Fuck tha Police

Christopherson and Brad Barber details many individuals and their personal accounts regarding negative experiences with police officers. Throughout the documentary, person after person describes a time when they or someone they love fell victim to extreme police tactics. The film focuses on the story of Dub Lawrence, a former Utah sheriff, and the tragic death of his son in law at the hands of a police officer (Peace Officer). As evidenced in the documentary Peace Officer, modern policing…

has occurred other than police had to have played an important role because nothing else did (Zimring 2012). New police strategies and techniques had to have influenced the crime drop. Among these new strategies and techniques is community policing. Community policing is the practice of placing police officers in particular areas so that they become familiar with the local inhabitants, which then makes…

lighted poles come with a phone that will immediately connect the caller to campus police with a press of a button in a situation of emergency. To some universities, they find the Blue-Light phone to be outdated and useless to students because everyone in this day and age has a smart phone. Many including Florida State University find them to be extremely useful. In 2012 the Blue-Light pole helped Florida State campus police catch a suspected rapist who attacked a student. So why else do some…

The drug use extent is rather hard to measure considering you cannot measure private behavior. Like no other crimes the offender and the victim are the same. Data relies on self-reports of using drugs on the population or on information from known offenders. Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a well-known survey of drug use. This survey surveys high school students, college students, and young adults. The important information is the type and level of drug use. The most used drug is alcohol overall…

The study by Keverline, S. A. (2003), gives insight on how gender plays a role in criminal justice. Typically, criminal justice is a predominately white male field. Yet, during the recent years criminal justice has expanded its professionalism to a variety of backgrounds including women. What makes this study distinguishable from the rest is that it primarily focuses on a single group. It would have been great to see this study or any other study also focus on other minority groups as well.…

father comes banging loud on the door telling my mom to get out there, he looked like he was in the middle of a binge. He kept making threats to hurt all of us. My mother frantically called the police and they were there within ten minutes, one second I saw sirens the other, my father in the back of a police car. My mother decided to not press charges which I felt wasn’t a good move, but what did I know I was only thirteen silly me. After that my father calmed down for a while and accepted that…

policing can play a big role. In offender-focused hot spot policing, police will focus a majority of their time focusing on small areas within the city with high crime rates (Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy 2013). We have learned in class that police are more reactive then proactive in the…

A goal is described as the object of a person’s ambition or effort; something that one aims to accomplish. If one has yet to accomplish a goal, it does not mean they failed it, it means they have not yet complete it. When thinking about personal goals there are plenty that I think about on weekly basis. I think about goals that I have already accomplished and others, which I am pursuing and also those that I have yet to figure out. The goals that I have accomplished have been graduating high…

Throughout life I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be, an agent, a lawyer, or maybe even a veterinarian. My friends always told me being a lawyer was great because of the ability to snoop into everyone’s personal business and find justice for those who are innocent and those who aren’t. I didn’t have any particular person to defend and I didn’t know that I would use this short story in my decision to further my education. I’m growing out of my shell, now I’m beginning to hatch. Transitionally, as…

Albanese’s Transnational Crime and the 21st century and Naim’s Illicit, discuss gun smuggling, human organ smuggling, and stolen property smuggling. From previous readings, we know that crimes such as these advance due to the fall of the Soviet Union, globalization, and even the advancement of technology. For each of these crimes, the authors elaborated on the type of harms that occurred, the benefits for those involved with these crimes, the challenges that are faced when trying to prevent…