Taser

Mataia Blackwell
Mr. Berkoben
English IV
30 November 2015 Police Brutality in Oklahoma Over the years America has become afraid of the very people who are said to protect us. This is a result of officers abusing their power of authority and using unnecessary violence against an individual, resulting in psychical harm fatality. Oklahoma is the fifth state with the highest reported misconduct per 100,000 officers (“Abused”). Even if a person has committed a crime or is resisting arrest, only a…

Will they be dangerous? Will they be kids? What artillery do I need to bring? Where is Manny? Charles thinks to himself as he struggles to put his desert camouflage pants on. He is still half asleep having just rolled out of bed to answer his ringing cellular phone. It is a call from the East Rio Grande watchtower; a spotlight controlled by an immigration agent in the tower reveals a group of immigrants attempting to cross the river. The watchtower calls Charles to take care of it. He rubs his…

Police brutality in the United States has become an issue that has gained the public 's attention in countries across the globe. Police brutality has been defined as the use of any force exceeding what is reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful purpose. Police officers are entrusted with the protection of their community, although recently they have abused their power as a way to brutally assault often innocent civilians and get away with it. As of April 27th 2015 police throughout the…

He was shacking Elena-his mother-rapidly telling her to wake up. The bloody water was staining his white shirt every time he shuck her. Jackson puts his Taser back in his belt. He then immediately picks the boy by his waist princess style carrying him out of the bathroom and towards the apartment door. The boy started kicking and screaming. He didn’t want to leave her. “No! No! You can’t take me away! She…

Set in south central Los Angeles after the violent outbreak of riots after the 1992 Rodney King beating, trial and verdict, playwright and professor Anna Deavere Smith is able to transform herself into scores of residents of Los Angeles. Entirely using the words of over 200 residents of Los Angeles during and after the Rodney King Riots, she is able to reflect the experiences that spread throughout the city. Striving to display a wide variety of perspectives, Smith incorporates characters from…

Sandra Bland’s life ended over a traffic ticket and putting out a cigarette. That might sound abnormal because a traffic ticket or cigarette is not worth someone’s life. Bland was pulled over for a traffic ticket and then asked to put out her cigarette. Brain Encinia the trooper that pulled over Bland asked her to put out her cigarette but she said. She is not obligated to put out her cigarette that she was smoking in her own car. After she repeatedly told him no, that provoked him get…

government will be able to view the interaction from officer to civilian and visa-versa. As mentioned before about one third of eighteen thousand police officers across the United States are utilizing a body camera, provided by a company called Taser Solutions. Taser has donated body cameras to the Chicago police department as a pilot program to test this solution. If this pilot was implemented in the busy cities like Miami, FL or New York City crime rates and accidental shooting will be more…

Overall,I found the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by international award winning Stieg Larsson a gripping obsession which demonstrates many compelling compartments. It captures a murder mystery,the growth of a love story and family saga’s which make an intriguing combination that develops into a satisfying and complex atmospheric novel. This novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo could be highly recommended to year 12 students.This entertaining novel around the two main characters Mikael…

On the 1st October at Oregon's Umpqua Community College, a horrific shooting unfolded that resulted in ten people getting killed. Including the recent gun shooting, there were more several massive casualties by school gun shootings such as the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. The matter of the gun control draws public attention. The President Obama is currently trying to make some changes for gun…

The definition of deviance is socially constructed with labelling of given acts deriving from response of others (Becker, 1963). This has implications for study of crime and the recording crime statistics as this means data used to understand crime in society is drawn from social products, and these social products are based upon perception. These perceptions are usually constructed through the media, who create images to drive forward particular views, and it is in this that certain norms or…