...Americans today have been dealing with controversy over gun control due to the rise of shooting crime. The majority of today’s society is involved with crime committed by Americans who come into possession of a firearm obtained illegally and or without a proper permit. There have been many events that fall into the category of gun violence, such as; the Columbine shooting, Virginia Tech University, and the latest nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida. The guns used in these events were obtained legally by those individuals which committed these horrific acts of crime. Gun control laws in America have been increasingly relaxed in many states over the years. Public education on gun safety should be better available to our public society. Firearm...
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...What is the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994? The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, also known as the 1994 Crime Bill, was a comprehensive piece of legislation passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994. It was one of the largest crime bills in U.S. history and aimed to address various issues related to crime and law enforcement. There are seven key provisions of the 1994 Crime Bill which include the federal assault weapons ban, community oriented policing services (Cops), Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grants, Death Penalty Provisions, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Youth Violence Prevention Program,...
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...Interview INTERVIEWEE NAME: Steve T INTERVIEW METHOD: Over the phone INTERVIEW LOCATION: N/A INTERVIEW RESEARCH: Steve is a gun and hunting enthusiast that just received his carry and conceal permit from the state of Iowa. I selected him because he know the importance of gun control and for the fact that he just completed the carry and conceal permit class this year. INTERVIEW TOPIC RESEARCH: I know from first-hand knowledge you don’t have to shot a handgun before you are allowed to carry on in the state of Iowa. PRIMARY QUESTIONS: Do you think that shooting a hand gun should be part of the carry and conceal class? What else do you think the class may need? Do you think adding a shooting portion to the class would violate the 2nd amendment if they do not pass the shooting portion of the class? REASONING BEHIND THE QUESTIONS: I think that people should learn how to shot before they are allowed to carry and hand gun and potentially use to and hurt themselves or an innocent bystander. ATICIPATED RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS: I think he’ll think that shooting should be part of the course and that it will not violate the 2nd amendment if they don’t pass the shooting portion. SECONDARY QUESTIONS: Do you think you should have to qualify with a hand gun before you get your carry and conceal permit? Should they shoot several different types of hand guns like a semi-automatic and revolver so they know how to handle both? Or do you think that learning to shoot properly should be an...
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...PROTECT CHILDREN NOT GUNS 2012 THIS REPORT IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF TRAYVON MARTIN AND THE THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS KILLED BY GUNS EACH YEAR IN AMERICA. Children’s Defense Fund Mission Statement T he Children’s Defense Fund Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong, effective and independent voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investments before they get sick, drop out of school, get into trouble or suffer family breakdown. CDF began in 1973 and is a private, nonprofit public charity supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations. © 2012 Children’s Defense Fund. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Stand Up and Take Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Child and Teen Gun Deaths . . . . . . . . . ....
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...Widely adopted for police, the uses of non-lethal, a term that was slowly no longer being used, or less-lethal side arms roses quickly since 1980s, and has since been employed by police forces worldwide with its significant result comparing to firearms in lowering injuries and death. Electroshock weapon is one of the most popular incapacitate weapon that are being adopted by police forces around the world. This weapon come in different forms. Stun gun, with a size around a television remote control, would deliver electric shock to the subject which is touched by the weapon directly when used. The most used form would be the conductive energy devices, such as Taser, which are capable of firing projectiles that deliver the shock with a thin flexible wire. Taser X26 is one of the most popular model adopted by law enforcement agencies, including Australia, with Australian Federal Police, New South Wales Police Force and such. Some studies suggested that the use of deadly force, number of officers injuries have been reduced since the use of Taser (Hopkins & Beary, 2003). Upon squeezing the trigger, two dart-like electrodes, connected with wires, would be fired from the Taser itself. The weapon...
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...Gun law World Net, from Princeton University, defines a “Civil Right” as a right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of congress including the right to legal, social and economic equality. This makes gun ownership as much of a civil right as freedom of speech, religion and freedom of the press. Supreme Court affirms Second Amendment as a fundamental civil right (District of Columbia v Heller) The Heller case challenged several laws in Washington DC that constituted a complete ban on the Second Amendment rights for D.C. residents with no exception given for self-defense. In the Heller case, the Supreme court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental individual right to have functional firearms in the home that are commonly owned without being connected to any service of the state or military organization. The Supreme Court also ruled that the Second Amendment is a fundamental part of the bill of rights, which guarantees citizen’s individual rights. Lastly, in this 5 to 4 decision with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia writing for the majority, the Supreme Court affirmed that Washington DC gun laws violated the Second Amendment Civil Rights of DC residents and to positively restore those rights. Quotes from Scalia’s majority opinion: D.C.’s requirement that lawfully owned firearms in the home, such as registered...
