...Choosing a Force Jonitha Marshall CJA/214 Phillip Cooley The police agencies of America are all highly competent and competitive forces within each community. All potential candidates much adhere to extremely stringent guidelines and meet exceptional standards to earn the right to wear the badge and serve their community. To be a part of any one of these agencies would be an honor and a privilege. When considering which one to select, the decision (for me) would be based solely upon the location. Being in an optimal location would serve as the basis for the decision. For this reason the Fort Worth Texas Police Department would be the perfect choice. The Fort Worth police department exercises the same meticulous selection of their officers that many other agencies, the country over, employ. There are several steps to the process before a candidate is even eligible to apply. Upon meeting these many requirements, a candidate must prove they are physically, legally, psychologically and morally competent to be considered. Finally a candidate must stand in front of a board and be approved. Only then can one say they have met requirements and are worthy to serve. Initially, a potential candidate must meet the basic requirements set forth under the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Education (TCLEOSE). These standards include education requirements including either a high school diploma, or a GED. A GED is acceptable with proof of at least 12 semester...
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...The first settlers were farmers from other states such as Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, etc. The area was referred to as White Settlement because it was the only community outside the fort (Fort Worth) that was settled entirely by white people. All of the other communities were mixed Indian and Whites. The area was about 10 miles west of the Fort. Early settlers were harassed by hostile Indians...but soon made friends of them and did considerable trading with those in the area. The land was rich and produced bumper crops of corn, grain, etc. A mill was established and the area did considerable trading, not only with the Indians, but other whites in the vicinity. The community remained more or less the same until 1940, when a bomber plant was built on the shores of Lake Worth in the area. The government built temporary housing for workers and businesses were established. In 1941 the city was incorporated and after the war continued to grow with the General Dynamics plant and other businesses. No farms remain within the city limits today. The community itself is rich in sales taxes and motel taxes and provides great parks, a public library, recreation department, senior services and first class fire and police protection. It is completely surrounded by Fort Worth, but still has some room for development. Our neighborhood community takes pride in the 14 dedicated scenic parks. Encompassing 203 acres, the many programs offered to residents...
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...the lines, the security policies and financial ramifications for my school district after these tragedies can be described as "tight". According to U.S. Department of Justice report Security Concepts and Operational Issues, security operations often require a balance between effectiveness, affordability and acceptability. Frequently, schools do not have the funding for an aggressive and complete security program. Many effective measures are too expensive. School districts can provide effective security operations without applying every security approach at every school. Effective security operations are based on a determination of who or what needs to be protected, who or what they or it needs to be protected from and the general constraints of the particular school's facilities. (Window of State Government 2001) After the school shooting in Columbine and most recently Newton Elementary shooting, the level of security in our district escalated to "Red" status. Statement above is out dated. Our district wrote its own policy, enforced it and carried out to the full extent. Since funding is an issue, our district (FWISD) concentrates its safety and security activities in the Student Affairs department. This also means more demands of school's administrators. We works more closely with the Fort Worth Police Departments to ensure a safe and secure environment for students and teachers. The training for teachers and drills to enhance emergency preparedness are being conducted...
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...Republican Party driven except for in 1964 when the county voted for the Democrat Lyndon Johnson who is a Texas Native. All cities provide their own police services except for 3 which contract out of different cities or the Sherif’s office. DFW Airport, Tarrant County Hospital District, and the Tarrant Regional Water District also provide their own police forces. Countywide law enforcement is provided by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s office and Tarrant County Constable’s office. All cities within Tarrant County operate their own firefighting services and most operate their own ambulances. Since the disbandment of the North Tarrant county fire department, there is not any countywide firefighting services available. Tarrant County is made up of eleven civil courts, three county courts, and seven family courts. All of these are located in downtown Fort Worth in the Tarrant County Civil Courts Building. There are twenty criminal courts in Tarrant County, including six state-level criminal courts, all of which are located at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in Fort Worth. The county also has ten County Criminal Courts and four Criminal District Courts. Tarrant County is divided into eight precincts, each has a Justice of the Peace. There are two Magistrate Courts that operate from the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in Fort Worth. The courts are located in the building’s basement so that the inmates from the nearby Tarrant County Corrections Center may be transported between...
