...Neighborhood Public Policy Assignment NUR/408 April 4, 2011 University of Phoenix The scenario involved Marcus Young who was hit by a speeding car in the neighborhood driven by a teenage boy named Charles. In the scenario Marcus was not paying attention to where he was going because a dog was chasing him. He then rode out between two parked cars and was stuck by the car. The incident represented a public safety issue according to Michigan Safe Kids Coalition; bicycles are associated with more childhood injuries than any other consumer product except the automobile. Angie Young was very upset and outraged when the teenager that hit Marcus was let off with just the loss of his driving licenses until age 20. She felt something more needed to be done to insure the safety of her children in the neighborhood. As a citizen she participated in the legislative process by writing a letter to her congress women complaining about the speed limit. Ms Young questioned the law maker on what could be done to reduce speeding cars in her neighborhood. Ms Young’s congress women suggested a campaign petition to install speed bumps on her street. This scenario demonstrates how the legislative process influences public health when a citizen complains to a law maker about an issue that is important to them. Ms Young collected 500 signatures for his petition which demonstrates that speeding in residential neighborhoods is a public safety concern for the Neighborhood citizens. Pedestrian...
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...Justice and Security | Public Policing versus Private Security Comparison | AJS/502 | Latisha Lipsey | 5/19/2014 | | Public policing and private security have many similarities as well as differences. There are a couple of different fields of policing, which include private security and public policing. State government, city government, and towns provide the community with public policing to enforce laws and serve and protect the citizens (The Debate on Private Versus Public Policing, 2007). Private security functions include loss prevention duties or protective services. Private security also specializes in closed circuit monitoring services, secret level clearance, and patrol. Public policing has the right to arrest, where as private policing does not have the right to arrest, but they are able to detain someone until law enforcement arrives (The Debate on Private Versus Public Policing, 2007). There are some cases where private security goes undercover, which is similar to public policing, this is to blend in with the environment and also used as asset protection. The vision between public policing and private security has been a little blurred through the years, private police look like and at times behave like public police, and there are also similarities of the job activities and responsibilities (The Debate on Private Versus Public Policing, 2007). But there is a huge difference between the two, in which the hiring process for public includes a physical...
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...Segregation in Public Schools Mishonda Atkinson Winston Salem State University EDU 2334 April 28, 2015 Abstract After several laws have been passed and civil rights time being over, you would think that segregation in public schools wouldn’t still be going on. Unfortunately, there is still segregation going on in schools. Not only based on race but based on the student’s socioeconomic status. In this paper I will tell you what segregation is, how it has evolved in the past 5 years, and why segregation is important in North Carolina public schools. Segregation in Public Schools According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of segregation is the practice or policy of keeping people of different races, religions, etc., separate from each other. Gary Orfield(2009) wrote an article stating that schools in the United States are more segregated today than they were in more than four decades. Schools in the US are 44 percent non-white and minorities (mainly African Americans) are rapidly emerging as the majority of public school students. In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that the South’s standard of “separate but equal” was “inherently unequal,” and did “irreversible” harm to black students. Now the most reason for segregation in public schools isn’t race, its poverty. Most of the nation’s dropouts occur in non-white public schools, which leads to African Americans unemployed. Schools that are in low income communities don’t get the same funding...
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...Developing an Advocacy Campaign for Diabetes Emmanuel Besong Walden University Policy & Advocacy for Population Health Nursing 6050N DR. Trudy Tappan March 27, 2016 Introduction Population health is defined as the health outcomes and its distribution in a community. Population health includes policies and interventions that affect health outcomes. Diabetes is a population health issue. Data is used to trend diabetes outcome of the diabetic population (healthcatalyst.com, 2013). According to CDC (2014), 9.3% of the population of the United States of America live with diabetes. This percentage amount to 29.1 million people diagnosed or undiagnosed with diabetes. Each year approximately 200000 deaths occur in the United States of America alone. The disease is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States of America (CDC, 2014). National Data trend estimates that by the year 2050, 1 in every 3 American will have developed diabetes (CDC, 2014). The American Diabetes Association defines Diabetes mellitus as a metabolic disease caused by low insulin secretion or inaction of insulin resulting in hyperglycemia. Long term effect of diabetes mellitus results in failure of many organs, such as eyes, blood vessels, kidneys, nerves, heart disease, stroke, amputations of the legs and feet, and early death. Diabetes Mellitus can be classified type 1 and Type 2. Insulin dependent diabetes is called type 1 diabetes and it is caused by a lack of insulin due to the damage of beta cells...
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..." Community policing affects the nature and development of department policies and procedures to ensure that community policing principles and practices have an effect on activities on the street. Problem solving and partnerships, therefore, should become institutionalized in policies, along with corresponding sets of procedures, where appropriate. In addition to the typical measures of police performance (arrests, response times, tickets issued, and crime rates), community policing calls for broadening police outcome measures to include such things as greater community satisfaction, less fear of crime, the alleviation of problems, and improvement in quality of life. Community policing calls for a more sophisticated approach to evaluation one that looks at not only how outcomes are measured but also how feedback information is used. With community policing, there is a shift to the long-term assignment of officers to specific neighborhoods or areas. Geographic deployment plans can help enhance customer service and facilitate more contact between police and citizens, thus establishing a strong relationship and mutual...
