New York City is one of the liveliest cities in America. ... The selling of drugs, particularly heroin, is on the rise in certain neighborhoods in New York City. ... The trafficking of heroin in the streets of New York has been uncontrollable. ... " All in all, the open-air drug market has created a lot of sorrow in the streets of New York City. ... To cut down the crime rate, New York City safety officials should look into higher security checks at all importing and exporting facilities such as boating docks, airports, and postal services. ...

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Since the Amadou Diallo shooting in New York City it seems that every day there is a new person being abused by "New York's Finest." ... Furthermore, civil claims filed against New York City for police misconduct have been rising steadily for some years. ... More than 3,000 State and Federal civil lawsuits were brought against the City of New York alleging police misconduct for the years 1992 through 1995. ... No matter where you look, statistics show and prove that police brutality is at a high in New York City. ... Until the dream of no more police corruption happens, we can only dea...

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A city that has been plagued with undercover sex trafficking is New York City. ... New York City's JFK airport has been named one of the top five airports in the country to where sex victims from other countries arrive. ... Some of these external parties are New York City cab drivers who are unfortunately infamous for being involved in helping with the crime. ... Several New York City cab drivers were also arrested in relation to this particular ring. ... While New York City battles the issue of human sex trafficking through its legislatures, outside organizations have been developed to a...

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The theory's introduction to Times Square in New York City has shown positive production of a better and safer place for those who live and visit the area today. ... The mayor's decisions to take action on these petty crimes had a great impact in New York City over the years. ... The crack-cocaine epidemic was beginning to rise by this time creating large amounts of crime over all in New York City. ... New York City Transit System was revitalized also when Mayor Giuliani stepped into office in 1993. ... In the NY subway websites an online article called "How Safe Is the New York...

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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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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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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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American gang membership began evolving in the early 1800s, originating in large urban cities like Chicago and New York. ... In the 1970s and 1980s, the crack cocaine epidemic spread profoundly through the inner-city streets in cities like Los Angeles, Harlem, and other parts of New York and California. ... The majority of gang membership originates in inner-city communities. ... A lot of inner-city neighborhoods are already infiltrated with different gangs which leads to violence between rival gangs. ...

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Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation that caused many problems among students, families, faculty staffs, and residents of the areas. However, there are many possible ways we can stop all this violence in schools. There are almost three-fourths of the United States teenagers...

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City police launched a program to instruct merchants in the use of handguns. ... "A study . . . revealed that in New York City, which has about the most prohibitive gun legislation in the country, only one out of six people convicted of crimes involving weapons went to jail." ...

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A centralized force would consist of a uniform police who patrol the city. ... The call for a more centralized force did not spread easily in the larger cities. ... A successful police agency in our nation to me is the New York Police Department. The crime rate in New York has fallen to less than one fourth of what it was in the year 1990(Compstat, 2014). New York police department has employed a policing system called the Quality of Life. ...

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One particular study in New York City schools used conflict resolutions and peer mediation training to reduce student fighting. ... New York's RCCP program is widely regarded as one of the most promising violence- prevention programs among public health experts. ... One school in New York, Martin Luther Jr. ... City -wide more than 3,000 were hurt badly enough to miss work-and most of the assaults were committed by the students. ... In my personal experience, having worked in the Public Safety Department for the City University of New York for the past 12 years the only way to curb this p...

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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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Another determining fact is all the girls lived in huge urban cities, where multiple gangs populate the area, more than the smaller cities. ... Most girl gangs are comprised in larger cities such as Los Angeles, San Antonio, Milwaukee, New York City, and Chicago (Sikes). ... This is done in the larger states as in California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, and the larger cities like Chicago, New York City, and Atlanta (Bender and Leone). ...

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This part of the organization was made up of more than 160 structured chapters and had key players within the gang in 158 cities and 31 states. ... Like the Chicago you also have the New York Latin Kings society. ... Also like the Latin Kings of Chicago, New York operate in 15 cities in 5 states and it has as many as 7,500 members not including the Spouses and the bloodline members. ... And to make sure they stay on top of the many issues they have monthly meetings at St' Mary's Episcopal Church in west Harlem, New York. ...

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Crimes of theft, murder, drug selling and drug use are most likely to be associated with a black or Hispanic male ("Crime in new york city" 2014). ... An example is the Stop and Frisk laws in New York that allows officers to stop anyone who seems suspicious. The law is usually disproportionally enforced on people of color ("Crime in new york city" 2014). ... By making false generalizations and unsupported claims, the media invokes a sense of fear into the public to be aware at all times because crime is everywhere and can be committed by anyone ("Crime in new york city...

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One city in particular in which Capone gave a lawless reputation to was Chicago, Illinois Alphonsus Capone grew up in a rough neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York. He left school at a young age and soon became associated with various different gangs, until he got a job as a bartender at gangster Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn, a gang hideout for the notorious Five Points gang, in Manhattan. this was where he recieved his first police arrest while working for Yale on a disorderly conduct charge, yet he also murdered two men while in New York, but was never tried for the murders because no one ...

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There are 38 states that have some form of capital punishment including: New York, Texas, and Utah. ... In 1981 the city of Houston (Harris county) there was a record 701 murders. Since reinstating the death penalty that county has executed more murders than any other city, county, or state in the union. ... Finally someone recognized him and he was arrested on May 4, 1992 in Kansas City. ...

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In cities such as Los Angeles and Oakland in California and Little Rock Arkansas, the rate of homicides is up this year. ... Other cities where gangs haven't been a big issue such as Philadelphia, New York, and Miami, have been experiencing either no change at all or a decline in the rate of homicides. ... It shows that these kind of gang related crimes may spread into cities throughout the country. ... Now that these areas have turned into metropolises the many problems of big cities such as L.A. have become all too familiar. ... Officials are dealing with the problems the same way t...

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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 Federal building in Oklahoma City (Clark, 1995). ... Many believed, due to the media speculation, that the bombing had something to do with Islamic extremist like the Twin Tower bombing in New York, but they were wrong. ... The Oklahoma City bombing could be seen as a crime of accommodation. ... The Oklahoma City bombing certainly had a large level of victimization. ... All these factors made the Oklahoma City bombing the worst violent crime of the past decade. ...

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Drug dealing and high tech weaponry have escalated the warfare in cities between long established loosely knit gangs. ... For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and killed. ... On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the ove...

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He destroyed two cities, Soddon and Gornorrah because of the sins of the people residing there. ... In 1981, author Norman Mailer and many other New York writers, seceded in having Jack Henry Abbott (who murdered a fellow prison inmate) released early from a Utah prison. Just six weeks after his release, Abbott stabbed to death actor Richard Adan in New York. ...

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Gangs have been a problem for years in the big cities of the U.S. In Los Angeles, they account for about half of the city's murders. ... Now the presence of gangs has been seen in smaller cities. ... An early study by the Illinois State Police noted that a gang called the Forty Thieves was founded in New York about 1820 and this gang was believed to be the first youth gang in the United States (Sheldon, 1997). ... In the 50's, gang warfare between African-American and Hispanic gangs peaked in big cities like Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. ...

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