...Illegal street racing can be considered a deviant subculture. Why don’t people get into forms of legal racing? What can we do to encourage people to race legally? Walter Miller (1970), said that deviant subcultures are characterized by (1) trouble, arising from frequent conflict with teachers and police; (2) toughness, the value placed on physical size, strength, and agility especiallyon males; (3) smartness, the ability to succeed on the streets and and out-smart others; (4) a need for excitement, the search for thrills, risk, or danger; (5) a belief in fate, a belief people lack control over their own lives; and (6) a desire for freedom, often expressed as hostility toward all authority figures. Most of these terms could easily apply to participants in illegal street racing. Most of my thoughts on street racing is based on personal experiences. Street racing in Omaha is on the rise in the past few years. With movies such as The Fast and The Furious, young people are gaining interest in automotive tuning and racing. Movies such as this seem to promote street racing for various reasons. One reason could be that people race for money and this is a quick way to make it. Another reason is the respect. People that go to organized street racing know there will be spectators they can show off in front of. The lack of a dragstrip/track in Omaha could be another variable. The closest track to Omaha is in Scribner, Nebraska which is nearly...
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...English 2010 April 16, 2012 Illegal Street Racing: an Unknown Danger It is the primal urge amongst male teenagers; vehicles side by side, engines revving, to put the pedal to the floor and see who wins. It is street racing and it has caught on in the U.S. over the past decade as one of the worst influences on young impressionable minds today. The feeling you get when you’re going fast cannot be replaced by any other stimulant known to man and is just as addictive as any drug. Influential sources like the media, celebrities and peers all have the ability to pressure one into an adrenaline fueled race to the finish. The consequences of street racing, however, outweigh the rush it gives its participants. Laws passed to deter would be street racers with consequences including, but not limited to: Fines, loss of driving privileges, and imprisonment are all results of street racing, not to mention the ever present risk of serious injury or death to participants and bystanders alike. Many different ways of preventing and detecting street racing have been put into action over the last few decades by various agencies and organizations, from lowering the national maximum speed limit, installing speed cameras on buys roads, or providing innocent drivers with safer vehicles, this nation is fighting a war on street racing that many don’t even know exists. Street racing originated from drag racing on the quarter-mile strip. The concept of drag racing is when two racers in different cars...
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...Some people think that drag racing should be banned or illegal. They say it is something that is too dangerous to do. Drag racing is not just something one can play around with doing. It is a way of life, not just a hobby. Drag racing has been around for decades, brings people together, and gives a person an adrenaline rush. Racing has been viewed in many aspects through many years. People have raced on the back of horses, on motorcycles, and of course in motor vehicles. Drag racing, itself, has been around as long as cars have been on the road. It has become very popular within the last 50 to 60 years. There have been a great number of laws placed against drag racing on the public streets through these years. Now, many racers stick to taking their hot rods to the track to race them. At these tracks, many people come together to gawk and to talk big to each other. People often times try to bet on the car that they think will get down the track the quickest. Through everything, the people that have the same passion for racing, become a type of family. Everyone has each other’s backs. A racing family is completely different from any other type of...
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...preferred location for land speed records, with 8 consecutive world records set between 1927 and 1935. After a historic race between Ransom olds and Alexander Winton in 1903, the beach became a Mecca for racing enthusiastic and 15 records were set on what became the premier location for pursuit of land speed records, Daytona Beach had become synonymous with fast cars in 1936. Drivers raced on a 4.1-mile course, consisting of a 2.0 mile stretch of beach as one straightaway, and a narrow blacktop beachfront highway, State Road A1A, as the other. The two straights were connected by two tight, deeply rutted and sand covered turns at each end. The repeal of Prohobition in 1933 dried up some of their business, but by then Southerners had developed a taste for moonshine, and a number of the drivers continued running shine, this time evading the revenuers who were attempting to tax their operations. These races were popular entertainment...