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...I. Introduction Youth who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods fare substantially worse than those who grow up with more affluent neighbors on a wide variety of health and socioeconomic outcomes. A fundamental question in the design of appropriate education, health, and social policies for low income families and communities is the extent to which these correlations reflect the causal impacts of neighborhoods as opposed to family and individual attributes that are not directly affected by the residential environment. This paper uses data from a randomized housing mobility experiment to estimate the causal effects on teenage youth of moving out of high-poverty neighborhoods. There are a variety of theoretical views about the potential effects of neighborhoods on youth.1 One school of thought argues that disadvantaged neighbors and neighborhoods have adverse causal effects on adolescent development through exposure to violence and poor peer influences, absence of appropriate adult role models, and lack of school, community, and health care resources. Indeed, teenage youth are often seen as the age group most susceptible to the adverse influences of disadvantaged neighborhoods (Ellen and Turner, 1997). An alternative view is that neighborhoods have only limited effects on youth outcomes since a wide variety of peers and role models are available in all neighborhoods, and even those in the poorest areas can find peers who stay out of trouble....
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...specifically for this assignment. ** I affirm that I have adhered to GFU’s expectations for integrity in the completion of this paper. This work is my own, which I have created specifically for this assignment. The Fight Against Gentrification in Portland, Oregon Gentrification is a way of middle and upper class families buying homes and businesses of those in a low-income, unrefined urban neighborhood, making renovations to increase the value of the neighborhood. Although it sounds promising for the neighborhood, gentrification often comes at the expense of the original low-income residents by causing displacement due to the inability to afford increased property taxes and rent. Portland, OR has been named as the most gentrified city in the last 100 years (Wile, 2015). There are several local groups in Portland who aim to help those in need such as The Oregon community Alliance of Tenants and The Portland Tenants Union. I had the pleasure of interviewing a volunteer of both groups, Carlos Covarrubias, a native to Portland and a social activist that believes strongly in the fight to stop gentrification in Portland. Carlos and I grew up together in the North East part of Portland, one of the first areas to experience the effect of new wealthy homeowner’s change in the landscape of the city. Like a lot of families in North and North East Portland, my mother had to sell our home because she could no longer afford the property tax in our neighborhood. She sold it for less...
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...Running Head: Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Juvenile Crime Kalah Jiggetts Criminal Justice Abstract This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional histories, judge-assigned restrictiveness levels, and home zip codes—allowing us to control for the non-random assignment of individuals to facilities far better than any previous study. Relative to all other management types, for-profit management leads to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for-profit facilities operate at a lower cost to the government per comparable individual released. Cost- benefit analysis implies that the short-run savings offered by for-profit over nonprofit management are negated in the long run due to increased recidivism rates, even if one measures the benefits of reducing criminal activity as only the avoided costs of additional confinement. Since its beginnings in the mid-1980s, prison privatization in the United States has provoked several rounds of congressional hearings and hundreds of articles...
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...Sylvia Rivera Urban Issues in a Global Context October 9, 2010 Extra Credit Assignment Anomic Communities An anomic community has no/ or does not take advantage of outside linkages, there is no sense of belonging to the community, and there is no tie to people within it. Rather, they are within the community for personal reasons and are independent of the community or people within it and the linkages outside of it. According to (Kirst-Ashman) “…an anomic neighborhood is dysfunctional and provides little social support. Anomie is a sociological that means “ social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values often involving “personal unrest, alienations, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals. Despite residence geographical proximity, the feeling of being in a neighborhood does not exist. An example of such a neighborhood is a huge urban public housing project. Many residents may feel little identification with other residents yet have nowhere else to go. They may live in fear and the larger community may provide little support.” “Human Behavior Communities Organizations, and Groups in the Marco Social Environment, An Empowerment Approach” Kirst-Ashman, Karen K.: (2nd Edition, 2008) p293 The following is part of an article that details Jakarta, Indonesia is an example of an international Anomic community: “In Indonesia, the state under Suharto functioned as the patrimonial center of a patron-client network, distributing...
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...Assignment 1.1: Conflicting Viewpoints Essay - Part I Prewriting Antonio Smith Professor Erin DiCesare PHI 210 Critical Thinking April 20, 2015 Drinking Age Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to 18 years old? I think that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 years old. There are some interesting subjects that oppose my thinking that can be argued to be true. First, lowering the drinking age would be medically irresponsible. Second, lowering the drinking age would give high school and middle school students easier access to alcohol. Third, lowering MLDA 21 to 18 will irresponsibly allow a greater segment of the population to drink alcohol in bars and nightclubs. It would be medically irresponsible to lower the age limit from 21 to 18 years old to legally drink or purchase alcohol. There are studies that show alcohol consumption can interfere with the growth and development of a young adult brain’s frontal lobes. The frontal lobes are essential for functions such as emotional regulation, planning, and organization. The potential for chronic problems such as greater vulnerability to addiction, dangerous risk-taking behavior, reduced decision-making ability, memory loss, depression, violence, and suicide is greater when drinking at an early age. [1][2][3][4] What’s interesting about this view is that the brain is still growing and effected by early drinking. If I was to look from this angle I would understand that younger people already have a hard time planning...
