Violence has had the opposite affect on me because while others watch the police shows or movies and see the violence I see the police helping people and trying to cat...

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This resulted in the members of Sinn Fein being forced to operate the Dail in secret and underground. ... They came down hard on those who enforced British rule, the RIC and their secret police branch, the G-Men. ... The reinforcements were to become known and notoriously feared as the Black and tans due to their mismatched military and police uniforms. The Black and Tans were officially registered as a police force but in fact acted like a military unit and at times like a gang of thugs. ... This lead to the committing of numerous atrocities such as the Croke Park massacre where Black and Tan...

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Stalin had a small group of individuals who he entrusted with his personal secrets. Stalin was afraid of these secrets getting out. ... Stalin had one major political secret that would contradict everything that he had stated throughout his reign. It was that he was employed by the late Russian Czar as part of an elite police force in Moscow (Terror 2). ... To guard these camps Stalin employed 107,000 special police. ...

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INTERNET REGULATION: POLICING CYBERSPACE The Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming more popular among those who are interested in, and have the time to surf the information superhighway. ... The government must police the Internet because people are breaking laws. "Right now, cyberspace is like a neighborhood without a police department."10 Currently anyone can put anything he wants on the Internet with no penalties. ... "Cybercops especially worry that outlaws are now able to use powerful cryptography to send and receive uncrack...

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He wanted it to be "The World's Greatest Secret, Social, Patriotic, Fraternal, Beneficiary Order." ... Court cases were biased; police officers allowed violence to take place, and many stations became corrupt. ... As nearby blacks saw this happening, they notified a police officer that did nothing. The African Americans then attacked the police officer. ...

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The point in the film when the McManus brothers realized they should take the law into their own hands was in a scene at the police station. ... He works for the Boston Italian mafia, but is just a package boy albeit he knows every detail and secrets about everyone. ... He's a gay FBI agent who comes to Boston to work with the Boston Police Department to discover who is committing these crimes. ... He knows he is better than the Boston Police Department. ...

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In 1929 their Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground, the police ruled the fire an accident. ... The police also ruled this an accident, the Little's, however, strongly believed both instances were no accident. ... The rise of the NOI caused infiltration from the FBI which included secretly placed bugs, wiretaps, cameras and other surveillance equipment to monitor the group's activities. At the peak of the civil rights movement Malcolm's faith in the NOI was crushed when he discovered Elijah Muhammad (whom he considered a living prophet) was se...

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The members of this group planned to ship guns secretly into Hong Kong and take control of government offices, by killing the officials. ... The plan was leaked and the plan was abandoned. 1896: Kidnapping Sun escaped from the police out of Japan yet while he was in London, during 1986. ... In 1899 a secret society of Chinese called the Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known by the westerners as Boxers, began a campaign of terror against Christian missionaries in the northeastern provinces. ... Police opened fire in the group killing many of them. ...

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Just one time I did see the doctor in secret and she said I must go to the hospital. ... Studies proved that in Queensland from 1 January 1998 to 31 August 1998 there were a total of 36 homicides with 17 of these being domestic episodes (QPS Operational Police Statistics 1998). ... If the perpetrator breaches the order in any way, the police can intervene and the guilty party can be either fined up to $6000 or imprisoned for up to 18 months. ... Under the law as it stood the police were reluctant to interfere in domestic relationships and an abused partner now has a method to seek help indep...

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