It is no secret that police officers have a tough job. ... Society assumes police officers are strong and tough, and the same stigma is found within the walls of any police station. The increase of suicides committed by police officers is a call for help. ... Alcohol abuse has contributed to suicides by police officers. ... It is unknown why police services across Canada are not fighting the 'code of silence' and mandating annual counseling for police officers. ...

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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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As child, Alfred Hitchcock had a run in with the police in which changed his prospective on author and, the law. At the age of 5, his father told Alfred to go to the police and, hand the officer a note. After, arriving at the police station Alfred was placed inside a jail cell for only a few minutes. ... The film starts with a murder of a secret agent. An innocent man during his visit in London trying to prevent a secret to go out is framed for murder of a beautiful woman in his flat. ...

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As child, Alfred Hitchcock had a run in with the police in which changed his prospective on author and, the law. At the age of 5, his father told Alfred to go to the police and, hand the officer a note. After, arriving at the police station Alfred was placed inside a jail cell for only a few minutes. ... The film starts with a murder of a secret agent. An innocent man during his visit in London trying to prevent a secret to go out is framed for murder of a beautiful woman in his flat. ...

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Lenin introduced the Cheka the Russian secret police similar to the SS. ... A secret police force was established much like the Cheka and the SS as the threat of counter-revolution grew so did the measures of the secret police. In 1951-2 the police set-up a mass movement to eliminate the threat. ...

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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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Although there is a flip side, one prime example of this is the Royal Commission into police corruption in recent years. ... Jonathan Schmitz, 24, says he had no idea that Scott Amedure, 32, a neighbour of his, was his secret admirer until he walked on stage during the filming of the show. The distributor of the show says that he was "fully briefed" and forewarned that his "secret admirer could be a man or a woman." What is interesting is that the producers knew the secret admirer could not be a woman because the entire guest list was composed of men. ... Police say he became angry and went ...

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Pip quickly assumes that Miss Havisham is the secret benefactor but Mr. ... Contrary to his belief, Magwitch explains that he is Pip's secret benefactor not Miss Havisham. ... Pip is appalled, but he agrees to help Magwitch escape from both the police and Compeyson, his former partner in crime. ... When the escape is attempted, Magwitch and Pip are discovered by the police, who have received a tip from Compeyson. ... Behind the scenes, he becomes Pip's secret benefactor, funding his education and lavish lifestyle in London through his lawyer Mr. ...

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It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." ... These gangs would run speakeasy's (secret bars), brothels, casinos and other ventures that made them more than enough money to do anything they wanted. ... Violence became a daily occurrence all over the country, 227 gangsters were killed in the space of 4 years, and on St Valentine's Day, 1929, 7 members of the O'Banion gang were shot dead by gangsters dressed as police officers (Prohibition and the Gangsters). ... This takes time away from the real purpose of police a...

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Also, Trujillo's dictatorship was hegemonic instead of systemic since him and his secret police dominantly controlled everything. ... In her work, Alvarez informs her readers about Trujillo's secret police force known as the SIM, the disregarded civil liberties for Haitian immigrants, the complications encountered with trying to leave the country, and even the importance of privacy and dangers of being suspicioned for rebelling against the regime of Trujillo's rule. ... In Alvarez's novel, "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," her chapter on The Blood of the Conquistad...

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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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Kennedy secretly blamed the CIA for the disaster, while the CIA secretly blamed Kennedy. ... Mob bosses of the 1950's and 60's, such as Giancana of Chicago and Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, had ties with the CIA as well as many police units. ... Ruby somehow snuck past tight security and several police in order to reach Oswald, so it was speculated that Ruby's assassination of Oswald was arranged. ...

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You May Get Me - You will Not Have Me Some would believe the secret to success in getting the person you want, is by being absolutely in charge and not letting up despite the reaction of the other person. ... And I"ll come in side you where it's all secret and you"ll give in to me and you"ll love me" (Oates 701). ... (Oates 701) When Connie tells Arnold that she is going to call the police, he controls the situation by threading her. He tells her if she calls the police he will come in her house. Afraid he just may come in the house, this prevents her from calling the police. ...

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