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- 2671: Police Brutality
- ... of people killed by police has gone down from the middle 1970's to the middle 1980's in major cities, says Patrick V. Murphy, former head of police commissions in Detroit, New York, and Washington, D.C. (C.C. 17). Also, in Kansas City, Missouri, a police department there has 1,110 officers. Amazingly, the only received approximately 108 complaints from the public about those 1,100 officers. Adding to ...
- 2672: Illegal Immigration
- ... numbers of crimes committed by immigrants. They are forgetting that the immigrants of past had similar problems. When illegal immigration is not confused with legal immigration, debate can take place in a sane matter. As George Borjas noted on page 77 of his article, the economic consequences of illegal immigration are unclear. Convincing cases can be made that illegals hurt and help the American economy. I have heard that the United ...
- 2673: Handgun Control in the United States
- ... in the United States with the exception of law enforcement purposes. Two weeks before Christmas Day, 1987, 17 year-old Kendall Merriweather was shot and killed a few blocks from his high school in southeast Washington, D.C. Police arrested two teenage students who they believe killed Merriweather while trying to steal his "boom box" radio. A few days earlier, in Pasadena, Texas, a 14-year-old eight grader at Deepwater ...
- 2674: The Effects of Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Cases
- ... barroom brawls that wouldn't call for the death penalty, but many white murders occur on top of another offense, such as robbery (As cited in Gest, 1986, 25). This may be true but the Washington Legal Foundation offers their own explanation by arguing that blacks are arrested for murder at a higher rate than are whites. When arrest totals are factored in , the probability of a white murderer ending up ...
- 2675: Reviving The Death Penalty
- ... it curious to know what made them speak out against killing right before they lost their own life". On the side of capital punishment are many great thinkers in our history, Rousseau, Kent, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Locke, and Hobbes' (Draper 113). French philosopher Montesquieu went as far as to say "The death penalty shall be prescribed as the medicine for a social malady". "Data shows that some murderers have killed again ...
- 2676: Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does
- ... The first is the Congressional order allowing Federal Investigators to take into custody fugitives of American laws no matter where they are apprehended on this planet. The second example is the raid on Panama during George Busch's presidency that involved the invasion of a Nicaraguan ambassadors home. Both of these violate the laws of sovereignty, jurisdiction, and extraterritoriality (Huston). It is very easy to show that these two acts of ...
- 2677: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
- ... Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 408-410. Asimov, Issac. (1965.) Short History of Chemistry, A. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 132, 134-136, 195, 218, 220-221, 235. Clark, George L., Gessner G Hawley, & William A. Hamor. (1957.) Encyclopedia of Chemistry, The. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation. p. 112, 583, 711. Clemens, R. (1956.) Modern Chemical Discoveries. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. p. 3 ...
- 2678: Legalization of Marijuana
- ... Six hundred thousand people now have criminal records because marijuana is not legal for medical use in this country, she says. This is blasphemy. ( Zieger, 70 ). With all this scientific attention you might think that Washington would lighten up. It's still business as usual at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which commissioned the Institute of Medical Study. At this moment, smoking marijuana is not medically useful in our ...
- 2679: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- ... gun turns average citizens into bloodthirsty lunatics. This theory falls apart under close scrutiny. If legal possession of a firearm caused this sort of attitude, then why are crime rates highest in areas such as Washington, D.C. and New York City which have strict gun control laws? And why are crime rates dropping in states such as Florida where private ownership of firearms is encouraged? Simply stated, legal ownership of ...
- 2680: Misconduct in Police Departments
- ... live a dangerous life in our society. In today's society racism has spread within our police departments. "Police have two different faces," says Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation, a research organization in Washington. (113) Throughout our communities it differs how officers treat people. "In minority neighborhoods, it's law and order. In white neighborhoods, it's protect and serve. So it's not surprising we have this bifurcated ...
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