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...active-duty armored post at Fort Hood. It was a major hub for troops deploying to or returning from military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fort Hood is 100 miles (160 km) south of Dallas-Fort Worth, and near the town of Killeen. Its citizens deal with violence on their overseas missions. They don't ordinarily expect to encounter carnage in their home base, which lies in the pleasant hill-and-lake country of central Texas. Carnage is just what transpired on Nov. 5, 2009. The Fort Hood shooting was believed to be one of the worst mass shootings ever on a military base in the U.S.; a gunman killed 13 people and wounded some three dozen others (Bergen, 2011). The shooter was a 39-year-old military psychiatrist and was taken into custody after being wounded by base police. Officials identified him as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a devout adherent of Islam. The incident triggered sharp debate on whether the shooter was a deranged individual, a terrorist, or perhaps both and whether authorities had paid sufficient attention to warning signs in his behavior that might have enabled them to prevent the tragedy (McCullough, 2011). This paper explores the leadership attributes displayed by the officials after the massacre happening. Part 1 Introduction to Crisis Situation On November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on members of the military, killing 13 before he was shot and arrested (CNN, 2009). The Fort Hood shooting event...
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...Research Paper Today's schools have to focus on so much more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. Although school officials strive to protect the student and faculty from gun violence, it's a reality in today's world. Truly something is seriously wrong because school buildings should be a safe place for all. Study after study conducted on the who's and why's of school gun violence reveals an important fact: There is no reasonable answer for such violence to have taken such a rise in incidence and continue to be the prevailing societal threat it is today, in every school across the nation, especially large school communities. The whole community needs to act together and get involved. The statistics are threatening enough. The U.S. Department of Education estimated 5.5 million students were enrolled in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in the 2006-07 school year. Among this population, during this single year, there were 767,000 violent assaults and 35 (27 homicides and 8 suicides) school associated violent deaths (Dinkes, pars. 5, 6, 10). From the broader period, years 1999 to 2006, reported 116 students killed in 109 school associated incidents (Shuster, par. 2). Although national attention to school shootings has heightened in recent years, a violent incident in a school setting was first recorded in 1955. In a Swathermore College dorm in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania on January 11, Bob Bechtel, age 22, shot and killed a fellow student who was asleep in his room (ProQuest...
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...Today's Police Put On a Gun and a Camera Author: Johnson, Kirk ProQuest document link Abstract: Liability-conscious city attorneys say the cameras could help in lawsuits; rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, say police accountability will be bolstered by another layer of public documentation; and the Justice Department, surveying 63 police departments that were using body cameras and many others that were not, concluded in a report this month that the technology had the potential to "promote the perceived legitimacy and sense of procedural justice" in interactions between the public and law enforcement. Links: Linking Service Full text: PULLMAN, Wash. -- Amateur videos of police officers doing their jobs have become part of the fabric of urban democracy, with embarrassing or violent images spreading via social media in minutes. But more police agencies, especially after the unrest following an unarmed teenager's shooting in Ferguson, Mo., are recording events with small body-mounted cameras. In just the last few weeks, law enforcement agencies in at least a dozen cities, including Ferguson; Flagstaff, Ariz.; Minneapolis; Norfolk, Va.; and Washington, have said they are equipping officers with video cameras. Miami Beach approved the purchase of $3 million worth of cameras for police officers, parking enforcement workers, and building and fire inspectors. The New York Police Department, the nation's largest urban force, has studied how Los Angeles is incorporating...
