The Rookies

The needs in my Brooklyn community as well as others that are effected by the changes happening among minority adolescents and young men is evident by the increase population in the correctional facilities. Some blame the behavioral changes on ineffective parenting skills, poor supervision, rejection from the family, parents not caring enough to have consistent discipline or no discipline, also many children are born from adolescents or teen parents which is factor of poor parenting skills…

Scenario #1 Scenario number one begins with team one, my partner and I, we are assigned to conduct traffic enforcement in one area of the city. The next day is my partner and I were praised for a job well done; however, our colleagues in another sector were ridiculed for not making the standards. The second traffic team based our team’s success on the differences in product, the radar detectors, not our work ethic. Finally the second team threatened our team saying “you both better watch out…

favorite professor Glen Schwartz is currently on his second decade of working for the Illinois State Police, he has a lot of insight on the easiest way through report writing. Similarly, rookie cops must learn from the cops that have been there longer. Rookies learn from their field officers the exact way to write the report, how to use the equipment like the laptops that come inside the patrol. Often when it is not a “busy” day an officer could use that laptop to write his…

It 's no secret that internships are often the key to securing a job offer before graduation, but they aren 't so easy to get as a first year student. Freshmen are the rookies on campus, who don 't have any experience or knowledge that can be applied to the real world. However, that doesn 't mean that freshman shouldn 't look and apply for internships. In this article, I am going to show you the steps I took to get my internship after freshman year and what you can do to get yours. First, get…

Apple’s products are intuitive and easy to comprehend and learn. As technology has become more intricate and clients need more features, the task of keeping things straightforward is sometimes troublesome but Apple creates tools for power users and rookies, which can mean a wide scope of ease-of-use issues. On the other hand, Apple also dominates in the global market as it has developed new innovative products at least two years, while its competitors are just making their offerings more…

Saddle bronc riding is a very thrilling, exciting, and dangerous event in the sport of rodeo. Saddle bronc riders must be tough, flexible, and athletic to compete in the event. In the history of saddle bronc riding, many cowboys have been seriously injured. Saddle bronc riding is not for the faint of heart. Rookie saddle bronc riders need how to stay safe when saddling and riding a bronc so they can avoid causing an accident. There are three main parts to saddling and riding a bronc: saddling…

Police corruption is a very serious problem but also a very avoidable issue (Melig 2012). Some police departments have become so riddled with corruption that the public views every officer, no matter where they are located through out the country as being crooked or bad. This type of behavior for police paints a bad picture for all police and is a main reason that departments simply do not let the officers take gratuity from the public. The thought is a simple gratuity could lead a relatively…

African and American populations share the same Earth, but the former suffers from hunger, lack of food, while the latter suffers from obesity, the state of being overweight. What’s ironic is that the rate of increase in obesity and the fatal consequences dragged along are causing almost as much concern as the hunger epidemic is. In an op-ed essay “Too Much of a Good Thing” featured in the Los Angeles Times (22 July 2001), Greg Crister introduces the widespread epidemic and points out that…

The summer of the transition between my 8th grade year and freshman year in high school, the high school water polo team only had 7 players. That’s enough for everyone to play without a break. A friend of mine asked around if anyone would be interested in playing in the 2011 water polo season. I thought to myself about how everyone would always say “make the best out of your high school years”. “Why not?”. I had heard a lot about polo from inexperienced people. I heard it was a lot like…

Auditions at the Crane Youth Music (CYM) camp at Potsdam University are about to begin. June 28th was the day I was waiting for. The first official day of camp. This is it. I go up to the audition room and see the other trombones standing there waiting for their turns. I start shaking, holding my king, straight bone, student model trombone in my left hand while Ferdinand David’s Concertino Op. 4 was in my other. The other trombonists with their Bach Professional Bb/F 42B Stradivarius Tenor…