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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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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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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Congress hoped that by doing this drugs would simply fade away, but millions of people still use drugs and drug-related crimes and killings continue to rise in major cities (Bender 16). ... A large part of New York City's 2,000 annual homicides are because of drug trafficking (Bender 30). ...

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"The homicides committed by 294 women in Baltimore city from 1974 through 1986 findings were that the offender's age differentiates among women's homicides showing relatively the same pattern as are found in studies of men offenders". ... Areas with little or no homicide census tracts are East Capitol Street & Minnesota Ave, Rhode Island Ave, & New York Ave, down to Benning Rd, just to name a couple. ... Research is becoming more and more intense everyday the more we are educated about homicide and why it happens the more we can prevent and the better off Washington D.C. as well as ...

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As crime and violence increased in California, citizens began to feel powerless. Terrorized in their own neighborhoods by criminals, who go in out of the legal system, Californians began to believe there was no justice for them. Ironically, many people feared so much the gangs, drug dealers, pushe...

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Capital Punishment Governments have claimed the legal right to take a criminals life as far back in history as the Eighteenth Century B.C. ("History" 1). English and American history books are filled page after page with death sentences such as: crucifixion, drowning, stoning, beating, burning, imp...

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The New York Colony instituted the Duke's Laws of 1665. ... A very fine example of the death penalty doing something for the general welfare of the American people is the death sentence of Timothy McVeigh, the brains behind the Oklahoma City bombing. "On April 19, 1995, 168 people, including many young children in the day care center, died in the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK....

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Instead of our money going towards protecting our cities, and counties, and states, our money is going elsewhere. ... New York City, which is facing a 3.8 billion dollar deficit, has slashed their police department, eliminating 4,000 officers in the past 3 years (www.sciforms.com Oct 7). ...

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GoodFellas This film is based on the life of a poor Irish-Italian named Henry Hill and starts off in New York City in the 1950's. Hill is a young kid, who through the movie, grows up, and rises through ranks of his Brooklyn neighborhood's organized crime branch. This organized crime family has Henr...

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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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There are also less common prison gangs like Los Solidos, Latin Locos, G27, Nation, Brotherhood, Elm City Boys, 20 Luv, and Esses. ... The Latin Kings are "primarily in correctional facilities and large metropolitan areas throughout Connecticut, Chicago, and New York" (SE-GAG). ...

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Each major city had its own gangster but the most famous was Chicago's Al Capone, Capone was earning $60 million a year from alcohol sales alone while other ventures earned him $45 million more a year (Key Figures). ... In New York, almost 75% of the state's revenue was received from liquor taxes. ...

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The New York Times also erroneously wrote that the Columbine shooting displayed "the largest death toll in an act of terrorism at one of the nation's schools.... A developed branch of studies estimated the level of gun ownership in a region state and or city. ...

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