Crime in New York City

Five Points is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan notoriously known for its gangs, crime, and poverty. This neighborhood was mostly recognized as an Irish neighborhood in the mid-1800s. The reputation of the Irish was that they were criminal by nature, and the horrible conditions of the Five Points helped affirm that reputation. Initially a reservoir in the 1700s, Collect Pond was located just north of today’s City Hall. This pond was the root of spring water for Dutch inhabitants of downtown…

The Knapp Commission was started in the 1970’s after Frank Serpico in the New York City Police Department had enough of the police corruption and abuse of authority over the community. Frank Serpico is known as the whistleblower that began the investigation into police corruption in the New York Cities Police Department's so called finest. The police officers back then were doing everything that they were trained to look for in order to make an arrest. “The Knapp Commission’s report…

Bernard Goetz was born in New York in the year of 1947. He earned a degree in electrical and nuclear engineering from New York University by 1969, which then a few years later by 1975, he started his very own business out of Greenwich Village apartment where he stayed at the time setting up electronic equipment. Prior to shooting the four teenagers at a New York City subway in 1984, Goetz had been mugged before by three African-American men at a New York City subway also in 1981. With these…

I live in the heart of Manhattan. I live one block away from Penn station, in between 34th and 35th street on 8th avenue. I live at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel. I am in a very populated area of New York City. It is not populated with lots of residence but with commuters and tourists. The building that I live at is the only place on my block that you can reside. You can tell that my street is very touristy and very convenient for commuters. The buildings that are on my streets are all…

Tennes who changed the history of Chicago. But it was Al Capone who made Chicago one of the most ruthless and crime ridden towns in the nation (Lyman & Potter, 2015 p. 88). Capone started off in New York City, but after he was suspected of committing two murders, he had two options; to either leave New York or risk being killed. When Al Capone first moved to Chicago, he worked for crime boss “Big Jim” Colosimo. Although this didn’t last long, as Colosimo was killed because he saw the…

Organized crime in the United States pre Nineteen Twenties consisted of gambling, prostitution, and theft. However, crime syndicates not only in the United States but all across the world began to change as prohibition of alcohol spread. In the year Nineteen Seventeen the Volstead Act or National Prohibition Act was passed by congress and later became officially established as the Eighteenth Amendment in Nineteen Nineteen. The Amendment established that after one year of any activity related to…

women’s rights, minimum wage laws, etc. Thus, in 1900, a reform group known as the “New York Committee of Fifteen” conducted undercover vice investigations and released their first report with the title “The Social Evil.” A similar group with ties to the New York Anti-Saloon League, known as the “Committee of Fourteen,” did a comparable investigation of prostitution three years later. From 1910 to 1917, 43 different cities followed suit with similar commissions that flouted their propaganda in…

This program applies public education, anti-violence slogans “Don’t shoot. I want to grow up.”, conflict mediation and community mobilization activities2. The Cure Violence program is currently active in 25 cities in the United States as well as several international cities3. In New York City, the Cure Violence program was launched in spring 2012. It was originally named "Ceasefire." This program is funded by federal, state, and local foundations and corporations. The program targets young…

` People deny racism even exists in the United States, but one does not have to look far to see blatant signs of racism, you just have to look to our prison system. The high rate of incarceration in the African American community is due to the institutional racism that still exists to this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest…

segregation is that it can extend outside the local community. When speaking of New York City, not only are there voluntary residential segregation areas, but also segregation of the business districts outside the local community. This advantages the upper and middle-class individuals and eliminates any disadvantage of loss from economic segregation. Whereas in a low-income community, this may only contribute to crime and…