Mug shot

Race and ethnicity play a major role in stereotyping. Individual’s actions in regards to race and ethnicity are significant in society and everyday life because it can significantly affect other people’s lives such as, the opportunities they may have, and how they are treated or mistreated. Prejudice is a negative attitude directed towards a cultural group based on misguided generalizations about members that may pertain to a specific racial or ethnic background. Prejudice plays an important…

When describing the relationship between the policy agencies /police administrators and the media, I would say that it is a love-hate relationship. Depending on the severity of the news is how it's reported. One way that it conflict is how certain news station biases and report only what they know will cause conflict. The news affects an enormous number of citizens daily. Usually, crime news is a major topic, no matter if it has any merit of truth or falsehood, positive or negative. What a…

Jacksonville Florida DUI Lawyer A DUI arrest and conviction can dramatically change your life. A DUI conviction can stay on your driving record indefinitely, have a negative effect on your employment status, increase your insurance costs, lower your credit score and even land you in jail. In some cases people arrested in Jacksonville for DUI have to pay thousands of dollars in fines, be forced to take time off work, do community service, attend alcohol classes and lose their driving…

of paperwork that is involved. The offender’s information must be entered into the system, such as their name, date of birth, address, telephone number, crimes committed, and the amount of time they will serve at the institution. Their photo or “mug shot” will be taken for identification purposes. Lastly, I was assigned to shadow the correctional officers on the K-block, which is the women block. I assisted the correctional officers prepare the meals in the kitchen to serve the women on the…

My analysis of the exhibition was that it presented the various and diverse collections of American history that influenced the civil right movement. What caught my eye initially was the N.A.A.C.P. Flag “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” memorabilia. It very important to see that even though the NAACP did not have a significant presence in the southern states, that the organization alerted the nation of the heinous crime of lynching. To walk to down the street and see that flag waving is vital…

There is a widespread and persistent problem of police brutality across the United States. Nearly every day there is a news report on police misuse of conduct when dealing with the public. Unresisting suspects have been beaten and shot by police. Misapplication of batons, chemical sprays, tasers and restraining methods have resulted in deaths. Thousands of individual complaints about police abuse are reported annually and local authorities pay out millions of dollars to victims in damages after…

Mystic River is a novel set in the times of 1975 for a brief time and 2000, this book was written to take place in one of our country's greatest cities, Boston. Throughout the book, we meet a whole plethora of characters who are all linked to each other through marriage, family, or friends. The book begins with a scene of three best friends in the flats of Boston. Jimmy Marcus, Dave Boyle, and Sean Devine were inseparable when they were growing up, until one day, a poor decision, changed these…

All across the country there have been many reports of police taking things too far and abusing the power that they have been granted. Many case have been looked over in which the police have taken their power to the next level and it has begun causing a lot of controversy throughout the nation. The police have taken things too far when it comes to basic protocols. Ranging from cases such as Sandra Bland all the way to the Michael Brown case and to be honest it is only going downhill from here.…

recipient to the girl's terror, still and silent as dawn in the near-darkness. They were standing so close she could feel her bare knees brush the thin fabric of Claudia's jeans, the girl's breath wisping off the edge of her throat. A cold frission shot up her spine. "Hey, everythin's gonna be fine," she said, smiling in spite of herself as her hand sorted through darkness and bright green feathers to rub gently at Claudia's back. Vertigo stole over her as the door behind them shifted away.…

Dyke, the officer who violently murdered young McDonald claimed that McDonald was walking toward him, but many people including officers said McDonald was not walking towards him. Van Dyke didn’t just shoot McDonald once, he shot him 16 times, “McDonald 's autopsy found he was shot once on each side of his chest and suffered single bullet wounds in the scalp and neck, two in his back, seven in his arms, one in his right hand and two in his right leg. According to the report, nine of the 16…