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Molly Ivins’s “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but get Rid of Guns” is the authors personal opinion on how guns should be banned from public use; she argues guns only kill that it would be safer to carry a knife or get a dog to protect us. She uses the Second Amendment to back up her argument about guns being only for the well-trained militia. The claim of the argument is Guns are a Danger, so it’s safer to get a knife or a dog. Ivins’s argument is unclear without addressing the main reasons why guns are bad overall.

The article “Report suggests NYPD’s ‘broken windows’ policing doesn’t work” discusses the study and report put together by the Department of Investigation that states that the extensive policing of low-level misdemeanors had no effect on the amount of felony crime. Furthermore, this study also found that broken windows policing also disproportionately impacts minority populations as black, Hispanic, and impoverished communities had much higher rates of misdemeanor arrests and court summonses than white communities.

On November 15, 1959, 4 murders took place. Perry smith and Dick Hickock took the lives of four innocent people. “In Cold Blood”, written by Truman Capote, describes each of the murderers life. Perry smith was born in Huntington, Nevada on October 27, 1928. Perry was abused by his father and his family soon left his father. His mother was an alcoholic, and died when he was 13. He and his siblings were put in an orphanage where he was abused for wetting his bed. From there he was moved to a salvation army orphanage where a caretaker allegedly tried to drown him. Perry moved back with his father, from there he started getting into trouble with the police. He was in and out of juvenile detention. Perry smith should be held accountable for his

“A decade ago, Hempstead’s only full-time black police officer sued, alleging that Chief Smith had dismissed him on a trumped-up charge after he complained about his supervisor’s racial slurs. An African-American couple also sued, alleging that Chief Smith had turned them away when they reported that a white man had assaulted

In 1990, New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton instituted a stop, question, and frisk policy in his jurisdiction . The program allows police officers to search citizens without probable cause . This empowers police officers to use their discretion when deciding whether or not to search a subject . Since its inception, the policy has disproportionately targeted people of color . When police officers are allowed to use their discretion, some call upon their own prejudices against people of color to guide their decision-making . Despite President Trump’s calls to expand the program, stop-and-frisk should be eliminated altogether because it exposes people of color to discrimination. This discrimination creates resentment for police in minority communities.

The Nation’s short documentary, “The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy,” includes disturbing audio recorded by a 16 year-old Harlem student, named Alvin, who was victim to a rather violent stop-and-frisk. Alvin proceeded to ask as to why he’s been stopped, only to have none of the three officers respond with legitimate reasoning, instead receiving threats of bodily harm and arrest just for “being a f***ing mutt,” as one officer retorted. “I felt like they was trying to make me resist or fight back,” Alvin told The Nation. The New York Police Department deny claims of operating on racial profiling, however Darius Charney, senior staff attorney at the Center of Constitutional Rights, points out “there’s a clear racial animus when they call him a ‘mutt.’” Even while New York State Law prohibits the use of quotas for arrests, summonses and stops, Julio Valentin, retired NYPD veteran, admits, “everything is a numbers game.” With the pressure to meet this quota, and under the stress and fear of facing disciplinary action, officers resort to performing these unreasonable stops. The two anonymous veterans in the video confess, “Instead of being protected by us, they’re [the civilian population] being hunted and we’re being hated. The police department is pushing the news guys to be bounty hunters.” When even good cops are forced to abide these standards, on what basis can we collectively name all officers

As pointed out in Wade C. Jacobsen’s Minority Youth and Police Contact, “One example of police contact is New York City’s Stop-and-Frisk program. It has been practiced by the New York Police Department for decades……………but the practice has nonetheless been met with heated debate and complaints of racial profiling. Indeed, a recent report by the New York Civil Liberties Union

