United States cities by crime rate

worry about them being the next victim due to gun violence. Chicago should be noted for its beauty and culture rather than be overshadowed by deaths due to gun violence. If Chicago acknowledges that something must be done to reduce the gun violence rate, then they need to realize that it is time they take action and do something about it. Chicago 's interim superintendent, John Escalante, has warned Chicago police officers that if their dash cams are not working they will be punished. 80…

Doug Saunders is an award winning author of both books and newspaper articles. He writes about international political affairs, and his reporting is based on first-hand knowledge. Saunders has lived in and reported from major cities such as London, U.K. and Los Angeles, USA. (The Globe and Mail, 2016) In his article “America has problems, but not the ones you hear about” Saunders (2016) writes about some of the recent speeches from the the 2016 Republican National Convention. He begins his…

that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” - Martin Luther King Jr., 1963 In response to discrimination in many parts of the world, the United Nations (1948) created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which stated that, “Human Rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color,…

The United States is 5% of the worlds population but is responsible for housing 25% of the world’s prisoners, which is more than any country. This statistic equates to approximately 2.4 million individuals that are incarcerated at any given time. If the jail population was a city, it would be the fourth largest in America. The financial responsibility to house inmates falls upon the taxpayers in America. In some counties around the United States, prisoners have to pay a daily rate to offset…

black neighborhood, equally important proving the recent racial discrimination opinion. Further more, the Stop and frisk procedure has not lived up to its standards. Stop and frisk are meant to stop crime or at the least lower crime rates, take guns off the street and make you feel safer. Although crime rates have dropped by 20% in NYC, its nothing compared…

Immigration has shaped the United States in multiple ways, such as the economy,…

Pennsylvania 's oldest city Philadelphia, focuses on schools being shut down and prisons being built. The film documents communities in which the states ' prisons are being funded while making shortages to the public educational funds. Moreover, Philadelphia is ranked as the eighth largest school district within the United States. Additionally, for many years Philadelphia 's public education has needed financial help. In addition to this, studies have shown that even state wide public education…

most of its theories of crime on the individual as the positivist school did with using physical features as a determining factor to determine if an individual would commit crime, people began to gradually show disapproval towards these theories made by criminologists such as Lombroso. These new thinkers began to focus on effects society itself has as a cause of crime. Beginning around the 1930’s, Progressives started to deny social Darwinists beliefs that people commit crime because they are…

guns has been implied, allowing for state and local governments to adopt gun restrictions“(New York.) If we didn’t have gun laws we could have bad people buying guns that shouldn’t have guns. I Think we should have gun control. Guns being sold illegally is a big problem in the U.S. “After the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in which 20 children and six adults were murdered, states passed strengthened gun control laws. New York was one of the first states to act after the mass…

of law for very serious crimes (Merriam-Webster). The death penalty has been around since the 1800’s. Since 1976 there has been 1,449 executions because of the death penalty. In 2016 twenty executions were carried on death row. The rate of executions has dropped dramatically since the 90’s in 1999 there was 98 executions. A total of 156 people have been exonerated from death row since 1973. The state of Texas has executed more people than any other state in the United States…