New York City Police Department

somebody studies hard for weeks odds are they will get outstanding grades; if somebody kills another person they will most likely be sent to prison. Police are the people that help keep others safe and protected however it is no easy job. In the words of our President, Barrack Obama Police are here to keep our social norms in sync, “Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They 've got a tough job to do to maintain public…

permission to provided police officers to stop a person and frisk them based on “reasonable suspicions” of possible criminal activities. Although nowadays it seems to be a way for police officers to harass people on the street specifically minorities. From this program, minorities experienced police interrogations, physical assault, and even arrests, only to establish innocence in court. Despite being declared unconstitutional in 2013, there’s an ongoing discussion in the news to bring it back…

The Knapp Commission was a committee of five citizens established and impanelled by then-New York City Mayor John Lindsay in 1972 that endeavored to investigate corrupt activities of police officers, detectives, and supervisors working in the New York Police Department (NYPD). Mayor Lindsay was pressured to investigate corruption in the NYPD after a series of articles that appeared in local newspapers detailed a wide breadth of corrupt activities of officers throughout the NYPD. The first…

women’s rights, minimum wage laws, etc. Thus, in 1900, a reform group known as the “New York Committee of Fifteen” conducted undercover vice investigations and released their first report with the title “The Social Evil.” A similar group with ties to the New York Anti-Saloon League, known as the “Committee of Fourteen,” did a comparable investigation of prostitution three years later. From 1910 to 1917, 43 different cities followed suit with similar commissions that flouted their propaganda in…

Crime in the United States has been very bad in the last couple decades, though in the more recent years’ crime has been steadily decreasing. The police have been implementing a way of reducing crime by using the method of stop and frisk mostly in cities such as New York City or Chicago which are more prominently used. Stop and frisk is when a police officer has reasonable suspicion that a crime is going to happen, about to happen, or has happened before stopping a suspect. The officer then goes…

Central Park Jogger in New York City. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, and Kharey Wise served sentences between five to thirteen years. From the beginning I knew that the boys are all innocent, however the police think in an unexpected way, even though the detective did not had evidence against them. The police were responsible for the traumatic events that these innocent boys…

New York City Trip On July 10-17, my family and I took a trip to New York City. This was our first trip her and we were very excited to see all the sights. My half-brother used to live in New York and we just never got around to seeing them, plus I was too young to really enjoy the New York experience. New York City is one of the best and busiest places in the United States. The state is full of history both good and bad. B. We did a lot of things that common tourist usually do. First,…

government and the new growing fear of terrorism the New York City Police Department created a number of counterterrorism units to combat terrorism affecting the city. The NYPD even mentions in their mission statement on their counterterrorism unit page “Built upon the realization that the City could not rely solely on the federal government for its defense, the Counterterrorism Bureau was created” (nyc.gov). Although the City still works and is partnered with the FBI, the City wanted to take…

New York City in the 1980’s was a populace that was already developed and getting even more populated with such a great amount of diversity. New York City is not all skyscrapers and business like what people think of when they watch television, there are five boroughs in NYC. The boroughs of NYC are Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, and finally, Staten Island. Other than Manhattan, many of the other boroughs are mostly houses and apartment buildings as you would see in a regular neighborhood…

I. Topic: New York City News General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform the class about the New York Police Department’s Stop and Frisk practice. Thesis: Three news sources focus on NYPD Stop and Frisk policies II. Introduction: When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self-esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep…