New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York Police Department have defended the method, however, claiming that it has helped get guns off the streets and decreased the number of homicides. ... A class-action lawsuit was filed against New York City for what plaintiffs called "unlawful stop and frisk practices and racial profiling by police officers". ... The City of New York et al. (1999) was brought to the Center for Constitutional Rights in the wake of the Diallo shooting and the City agreed to a settlement on December 12, 2003. ... Alluding back to my thesis question of ...

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New York, for instance, has had more than a half dozen major scandals in its police department this century. ... However, in May 1992 Michael Dowd and four other New York officers and one former officer were arrested for drug trafficking by police in Long Island. ... Not only had some of their cops become robbers, but also the crimes had to be uncovered by a suburban police force, which proved to be very embracing to the City of New York. ... To find out, at the time, New York City mayor David Dinkins established the Mollen Commission, named for its chairman, Milton Mollen, a former New York j...

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Bloomberg's heavy emphasis on eliminating gun trafficking, and New York's crack-down in general, eight of their own police force members were arrested and charged with accepting bribes in return for illegally transporting firearms into the state. The corrupt group was comprised of five officers currently on the force, three who previously retired, a New Jersey correction officer, a former New York City Sanitation Department police officer, and two other unidentified men. ... In October of 2010, Officer Masso's illegal operation began slowly with carting cigarettes into New Yor...

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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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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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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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An example of a current disparity related situations is Ferguson Missouri and New York City when time and time again a white police officer either gunned down and African American or choked another African American resulting in his death. ...

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Progression in the middle ages led to "watchmen", in cities in Europe. ... New York city was the first to organize the first modern police force in 1844, based on the English Metropolitan Police. ... Officers must deal with complaints, giving out general information, helping people who are locked out of their homes, being police escorts, delivering death messages, performing house and business checks, and assisting other city agencies, are more responsibilities of an officer. ...

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Description of the Problem America is the most diverse nation in the world. In this diverse nation one would assume that equality would exist. However it does not, especially in the Criminal Justice System. Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System results from the dissimilar treatment of sim...

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Shocking headlines such as, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," from Ferguson, Missouri, and, "I Can't Breathe," from an officer involved shooting in New York have now become the norm. ... The Advantages of Hiring and Retaining Women in Law Enforcement Female Officers are Less Likely to Use Excessive Force On April 25, 1991, Timothy Egan of the New York Times was quoted as saying the following: Police work used to be like a laborer's job the only requirement was that you had to be tough. ... When these statistics are compared to the 12.7% representation of sworn women, ...

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"In most cities, police are breaking down doors without search warrants, stopping and searching anyone they choose on the sidewalk or street, harassing and arresting young people for wearing "gang colors" or for "drug loitering," threatening and abusing anyone who questions them, and refusing to supply their badge numbers upon request" (Dority, 178). ... The officers responsible for Diallo's death were part of New York Police Department's "elite" Street Crime Unit. ...

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