Crime in New York City

known as the infamous crime as The Central Park Jogger in New York City. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise served sentences between five to thirteen years. From the beginning I knew that the boys are all innocent, however the police think in an unexpected way, even though the detective did not had evidence against them. The police were responsible for the traumatic events that these innocent boys…

created to reduce the crime rate in New York City by granting law enforcement the power to detain a suspicious individual based on reasonable suspicion and search the civilian outer garments for illegal contrabands. There are many controversy surrounding this practice that it is based on racial discrimination and the idea that it is unconstitutional. Civilians feels like this practice only target blacks and Latinos. Supporting civilian concerns, a study conducted by the New York Civil Liberties…

Rockefeller To understand the Rockefeller Drug Laws one must first understand the person who was the fighting force behind the law’s implementation. Nelson Rockefeller was the 49th Governor of New York spanning from 1959 to 1973. His political backing was Republican yet was notorious for his liberal ideals. In 1962 New York bought into the Metcalf-Volker Law that offered voluntary and court-ordered rehabilitation to deal with the drug issue as opposed to jail time. Soon after came the Narcotic…

The Knapp Commission was a committee of five citizens established and impanelled by then-New York City Mayor John Lindsay in 1972 that endeavored to investigate corrupt activities of police officers, detectives, and supervisors working in the New York Police Department (NYPD). Mayor Lindsay was pressured to investigate corruption in the NYPD after a series of articles that appeared in local newspapers detailed a wide breadth of corrupt activities of officers throughout the NYPD. The first…

Southern and Eastern Europe, and any other country one could name into the cities. This epoch of our history is deemed the term “the rise of urban America,” and had great implications on the country. This massive shift of people led to over populated cities filled with disease and impoverishment and created ongoing racial hostilities. These issues had and still have implications in the American society. The allure of big city life drew hundreds of thousands of people from Southern and Eastern…

United States has less than five percent of the world’s population, but almost 25 percent of the world’s total prison population 15. The total number of inmates in the United States, in 2008 was larger than the populations of Seattle, Boston, Kansas City and Atlanta combined 16. Incarceration is intensely determined by race and ethnicity. Among men the highest rate is black males aged twenty to thirty-four, among women the highest rate is black females aged thirty-five to thirty-nine. According…

In two books, Open City and Portrait with Keys, the narrative voices differ greatly, yet both reflect similar realities about the existence of privileged individuals within cities stricken by extreme poverty, crime and sexual assault; both works demonstrate the desensitizing nature of cities on their inhabitants, and convey that the city itself allows violence and loneliness to exist as commonplace realities in an environment that simultaneously suppresses the visibility of individual action…

In the documentary called Seven Five, is about a big scandal that occur in Brooklyn about a corrupt police officer known as Mike Dowd. The precinct for which Mike Dowd worked for was the 75 precinct located in East New York, Brooklyn which was known to have the highest murder rate in the states. When Mike Dowd first became a police officer he did not know, he would be choosing the wrong path until he made his first arrest. As Mike Dowd made his first arrest he see’s that the suspect has a lot…

New Haven, a city in Connecticut, is notable for undergoing major changes during the city’s existence. It doesn’t offer images glamorous and lavish lifestyle like major US cities, or the dream of someone coming into this city and having it change their entire life. Nonetheless, it offers the idea of the American Dream, New Haven is a city where one can own a house a among the most modern and sophisticated infrastructures. Its history of development and redevelopment is an uncommon story,…

Mayor de Blasio has commenced with input from communities that have been negatively and positively impacted by execution of this act. It is important to fairly and honestly revisit the purpose of the stop and frisk regulation and its effectiveness on crime. Stop and frisk has surpassed acceptable boundaries by attempting to sway the opinions of communities impacted that the government has implemented this law for the safety of all, but has proven to be a vehicle for legally allowing racial…