An analysis by the NYCLU shows that innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and and street interrogations more than 4 million times since 2002, and the Black and Latino communities are the target of these approaches. Even though the New York Police Department are cutting the crime activities by 29%, other large cities are getting better results without using the stop and frisk policy. Martial Arts Instructor, Tauren Murphy believes that the NYPD uses stop and frisk to cover it’s real intent. Murphy states “The vast majority of the time, it’s a way to harass young men of color. The shootings are unfortunate, but there should be more police in the community, working with the community and not just showing when there is trouble.” Residents of Bronx believe that if there are just more police around in general then the numbers of shooting will go down because no one is going to risk getting caught when there are so many officers around. Many people have said that they would not even go to the police for help because they distrust them that much, this “proactive policing” that is going on is just driving a deeper wedge between the police and the community. Ray Kelly, police commissioner says that “about 70 percent to 75 percent of the people described as committing violent crimes-- assault,

Stop and Frisk laws have been a statistically proven means of crime prevention across America as a whole. Still, ever since their creation, Stop and Frisk laws have been a major source of controversy in America. The constitutionality of Stop and Frisk laws was confirmed in the 1968 case of Terry vs Ohio and since then, crime levels across America have been at historic lows. Yet, the 2013 verdict of the class action lawsuit, Floyd v. City of New York has ruled otherwise. The court found the NYPD of violating both the fourth and fourteenth amendment mostly on the grounds of racial profiling. The court has as a result put in place a serious of complex changes to these laws making the job as a police officer even more dangerous than it already was. The topic of “racial profiling” is the fuel to the majority of the arguments opposing Stop and frisk. However, the subject of racial profiling is vastly misconstrued and deeply misunderstood. Stop and Frisk laws have flaws and are not perfect by any means, nevertheless they are an imperative source of preventing crime in America that needs to continue.

Dykstra-Crookshanks once said, "The criminal justice system is set up to prosecute crimes committed by those of lower social economic status" (2018). One descriptive example is when people wear hoodies to hide their face while committing crimes while others wear them when due to comfort or weather conditions. When a white person wears their hood up over their face, police officers do not grow alarmed. When a black person wears their hood up, officers play the tactic that they are in danger. The described situation is how Trayvon Martin was killed for his wearing his hood up. Martin, who was discussed earlier in the paper, was stalked and killed because he had his hood up, even though he was not participating in criminal activity. George Zimmerman displayed a personal experience of racial profiling, assuming Martin was a criminal because he was black and wearing his hood up. Zimmerman was "doing" race by attacking Martin, only because he was black. I learned in my race and ethnic course, "Young black men in America have come to symbolize a criminal threat" (Dykstra-Crookshanks 2018). This comment describes how black people as a whole are assumed to be criminals or a threat to society by the criminal justice system. Recent research has concluded, "In the entire African American subsample of the National Survey of American Life, 27.94% (weighted) reported experiencing

In recent years’ police departments have been brought into the public eye based on the public belief that police brutality has become a norm within the police system in recent years. Yet this has occurred for decades in police departments, not only that but there are multiple forms of brutality to take account of in the criminal justice system specifically towards African-Americans. The criminal justice system has become accustomed to creating a system of racial control after the ending of the Jim Crow Era. Causing every level of the system to work in a way that limits the freedom of African-Americans the most common being that of police misusing

Critical accounting policies are those that are believed to be most important to the presentation of Starbucks financial position and results. They require the most difficult, subjective and complex judgments. They are often used to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain. Starbucks considers financial reporting and disclosure practices and accounting policies quarterly to ensure that the documents provide accurate and transparent information relative to the current economic and business environment. Within the past three years, no material changes to the accounting methodologies have been used to assess the areas discussed. Starbucks fiscal year ends on the Sunday closest to September 30. Fiscal years 2015, 2014 and 2013 include 52 weeks (sec.gov).

Discrimination is a known concept that happens everywhere, yet police and prosecutors are blind to it. Their ways of preventing crime are discriminatory in every sense of the word and they categorize people based on their skin color and where they reside. The disproportionate minority contact with the stop and frisk method is one of the ways that discrimination can be seen. “Code of the Street” and “Law and Disorder in Philadelphia” help dissect why discrimination is not seen by police and their agencies and also how police officers and their administration go about ways of preventing crime. The pressure within the police, community, and courts create inequalities for the individuals going through the Criminal Justice System.

Marijuana is a current popular topic today. Currently legalized in 29 states, marijuana has medical benefits, but also some negative benefits. Marijuana should be legalized in Texas because it benefits people with serious illnesses and it financially benefits the state.