NYPD, A City and its Police is a book about the development of the New York City Police Department from the early 1800s to the new millennium. ... This book provides insight into the world of New York City policemen. ... From 1894 to 1897, he served as the police commissioner for New York City. ... Roosevelt extended the area outside of New York City to allow anyone within the state of New York to become officers. ... At this point, Becker then started a relationship with Herman Rosenthal, another New York City gambler. ...

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The Mission of New York City Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in our city by working in partnership with the community and in accordance with constitutional rights to enforce the laws, preserve the peace, reduce fear, and provide for a safe environment" ( Official N.Y.P.D Web). ... New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) ed.Sep 28 2014. ... NYC: City of New York, 2014. ... "City Police Officers Will Start Using Body Cameras in Pilot Program." New York Times 05 Sept. 2014: A19+. ...

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Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second-largest urban area in the nation. ... Los Angeles County is the nation's largest manufacturing center, and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are second only to New York as the largest customs district in the United States. Los Angeles is by far larger than most cities, with a population of 3,598,252. ... Normally, when a police recruit graduates from the Police Academy, he/she is assigned to a geographic patrol division within the City and is considered as a probationary officer and placed under the supervision of a hi...

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An officer smashed his head through a plate glass window, when Brock refused to go into the officer's lunchroom (Police Brutality and Excessive Force in the New York City Police Department 14). ... He was handcuffed, thrown to the floor, repeatedly kicked, and beaten with the officer's nightstick (Police Brutality and Excessive Force in the New York City Police Department 17). ... All of these victims mentioned are from minority groups, and were harmed by white New York City police officers. In less than four years fifty -five people have died while in being in police custody, in the...

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Serving your country, city, community and family along with the people around you is very important. ... With a lot of thought and consideration I am aspiring to become a New York City police officer. ... Even if they weren't cops most of the men and women in my family have obtained city jobs and jobs that served others such as Sanitation department, teachers, long shore men the military and so on. ... There is also a very small chance that I would ever be laid off not matter how bad the city is economically. ... This is the path I have chosen and I will follow it till the end, with...

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On May 6, 1992, six New York City police officers and one retired NY police officer were arrested in a five-month undercover drug operation. ... When police questioned the driver of the car, Carol Bayless, she said she had made at least 20 round-trips from Michigan to New York since 1991 to ferry drugs. ... To continue, in most cities, police departments have gotten more diverse than they've ever been. ... And citizen concern has prompted mayors or city councils to replace the man at the top, the police chief. ... In Philadelphia, as well as in other cities, the public has overwhelmingly ...

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According to a study by the New York Civil Liberties Union, New York residents are secretly being videotaped on public streets, housing projects, outside buildings, and even in their backyards, through the use of hidden surveillance cameras. New York Police Commission Howard Safir believes the use of surveillance cameras will reduce the crime rate. ... New York and the District of Columbia are not the only jurisdictions to institute the use of surveillance cameras in their proposals to reduce crime. Officials in Portland, Oregon have installed surveillance cameras on city transit buses. .....

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In a report done by New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) for the first half of the year in 1997 it is seen that white America seems to rarely if ever be on the receiving end of police brutality. ...

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New York also has its share of police brutality cases. ... Although a few details have emerged since then, the story has shocked New York's and triggered national protests. ... The 19 bullets that hit the young man, a soft spoken street vendor from Guinea, have cast a shadow over the record of a republican mayor who has won national audits for greatly reducing crime in the nations largest city and who harbors ambition for higher office. The number of police shooting in New York is down city officers fired 856 shots in 1998, compared with 1,040 the year before, a...

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Juan Gonzalez a reporter for the New York Daily News wrote about an incident that involved two Latinos and members of the New York police force. ... The fact that minorities are taken over blue collared cities is making America sick. ... "With minorities and immigrants now a majority in most of the nation's big cities, it is no surprise that the rise of law-and-order politicians parallels the coming to power, in both the Democratic and Republican parties, of anti-urban interests based in suburbia" (Gonzalez 495). ...

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Criminal Justice professor, and author of "Don't Shoot, One Man, A Street Fellowship, And The End of Violence in Inner-City America" believes in the second method. Kennedy has spent the last twenty years trying to stop inner-city violence, and his methods are much different from many others. ... His strategy, in fact, cut homicide rates in the city of Boston up to as much as 66 percent. This very program, now nicknamed "The Boston Miracle" due to the astonishing drop-off rates, has been adopted by over 70 different major cities in the United States today. ... In the di...

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Murrah building in Oklahoma City in 1995. ... Another example of a vigilance committee was in the early to mid twentieth century with the rise of the Italian Mafia in New York and other large cities. ... For example, let us say there is an Italian American person living in New York City in Hell's Kitchen, and they were just robbed by another person. ...

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Murrah building in Oklahoma City in 1995. ... Another example of a vigilance committee was in the early to mid twentieth century with the rise of the Italian Mafia in New York and other large cities. ... For example, let us say there is an Italian American person living in New York City in Hell's Kitchen, and they were just robbed by another person. ...

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The station itself is very casual, with the officers sitting around drinking cups of coffee, as opposed to their busy city counterparts, in shows such as Water Rats. ... In the opening credits, camera angles are used to exaggerate the big high school and large surrounding city. ... The appearance of black and white characters imitates Boston, a downtown New York suburb. ...

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For the first time there was "organized" Crime developing throughout major cities. ... For example, in New York City police officers were personally Accepting bribes, gambling and bootlegging. ...

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According to the study performed by the State University of New York at Buffalo, police officers are 10 percent more likely to die of any cause, 25 percent more likely to die of cancer, and 50 percent more likely to die of cirrhosis of the liver than the general population (Woolston, 2000, para.14)... A New York City study showed that 58% of police took there own life in New York City, as a result from relationships pro...

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History: In the 1970's the Knapp Commission was created by New York City's mayor, John V. ... One of the earliest documented stories of police corruption was by the New York Times in 1970. ...

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"The Baddest Dog in Harlem" was published in 2001 and takes places in Harlem, New York. ... This is a great parallel to 41 shots by Bruce Springsteen as the song is about the shooting of New York City cops that combined fired a total of 41 shots, which 19 of struck Diallo who was unarmed. ...

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This is the same situation that police officers were in, in 1988, when they had to try to break up the drug pipe line that existed between Florida and New York. They knew that the drugs were coming from Colombian and Hispanic countries, being transported to Florida and then up to New York. ... "Under present laws and public attitudes drug control is a highly volatile issue, and the publics in most cities are split on the opinions of where, how, why, to whom, and when drug enforcement should take place- (Manning 273). ...

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It is based loosely on former deputy police commissioner of New York, Jack Maple, who was known for his oversized ego, and brilliant policing techniques (www.tvguide.com). ... The interesting aspect of this show that was different from all the other shows we watched in class, is that there is a lot political bureaucracy involved and Mannion has to do more than just help to keep the city safe, he also has to fight the press and his superiors, mainly the mayor, to keep his job. ... This makes sense when you look at where this show is set because Washington D.C. is a very diverse city, and that...

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