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...The Carondelet had the record for fighting in more engagements than any navy ship up until World War 2. Except for her near death at the hands of the confederate ironclad Arkansas, the Carondelet was a hardy and winning ship. The USS Carondelet was a 512-ton Cairo class boat manufactured in Carondelet, Missouri. Commissioned in January 1862, it wasn’t even a month before the ship would prove its effectiveness, aiding in the taking of Confederate Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, New Madrid, Island No. 10, Fort Pillow and Memphis, Tennessee. On July 15, 1862, she was badly damaged in an engagement with the Confederate ironclad, Arkansas, on the Yazoo River. In April 1863, the Carondelet shelled Grand Gulf, Mississippi and the Carondelet’s last mission was the bombardment of Vicksburg which led to the city surrendering (donbob2012). Cussler and his team at NUMA found the historic champion of the north at Manchester Island in the Ohio River. The Carpathia was the British passenger liner that came to the aid of the survivors from the Titanic in 1912. The RMS Carpathia was built by Swan and Hunter for the Cunard Line. Construction of the heroic vessel began on September 10, 1901, with the laying of the keel. Following completion...
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...predatory pricing case, law enforcement officials traditionally have had to prove that a company sold products or services for less than their average variable cost. Companies with relatively high fixed costs and low variable costs are less likely to be accused of predatory pricing than companies with high variable and low fixed costs. A court case in which the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that American Airlines committed predatory pricing against smaller airlines demonstrates this point. The airline industry has relatively high fixed costs and low variable costs, at least in the short run. If one defines a “unit” as a passenger flying an already scheduled flight, the additional cost of a passenger is small—charges for credit cards, a small amount of fuel because of extra weight, a beverage or two, and not much else. If one defines a “unit” as a flight, then more costs are variable—flight crew costs, fuel, and the cost of baggage handling. Even if the unit is a flight, a large portion of the total costs are fixed. American Airlines dropped its fares when smaller airlines scheduled competing flights from the Dallas–Fort Worth airport to Kansas City, Wichita, and other cities, arguing that this was simply business competition in the marketplace. The judge in the case acknowledged that American had been a tough competitor but ruled that American had priced its tickets above their average variable cost. Therefore, he ruled that the case against American should be dropped. Required ...
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...Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Governor John B. Connally, and Senator Ralph W. Yarborough led the welcoming party. They accompanied the president to Brooks Air Force Base for the dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center. Continuing on to Houston, he forwarded a Latin American citizens' organization and spoke at a endorsement dinner for Congressman Albert Thomas before ending the day in Fort Worth. The presidential party left the hotel President and Mrs. Kennedy at Love Field, Dallas, Texas and went by motorcade to Carswell Air Force Base for the thirteen-minute flight to Dallas. Arriving at Love Field, President and Mrs. Kennedy dismounted and immediately walked toward a fence where a crowd of well-wishers had gathered, and they spent several minutes shaking hands. The first lady received a bouquet of red roses, which she brought with her to the waiting limousine. Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, were already seated in the open adaptable as the Kennedys entered and sat behind them. Since it was no longer raining, the plastic bubble top had been left...
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...FBI Study Finds Active Shooter Incidents Increasing By: Amanda Vicinanzo, Senior Editor 10/22/2014 ( 9:40am) In partnership with Texas State University’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, the FBI in 2014 initiated a study of active shooter incidents to provide law enforcement and first responders with data to help them better prevent, prepare for, respond and recover from future incidents. The report, A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013, evaluated 160 active shooter incidents, including those at Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary School, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Fort Hood, the Aurora (Colorado) Cinemark Century 16 movie theater, the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, the Washington Navy Yard and numerous other tragic shootings. Special Agent Katherine Schweit, who heads the FBI’s Active Shooter Initiative, says she hopes the study “demonstrates the need not only for enhanced preparation on the part of law enforcement and other first responders, but also for civilians to be engaged in discussions and training on decisions they’d have to make in an active shooter situation.” The FBI emphasized that the report evaluates active shootings, a term more specific than “mass shootings,” which does not encompass all mass killings or shootings in public places. The FBI defines active shooters as “individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in populated areas (excluding shootings...
