Chicago Police Department

Freeman Wachholder Mrs. Scarbrough/Mr. Hunter Social Studies/Language Arts 16 December 2016 The Chicago Flood of 1992 April thirteenth, 1992. Busy, just like any other day in the Loop. But a series of highly unlikely mishaps would cause billions in damage that day. The events can be traced all the way back to 1899, when the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph company had permission to build tunnels for cables from city hall, but instead built seven-foot-wide railroad tunnels. These tunnels were…

Furthermore, members of law enforcement departments across this country are given guns because they have been sworn to protect innocent citizens and only use the guns as a means of self-defense. Unfortunately like the scene from the episode" The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street", where a person grabbed a shot gun and killed an innocent person because that person was believed to be a monster; there have been many cases in the last two years that illustrate how the police have used their guns to…

undergone fundamental political changes in the last 100 years - Cuba, Russia, China, Venezuela, etc., — police and security forces still exist, and always have. Again, if a society or country or region currently existed where there were no police forces, or a drastically different kind than the sort we see throughout the world, maybe it would be easier for people to imagine what a society without police would potentially look like. Since such a society doesn 't currently exist, maybe we should…

The city of Chicago has faced controversy for quite for time. Many claim the city has become so corrupt, that the trail leads all the way up to the city’s mayor, Rahm Emmanuel. Corruption is one of the major problems Chicago faces and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is the face of the corruption that plagues the city. In an article written by Judith Valente, Can Chicago offer a path away from gun violence? She states “More than 2,800 people were shot in Chicago last year, and by December 2015 there had been…

The reason police brutality should stop because they’re violating the rights of other people. The Chicago police department in particular has had more police shooting than any other city in the Country. The Chicago Police Department reevaluation should include deeper psychological evaluation, mandatory body cameras, and mandatory pairing of new police officers with an experienced officer. In the last couple of days there have been several police shooting in the state of Chicago some…

Inter-organizational relationship in the Vancouver Agreement The Vancouver Agreement (VA) is a multi-government agreement for urban development in the City of Vancouver, which particularly focus on Downtown Eastside (DTES) area (Graham 2010, p.1). DTES is an area that is socially dangerous due to high rate of drug and crime cases (p.1). This area had faced many policies failure in term of urban development and had been politically neglected (p.3). The VA is used to provide better services and…

Police officer have been serving and protecting citizens for decades, to first understand what is about to be introduced in this paper we first must understand what police are, and who are the citizens that serve under the badge. The police were invented in England and in the United States roughly around 1825 to 1855, the police were not in a sense created to solve crime, crime was at a low and technically it did not matter because crime had more to do with the acts of an individual. The ruling…

organization of business leaders called Chicago United. In the meeting Bennett was quoted saying “if it’s (CPS) not the last, I don’t know who is. There can’t be very many more cities that are worse. Chicago is pretty much it” (Banas). Following the meeting, publications released statements and articles containing the phrase “worst in the nation” and despite being misquoted, the phrase stuck. For days and weeks after the fact people continued to refer to Chicago as the worst public school…

Every week, dozens of lives are taken in the city of Chicago through the use of gun violence. These homicides happen most commonly in the southern neighborhoods of the city, notably areas such as Englewood, Austin, and Humboldt Park just to name a few. It just so happens that the city of Chicago is the city in which it is most difficult to acquire a firearm of any sort with the proper licensing. It is so difficult that we are ranked 1st when it comes to gun control in the United States of…

Born of Fire: Chrysler 200 Commercial Analysis The year 2008 represented struggle and despair. The American automobile manufacturing industry especially felt the hit of the economic crisis. The energy crisis spiked fuel prices, discouraging the purchase of pick up trucks and SUVs due to their low fuel economy. Chrysler was a part of the American “Big Three” and their company began to crumble. Unable to withstand the economic downfall, Chrysler was forced into bankruptcy in 2009. This 2011 Super…