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    The policy I would like to propose is influenced by the federal criminal justice system and the United States Sentencing Commissions’ guidelines on criminal punishments. The United States Sentencing Guidelines are non-binding rules that set out a uniform sentencing policy for defendants convicted in the United States federal court system (law.cornell.edu).The policy is structured by taking offenses based on the severity of the action and administering a punishment considered fair based on the…

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    Racial Profiling used by Police officers With the issue of racial profiling it is described by Risse “ that there is significant correlation between membership in certain racial groups and the tendency to commit certain crimes”(Risse M). Describing that many crimes are only committed by only few and select racial groups. There has been many studies that investigate police on the issue. This was even stated by Langan saying “Traffic stops are the single most frequent type of police-citizen…

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    alone has caused, and still cause conflict. Even more so know, with religious freedom being so highly amplified by the media and also by how true believers of Christ are rejected, abused and told it is a ‘hate crime’ to follow what is written and ordained by him. [and its funny saying ‘hate crime’ coming from a Black person. Or,am I the only one amused by that. My identifiers education also conflicts with a lot with my main practice, if you recall ‘GOD’ has been taken out of school. In…

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    Today, it is so valuable that a person can exercise their right to vote particularly with the upcoming election. If a person has committed a crime and are considered a “felon” in some…

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    caught hacking into major corporations such as Yahoo, Bank of America, Citigroup, The New York Times, and Microsoft. Mr. Lamo was convicted of compromising the security of these corporations and ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution for his serious crime. Astonishingly, all of the security compromises Adrian committed were through free public internet connections at local libraries and coffee shops. What if we gave free public internet connections to every citizen in Canada? Would citizens value…

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    performing the death sentence is known as execution. The crimes that put a person in a situation where he or she has to face a death penalty are known as capital offenses or capital crimes. Capital is a Latin term that means “regarding the head”, that refers to death by beheading. Death Penalty, also known as capital punishment or death sentence, is a legal punishment due to which a person is ordered to be killed by the state because of a crime that person has committed. The Death penalty has…

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    vehicle for race and class control. Personally, I had never considered this connection, mostly because, as Alexander says, the rhetoric has changed. It is understood as a social crime in itself to discriminate…

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    me. It is more than that now. The police are a big part of the community. I think want to a be part of that. To protect and sever the community to the best of my ability. If it be a school liaison police officer. Educating the children of about crime and safety. To policing the streets and protect the people Threw the various positions the police have to offer . I have…

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    consequence on a greater wrong that has been done or could equally be seen as the highest penalty exacted on the biggest wrongs faced and done in a society. The highest form of penalty/punishment will be the penalty of death for the doing of a specific crime as compared to the denial of one’s freedom or any access to material possessions he/she…

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    Constitution on January 31st, 1865. This Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime.” Through these five words, the 13th Amendment essentially created a loophole in which slavery could continue after the Civil War through arresting African Americans for minor offenses such as loitering and vagrancy. It is argued that racism and a resurgence of hate against African Americans was perpetuated through the release of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation by…

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