Issues of police brutality are prominent in today's day and age not only because of the media's need to create a story out of everything mildly out of the ordinary, but also because there are many police officers in today's force that still have not accepted the ideas of racial equality. ... In class, discretion was discussed in the context of police officers letting certain perpetrators go free after certain points in the legal system. ...

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The death penalty costs California $90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - $78 million of that total in incurred at the trial level (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988). ... Member Ted Gausmann state, "First, we must understand the context of this verse. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. " The right for of all Americans to bear arms is a right even the Founding Fathers held to equal importance as the Constitution itself. Whether or not gu...

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Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). ...

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