Racial Profiling is a form of discrimination by which an individual’s race or cultural background is used as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. Shopping while black, Driving while black, and Stop-and-Frisk are commonly used phrases and laws that are associated with racial profiling that have recently made headlines on multiple occasions in the past year. Shopping while black is the racial profiling term used when an individual is accused of shoplifting or other
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Written assignment #1 Written Assignment # 1 Written Assignment # 1 List several powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of Government. 1. The Executive Branch of the Government is listed as the Office of the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States and the elected cabinet members of the Department heads of the 15 major departments of the United States. The primary powers of this branch are as follows: The president can
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SUMMARY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Maryland Public Safety Education and Training Center is located in Sykesville, Maryland. The physical plant is generally divided into two areas on grounds totaling approx. 700 acres. The firearms Training Facility (FTF) and the Drivers Training Facility (DTF) are co-located approx. 2 miles from the Academic Center. These training areas are un-fenced, and goes through public roadway and to several residential communities; closest houses being approx. . . .25 miles
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exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Students that have the opportunity and greats benefits of attending public school systems in America have rights that are protected by the twenty-seven Amendments. However, some of the students have the complaint as to not having these freedoms such as, freedom of speech, student protesting during school hours, and the act
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(a) Officers stopped Johno and asked him what he was doing in the area. Under section 1(1a) and 1(2) of PACE a constable may stop a person in public and may detain a person for the purpose of a search (Huxley, 2012). An officer who has reasonable grounds for suspicion may detain the person concerned in order to carry out a search. Before carrying out a search the officer may ask questions about the person’s behaviour or presence in circumstances which gave rise to the suspicion according to Code A
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by the politician leads to actions that benefit the general public such as the welfare reforms. This piece has attempted to compare the welfare reforms of the two political parties, Democrats and Republicans. It then highlights similarities and then the differences in the welfare reform beliefs and actions of the two parties. Welfare programs for any society are very important and have the soothing power to satisfy the general public and its inspirations. There are many areas and all are characterized
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despite Professor Angevine attempt to erase the pornographic files. Question 2: Did the police obtain a search warrant before conducting this search? Yes, with the cooperation of Professor Angevine's wife, officers from the Stillwater, Oklahoma Police Department obtained a search warrant to look for child pornography on his University computer. Question 3: Then why wasn’t this search illegal under the 4th Amendment? Why didn’t the court hold this evidence to be inadmissible under the exclusionary
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Big Brother is Real and Active in Our Lives George Orwell’s novel, 1984, speaks of a world where an all-powerful dictator named Big Brother eliminates personal freedom and thought. There is much argument about whether or not the world in his novel ties in with our own world. Do we have enough privacy or are we constantly under surveillance? The argument on personal privacy is far from a new debate. Some people argue that the government has too much access to what we do, while others say that
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Mandatory Drug Testing Legislation Mandatory Drug Testing Legislation The subject of our debate is whether or not public assistance recipients should be required to pass a mandatory drug test as a qualifying standard. There are currently twenty seven states considering some type of legislation this year that would require anybody wishing to receive public assistance to pass a drug test in order to do so. While on the surface this type of policy seems to make sense in order to regulate where a
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violating our rights, and I too, like Lance, think it should be abolished. Include assumptions made by the author. Some assumptions I think that Lance makes is that the TSA as a whole are all thieves and that they control the valet security to search all vehicles. He states all the theft that takes place by the TSA, but seems like he assumes the entire agency does it. Even though I doubt he believes that, but he fails to mention that in his article. I myself am not a fan of the TSA, but I do
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