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...nothing believable about the character, least of all his Blade Runner tech, yet from the moment he juggernauts on-screen, barking, “Rule number 2: Stay the fuck out of my way!” at a shrimpy South American cop, this quinquel goes from entertainingly stupid to joyously lunk-headed. In what may or may not be a reappropriation of the script for The Brazilian Job, the aborted Italian Job sequel, the set-up has Diesel’s Toretto in Rio de Janeiro, assembling a crew for the inevitable one last job. Their plan is to jack a corrupt businessman for $100 million — a sum that, in a film this overblown, seems positively unambitious. It requires the talents of all the old franchise ‘favourites’, from Tokyo street racer Han (Sung Kang) to mechanic Tej (Ludacris), though the film’s only street race is hastily skipped over. Don’t expect precision-built scheming: the plot is tosh. Instead, prepare for a fiesta of excess, hip-hop bangers, meat-headed brawls in warehouses It is not, by any normal criteria, a great film. There are plenty of scenes that clunk. And at over two hours, it’s far too long. But it’s hard not to grin at the go-for-broke spirit — best illustrated by a final chase sequence, involving every police car in...
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...Racing legally on a strip or risking others’ lives on the street, I prefer the strip. Some people may even ask why drag race, for the adrenaline rush. I never thought that people would be so desperate to drag race that they will be willing to risk their own life and others to do it on the streets. I will be willing to pay $20 to go drag race safely on the strip, and do it legally. I strongly believe in getting a fast car just for the enjoyment but if you drag race it illegally and get your license taken away for 30 days, and get a $100-500 fine just on the first offence, just think how bad the second offence would be. So $20 on a strip or $100-500 on street, common scene is going to the strip. If you go to the drag strip one of the perks is the grip or traction that your tires get. The reason why you get so much grip is because they get some bad tires and run them up and down the track until it is covered with hot rubber. Then they get a giant torch and heat up all the rubber that the tires left. Finally the track cools down a little bit and the heat from your tire grabs on to the heat of the rubber on the track and gives...
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...2 fast 2 furious Review 2 fast 2 furious is one of the best car street racing movies to watch. The Miami police department has been tracking down a drug lord, Carter Verone, but cannot find any evidence to arrest him. The department has Monica Fuentes, an undercover agent, as Verone’s girlfriend. They need street racers in order to capture Verone, so they arrest the main actor Brian O’ Connell at the end of a street race and take him to the department. At the department, they give him the breakdown about Verone and try to assign him a partner. He does not like the partner they try to give him, so he decides to pick his own, Roman Pearce. Their main job is to work undercover and arrest Verone so that their records will get cleared and they can walk away as free men. I like this movie because of the great acting performed by the main actors and the cars. 2 fast 2 furious has great acting. Paul Walker and Tyree Gibson do an excellent job playing the parts of Brian O’ Connell and Roman Pearce. Brian, a former cop, plays a good role as an undercover cop. Roman on the other hand, plays the role of a thug. He is tattooed and dresses with baggy clothes. He uses a lot of slang and likes to use the word “bruh” a lot, which is a slang term for brother. He is a thug because he had to spend three years in jail. He blaims Brian for that and when he first sees him in the movie he punches him in the face out of anger and they begin to fight. As the movie goes on, the hate that he has for...
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...interest. This year was the opening of the new drag strip in Nevis. Racing had become a huge sport in Nevis after the release of the movie ‘The Fast and the Furious’. I could recall one Sunday evening when my sister and I attended a party at Farms Estate where we watched that movie. The thrill and excitement in the air about racing were intense. People were bouncing off their seat trying to reenact scenes, shouting at each other, “Oh that’s my car, I won!” From that point onward racing soared. Many young men started to buy Japanese cars which were better for racing than the American built cars. However, many persons tried to race on the streets but were apprehended by the police, as street racing is illegal. There was one suitable place that these young men thought of which was the Long Point Road. That road led to the deep water pier and was mainly used to deliver or collect goods or cargo sent from overseas. The road is a mile long and at the time there were not many houses or businesses in the area. The young men took to that street. They would meet up at random times in the dead of night to have races or practice performing car and bike tricks, leaving their tire tracks behind. I was never able to see a race but I heard from many persons how exciting the races were. As the group of young men interested in racing started to increase, they decided to establish an association called the Nevis Drag Racing Association (NDRA). This development was the initial step towards...