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...Three Abbreviated Research Plans Introduction Public health practitioner, when presented with a crisis, problem, or circumstances in the community can use the different research methods, such as quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. These advance plans of query explore not only potential clarification, but it explores different route that will conclude an exact treatment or intervention and influence an outcome. The three abbreviated research plans will be outlined in this paper, will provide possible clarification to the rising concerns in the U.S. on health disparities in to the people in the community that have limited or no health insurance that will prevent them from receiving adequate medication, health care, and the use of preventive measures such as diet and exercise (Walden, 2012). Strength and Limitation of Research Methods The two major strengths found in the quantitative research methods are that using the strategy of inquiry, the researcher have the chance to test and confirm presented theories about how and why incident happen and test theory assemble before the information is achieve to study a large number of people in a determined community or population (Creswell, 2009). The next strength of this research is that based on the findings, the investigator can make an overview when the composed information is based on casual samples of major size (Creswell, 2009). According to Creswell (2009), the strength for the qualitative methods is the data...
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...The Visiting Nurses Association of America is located in the heart of Washington D.C. This agency represents nonprofit in home healthcare and hospice care in all regions of the country. The Visiting Nurses Association of America has a membership base of 160 different agencies. Members range in size from three clinicians to well over 12,000 employees. On top of all that this agency offers, they are also providers for the influenza vaccine. They give about 1.5million influenza vaccinations per year. The Visiting Nurses Association of America is a nationally recognized association that supports, promotes and advocates for nonprofit home healthcare and hospice providers. Who care for all individuals regardless of complexity of condition or ability to pay. The mission of the VNAA is to support, promote and advance nonprofit providers of home and community based healthcare, hospice and health promotion services to ensure quality care for their communities. The vision of the Visiting Nurses Association of America is to make sure our communities are healthier through quality care provided in a way and place people choose. The VNAAs values to the members are Access to Care, Excellence, Transparency, Accountability, Membership Engagement, Stewardship, and leader ship. The association believes all persons should have access to affordable, high-quality, compassionate home and community-based healthcare, and hospice and health promotion services, regardless of the complexity...
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...SOC 322 Complete Class Discussions and Assignments Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/soc-322-complete-class/ Discussion Forum 1 Discussion Forum 1: What is your cultural background, and what is it like where you live? In Discussion Forum 1, post your response to the following discussion questions. Reply to at least two classmates’ responses by the date indicated in the course Calendar. 1. What is your cultural background, and what is it like where you live? 2. Describe how you have encountered the strange in the familiar in your own neighborhood or in some other place and what reference groups do people use in your neighborhood to define what is culturally and socially appropriate habitus? 3. In your neighborhood, are there ways that the people create social distance to separate themselves from others unlike them even to the point of being ethnocentric? CO1, CO7 Discussion Forum 2 Discussion Forum 2: Cultural Experiences In Discussion Forum 2, post your response to the following discussion question. Reply to at least two classmates’ responses by the date indicated in the course Calendar. Using a blend of your own experiences, supported by your understanding of the course readings and key terms integrate the following questions into your discussion board posting. It should be three strong paragraphs of 4 – 5 sentences in each paragraph. Then respond to at least two colleagues with an antithesis question on their posting. 4. Culture...
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...contact with, yet the focus has always been on how to better police relations with racial and ethnic minorities. There are many questions that arise from the public’s trust or lack of trust in police, such as how did perception of police start to falter, how important is the public trust and support to police and what can be done to bolster the public’s perception and support? Police officers in countries around the globe acknowledge that public perception and trust is crucial in order for law enforcement to be affective. One of the key issues to public perception of police is transparency. Initial studies into the transparency of police are not promising. This is why the creation of civilian complaint boards arose. Civil complaint boards are independent agencies, with subpoena power that handle complaints about different types of police misconduct (Civilian Complaint Review Board). It is the same police misconduct which erodes the public’s trust in law enforcement. Instance of racial profiling, corruption, excessive force and abuse of authority have slowly rubbed off the shine of the police in America in the last decade. In recent years stop and frisk has become a huge point of contention among the public and police....
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...Justice Assistance IJ J O F OJJ D P B RO J US T I C E P Bureau of Justice Assistance Understanding Community Policing A Framework for Action MONOGRAPH S G OVC RA MS Office of Justice Programs N BJ A C E I OF F Bureau of Justice Assistance Understanding Community Policing A Framework for Action MONOGRAPH August 1994 NCJ 148457 Bureau of Justice Assistance This document was prepared by the Community Policing Consortium, supported by grant number 93–DD–CX–K005, awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Assistance Response Center 633 Indiana Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20531 800–421–6770 The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. ii Monograph Acknowledgments The Bureau of Justice Assistance wishes to thank Stephen J. Gaffigan, Director of Operations, Community Policing Consortium for supervising and coordinating the preparation of this document with the Consortium Management Team. BJA also acknowledges the members of the Executive Board and Advisory...
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