Handcuffs

Bryan and I were best friends. We did everything together, whether it was finishing up our Calculus homework five minutes before class started or sitting on my couch eating popcorn and watching the scariest movies we could find. Neither of us had many other friends, so it had been just the two of us all through high school. He was the first person I would go to with all of my problems, even the ones that girls would generally only share with other girls. Sometimes we would stay up for hours at…

Power of the state, capitalism, and family. Young African Americans describe the drug trade as something they use to finance future legal ventures. Bergmann says that African American youths in Detroit have a unique journey due to the involvement in the street drug trade. Many cultures have specific rites of passage or rituals that transition individuals from childhood to adulthood, for example, the Christian confirmation ceremony and the Latin American Quinceañera. Although each culture may…

A mother picked up her six year old daughter Salecia from the police station where she sat in handcuffs from throwing a temper tantrum at school. She was then also suspended from school for her miss behavior (Mandell). Not only were the actions performed unnecessary, but incredibly harsh for a girl her age. The action of pushing students from school straight into prison is called the school to prison pipeline. Overreliance of harsh disciplinary actions is causing the school to prison pipeline…

records, but these are items that require testimony, which will fall under the Fifth Amendment. There can be restrictions on a search warrant. The courts need to make sure it doesn’t violate the federal constitution. The police officers usually handcuff occupants while searching location or vehicle, for their safety (Ferdico, Fradella, & Totten, 2013). There are a few different people who can issue a search warrant. They are justice of the peace, complaint judges, clerks of court, but the…

The citizens of the United States have been debating whether the police should wear body cameras. Recently this debate has gotten a lot more prevalent after the unjust deaths of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Missouri , and the death of Eric Garner in New York City. The United States death by police rate is by far higher than any other country, “ In 2011 police killed six people in Australia, two in England, six in Germany, and according to an FBI count, 404 in the United States.” (Stanley 2).…

Initially the Court was in agreement that the stop and subsequent arrest in the Terry case was appropriate on the basis of the “probable cause” standard. Barrett (1998) states, Chief Justice Warren had initially approached this decision on the basis that the stop in the Terry case was appropriate. It was Justice Brennan who eventually persuaded Chief Justice Warren to render a decision which put forth the new “reasonable suspicion” standard (Barrett, 1998, 793-821). If Chief Justice Warren…

Historically, female offenders were imprisoned in a different building within a male prison. Women had to deal with sexual abuse, physical abuse, lack of services, and inadequate privacy. Prison guards were usually male because the characteristics of a prison guard were to mean and strong something society thought women lacked. Male guards had little understanding of female offenders and therefore led to brutal punishment. In 1873, the first all-female prison in the Unites States opened up and…

It was a gray day. The sun did not shine; it could not sever the layers of powdery black skies and the fog. The thick mist that was not really rain and not really fog covered the southeastern corner of New Jersey. It was depressing, just like most days in the area surrounding the Overbrook Asylum. On the outside, Overbrook was a welcoming place where patients were treated with care and respect; the inside was very different. I entered the asylum as a nurse in May of 1910 and was excited to be…

Religion could be found in every corner of the world. It dictates what we eat, how we look, what we do or don’t do, and the morals we believe. For a lot of us religion is a big part of our lives and this could be seen in our government. Since the birth of the United States, religion has played a big part in our society, lawmaking, and culture. The U.S is a Christian based country and its morals have dictated a lot of laws. These religious biased laws have suppressed many types of people and the…

chase late at night. When King finally stopped, the police officers proceeded to then brutally beat him. The police officers possessed no right to use excessive force to stop this chase, as in many other reports the driver simply stops and put into handcuffs. This shows the Veil active, as police men where white and possessed no reason to beat King as they did. Several believe that the act of brutally beating African Americans comes from the way people raised their children. “The average…