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...Classifying Crimes James Parkins CJ230: Criminal Law for Criminal Justice January 21, 2014 In this paper I will be covering many different things. I will be covering is some of the differences between both criminal and civil law. With that I will cover the goals and objectives, difference in remedies and outcomes, commencement of each case, and how the players in each system differ. After covering all of that I will give you a scenario and we will analyze it. Civil and Criminal Law Goals and Objectives The first thing that we will cove is the goals and objective of the criminal and civil laws. Civil laws are meant for one thing. That one thing is to protect an individual rather than the public interest. It works a lot with the constitutional rights of people. Criminal law is along the same lines with civil laws. The only difference is that criminal law is meant to protect the public and help maintain social order and stability. These are the objectives of the civil and criminal laws. Difference in remedies and outcomes As far as criminal law there are a multiple amount of possible outcomes. A list of possible is prison which could be state or federal, county jail, probation, etc. As far as the civil law goes, it is much different. Normally a majority of civil law outcomes are simply a monetary settlement (settlement involving money) or restraining orders. This explains the different possible outcomes of both criminal and civil law. Commencement of each case Now...
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... 2 Do racing games increase risk taking congitions, affect, amd behavior? In this day and age, children, as well as adults strive for leuisurely time away from the hardships of school and work. This is often achieved through the form of entertainment such as video games. While seemingly innocent and a way to have fun, video games have sparked much controversy in recent years. Numerous studies and research has shown that aggressive video video games dealing with shooting and killing virtual people does in fact elicit aggressive cognition, affect, and behaviors. (Fischer, 2007). However, most of the aforementioned studies and research have only dealt and focused on the effects of one particular video game genre, which is shooter games. The empirical journal in question focuses on the psychological effects of a completely new genre of video games in which there is little research, which is racing/driving. Do racing games inadvertently encourage gamers to drive recklessly and in a risky manner when driving on the road in real life? Prior to the actual study, the researchers expected a positive association between the playing of racing games and self-reported risk promotion in real road traffic behavior. Furthermore, they also expected racing games (compared to neutral games) to significantly increase cognition, affect, and behaviors that...
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...Driving was fun and racing on the small streets too. It was the second day when I was driving car alone. I was driving to the furthermost restaurant of our metropolitan area. I was driving fast according to my passion and suddenly saw a car at my side. He gave a devilish look and kept horning as it was obvious he wanted to race. And suddenly there was an urge inside me “Let’s race”. I lowered the gear from 3rd to 2nd and pressed the gas pedal to its limit and race was begun. I was privileged as my car was Corolla 2013 and that guy had the model that would be around 2005 to 2007. I was so excited and little bit shivering as it was my first race as driver looked experienced one. I don’t know how I made it but I made him show my car’s rear bumpers till the end. That was my day for the sure. Coincidently we both stopped at that same restaurant he was with his one friend. He came to me and said “Hey! My name is Hamza and he is my friend Ibrahim” and I replied “hi! I am Faiz” after the short intro he gave me few compliments about my driving. As I was alone so that guy offered me to eat with them and I agreed. Within few minutes we were good friends and later turned out to be hanging out, racing and eating out together as 2 more guys joined us too, Shakir and Osama. Every day we used to race, drift and playing around with our cars. As the time passed we made our team and started racing other groups. There was a street race held every Friday in our city that was illegal though but no one...
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...Kyle Wright CJA/334 August 13, 2012 Nelly Clotter Conducting Research Police Officers The year was 1870; the idea of collecting crime statistics is discussed between the US Congress and local police executives throughout the year (Investigation, 2006). Their ideas, thoughts, and hurdles overcame them with doubts of funding suck a program. With the overwhelming issues of creating such a program the US Congress and police executives were forced to shut the program down until additional funds and counsel were found. In the early 1920s the ideas of an association gained momentum. “The International Association of Chiefs and Police (IACP) took lead, as it had in many police reforms in the early 20th century” (Investigation, 2006). During this time an advisory group was formed which was head by Director J. Edger Hoover and his technical group to form a criminal statistics program. It was the late 1920s when the gaining momentum of notorious villains like Al Capone, Lester Gillis – AKA “Baby Face” Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, and John Dillinger that the congressional leaders create such a program to track criminal activities. Using a nationwide barometer to measure crime and track its trends the congressional leaders created its first reports (Investigation, 2006). In August 1930, Volume one, Number one of the Uniform Crime Reports “UCR” were issued by the Bureau of Investigation, the United States Department of Justice (Investigation, 2006). Many crimes tracked by UCR like murder, robbery...
