Drug-Related Violence In Williams County

Decent Essays
Williams County is a workplace and crime drama taking place in a county police station in an area heavily affected by the opioid epidemic. The police station is led by Sheriff Anderson a no- nonsense woman who got into the field to help her community, but soon found herself personally affected when her brother overdosed on fentanyl about a year ago. The Williams County police station had been quietly getting by for years, but the recent surge in drug use in the area has left them scrambling for experienced officers and adequate funding. Each episode sees Sheriff Anderson, Deputy McNichols, and the rest of the police squad addressing a new scenario of overdose, drug trafficking, or drug-related violence. The lead character being a woman and

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Memphis is known on a global scale for being the home of Elvis Presley and the blues you can hear played in clubs along Beale Street. However, Memphis also has one of the highest poverty rates in the country, with 29.8 percent of the city’s population living in poverty (Charlier, 2015). Memphis based gangs such as Young Mob and Kingsgate Mob along with nationally known gangs like Crips, Bloods, and Latin Kings are just a sampling of the gangs you can find within the city (Goggans, 2014). The majority of gang related activity happens within the city limits in predominately black and poor communities, but you can see the gang presence in any area of the city (Googans, 2014).…

    • 319 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Timothy Williams’ article, “Opioid Users are Filling Jails. Why Don’t Jails Treat Them?”, the methods through which the criminal justice system deals with drug addiction are discussed. By examining how a former drug addict, Dave Mason, dealt with his heroin detoxification process whilst incarcerated, it becomes quickly apparent how jails and prisons may end up encouraging many people to relapse. With the recent national emergency declaration on opioid abuse, there is no doubt any question on how opioid use is becoming a major issue in American society. Therefore, it is necessary to question why many jails and prisons have yet to implement or even allow drug treatment programs, such as the methadone treatment program Mr. Mason completed.…

    • 873 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Violence is one common occurrence that affects the youth of South Bronx. When comparing numbers it is revealed that more adolescents were witnesses to a shooting than were sexually abused. That means that more than one in four children saw a shooting in their lives. Equally alarming, by statistics, approximately as many people that were present at a shooting would go on to threaten another person with a weapon. Even fights without a weapon were common occurrences to a large portion of the youth.…

    • 452 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cure Violence www.cureviolence.org Cure Violence is an organization founded by epidemiologist Gary Slutkin. Dr. Slutkin spent a decade in underdeveloped countries, fighting epidemic diseases. When he returned to the US, he’d all but forgotten what it was like to have running water, and adjustable temperature in the home. He also had no news of the US, so he found it both dismaying and compelling to hear about the rampant violence in some parts of the US, most especially in Chicago, Illinois. As a result, Dr. Slutkin began researching the violence problem in the same way that he tracked infectious diseases in those other countries, and he found that the trajectories were the same.…

    • 618 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Over the past several decades while crime rates have gone down, imprison rates have continued to increase. Chapter 2 looks into some of the reason why taking note that a majority of those incarcerate are of African American decent. While they only make up 13% of American society yet by 1991 imprisonment increased by 54% Tonry, correlates this as a result of the war on drugs that began in the seventies (Cole, & Gertz, 2013). According to a survey done in 1991 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it found that drug use was not an unequivocal balance between ethnicities, leaving the question as to what is the missing part of the equation and is what Tonry further discuses in this chapter. Identifying that there is no real distinction between…

    • 883 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As I reviewed literature already done by scholars, I came across a scholarly pair by the names of Jennifer Castro and Bart Landry as well as a handful of other authors who had formerly touched on different pieces of my research question. In 2005, Castro and Landry wrote an article by the name of Race, Gender, and Class Variation in the Effect of Neighborhood Violence on Adolescent Use of Violence. In this article, the scholarly pair examined how Neighborhood Violence led to the Adolescents use of violence and how Race, Gender and Class played a huge part in it. Neighborhood Violence can range from Drive by shootings, to neighborhood gang fights. In Castro’s…

