...was a real blow to community policing.” As the pressure grew to reinstated the senior lead officers, Mayor Riordan ordered parks to reinstate the senior lead officers in March 2001. In April 2002, after a national search for a new Chief of Police, Chief William J. Bratton was appointed to the new Chief of Police. When Chief Bratton to over leadership he spent his first year surrounded by eleven consultants from New York and Boston, trying to learn the department as quickly as he could. Bratton studied the problems Williams and Parks had faced. Quickly Bratton reached out to the union and included its leadership in his staff meetings, something that no chief had done recently. In his first year as chief, Chief Bratton gave the LAPD the most positive attention than it had received in years past. Within a year, the confidence of officers had been restored, with 85% agreeing that Chief Bratton was leading in the right direction, as opposed to 18% with Chief Parks. Chief Bratton introduced computer...
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...-Understanding Meaning #1-6 1. The accident is minor and not serious at all. 2. The diver of the van insists on calling the police because the van is a company car, and he needs a report that says the accident was not his fault. 3. This incident is dangerous for Pérez because he has no identification or license to prove he is a legal citizen of the United States. Because of this fact, he could get deported to Mexico. 4. Pérez attempts to preven the van driver from summoning the police by saying that he will pay for the damage. 5. Pérez answering the Chicano patrolman in Spanish is not an accident because he knows that the policeman is of Mexican descent. Since he knows this, he feels as though his Spanish will be understood by the officer. Also, the Anglo-Saxon already knows the answer to the question, so if the policeman does not know Spanish the van driver can tell him the answer. Furthermore, the officer did not treat Pérez well even after he admitted to causing the accident. He also seemed to look down on Pérez especially after he found out he was illegal. 6. The fact that many Chicanos become offended when linked to their Mexican roots shows the impact that assimilation and identity can play in a person's life. Chicanos no longer want to be recognized as a Mexican, but rather as an American since America is where they grew up. They are proud of who they are and despise the thought of being reffered to as something else. The Chicano officer's comments about Mexicans definitely...
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...The Scene that started it all: After a decade of policing crises that began with the beating of Rodney King in April, 1991, which was shown around the World wasn’t bad enough, the Rampart police corruption scandal in 1999 wasn’t bad enough, the city of Los Angles exploded after the three officers were found not guilty in the beating of Rodney King. People took to the streets to protest, and over 50 people lost their lives. Reforms: The U. S. Department of Justice announced in 2000 that it had accumulated enough evidence to sue the City of Los Angeles over a pattern-and- practice of police misconduct. The city government entered a “consent decree” promising to adopt scores of reform measures under the supervision of the Federal Court. There were two components included in the police reform: The consent decree produced by the Justice Department’s intervention, and the leadership of chief William Bratton, who since 2002 has focused the Department’s attention simultaneously on reducing crime, improving morale, and complying fully with the consent decree. Results: The LMPD did not meet their goals after five years, so the Government decided to extend the decree for three more years. But, during those first five years, the crime rate dropped, there were fewer reports of police complaints, and changes were made from the top to the bottom. At first, you had policemen complain about they were afraid to stop people for fear of being reprimanded; having too much paperwork to complete...
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...videotaped police beating alleges retaliation by LAPD officers A man sued the LAPD alleging h’d been held down and beaten by police last fall made new accusations on Tuesday, saying officers have been following him since. Driving repeatedly past his house located in South Los Angeles. Helicopters flew so close to his house that walls ans windows shook Clifton Alford Jr. ]’s attorney Career Harper said officers had "heckled" Alford and his family multiple times driving past their home. Last week she said officers drew their guns on her client after stopping him for traffic violation harper planned to amend a federal cicil rights lawsuit she filed on Alford’s behalf to include the allegations of retaliation by police. They want to catch him doing anything even if he is doing nothing. Alford was riding his bike near 55th and Avalon Blvd that october when he was approached by a man in a car yelling stop it wasn't clear that it was an officer to Alford so he kept going only to feel someone grab the handle bars on the bike so he took off running. After a short foot race Alford was caught by 2 officers as another arrived and began beating the 22 year old who said he was lying on the ground in hand cuffs. Alfords altercation was captured on tape by a private companies security camera. The video tape was reviewed by several officers who stated that one officer delivered a kick to Alfords head it resembled a football player kicking a field goal. LAPD chief Charlie Beck stated he was extremely...
