specifically Chicago. This fear and resentment comes from citizens not feeling protected, which is ironic seeing that the motto of the police force is to serve and protect. The question is “Who exactly are they protecting?” because by the looks of the crime rate you cannot tell. We have unfortunately come to lose trust in this authority. Just this month there have been 32 homicides to date in Chicago. This is outrageous and unacceptable. This violence typically affects young African American men because
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Mexico’s Drug War Drug trafficking has become an increasingly growing problem in the world today. Illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production, distribution, packaging, and sale of illegal substances. Although today’s "War on Drugs" is a modern phenomenon, drug problems have been a common problem throughout history. The market for illegal drugs is massive, when we consider the estimated global drug trade value is worth $321 billion (Vulliamy). The most drug trafficking
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Although people some people don't want to make gun laws stricter, it needs to be strict. Anyone that owns a gun can easily walk outside and go to to a school or just decide to shoot someone. Someone that want to hurt someone or make it on the news about something can easily go to a person that is gun running(1). People that are mentally ill can still go out there a buy guns from any store because they don't know that they are mentally ill. Over thousands of people die from gunshot wounds
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around 10 a.m. The young boy said he brought the gun to school to frighten her but accidentally fired a shot. ‘’We’ve had other school children take to elementary schools before . . . but it never went this far with it. Since last year there have been fifteen different school shootings in which many students have died without any reason. Who should we blame for this? Should we blame the parents, teachers, schools or our government? Regulating guns is a necessary action that needs to be taken in order
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of a crisis. These supporters believe gun laws only restrict law abiding citizens from their 2nd amendment rights with minimal effect on criminal gun owners. However; many anti-gun activists believe that more guns are not the answer to a gun problem and a Campus Carry law may increase accidental discharges, violence, as well as youth suicides. The University of Texas massacre fifty years ago is a prime example of this heated issue on both sides of the gun debate. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph
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•What are the elements of the crime of stalking under the statute discussed in this case? The elements of the crime of stalking under the statutue disscussed in Clements v. States case are the intentional frightening, noticeable threat of death, persistent harrassment, and no excuse for criminal negligence. First, the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas recognized the fact that Nathan intentionally frightened Jennifer through his actions. Nathan revealed aggressive actions against
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something done about guns. Trent Lott, R-Miss., wanted the senate to debate on new firearm restrictions (Austin 18-3). He chose to use a revised juvenile crime bill (S 254). This bill had eight proposals including a ban on gun sales over the Internet, an increase in the minimum age to own a gun from 18 to 21, and an import ban on ammunition clips that hold a large amount of bullets. He wanted to stray away from the proposal of holding parents accountable if their child commits a crime with a firearm
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Gun Control For as long as I can remember, “The Right to Bear Arms” has always been one of the key essential rights to all American citizens. It went hand in hand with “Freedom of Speech”. Ask just about any high school freshman to name three specific rights provided to us by our United States forefathers in our U.S. Constitution and “The Right to bear Arms” will surely reach most lists. It was just one of those things that stood out as a young student of U.S. government. As I’ve
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distribute any object, device, or instrument having the appearance of a weapon and such objects, devices or instruments shall be treated as weapons including, but not limited to, weapons listed above which are broken or non-functional, look-alike guns; toy guns; and any object that is a facsimile of a real weapon” (“401 School Weapons Policy”). School firmly has regulated such as weapons and drugs, because these are affected to students negatively. If any problems have occurred in school, school officials
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would be classified as inchoate crimes and by definition are an incomplete or imperfect crimes. The purpose of inchoate crimes is to allow law enforcement to intervene and stop someone from furtherance of a crime. Here Able, an undercover police agent suspects that Baker and Charley had committed a series of recent crimes. Because of his suspicion, Able solicits and invite Baker and Charley over to see if they know about any information regarding the series of recent crimes that were committed. In order
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