The Life of a US Custom Agent Luis Rey Intro to Criminal Justice CJ100 Jorge Martinez The United States of America is neighbored by two countries— Canada and Mexico. There are agencies that protect our borders from crime, agricultural diseases, and any other illegal activity. Customs and Border Protection, ICE, ICE-HSI, and various other departments handle these cases. It may seem to some that these agents don’t get to do as much as other law enforcement agencies
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viewed as discrimination and can be used to have cases overturned if proven someone was judged based on any of these factors. It has been noted that possible contributors to disparities in the justice system are the nature of offenses, differential policing policies and practices, sentencing laws, or racial bias. This leads to disproportionate minority contact, or DMC. DMC can occur at any point in the criminal justice system, from pre-arrest through reentry into the community or the return to custody
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a good starting point in making changes and getting things back on track. In an article from Philip Stewart writer for The Washington Times, he quoted Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stating, “Police need to learn more than logistics of policing but also the broader significance of their role in society.” Showing that police aren’t getting the proper hand to hand training because they’re too caught up in the management and plus funding for training continues to get cut back. The training
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Solutions to selected exercises from those assigned in outline (Chapters 1, 2 & 3) Message for Analysis (p. 31) Students will recognize this document as ineffective because it presents so many barriers to communication. The memo • Creates emotional barriers right from the first sentence (accusing employees of lying and cheating, later calling them names), preventing readers from perceiving the intended message • Presents a restrictive and authoritarian attitude, reflecting an environment that
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Choosing a Force Jonitha Marshall CJA/214 Phillip Cooley The police agencies of America are all highly competent and competitive forces within each community. All potential candidates much adhere to extremely stringent guidelines and meet exceptional standards to earn the right to wear the badge and serve their community. To be a part of any one of these agencies would be an honor and a privilege. When considering which one to select, the decision (for me) would be based solely upon the
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Book analysis-----“Winner-Take-All Politics” Jingshu Xu This book discusses the rising income inequality in America. During the last 30 years, the very wealthy people enjoy the unbalanced government politics and the middle class goes missing. The richer you are, the more you have benefited from economic changes. On the opposite, the poorer get the worse economic life and the middle class become vulnerable. The author give some statistics, since 1978—the richest 1% gaining 256% after inflation while
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of academic preparation based on military occupational specialty and rank. I believe that the scope of responsibility involved in executing our duties and serving our client under the Constitution, namely the people of the United States of America, requires
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years. No one expected this. Seeking to elucidate the drop in criminal behavior, specialists discussed a few of the latest theories, Their speculations were rational, they consisted of ideas like the Nineties economy, regulating laws, and innovative policing methods.
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Racial profiling has been around for many years, with laws such as the "Black Codes", which were created during the reconstruction in the South. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freed slaves such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations; and the “Jim Crow” laws, which were laws that discriminated against African Americans with concern to attendance
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Bill Clinton Research Paper President William “Bill” Clinton, the 41st president of the United States of America, proved to be a great president, facing some obstacles in his childhood, early political career, great success in his domestic policies but mediocre in his foreign. President Bill Clinton left behind a positive legacy which reinforced his great status. He was a great president which shows in his actions and all his other reforms and attempts to try and become the best there was. Nathaniel
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