Gangs in the United States

company’s contributions promote the war on drugs, by giving the state no incentive to scale back their policies. What many fail to realize, however, is the impact the war on drugs and subsequent policies has internationally. America’s war on drugs has spread across the globe. This, however, is not necessarily…

cause of death, 100,000 children bring weapons to school every day in the United States (Hoffman and Summers, 2001). The increasing rates of youth violence appears to be a worldwide phenomenon in industrialized nations. Possible explanations for the increase vary from country to country and include drug trafficking, family breakdown, political turmoil and increased gang activity (Hoffman and Summers, 2001). In the United States, major contributors were the weapons and the violence that…

dangerous. There are four main events that lead people to believe in the idea that guns kill people according to O’Reilley (2017), mass shooting, school shooting, gang shootings, and domestic shootings. According to The Washington Post, a mass shooting is when four or more people die in the shooting in one location, this does not include gang violence, or robbery (Berkowitz, 2012). Usually mass shootings are out of anger because the shooter is isolated, have failed something, and lack…

supported, or celebrated. On the contrary, racial discrimination, of any measure, should be frowned upon and opposed. Racial discrimination should be opposed for the role that it plays in gang violence, hate crimes, mental health, and oppression. Historically, racial discrimination created…

principal architects of United States foreign policy during the period following the end of the Second World War. He talks about laws, police, and underground movements for drug cartel. How is it that the drug cartel is still able to move drugs across the border? The power struggle in present-day Mexico between major rival cartel groups and the Mexican government has evaded the appropriate amount of media and government concern. 66% of all medications that come into the United States traverse…

Over the past few decades, the United States has contributed to the substantial war on drugs and its impact has continued to affect many people in more than one way. Unfortunately, it is a war that has focused its efforts on the criminalization of drug use and distribution. It has certainly not eradicated the mass destruction that has been marked in communities around the United States and globally. There is an obvious correlation between drugs, racial justice, and aspects that reach beyond…

Background of Topic Modern organized crime is characterized by groups of criminals, often across different countries, conducting crimes for personal monetary gain. Crimes include, human and drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering, capital fraud, premeditated assassination, etc. In some cases, crime syndicates are even powerful enough to influence election results and initiate political corruption. Interpol estimates that approximately almost a million people worldwide are operating in…

desegregation and race mixing in the United States. Then, he recalls a moment where he watched a Klutz Klux Klan documentary as a kid with his mother. Moreover, he was disgusted that people could have such anger and hatred in their heart. Simi informs the audience about an experience he had with the Neo Nazi’s for research. His goal for this was to view their experienced through his eyes. Since 911, white extremists have killed more Americans in the United States than violent jihadists groups.…

Haiti. Dandicat gives the reader an intimate sense of Haiti’s fight for freedom through the creation of an everlasting portrait of the two father figures in her life; her dad and uncle. Danticat’s memoir functions as a way to not only expose the United States immoral immigration policy toward Haitians, but to reveal the struggles…

Hispanics are able to be great workers and do a lot of amazing things for this country that is the United States of America. Anyone is capable of being a great person in the great US, making this an even better country but some of the immigrant families that have illegal problems such as, being here with no documents, others come here just to do dumb stuff that makes them go to jail and that is not good for none of us. Most of the Hispanics, 3.7 percent of the US population are illegal that is…