United States cities by crime rate

thousands of big city law officers were paid off to look the other way when alcohol was being illegally transported and distributed(Gingold). People would think that if they took the trouble to make alcohol illegal, the police officers would be willing to do their jobs and do them well. The eighteenth amendment, also known as Prohibition, was designed to reduce alcohol related crimes and to boost other entertainment industries, but in this author’s opinion, prohibition…

Armitage states "Crime Prevention through Environmental Design is a method of reducing crime through the design and manipulation of the built environment." (Armitage, 2016, p.1) The introduction that she presents us with is representative of the layouts and crime statistics in cities in England and Wales which after reading the article have a lot of similarities with the way New York is designed. This article is representative of my borough of Queens, and other parts of Brooklyn, and the Bronx…

Japan had been the only one left to do so. After they refused to surrender the united states dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th. Japan then announced their surrender on August 15th. Some people would argue that the bombs were justified because they did what they had to do to end the war. Others would say it wasn't justified due to all of all the lives that were lost. The war crime against Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not justified. Japan was already…

Suicide rates for persons over the age of sixty-five have increased dramatically in the United States in the last decade. The suicides are associated with numerous risk factors such as financial or relational loss, physical illness, hopelessness, isolation, depression among others. Depression has for a long time been blamed as the main reason for contemplating suicide. However, according to a recent research presented in the annual American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry meeting, older…

The United States criminal justice system race has been a factor since the system’s beginning. The criminal justice is a system that was “created to keep communities safe, to respect and restore victims and to return offenders who leave prison to be self-sufficient and law-abiding” (DeRoche, 2012). The biggest problem in the United States criminal justice system is not only the offenders, but the criminal justice system itself. Racial discrimination in the criminal justice system “exits when…

caused groups to disagree with each other. Those in favor of prohibition believe it “reduces crime and promotes social stability”, while those opposed believe it “increases crime and restricts liberty” (702). However, the amendment provided a loophole for medicinal and industrial purposes. This allowed bootleggers to carry on with their operations regularly. Their increasing profits caused organized crime to concentrate on the competition of the liquor distribution markets. A famous gangster…

Forty five years have passed since the American Government has declared a war on drugs. Do you feel safe living in a drug free America? Are children and young adults living in the United States protected from the drug cartels? Do the American schools remain free of illegal substances? The controversy of legalizing drugs has been ongoing for years with more than enough anti-drug propaganda and reasons to vote against legalization of drugs. As the communities, schools, and youth become…

necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. Now we ask the questions, do guns’ kill people or do people kill people? Should our right to bear arms be revoked because an individual makes an unacceptable decision? Is it right that all people be forced to ‘gun control’ because of one person’s actions? Gun laws are the cause of violent crimes in America, these laws need…

local, state, and federal law enforcements agencies. There are several issues and challenges that law enforcement officers face today and must overcome. In this paper I will discuss the development of policing, the challenges of law enforcement, and what is required by officers in today’s society. The development of policing began at time when Europe had come up with the concept of having night watchmen to watch over the communities. “Eventually, the need to confront the increase in crime…

map, there are a large amount of hate groups on the eastern side of United States of America as compared with the western side. They are generally located in large cities such as New Jersey, New York, Washington and more. Reason why there are more hate groups in large cities may be due to the fact that there are more people from different races and country as compared to smaller towns or suburbs. Immigrants will choose large cities to migrate to in order to establish their new life because there…