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The symbolic interactionism theory is an important sociological paradigm. When applied to a social event that happened mid-August, the symbolic interactionism theory provides clarity as to why the event may have happened. According to CNN.com, two police officers were fatally shot by Everett Glenn Miller Friday evening, on August 19, 2017 about 20 miles south of Orlando. The incident occurred when Officer Baxter approached Miller and two other men who were in an area known for drug activity.…

In the Text reading Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America. Afterword “Making Police Obsolete” author, Kristian Williams, did research on cases of Policing in the United States and overseas, where he says social movements responded to police brutality and abuse by taking on the responsibility of public safety in their community. Williams looked at examples of policing from the labor movement, the civil rights movement, Black Panthers, gang truces, and feminism in the US, and from the…

Police officers carry a huge responsibility for their communities, the power and authority to keep the peace. Citizens of the community rely on police officers to behave appropriately, using the highest levels of morals and ethics. When an officer behaves unethically or abuses or misuses the power and authority given to them, it is considered police misconduct or corruption. Police misconduct and corruption can be committed in a variety of ways. Actions including violating policies or…

Response Memo, Week Three Charlotte Freitag In their policy-shifting report “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety”, Wilson and Kelling (1982) make a case for why they believe proactive policing would help lower crime rates nationally and promote feelings of comfort across communities. They argue that the widespread usage of foot patrolling officers, as opposed to officers patrolling in vehicles, would promote positive civilian interactions and would deter crime, as the physical…

Melissa Wells JRNL 1150 Reflection 1: Spotlight In this day and age, the media’s portrayal of journalism is typically stereotypically false and inaccurate. But Spotlight, a specialized team of four investigative reporters within The Boston Globe; Spotlight, an award-winning film portraying the true story told by this team of the Boston archdiocese’s systemic corruption in covering up the sexual abuse of children by its priests – Spotlight finally paints journalists right. Best said in the New…

Police are hired to do two things, keep citizens safe and enforce the law. While doing so, some police officers take advantage of certain situations. For example, a African American man by the name of Eric Garner was illegally distributing cigarettes in New York, he was brutally choked and told the officers “I cant Breathe” but they ignored him and kept on. I will be referring to our book by Taibbi and two online sources found in the Mabee Library database, “Broken Policing” and “Protecting…

The unauthorized disclosure of personal data became a particularly widespread problem in Ecuador. Criminal gangs were sold personal information, including credit card information. No one notices these frequent crimes because of the relatively small monetary, until the local news shocked the public. There are electronic communication technologies, consist of five dimensions, social presence, media richness, asynchronicity, permanence, and spreadability. For the Launch Cable case, there are…

The Future of Police Brutality In recent years, the issue of police brutality towards people of color has been brought to many peoples attention. It has been shown that not only do citizens have to protect themselves from people who break laws, such as criminals, but from the people who vowed to protect and serve them as well. For most people, it is simple to see how police brutality is an issue, for others, they want to believe and take the side of those who they are supposed to trust, the…

People v. Adnan Syed The murder case of Hae Min Lee is one that garnered national attention, due largely in part to the many gaping holes in the case. These various inconsistencies caused people to strongly argue either for or against the conviction of Adnan Syed, who was Hae’s classmate and ex-boyfriend at the time of the murder. The final outcome of the case left a feeling of doubtfulness, with many unsure of the truth. In order to reach a decision about Syed’s guilt or innocence, one…

Two summers ago a man broke into my home. I was the only person awake, and the only person the intruder confronted. Many terrifying events took place that night that still haunt me today, but one thing I will never forget is the kind hearted officers that quickly arrived on the scene. Those brave police men were the only people that were able to calm me down. They all did everything they could to comfort me and investigate the situation. In the essay, “Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take…