some states police ticketing quotas have been very detrimental and have hurt the reputation of some agencies. In New York, the NYPD, deputy Inspector Norman H. Anderson, led his police officers to write 1294 parking tickets in a single day (Brownstein). Due to so many tickets being issued, this story became known through the New York times, where the Police commissioner came out and said “quotas do not solve problems.” However, the NYPD did not stop their quota regulations. During the Knapp…
children from the school got sick at the same time, and all had rashes and fevers, which are common symptoms of measles (Kelto). The disease could spread very easily because of the high population of non-immune children. Philadelphia’s deputy health commissioner, Dr. Robert Ross, and his colleagues went to the church’s pastor to convince him to give Ross’s officials permission to have the children examined and immunized. However, the pastor refused to allow this, so the team left the church…
NORTH CAROLINA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION I.C. No. C12345, ANTHONY BELL, Employee/Plaintiff v. SAFE PLACE CHILDREN’S HOME, Employer/Defendant. PLAINTIFF’S BRIEF TO DEPUTY COMMISSIONER JANE C. DOE INTRODUCTION Plaintiff, Anthony Bell, requests the Industrial Commission of North Carolina to award Workers’ Compensation for the injury to his right rotator cuff sustained at the mandatory annual picnic held by his employer Safe Place Children’s Home, the defendant. The defendant denied his initial…
A Case Comment on ‘K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra’ 1961 Legal methods project ___________________________________________________________________________ Submitted to: Professor Amita Dhanda Submitted by: Rahul Sibbal (1st year BA-LLB) NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW, JUSTICE CITY, HYDERABAD Introduction “Love Affair…
UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Implementing a Body-worn Video 200 Police Officer Deep BAGGA 8/28/2015 “When you put a camera on a police officer, they tend to behave a little better, follow the rules a little better. And if a citizen knows the officer is wearing a camera, chances are the citizen will behave a little better.”- William A. Farrar, Chief of Police, Rialto (California) Police Department Cover Letter This report provides a review of the available evidence on officer body-worn…
China banned the drug and threatened a penalty of death to those who attempted to bring it in. In 1839, Commissioner Lin Zexu of the Qing Dynasty wrote a letter of warning to Queen Victoria on behalf of the Chinese government. This was a very strongly worded letter, with such lines as “Let us ask? Where is your conscience? I have heard that the smoking of opium…
Introduction In 2011, well known Pakistani politician and businessman, Salman Taseer, was killed by his own bodyguard in broad daylight. Taseer was governor of the politically-influential Punjab province of the South Asian country, when Mumtaz Qadri showered him with bullets. According to Qadri, he had murdered Taseer for the governor's opposition to blasphemy laws in relation to the Christian woman Asia Bibi's case, who had been sentenced to death by a Pakistani court in 2010 for desecrating…
Since Watson and Crick unraveled the structure of DNA, much controversy has sparked regarding biotechnology and its ethics. According to BBC, biotechnology includes “any use of science or technology to alter the characteristics of a particular breed or animal.”1 Many believe that biotechnology will have unexpected adverse consequences and some claim that it is tampering with God’s creations. Contrary, many scientists counterargue that it has shown potential in producing unprecedented vaccines,…
An inquiry into the press in Britain had been done six times in less than 70 years before being requested again in 2011 by, then Prime Minister, David Cameron. This particular inquiry, called The Leveson Inquiry due to it being chaired by Lord Justice Leveson, was requested due to a multitude of press related events that caused both public and political upset. One of these particular events was the phone hacking of Milly Dowler. Milly Dowler was a 13-year-old girl who went missing and was then…
The history of receiving a folded American flag though a small token of gratitude from the United States of America and Congress, helps a grieving family that is going through so much with the loss of a loved one. Traditionally, at every military funeral, the closest loved one of the fallen hero receives a folded American flag that was draped over the casket of the service member on behalf of the United States of America. In 2015, we have seen many deaths in first responders and though there…