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...rkPolisi untuk menindak pembalap jalanan menyusul perkelahian yang fatal Iman Mahditama, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 11:03 AM 2012/04/10 Sebuah | A | A | Setelah dua perkelahian yang fatal terakhir yang melibatkan pembalap jalanan, Kepolisian Jakarta telah mengumumkan bahwa mereka akan meningkatkan patroli di daerah rawan balap jalanan dengan harapan memberantas kegiatan ilegal. "Kami akan memberikan perintah kepada semua kantor polisi di kota dan kabupaten di bawah yurisdiksi kami untuk meningkatkan patroli di daerah-daerah untuk memberikan rasa lebih menjamin keamanan bagi semua warga Jakarta, "juru bicara polisi Kombes. Rikwanto kepada wartawan, Senin. Ia mengatakan, jika perlu, polisi akan mendirikan posting permanen di beberapa daerah untuk menjaga keamanan setiap saat. "cara ini, jika petugas melihat indikasi bahwa perlombaan jalan akan segera dimulai, mereka dapat melakukan apa pun untuk mencegah perkelahian secepat mungkin, "katanya. Polda Metro Jaya Kombes operasi. Agung Budi Maryoto mengatakan, polisi telah memberikan "perhatian khusus" ke tempat-tempat yang dikenal untuk balap jalanan. Dia bernama Jl. Asia Afrika dan Jl. Benyamin Sueb, Jakarta Pusat dan Jl. Danau Sunter Utara di Jakarta Utara, serta Jl. Pemuda dan sekitar Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) taman budaya di Jakarta Timur sebagai salah satu tempat sasaran. Dia juga mengutip Jl. Raya Panjang, jalan-jalan di daerah Cengkareng Jakarta Barat dan Jl. TB Simatupang, Jakarta Selatan. "Selalu ada polisi...
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...Dog Eat Dog? Dog fighting has been around for hundreds of years and can be traced back to Europe. The sport of dog fighting is progressively getting more and more popular. It is illegal and considered a felony under federal laws in all fifty states in the United States of America (Dogfighting Fact Sheet 1). Besides the act of dog fighting itself being illegal, there are usually always other criminal activities involved such as: drug paraphernalia, illegal weapons, illegal gambling, and gang activities. Therefore, this so-called sport of dog fighting should continuously stay prohibited, and be more harshly punished by stricter laws. This brutal and bloody entertainment sport, where dogs fight to the death, is an inexcusable example of animal cruelty. Dog fighting is believed to have started in England after bull-baiting was outlawed. Bull-baiting was a spectator sport where a bull had a rope tied around its neck and then tied to a stake in the ground. Bulldogs were then sent to attack or “pin down” the bull by grasping the bull by its nose. Many dogs would receive life threatening wounds or would be killed by the bull trying to escape the torture of numerous dogs attacking him (Luca 1). After this very popular sport was banned people who owned these bull-baiting dogs, also known as bulldogs today, began pitting these dogs against each other. After people began participating in the sport of dog fighting, people began breeding bulldogs with terriers (Background on Dog Fighting...
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...that helped NASCAR get started, what they raced on back then, and how NASCAR changed over time. In this paper you will read about the prohibition, Bootleggers tricks and advantages[, Bill Frances Sr., history of NASCAR, Technological advancements, racing legends, aerodynamics, How NASCAR got so big and Wisconsin’s traditions. NASCAR has an interesting background. It all started with bootleggers racing from town to town delivering their moonshine without getting caught. NASCAR is linked to American history and it comes with some interesting tales. This paper will tell you everything you need to know about NASCAR and aerodynamics of the car. Some things that this paper will contain are famous drivers and their impact on NASCAR, how safely has changed over time, how NASCAR got started, what NASCAR drivers first raced on and why it changed over time, how NASCAR fit its time period, and how the cars got more aerodynamic. Prohibition: Back in the 1920’s, alcohol became illegal. The Eighteenth amendment was the Wartime Prohibition Act, which states the sale and making of alcohol, they did this so they could save grain for the war. People did not response to it very well, so people couldn’t get alcohol legally, they started to make illegal liquor which they called...
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