    • 768 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Las Vegas Drug Abuse

    • 1669 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The abuse of drugs among individuals is one of the primary causes of family disputes within the United States. The UNLV Center for Democratic Culture show that drug abuse can include anything from tobacco and alcohol to many over the counter pain killers as well as hardcore drugs like cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy. Pain killers are on top of that list in Las Vegas among teen users since they are easier to acquire. Also, this article show statistics of how Nevada, specifically Las Vegas has a much higher drug abuse among teens for any illicit drugs than anywhere in the country. Drug abusers not only harm themselves, but their family and others surrounding them.…

    • 1669 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There is an emphasis on the role that drugs and alcohol play on violence on reservations. Alcohol was first brought to Native Americans during the settling period of Europeans and has caused problems for many years since then. Alcohol and drugs mess with people’s minds and can cause people to become violent. According to The Impact of Drug Trafficking on American Indian Reservations with International Boundaries, “[It has been] reported that 62% of men and 74% of women said they were using alcohol during intimate violence episodes.” They also said that alcohol usage caused the most severe abuse.…

    • 642 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Essay On Opioid Overdoses

    • 1921 Words
    • 8 Pages

    I. Attention Catcher: The number of fatalities related to opioid overdoses has become one, if not the number one, public health emergencies among Americans. II. Listener Relevance Link: Prescription opioid medication had undergone a huge transformation making it more difficult for people to obtain and physicians to prescribe opioid medications to combat pain. III. Thesis Statement: The opioid epidemic is a local, state, and national problem that has caused all areas of government to focus on the problem and provide solutions to reduce the number or fatalities occurring daily from opioid overdoses.…

    • 1921 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Drug crimes stay under the radar for some time. The seriousness of a drug charger largely depends on the amount you have on you when being stopped by a police officer. If the drugs in your possession is over 1 gram there is a very high change you’d be charged with possession of an illegal substance and intent to sell. Studies show that African Americans are five times more likely to go to prison for drug possession than whites (Gross, Possley, & Stephen, 2017 March 7). Thirty-three percent of the prison population in for drug charges are African Americans,that is double their number proportion in the population.…

    • 291 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    There are many problems happening in the African American Community. There are many issues like gang violence, police brutality, poverty and many more. All those things we can stop but we continue to still let our actions cause them. Those are just a small amount of the issues African Americans are facing these days.…

    • 222 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Drugs are a complicated topic in today's society. People want to look at it as a black and white issue, when in fact, there are many facets of drug use. Drugs can be essential in the fighting off of dangerous illnesses, and also essential in the prevention of communicable diseases. Drugs are necessary in our daily lives in order to keep people healthy and safe. The other side of drugs, mainly illicit drugs, or drugs that are being misused and abused, can cause major problems with horrific outcomes that cannot be fixed.…

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Michelle Alexander wrote an interesting article about how people in the U.S are ‘blind’ when it comes to racism called “Drug War Nightmare: How We Created a Massive Racial Caste System in America”. She says that the racial discrimination seems to be fading away but everybody is just ignoring it. She wrote this essay to make people realize that everybody needs to wake up and notice what is happening to the people who are part of the American society. Her essay is very effective and makes us realize what is happening but she has yet to provide a solution for this problem. Alexander uses several appeals to attract readers and her ethos and pathos appeals were the most effective to me.…

    • 1109 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    The man was spotted by Deputy Kyle Farley as he was patrolling Ditty Road when he observed a car out turn into a driveway on Ditty road. Farley tried to talk to the driver who identified himself as Ronald Black and he was carrying a passenger called William Post. A strong smell of alcohol was coming from both Post and Black. On closer scrutiny, a bag of pills were found, identified as morphine sulphate which Black claimed to be medication prescription. Post admitted to be under influence and was charged with public intoxication while Black was served with warrants for the eighth DUI, violation of implied consent law and possession of a controlled drug (Amburgey, 2014).…

    • 1147 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Social Problems and Drug Abuse Social Problems are problematic issues that arise in society. A condition or pattern of behavior that not only holds negative consequences for society, but also individuals and the physical world. Social problems do not need to directly affect everyone to be classified as a problem. Prescription drug abuse has become one of many social problems associated with substance abuse. Let 's take a look at the sociological perspectives on social problems.…

    • 789 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays