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How To Reduce Crime In Your Neighborhood
<view this essay>.... group. You'll get to know your neighbors better, and working with them you can reduce crime, develop a more united community, provide an avenue of communications between police and citizens, establish on-going crime prevention techniques in your neighborhood, and renew citizen interest in community activity.
"Citizens Safety Projects" are set up to help you do this. It is a joint effort between private citizens and local police. Such programs have been started all over the country. Maybe one already exists in your community.
These organizations don't require frequent meetings (once a month or so). They don't ask anyone to take personal risks to .....
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Corruption In The NYPD
<view this essay>.... and other crimes with other police officers.
The Mollen Commission's main recommendation was for the creation of a
permanent outside watchdog body with legal body to oversee NYPD's Internal
Affairs Division and even launch independent investigations. However, mayor
Giuliani and police commissioner Bratton are oppose to the plan, and refuse
to give up authority to outsiders. Mollen stated that, " what we did find
shocking was a total ineptitude of police fighting corruption, they are
superb in fighting crime-except among themselves." Corruption is the
product of individual police officer and police environment, and its
control must mainly should come from the .....
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Crime Prevention
<view this essay>.... Is the community prepared to participate in ? Is the view of the entire community or just a select few? If there are sufficient resources, as in money and people, there is a theoretical possibility to all of these difficult questions. Combining services within the community and involving community members a multi-faceted attack on crime involving situational , environmental design, community-based policing, vigilante justice, and auxiliary justice, in theory, will prevent crime.
One of the reasons that community has become popular in the past twenty years is because of the economics of the justice system. The government was facing huge costs and they wante .....
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The Need For Stricter Gun Laws
<view this essay>.... I advocate legislation that would take the handguns out of the criminals'
hands and watch the government put these brutal killers into jail and let
them stay there. If we could eliminate the nonsense that happens constantly
on Capital Hill, this dream would be a very real one.
With the interests of political activist groups such as the
National Rifle Association (NRA) and the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU), Congress has had a tough time passing any legislation that would
benefit the public and curtail the sail and manufacture of armor piercing
bullets, automatic rifles and Uzis. Unfortunately, we tend to interpret
the Constitution to broadly. Obvious .....
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Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, And Different Punishments
<view this essay>.... maker on the streets, done by both girls and boys. But
crimes though out the middle class and rich were mostly property crimes and
disputes which made up 90% of all crimes committed by the upper-class. In
Victorian England and like today there a two categories which crimes fall
under. "Indictable" which is the same as our felony crimes that make up
all of the major crimes. These crimes consist of: Murder, armed robbery,
burglary, larceny, rape, and assaults on the police. The next called
category is called " Summery " crimes which is equal to our misdemeanor
crimes. Summery crimes were all minor crimes such as: Property crimes,
Vagrancy, Drunkenness, Pros .....
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The Young Offenders Act - The Truth?
<view this essay>.... the
other hand the needs and treatment aspects of it leave much to be desired."
The research of the Young offenders act is still ongoing but Leshied says
that it is becoming clear that the custody positions have been in dispute
since the act came into effect. The old Juvenile delinquency act states in
section 38 "The care and custody and discipline of a juvenile delinquent
shall approximate as nearly as maybe that which should be given by his
parents, and... as far as practability every juvenile delinquent shall be
treated, not as a criminal, but as a misguided and misdirected child . . .
needing aid, encouragement, help and assistance."(Page 72)
If a yo .....
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Capital Punishment: The Only Defense
<view this essay>.... today to adults in our society.
Consideration of the justice, morality, or usefulness, of capital punishment is often confused with objections to its alleged discriminatory distribution among the guilty. Wrongly so. Maldistribution inheres no more in capital cases than in any other punishment. Because of the finality of the death penalty, the most grievous maldistribution occurs when it is imposed upon the innocent. However, the frequent allegations of discrimination refer to maldistribution among the guilty and not to the punishment of the innocent. Maldistribution of any punishment among those who deserves it is irrelevant to its justice or morality. .....
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Is The Illegalization Of Marijuana Valid?
<view this essay>.... and clothing industries. This action should be taken
despite efforts made by groups which say marijuana is a harmful drug which will
increase crime rates and lead users to other more dangerous substances.
The actual story behind the legislature passed against marijuana is
quite surprising. According to Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No
Clothes, the acts bringing about the demise of hemp were part of a large
conspiracy involving DuPont, Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Federal
Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), and many other influential industrial leaders such as
William Randolph Hearst and Andrew Mellon. Herer notes that the Marijuana Tax
Act, .....
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