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...Police Discretion Case Analysis Albeiro E. Florez Law Enforcement Administration CCJS 340 Due by 13 October 2013 Author Note Albeiro E. Florez, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Maryland University College. This report is a response to Professor Jeffrey B. Bumgarner’s project 2 directives. Correspondence concerning this report should be addressed to Albeiro E. Florez, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi eCampus, Adelphi, MD 20783. Contact: florezalbeiro87@gmail.com Police Discretion Case Analysis People make decisions on a daily basis to decide what we should do in any given situation. Having the knowledge to differentiate between what is appropriate or inappropriate is what gives us the freedom to make this decision with the correct judgment. In law enforcement, sworn officers are taught to face any situation by employing good judgment and making the best decisions by themselves or with little to no supervision. This is what we know as police discretion (The Rynard Law Firm, 2007). The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes discretion as “the quality of being careful about what you do and say so that people will not be embarrassed or offended” (Merriam-Webster, 2013). Although systematic routines and protocols need to be followed by officers to ensure they abide by the law as well as to enforce it, often circumstances will show up and force officers to make a decision based on what they feel is right...
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...Georgia’s “own and true Hardee”.9 After this trip, Davis appointed Hardee responsible for the defense of the states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The possession of Florida did not seem to concern particularly either the Union or the Confederacy ; except for extensive cattle herds there it could claim little strategic importance.10 So General Hardee decide visited Charleston and Savannah , the most important seaports city for Confederacy. Charleston city and harbor were the most heavily fortified in the Confederacy and had been defended successfully since 1861.11 So he decided to throw most of his troops and efforts on the defense of...
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...HISTORY OF THE 10th MOUNTAIN DIVISION ________________________________________ Birth of the Division In November 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. Finnish soldiers on skis annihilated two tank divisions, humiliating the Russians. Charles Minot (Minnie) Dole, the president of the National Ski Patrol, saw this as a perfect example of why the U.S. Army needed mountain troops. Dole spent months lobbying the War Department to train troops in mountain and winter warfare. In September 1940, Dole was able to present his case to General George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, who caused the Army take action on Dole’s proposals to create ski units. On December 8, 1941, the Army activated its first mountain unit, the 87th Mountain Infantry Battalion (Later became an entire Regiment) at Fort Lewis, Washington. The unit was dubbed "Minnie’s Ski Troops" in honor of Dole. The 87th trained on Mount Ranier’s 14,408 foot peak. The National Ski Patrol took on the unique role of recruiting for the 87th Infantry Regiment and later the Division. After returning from the Kiska Campaign in the Aleutian Islands near Alaska the 87th formed the core of the new Division. 10th Mountain Division - World War II This unique organization came into being on July 13, 1943, at Camp Hale, Colorado as the 10th Light Division (Alpine). The combat power of the Division was contained in the 85th, 86th, and 87th Infantry Regiments. The Division’s year training at the 9,200 foot high Camp Hale honed...
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...gain support and finance in the year before the primary * Proportional primary: awarded delegates in proportion to votes they get * Winner-takes-all: Win the most votes and you take all the states delegates Advantages: * Increased level of participation from ordinary votes (30% in 2008) * Increased interest from people * Increased choice of candidates (14 in 2008) * Removing power from party bosses Disadvantages: * Turnout is usually low * Voters are usually unrepresentative of normal voters (tend to be wealthier, old and better educated) * Process is far too long and expensive (Obama in 2008 announced his running 332 before the first primary * Fails to test presidential qualities Increased importance of primaries: * Really the only route to become a parties President Caucuses: * A meeting for the selection of a candidate * Usually held in states that are geographically large but thinly populated (Iowa, North Dakota, Nevada) * Turnout is usually pretty low, and usual favour ideological candidates National party conventions: Formal functions: * Choose presidential candidate. (Need majority of delegates) * This function has been lost to primaries * Now just merely confirm the candidate * Choose VP, usually a balanced ticket so VP brings what President can’t (McCain + Palin 2008, Old & young, male & female) Informal functions: * Enthuse the party (they organise the campaign and enthuse...