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...compromised and ultimately stolen • The compromise of their identity means that they criminals could use their names and info for other purposes • ChoicePoint was effected by the Class-action lawsuit as a result • Were being investigated by the U.S Senate Tangible Losses Intangible Losses Expenses for new security Loss of Reputation Expenses for the lawsuit Harder to bring in new customers as a result of trust as well 2. What actions were taken by both ChoicePoint and the “authorities” to address the crisis, and what is your assessment of each action taken? [table] Action Taken Assessment ChoicePoint contacts LAPD • A morally easy decision but a difficult decision. ChoicePoint did a good job in deciding to contact LAPD • LAPD needed to find perpetrators LAPD asks CP to not disclose breach • The LAPD knew that if the fact that authorities were investigating the breach got out, the responsible parties would actively try to cover their tracks...
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...the LAPD After many phone calls and research I discovered that the diversity of the police agency matches up with the diversity of my city, with some minor differences. Since my neighborhood is unincorporated, we get the LAPD when we call for help. The LAPD employs just over ten thousand officers and they have more than three thousand civilian staff. These officers cover the area of four hundred ninety eight square miles populated by over four point one million people. Looking at these numbers you can see that this agency is huge, they are the third largest law enforcement agency in the United States. Being so large they have comprised into twenty one stations known as “areas” but are more commonly referred to as “divisions”. These twenty one stations are grouped geographically into four command areas. Within those four command areas I was told that the Pacific Division are the ones who come to the area where I live. Now to get to the diversity of the LAPD. Unlike my city’s diversity there are more males than females in the force by sixty four percent. I figured there would be more males than females because it is more of a man’s job, and because females weren’t allowed to be an officer until the early 1900s, then more of them were allowed to join after the lawsuit in 1980. The percentages of the different races within the LAPD are similar to the civilians living in Long Beach. Forty six percent are white, looks like the whites are a majority in LAPD and...
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...Cultural Differences Paper COM/360 Nicole Kragt Cultural Differences Paper “People must live and interact together for the culture to survive. In doing so, they must develop a way of relating that strikes a balance between showing concern for themselves and concern for others” (Koester & Lustig, Chapter 5, 2010). There are over 7 billion people in this world with thousands even millions born even day, but we as individual units think we live our lives as independents. We are not without influences and influences are not without purpose. Culture, along with many other influential factors, plays a vital role in a child’s development into the next generation. How one is accepted within their environment can have an everlasting impression on their value scale. We live our lives through the microscopic view, but hope for the potential of the next scene to be in accordance with our teachings and cultural norm. Society can play a larger role in the acceptability of diverse cultural patterns and beliefs, and these accepting factors can lead to a change or hybrid adaptation to their surrounding environment. In this paper, the movie Crash is used to examine the dimensions of cultural patterns, identity, and bias within the reading of theories and philosophies in the Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures textbook. Impact of Cultural Differences in the Film The film Crash is a movie about racial and social indifferences in Los...
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...The New Museum hosted Chris Burden’s Extreme Measures exhibition, featuring two of his more prolific and socially significant artworks: Shoot and LAPD Uniforms. Shoot, one of his premiere performance works, was a presentation of Burden’s subjective examination of being shot. LAPD Uniforms, created in response to the social outrage incited by the Rodney King beatings and subsequent acquittal of the offending LAPD officers, was a sculptural representation of police intimidation. Seven police uniforms, accurate to those worn by the LAPD in the 90s, were arranged in such a way that from a distance they appeared ordinary, but up close, they are realized to be considerably oversized. While each art piece was a curiosity in and of itself, and observably relevant to the social landscape of their respective eras (the seventies and the early nineties), my personal reaction to Shoot made it the standout between the two works. LAPD Uniforms spoke to me as a commentary on the times, which I could understand clearly. Shoot, on the other hand, while personally meaningful to the artist as framed by his interviews following the performance, rebounded against an innate distress that I, and I’m sure many others, have against self-damage. It invoked powerful negative emotions that left me questioning the underlying messages of Burden’s act. Why would someone shoot themselves simply to understand it? All evidence and common knowledge that has been accumulated since the dawn of the gun era implies...