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...Luis Hernandez Psychology 2301 Prof. Ray Saenz October 10, 2015 Book Report I. Title/Author Richard Rawlings II. Main Characters Richard Rawlings III. Setting/Time Fort Worth, Texas 1969, 1990 Dallas, Texas 2005 IV. Main Theme How to start up a car business from the ground up. V. Summary The year is 1969 the infamous all-American year in the city of Fort Worth, Texas where Richard Rawlings was born. Blame it on the free-love era, but he was basically the product of too young of a dad and mother. He’s Mother left him at the age of two years old. He’s father ending up quitting high school to support him and his sister. In the 1970’s they moved into their first apartment he describe it with having shag carpet, fishing nets hanging from the ceiling, a bunch of liquor bottles filled with color water. Richard says it was not the best but it was a start and quickly found out that his dad straighten up grew up and put his kids first. He started working all three of them and when I say work, I mean work. His dad was holding down two or even three jobs to pay the bills and put a roof over their heads to live. He says that he would spend all day with his father at his primary job at the grocery store manager because there was nobody to take care of him and sister. The job that he remembers is when he was about seven until he was a teen he would wake up at three or four in the morning every day. His dad would put him in the back the backseat of his car surrounded...
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...Part 1A: Industry Analysis Broad Environment: PEST Analysis The Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) area and specifically Denton County is experiencing rapid economic development and population growth due to the close proximity of airports and many large and convenient transportation paths which link the Town of Cross Roads with an abundance of employment locations in cities such as Dallas, Frisco, Denton, and McKinney. DFW has experienced a large increase in population size in the past 50 years or so. There have been several economic pressures such as a rise in the number of foreclosures and diminishing credit. DFW is known as one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States, and from 1990 to 2000 it grew by approximately 29% and gained a little over one million residents. From 2000-2009 the population grew to nearly 6,637,230. DFW is adding nearly 100,000 new residents annually. One population movement trend in DFW in recent years is for people to move away from the busy downtown city areas into less dense communities like Frisco and Little Elm and even smaller country towns like Cross Roads. Planned communities are very popular now as well. McKinney is rated the second best place in the country to live in 2012 by Money Magazine and USA Today named Denton in 2012 Best Small Towns in America. These towns along 380 are bringing in residents and increasing traffic. Specific Industry: Five Forces Analysis Some of Cross Roads main competitors are Savannah, Paloma Creek...
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...White 1 The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice. Their main goal is to combat drug smuggling in the United States. The DEA is the lead agency for domestic enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, sharing coexisting jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and also Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Unlike some federal agencies, the DEA has a sole responsibility for coordinating and pursuing drug investigations not only on American soil but abroad as well. The DEA was formed on July 1, 1973 proceeded by the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement. It proposed the creation of a single...
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...mainline jet aircrafts and 256 regional jet and turbo prop aircrafts. Us Airways has a shuttle that provides hourly service between Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. that is known as US Airways Express that is operated by contract and subsidiary airline companies. As of January 2013 US Airways employed 32,213 individuals worldwide and operated 3,028 daily flights. American Airlines, Inc. is owned by the AMR Corporation headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It operates and extensive international and domestic network as US Airways. American Airlines has scheduled flights throughout North America, South America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia/Pacific. The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is the airlines largest hub with American Airlines accounting for about 85% of the traffic and 83% of landing fees and travel to more destinations than any other hub. American Airlines operates maintenance bases at Tulsa, and Fort Worth. Fort Worth however was slotted to close as of December 2012. Before being headquartered in Fort Worth American Airlines was headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was in 1979 the airways announced the move from New York to Texas, this move affected more than 1300 jobs and Mayor Ed Koch claimed the move was a betrayal to New York. American Airlines was...
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