Ethical Dilemma for Boston P.D. turns Deadly Abstract In the late 1980’s into the 1990’s Boston Police where under large amounts of pressure by political leaders and the public to crack down on the drug problem in the city. Unfortunately this turn deadly in February of 1988 when a member of Boston P.D. was gunned down where he and other officers had illegal obtained a search warrant. The ethical dilemma they where faced with was should they do everything by the book and not get the job done, or do things a little off the record and get the job done?
The article claims that efforts targeted to catch offenders are harsh, inappropriate and a waste of time. Since neither prostitutes nor the male customers run to the police to complain about the other's conduct, police must count on trickery and deceit. For example, in some cities, laws against prostitution are converting local policemen into de facto car thieves and policewomen into masquerade prostitutes. Unfortunately, according to the article laws against prostitution bring out the worst among the nation's law-enforcement agencies. Putting prostitutes and their customers in jail will just overcrowd jails which causes hardships to many
Hence, Louis Riel can be both hero or traitor. To be a hero or a traitor are the two extremely opposite course, but to a number of people, Louis Riel was a madman and a traitor. Stopping the government’s plan on building the trans-continental railway is a negative action to the majority of population in Canada, especially the traders. Though there was no bloodshed in the Red River Rebellion, Riel did execute one unruly prisoner named Thomas Scott. This execution led him into the trial, and since then the great “folk hero” was also seen as a petty criminal.
It was noted that the writer of the note used very poor grammar and spelling, but had obvious knowledge of the crime. Dennis Rader stated "I did it myself with no one’s help", and "the code words for them will be . . . Bind them, torture them, kill them, B.T.K..."(Profile of a Serial Killer - Part 5 - Dennis Rader The BTK Killer 2011).
They came equipped with wooden stools for those to short to reach the handle.” Either out of laziness, lethargy or fear, Phenix City taxpayers just weren’t interested in cleaning up their own town, even though they knew their failure to address the problem might become hell to pay later on. The impetus for significant action took place on June 18, 1954, when local lawyer and Alabama State Attorney General nominate Albert L. Patterson was gunned down outside his law office by the crime syndicate opposed to his plans to take charge and clean up the town. With a hometown hero dead and the heated flush of embarrassment coming from the rest of the state, Phenix City residents were finally compelled to turn the tide against the syndicate’s invaluable status quo. Now Phenix City is one of the nicer places to raise a
3) What specific part of the book had the most impact on you? Why? The specific part of the book that had most impact on me was when I found out Emmett Till was kidnapped and murder by two guys just for whistling a woman . When his parents named Mamie Till and Luis Till panic when he never came home they went to court but the court didn’t do much to help fine Emmett Till body so years later finally the court decide to move a point were they would try to fine Emmett Tills body .When they found his body his face looked different so Then after fining Emmett Till body the court was trying to fine who caused his murder. When the guys were in court and let go months had pass by the murder of Emmett Till posted on a magazine how they murder Emmett
In 1897 Durkheim had seen anomie as the lack of an individual’s social norm and the missing link between an individual and their community (Durkheim, Emile (1897) Suicide). Due to what the evidence was based on and the current political stance of the 1960’s, “the popularity of the strain theory had lost interest” (Agnew and Passas, 1997:4-5). Although it became less popular Robert Agnew continued to research the Strain Theory and wrote many articles about how he thought strain was a cause to an individual’s strain in life and the link to crime. In 1992 Agnew and others renewed the strain theory and called it the general strain theory which now looked at the behavior of one who is coping with the problems related to the social strain (Schmalleger, 2012: 160). Recently Agnew had redefined the General Strain Theory with his ideas of how negative
This editorial piece argues that Frank Babic a double murderer could be released from jail after just 28 years. The targeted audience is to all adults it explains how people like him they should not be released to the streets. The tone of this piece is angry, disgusted and disappointed in the fact that the judge would only give 28 years to the a murder like this. The writer complains how an safe it would be if murderers are released from jail to easily. This affect the community and makes them feel scared and unsafe by the fact that this people are being released from jail, and if they are released what is stopping them from doing it
Ce’Desia Burgess February 7, 2011 4/A To kill a mocking bird Throughout the novel, To kill a mocking bird, prejudice was almost like a “tradition” to those of Maycomb. Since prejudice was like a tradition, most of the citizens followed it with no questions asked. Some of the townsmen of Maycomb knew that following this “tradition” wasn’t right, but yet they never thought to step up to take action against it. Some one didn’t have the courage to take a stand for going against this “so called tradition” until the alleged rape came along after an innocent African American man by the name of Tom Robinson. This alleged rape was the “event” that brought the prejudice that was happening in the novel to the attention of the audience
Andy from “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” was only 16 years old when he was stabbed. First, being a tough gang member doesn’t make you cool. Andy was part of a gang called the “Royals.” Andy had always been hiding under his purple “Royal’s “ jacket. He thought that his true identity was a hard-core gang member. Being part of a gang didn’t make Andy cool or masculine at all.