Undercover

He had met Prince while attending Howard University and . On his way to his fiancee’s house in Virginia, he was followed by an undercover officer from the notorious Prince George County Police Department. This particular department had a history of committing acts like this and the author himself had a run in with them in the past as well. Although, Coates knew exactly who the officer…

Washington during 1971 caused the Nixon campaign to worry about Nixon’s reelection. For these reasons, White House special counsel Charles W. Colson made a list of enemies. To deal with the enemies on the list the Nixon administration recruited undercover agents and started plans for domestic surveillance. After the “Pentagon Papers”, a confidential study of the decision making during the Vietnam War by the Defense Department, was released the White House created a “plumbers” unit to prevent…

tries to avenge the murder of his wife. His condition has left him unable to form new memories, so he uses notes, tattoos, and polaroid pictures to organize his thoughts and conduct his own investigation. Throughout the film, he works with Teddy, an undercover cop, to try to locate and kill his wife’s killer. The actions in the film reveal that Teddy has been manipulating Leonard for his own purposes, specifically to make money and…

Let’s begin with the killing of Los Angeles Police Department officer Kevin Gaines. He was shot by undercover officer frank Lyga. Lyga was involved in a road rage incident with Gaines and suspected him of being a gang member. After his untimely death it came to be known that on his off duty time he worked as a security guard. It also came to light that this was not his first road rage case where he would threaten drives with a gun. Kevin Gaines came to be employed on his off time by Suge Knight…

Since prostitution was and still illegal in some states the sex industry found a loop hole. In the early 1980’s there were groups of women who considered themselves as “Madams”. It was a fancy and possibly an undercover name of a prostitute. They were high-end escorts that wealthy individuals would hire during a night or two. The fact that the industry found a loop hole for still selling sex is also a crime that was occurring during the 80’s. Crime can be seen…

meetings in order to obtain data of the Muslims in that area. The government is investigating Muslim student organizations in colleges without any evidence of criminal activity. Dozens of Muslim mosques are facing surveillance, and there are many undercover officers infiltrating the Muslim community. The surveillance state maintains the colonialist mentality that all Muslims are a threat because they could potentially be terrorists.…

The Prohibition By: Olivia Jansen What is the Prohibition? The Prohibition was the 18th Amendment added to the constitution. It was passed by Congress on December 18, 1917. By 1919, 48 states had ratified the amendment. It banned the production, sale, and possession of "intoxicating beverages" was illegal. "Intoxicating beverages" can be defined as half of 1 percent alcohol by volume. Beer was about 3-7 percent alcohol and wine was about 15 percent. Although alcohol was considered illegal, it…

barely touched at all. The referee will now play in your favor, and will give you the advantage for the time being. We see flopping in many sports. It’s almost a tradition in men’s and women’s soccer. Although you don’t get fined for flopping, it’s a undercover way of cheating. Flopping has affectively got teams extra points, that they couldn't have got on their own. There was another incident in football involving the Oakland Raiders. The star wide receiver, Fred Biletnikoff, and star defensive…

minds today. Inside this book, “The New Suburban History”, Nicolaides explains why the great urban scholars and writers of the 1950’s and 1960’s painted the wrong picture of the “hell” suburbia was and is seen today. Her opinion may be difficult to undercover in the beginning of her piece due to her mostly positive regard to Louis Wirth, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and William White. She sums up the views of these four by stating, “They felt that if the ‘right’ physical environment could be…

Pilecki is influential because of his admirable qualities, his bravery, and his pivotal moments. Witold Pilecki is admirable and should be admired because of his actions. For example, Fee.org says,”In October 1945, Pilecki accepted yet another undercover assignment — to go back to Poland and gather evidence of growing Soviet atrocities” This shows how Witold Pilecki went back to do another mission after he had already done a few. NPR.org says,”Pilecki was assigned to backbreaking work —…