Fuck tha Police

Personal biography I was born and raised in a high crime area in The Bronx. Once I saw a man from my window robbing the apartment across from me. I was scared and did not feel safe. During that time, I grew up watching a lot of crime shows, especially Law and Order Special Victims Unit. I loved watching this show because it was entertaining, relatable to my neighborhood, and had a strong female role. Over the years my neighborhood needed to be more help to make it a safe place for people who…

Black Lives Matter emerged out of police officers murdering unarmed black men specifically, and the justice system not punishing the shooters. Multiple cases like Eric Garner where 8 armed and trained officers choked an unarmed black man to death for the crime of selling dollar cigarettes (CNN). The movement first came about after the George Zimmerman case where an adult white male followed a young black teenager shooting him multiple times and killing him simply because he wore a hoodie. This…

basis in traffic stops. This discrimination within the criminal justice system is composed of mainly African Americans and Hispanics. These minorities are targeted within the streets as criminals by police officers. A video from The Orland Sentinel showed major evidence of racial profiling by police. Within the video, there were more than one thousand people’s roadside stops shown. Statistics acquired from one hundred and forty-eight hours of video demonstrated that “Almost 70 percent of the…

home of prejudice, injustices and corruption. And rightfully so in the wake of the mysterious shootings of minority members by police who were exonerated and received no punishment in almost every case. The one exception was the shooting in North Charlotte were the entire incident was recorded by a bystander who gave the footage to the New York Times, for fear that the police of North Charlotte may try use censorship to cover up the incident. In reaction to the recent highly questionable…

challenges for police to effectively respond to domestic violence. Police do not need to always arrest the batterer. It was found that most battering suspects discontinued their aggressive behavior even if they were not arrested by police (Miller, Hess, Orthmann, 2014, p. 437). This shows mandatory arrest policies for all batterers may be unnecessary and tie up a communities limited resources away from identifying the worst offenders and the victims at the greatest risk. By police simply…

In 1976, an innocent man named Randall Adams was convicted and imprisoned for the murder of officer Robert Wood, after the presumed killer David Harris gave a false statement against him. This case inspired the documentary, “Thin Blue Line” and led to widespread controversy about the investigation. The documentary features several interviews of individuals involved in the case and these interviews highlight many aspects of how human memory works. The interviews reflected different ways that…

5 days after the murders Lizzie burned a dress that supposedly had paint on it. To contradict the possibility of it being blood, Lizzie actually handed the dress she was seen wearing over to the police. The dress she was seen wearing was blue and the one she burned was red. Although back then, the police wouldn’t’ve checked through her closet to check all her dresses therefore this was a possible…

INTRODUCTION: This case involves Suspect Winter being arrested for H&S 11377(a)-Crystal Methamphetamine. Suspect Meretta was cited and released in the field for H&S 11364(a)-Drug Paraphernalia. LOCATION DESCRIPTION: This incident occurred in the parking lot at 700 E. Washington Boulevard (Washington Park). EVIDENCE: • 2-Glass pipes approximately 3 inches in length with a bulb at the end, resembling a crystal methamphetamine pipe, with a white burnt residue inside. One pipe was found in…

On the evening of July 15, 2003, Cole Cannon went to the home of Evan Miller to make a drug deal with Millers mother (Miller v. Alabama, 2012). Evan Miller and his co-defendant Colby Smith followed Cannon back to his own trailer where all three of them smoked marijuana and played drinking games. After a while Cannon passed out and Miller stole Cannon’s wallet. Miller and Smith split $300.00 between them (Miller v. Alabama, 2012). While Miller was putting the wallet back in Cannon’s pocket,…

In Chapter 4, Heyman discusses the narrow view of the virtual wall, advanced technology and surveillance used to protect the border. Urrea (2004) illustrates this point, in Chapter 1 of The Devil’s Highway. He describes the Welton Police Station, the building is deteriorating, but on the inside, sits a “high tech command center." The computer system connected to the GPS satellites operates 24 hours, 7 days a week. The reader is able to gauge a picture of the building, technology and how the…