In the late sixties and early seventies, California was haunted by dozens of unsolved murders. The offender remains unknown to this day. The murderer, who referred to himself as “the Zodiac,” ;made contact with the police and area newspapers throughout his reign of terror through a series of menacing notes. Although the police were never able to apprehend Zodiac, they were able to gather information about him via the letters. Zodiac boasted of killing up to forty victims, however, police The Zodiac Killer The late 1960’s and early 1970’s represented a great deal of things to a great deal of people.
Clue: Look for facts, descriptions, and reasons given. One detail is "gang members commit more than 600,000 crimes each year." List the key supporting details: Unstated Main Idea What is the unstated main idea? What point is the author trying to make? Clue: Now that you have identified the topic and supporting details, ask yourself this question: What is the author trying to say
In New York City, an average of seven Latin Americans were killed a year from 1986 to 1989, but in 1990, that number increased greatly. In that year, twenty-three Innocent Latin Americans were killed by police gunfire. It is obvious that racism is still prevalent in today’s world and its no surprise that there would be racist people in the police force. This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed because this can cause many problems externally as in random arrests and internally as police conflicts. People should be interviewed and maybe even subjected to a lie detector test to prove that they have no outstanding hatred toward certain people.
There are hundreds of millions of guns in America. So, eliminating the ability of people obtaining some either illegally is impossible. A black market is likely to occur if guns were made illegal(Farago). It is already evident that illegal guns are being used in far more gun crimes than legally bought ones. Seventy-nine percent of all gun crimes in Pittsburgh for example were committed by gun owners who obtained their guns illegally(ingraham).
Kidnapping rates have also escaladed in Mexico to where an average of 70 people are abducted each month. There are 75 open cases of Americans who have been kidnapped in Mexico. Approximately 6,300 people have died in the past year because of the drug wars. Gangs have become the dominant authority in Mexico, and when there are over 450,000 people involved in drug trafficking they are able to perform violence and to keep the issue rampant. The government has made many attempts for prevention, but the cartels still earn in tens of billions of dollars a year.
According Burn and Brannen, 5 more women were murdered because of the wearside jack hoax. Police should have known that the First letter was a hoax because it was so similar to the Dear boss letter sent in the jack the ripper case. Wearside jack sent tape to George Oldfield on June 17th 1979 and this involved 60,000 interviews, 16,000 vehicle checks and 7,000 handwriting checks. Humble was arrested in 2005 because his saliva matched the saliva used to seal the ripper letters. Gordon Burn in his book States In Febuary 1978 the Yorkshire Ripper offered £5000 for any information but later increased to £20000 by the west Yorkshire Authority.
Nate Alexander The Outsiders Message Why would anyone wish to be in a gang? According to the F.B.I., “Some 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members are criminally active in the U.S. today. Many are sophisticated and well organized; all use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities, which include robbery, drug and gun trafficking, fraud, extortion, and prostitution rings.” (http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/vc_majorthefts/gangs) In the book, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the main character Ponyboy, has a decision to make about whether he wants to spend his life in a gang, or to be different than the kids in his neighborhood. Ponyboy is influenced by many external events, and the consequences of his actions in these events begin to change his life.
According to the FBI, in 2008 there were a total of 10,662,206 arrests in the United States, 69.2% of the people arrested were Caucasians, 28.3 % African Americans, 1.3% American Indians or Alaskan Natives and 1.1% Asian or Pacific Islanders. Despite of the FBIs’ records of crimes and arrests, people tend to relate African American men with violence. I have had people accuse me of being violent due to some of my actions but I have never been violent towards anyone ever. My mother raised me better than that and
Police corruption has increased dramatically with the illegal cocaine trade, with officers acting alone or in-groups to steal money from dealers or distribute cocaine themselves. Large groups of corrupt police have been caught in New York, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and Methodology: Corruption within police departments falls into two basic categories, which are external corruption and internal corruption. In this report I will concentrate only on external corruption because it has been the larger center of attention recently. I have decided to include the fairly recent accounts of corruption from a few major cities, mainly Detroit and Dearborn, because that is where I have lived for all my life. My ideas and examples have come straight from the book, along with some.
The Prosecution of Computer Crime According to FBI assistant director Louis M. Reigel, there were 2, 300 Katrina-related sites, double the number two days earlier. Of the 800 the FBI had investigated, 60% were presumed to be bogus. On September 14, of the 4,000 sites claiming to offer assistance to Katrina victims, the FBI believes up to 60% are likely bogus. The FTC officials are expecting a new wave of credit cards complaints, such as promises of instant credit and new credit cards and loans, even though people have a bad credit history. To add, there are several types of Hurricane Katrina Scams that are in effect.