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...Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements I do believe that common sense and compassion in the workplace has been replaced by litigation. We now live in a society where people are only looking out for themselves and their bottom line. Individuals know about their rights and how they think they deserve to be treated. When a person feels that they have been dealt a wrong, instead of an apology, they want a form of payment as an apology. In a recent study conducted by the American Psychological Association (2012), one third of the population is stressed out. This leaves people rushed and ready for instant results and short on listening skills. I also believe we live in a society where no one wants to take responsibility for their own actions, instead passing off responsibility to another person. Furthermore, with the advances in technology, people have grown accustomed to instant results. We have fast food restaurants, high speed internet, 4G cellphones, and instant access to just about everything. No one is willing to talk out problems or take the time to listen. One of the jobs of the human resource department is to help out and mediate in times of trouble with employees. Human resources is also there to guide employers in the legal regulations the United States government has set for the workplace. Employers are legally obligated to follow the guidelines set by the government on how employees are to be treated on the job. In the following paragraphs...
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...during high call volume period. RESOLUTION STEPS: On inspection of Service Measurements for finding out the contributing factors for RF fail , nothing could be earmarked. All the conventional resources like Power, Packet pipe span, WC, RSSI rise were found within engineered values. That was as per expectation as the Block rate was not high . With this the RF environment was under doubt. Some extensive drive testing and coverage tuning was undertaken but could not yield any improvement. The mystery finally unfolded when we audited the LAPD SIGNALLING engineering ( between AP and BTS). It was found that the BTS which is MODCELL 4 having 4 FA was grown with 1 (64kbps wide) LAPD for each URC . In MODCELL 4 each URC is capable of taking upto 4 carries. When all the associated carrier signalling are imposed on a single URC the signalling load increases manifold and we need to increase the width of LAPD signalling between AP and BTS to 128 Kbps. It is recommended as per SCME ( Lucent DOC NO:401-610-009 Issue 27.0 sep 2004 Section 2-22 Modcell 4.0 (OneBTS) Engineering) that “Signaling Link Width Each fully loaded carrier needs 2 DS0s per signaling link per URC. Each URC supports 1 active signaling link and 1 standby/alternate signaling link. Therefore, if a URC is configured to support 2 fully loaded carriers, the active and standby signaling links should be 2 DS0s each. When the Load Sharing Configuration is used, this requirement remains, since...
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...This internet assignment asks us to look at different neighborhood watch programs found in the United States and compare two of them. After researching quite a few of them I decided to talk about the city of Tucson Arizona neighborhood watch and the LAPD (Los Angeles police department) neighborhood watch program. Before I talk about the two programs, I will first define what a neighborhood watch is. According to our book as well as different internet definitions, it is simply a program of neighbors watching out for each other during the workday, evenings, vacations or any other absence. The purpose of this program is to create an alert neighborhood by using simple crime prevention methods. This program works with the mutual aid of neighbors watching property of neighbors. This had several advantages. First, your neighbors will be familiar with your lifestyle, material possessions, and family members. They will know what type of cars you drive and who belongs, as a rule, at our residence. If a police officer drove by your home, he might not recognize that the person standing in your front yard is a stranger but an alert neighbor will recognize that this person is a stranger. The most important thing to know about these programs is that they do NOT promote vigilantism. You are never asked to put yourself in harm’s way to prevent crime. You are only asked to observe and report suspicious behavior and activities to the police department. The City of Tucson Arizona has a...
