Let’s talk about shootings that have been going on in our metro Detroit area. This topic is important because we’re constantly losing people to these terrible tragedies every day. Crime in Detroit, Michigan as decreased significantly since 1970s. Every week the rate of shootings and killings go up more and more. The FBI reports for 2008 shows that the numbers of violent crimes dropped 11.6% in the city of Detroit.
This caused the people to flock to America and seek new job opportunities. Another reason was over-population in the cities. The overcrowding of tens and thousands of people in one town in filthy conditions caused a book of problems. The bubonic plague was one, which brought one example of many economic declines, in the production of food and imports and widespread of malnutrition. Other problems included higher prices, lower purchasing power, and years of poor harvest.
In this section of Chicago in 1930's a housing shortage was created by “red-lining” a practice created and enforced by banks and real estate mogul's which restricted the areas in which non-whites could live. This practice also caused rent rates to be twice the cost of their white counterparts in housing conditions that were either condemned or close to condemned conditions (poorer conditions with temperatures below zero with common snowstorms in winter and baking heat in the summer). Due to these climate, social
Preliminary Thesis Proposal By Debbie Jurs The Onset of Homeless How and why people first find themselves on the streets? Description and Relevance: On the rise are the people that are finding themselves out on the street. Being the richest nation in the world, the United States has an over abundance of people who end up on the street due to a rough streak in their lives. The cause can be from anywhere from being evicted from their homes, losing their jobs, divorce and/or abandonment and/or foreclosures. All this leads to the end result of no where to go.
In addition, the takeover of railway lines of the army thwarted food, armours and weapons to reach the army quickly. In Moscow only, they have been receiving 2,000 railway wagons of grain per month in 1914 but until 1916, it had been cutting down to 300 wagons. This was not enough to feed people in the city per day. This resulted in the people of Russian become irritated and take part in the strike forcing the Tsar to abdicate. Secondly, the economy of Russia was awfully damaged.
Final Paper Justin C Lee SOC305 Crime and Society Prof. Ekaterina Gorislavsky October 10, 2014 Overpopulation of our Prisons Prison overcrowding has become a very serious issue within the United States. Throughout the years numbers have grown at an alarming rate and each day our prisons become more and more unstable. Rates are growing for a number of reasons. More people are becoming incarcerated because of changes and improvements to the laws as well as the increase in law enforcement tactics to take crime off the streets. With these improvements comes the fact that our prisons are too small for the amount of people that are being put in jail, this includes county, state, as well as federal.
Due to the rapid increase in population, the city has not had time to develop to the vast numbers of people who now inhabit it. Its roads experience heavy traffic consisting of cars, motorbikes and other motor vehicles; this leads to vast quantities of fossil fuels being burnt and subsequently pollution is at an all-time high. Furthermore, the 465km railway service in Mumbai is used by 2.64 billion people per year and is the busiest train system in the world. Clearly the transport in Mumbai is unsustainable but the problems could be solved through perhaps constructing an underground system of trains. This would reduce the huge crowds of people attempting to use the above ground train system per day and may
Loc Nguyen Professor: Charles Riordan English 102 Homelessness in America: Why Are People Homeless and How Can We Help Them? Homelessness is a very big problem in America and the lives of homeless people are really hard and miserable wherever they live. America has a huge number of homeless people although it is a rich country. The problem of homelessness in America not only happens in the large cities but also happens in small towns. This problem is seen throughout its big territory.
Police Employers Should Recognize Unfit Applicants Prior to Employment. Christopher Johnson Over the last decade the American culture has endured an unwavering increase in crime which has required law enforcement hiring authorities across the nation, to implement a surge in the employment of police officers. In the wake of this aftermath, many unworthy applicants have joined the police officer ranks and are discharging the duties and responsibilities of upholding the law. The American society has suffered a great deal through the actions of unsuitable and corrupted police officers. The most contributing factor regarding corrupt police officers correlates to the fundamental qualities and attributes of the individuals performing the job.
Xaviera McRae Essay EN1320 Gang violence is becoming a growing problem in American societies. I chose this problem because it has caused me a lot of pain in my life. I live in Syracuse, New York where every day you hear gun shot and ambulance sirens. Every year in Syracuse we lose 20 to 30 people to gang violence. Gang violence cause a lot of families a lot of pain.