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...Licensed to: CengageBrain User Licensed to: CengageBrain User This is an electronic version of the print textbook. Due to electronic rights restrictions, some third party content may be suppressed. Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. The publisher reserves the right to remove content from this title at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. For valuable information on pricing, previous editions, changes to current editions, and alternate formats, please visit www.cengage.com/highered to search by ISBN#, author, title, or keyword for materials in your areas of interest. Copyright 2012 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. Licensed to: CengageBrain User Criminal Justice in Action, 7th Edition Larry K. Gaines and Roger LeRoy Miller © 2013 Wadsworth, Cengage Learning ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not...
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...the key drivers of performances, including company profit or loss for both the short term, and long term. The discussion includes how each factor influences managerial decisions, using the calculation to support the decision. The analysis further recommends how the company can improve its profitability to deliver more value to its stakeholder, giving a brief plan to implement the recommendations. Finally, the research assesses the circumstances in which the company should discontinue operations and how management should react when confronted with these circumstances, including a rational behind the response. Fictitious Business Description The organization in the evaluation, Digisafe USA, Inc., is the manufacturer of digital key and gun safes. The fascinating...
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...violent crime is fraught with difficulties, associated with limited data on gun ownership and use, firearms markets, and aggregation of crime data. Research studies into gun violence have primarily taken one of two approaches: case-control studies and social ecology. Gun ownership is usually determined through surveys, proxy variables, and sometimes with production and import figures. In statistical analysis of homicides and other types of crime, which are rare events, these data tend to have poison distributions, which also presents methodological challenges to researchers. (Just Facts, 2010) Americans own an estimated 270 million firearms, approximately 90 guns for every 100 people. In 2009, guns took the lives of 31,347 Americans in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more than three deaths each hour. 66,769 Americans were treated in hospital emergency departments for non-fatal gunshot wounds in 2009. Firearms were the third-leading cause of injury-related deaths nationwide in 2009, following poisoning and motor vehicle accidents. Between 1955 and 1975, the Vietnam War killed over 58,000 American soldiers – less than the number of civilians killed with guns in the U.S. in an average two-year period. In the first seven years of the U.S.-Iraq War, over 4,400 American soldiers were killed. Almost as many civilians are killed with guns in the U.S., however, every seven weeks. (Just Facts, 2010) Over the past...
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...Body Psychological, and/or social influences of neglect. A theoretical perspective: Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory. Chosen perspective’s view on neglect today. Bidirectional effects between your topic and society. III. Conclusion IV. Reference Page Abstract Psychologists agree that our identity form our personalities. Temperament being one of the main markers that each individual family’s parenting style must be adjusted to fit each child’s individual needs. Psychosocial Theory of Erik Erikson must be examined to see which stage deals with molding a young person’s personality, which leads to identity. What challenges do maladjusted children face? How harmful can neglect be to our personality development? The importance of Identity can be dependent on how watchful parents are, and the help our society offers to parents to raising a child (if available). It’s a boy! Well, I didn’t yell like that when my son was born. Mostly because everyone in the room and outside in the waiting room already knew he was a boy. But the excitement and joy experienced were even more pronounced than in any birth you have ever seen on TV, simply because he was my little boy. The overwhelming feeling of love and instinctive bond was immediate and incredible. But mostly I remember the need to protect and the questions I had for the hospital staff, “ Is that normal, is he ok, he looks cold, is that lamp too strong for his eyes, shouldn’t we cover him up or something?! I laugh...
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...political decisions some of which have been more powerful that the actual laws congress had written. The Supreme Court is in charge of making sure congress and the president don’t overstep their authority, and to do this job of keeping these branches accountable it would be impossible for the justices to not be politicians yielding real power. One of the examples of the supreme courts political power the court case Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). Estelle Griswold was the executive director of Planned Parenthood in Connecticut; she and Dr. Buxton of Yale Medical School opened a clinic in Waterbury and after only serving 10 patients Griswold and Buxton were arrested and convicted of giving information, instruction, and advice about birth control to married clients. This broke the Connecticut law prohibiting medical advice or treatment with the motive of avoiding conception. The decision was made 7-2 in favor of Griswold because it violated the Due Process Clause, but continued to implement amendments 1, 3, 4, and 9 and create a constitutional right to privacy for...
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