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...It is hard to stand firm when the strong power said you are wrong. You will easily turn into a silence of the lambs. But Collins insisted the boy was not her son. After finding evidence and some protests Collins was sent to psychiatric ward by LAPD. She was treated by medicine and electricity day by day. The other movies use a happy story to tell the audience perseverance may be work hard to be rich and successful. But this movie used a depressed story to tell one of American sprite perseverance. She faced the strong power because of the truth. Her anger and resolution could be magnified until the whole LAPD fabrication crashing down. Everyone should insist when you stay with truth. American dream is succeed through hard work and has the potential to lead a happy. This story is another presentation of American...
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...these alternative weapons as necessary policing tools. Firearms are being used by police officers in most forces around the world. Handguns, particularly those with 9mm calibre, are carried by patrol officers during daily duties, as the highest level of force. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) stated in their manual that “Officers are permitted to use force that is objectively reasonable to defend themselves or others, to effect an arrest or detention, and/or to prevent escape or overcome resistance, consistent with the Department's Policy on the Use of Force (Manual Section 1/556.10).” LAPD had been involved with several incidents that were questioned by the public with their abuse of firearms. Shooting of Ezell Ford in August 2014 was an example of the importance of Taser in a certain situation. Ford, a 25 years old African American man was approached by Officer Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas, both were LAPD gang unit officers. According to LAPD, Ford attacked the officers and attempted to grab one of the officers' handgun. Both officers fired at Ford with totally three shots, causing Ford's death directly. Ford’s family and other citizens protested against such act from the LAPD, as they claimed that Ford was suffering mental illness problems. Two witnesses also stated that they saw Ford raising his hands as soon as the two officers stepped out from their squad car. The two officers admitted that there was a Taser inside their squad car, however they chose not to bring...
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...Members of the police force are government officials who enforce the laws and maintain order. They are engaged in a dangerous and stressful occupation that can involve violent situations that must be controlled. In many of these confrontations with the public it may become necessary for the police to administer force to take control of a situation. Sometimes this force takes the form of hand-to-hand combat with a suspect who resists being arrested. The police do have strict guidelines to follow when using force. Force should be used in only the minimum amount needed to achieve a legitimate purpose. The New York Police Department has these five stages set through which the use of force can progress. 1) verbal persuasion, 2) unarmed physical force, 3) force using non-lethal weapons, 4) force using impact weapons, 5) deadly force (AIUSAPolice Brutality 1999:2). They also have many tools at their disposal when the need for using force arises. These include the police baton, mace, tasers, handcuffs, police dogs, and firearms. An officer of the law can be properly trained to administer the law in an unbiased way that will not violate a citizen’s rights, however, this is not happening across the United States. According to a recent Amnesty International study, there are thousands of reports each year of assault and ill treatment against officers who use excessive force and violate the human rights of their victims (AIUSA Rights 1999:1). Police officers are injuring and even killing...
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...issue. When an officer in the department is witness to brutality or unethical behavior it is their duty report the incident to the proper person within the department. Unethical Decision Made In July of 2007, Christopher Dorner was a police officer for Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). At the time he was on patrol with a fellow female officer, Theresa Evans who was a veteran of the department. They received a call about a disturbance in a local neighborhood by a mentally ill man, Christopher Ghettler. During the arrest of Christopher Ghettler, Theresa Evans continued to kick the man twice in the chest and once in the face while he was being handcuffed. Christopher Dorner did not agree with the actions of his fellow officer and reported the actions that his fellow officer committed on this mentally unstable man. When it came time to write the report of the arrest on this man’s arrest, Theresa Evans requested that Christopher Dorner not report the brutality that took place during the arrest. With that request she was asking Christopher Dorner to be unethical and that became a serious dilemma for Dorner. Nature of the Dilemma He suppressed the information for two weeks, knowing that the LAPD had a “Blue Line” that he would cross if he went to authorities on the situation. The “Blue Line” is a legendary code of conduct that one does not tell on any fellow officer. When Dorner went to his supervisors regarding the situation, “although his supervisor stated that he made the...
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