Essays Tagged: "Law Enforcement"

Crime In the United States

atistics:Final 1995 crime statistics showed that 13.9 million Crime Index offenses were reported to law enforcement across the Nation. The 1995 total represents a rate of 5,278 offenses for every 100, ... r period.By region, the Southern States recorded 38 percent of all Crime Index offenses reported to law enforcement. The lowest volume was reported in the Northeastern States, accounting for 16 percen ...

(4 pages) 174 1 3.2 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Gun Control

Gun ControlThe government has placed many gun control laws, but some of the lawswere made to make the general public feel safer. For instance the governme ... es when they are not even used for most gun relatedcrimes. The government also administered another law called the Bradey Law.The Bradey Law makes a five day wait on the purchase of a handgun so a che ... day wait on the purchase of a handgun so a check canbe run on the persons background. None of these laws have decreased the amountof deaths caused by hand guns. The media also plays a part in more law ...

(2 pages) 120 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Crime In the United States

atistics:Final 1995 crime statistics showed that 13.9 million Crime Index offenses were reported to law enforcement across the Nation. The 1995 total represents a rate of 5,278 offenses for every 100, ... r period.By region, the Southern States recorded 38 percent of all Crime Index offenses reported to law enforcement. The lowest volume was reported in the Northeastern States, accounting for 16 percen ...

(4 pages) 136 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Threat of Nuclear Smuggling

ecause even though the percent ofthese type of smuggling is less than that of drugs forexample, the law-enforcement type officials are also lessexperienced at stopping shipments of an item such asuran ...

(2 pages) 131 2 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Prohibition vs. legalization

. ProhibitionThe idea of Drug Prohibition made sense: lower the availability of drugs by the use of law enforcement. Unfortunately, Drug Prohibition means heavy costs while proving to be ineffective a ... ng to be a crazed addict, who would stop at nothing to get a hit. I was not going to be dodging the law my whole life. I was going to be everything I wanted to be, and drugs were definitely not going ...

(5 pages) 109 0 3.9 Mar/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Drug Legalization

hers to the public with limited review and challenge.Attacks on drug enforcement efforts often hold law enforcement to impossible and changing performance standards. Law enforcement , treatment , and ... her. None of the credit for the twelve year decline in drug use among our children is attributed to law enforcement, yet recent increase in drug use are cited as evidence of law enforcement's failure. ...

(5 pages) 184 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Today's society , a 'half version' of George Orwell's novel, 1984

g to die. The Mafia is so widespread that it has operatives all over keeping an eye out for cops or law enforcement, this is the Mafia's 'telescreens' (Orwell 6). Another startling similarity between ... time. In this time, there is a substantial amountof restriction of the public, much of which is for law and order. A lot of this day and age may resemble George Orwell's 1984. It is nothing but a faca ...

(2 pages) 69 1 3.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Community based policing provides hope for law enforcement.

EI. Introduction to C.B.P.A.The roots of C.B.P.B.So what is community?II.The two elements of C.B.P. law enforcement philosophy are:A. Community partnership.B. Problem solving.III. The reaction of poli ... department after another,and we are ready nowto agree that 'C.B.P. provides hope for the future of Law enforcement.'We can trace the seed of C.B.P. back to Sir Robert Peel, the father of themodern Po ...

(7 pages) 754 0 3.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Violence in the Prohibion Era

o be talking about violence in response to, or as a part of agitation and not violence attendant to law enforcement, as well as the impact a Carry Nation type figure can have. Violence in resistance t ... impact a Carry Nation type figure can have. Violence in resistance to law or violence undertaken by law officers is somewhat separate from violence associated with a social reform movement's agitation ...

(6 pages) 64 0 3.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Affirmative Action

had its greatest amount of success in city, state, and government jobs. Since the 1960s the area of law enforcement witnessed the greatest increase in minority applicants, and in jobs offered to minor ... had its greatest amount of success in city, state, and government jobs. Since the 1960s the area of law enforcement witnessed the greatest increase in minority applicants, and in jobs offered to minor ...

(7 pages) 487 0 3.8 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

essay on drug laws from the conservative side.

One problem with drugs is urban crime and the abuse of drugs. If there is stricter law enforcement then maybe it will solve the problem of drug abuse. If the supply is stopped then th ...

(2 pages) 96 4 3.9 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

This essay is about the different forms of child abuse.

a minor social problem that only affected a handful of U.S. children. In recent years the media and law enforcement has paid close attention to the issue. More than 1,000 children died from abuse in 1 ...

(8 pages) 447 5 4.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse

Prostitution Opposition: This is a persuasive essay for legalizing prostitution. It features financial reasoning and better use of police resources as reasoning.

lized because we are paying too high a financial and social cost for the ineffective enforcement of laws against it. The money and the law enforcement personnel freed by legalizing prostitution could ... h century, fornication may not have been socially accepted, but neither English nor American common law recognized it as a crime. After the Civil War, a series of laws were proposed to segregate and l ...

(5 pages) 407 3 3.4 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The History of Forensic Science

The History of Forensic ScienceLaw Enforcement has used forensic science for years to help solve puzzling crimes. But not to many p ... orking for Scotland Yard did the very first bullet comparison to solve a murder case. He noticed a flaw on the fired bullet and he then traced that back to the mold that made the bullet. James Marsh, ... in criminal investigations. I'll almost guarantee that the next fifteen years will bring many more. Law enforcement could get very exciting from a forensic science view.Biowww.gwu.edu/forensic/listofl ...

(4 pages) 164 1 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Determative vs. Indetermative Sentencing.

Andrew PhelpsECI 350Paper #3Often in Law Enforcement the question of sentencing is a very tough one. The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 cr ... the prison look tougher on crime, but actually they are just releasing a criminal who did break the law and they should serve their time and that is the bottom line (Goodstein 12).What people might no ...

(5 pages) 111 0 0.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Persuasive Essay against racial profiling in airports.

people as well as demonstrates the overall ignorance associated with racism.Racial profiling is the law-enforcement practice of singling out members of racial minorities as suspects. Heavily practiced ...

(2 pages) 210 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

How might the changing demographics and diversity of the U.S. population affect the operation of juvenile and criminal courts?

gy has brought a number of advantages tosociety, it has also resulted in some unique challenges for law enforcement.The State Police will be called upon even more in the future to police technology-re ... this particular class of victims. As with any changes in demographics, an increase in the number of law enforcement concerns of elderly citizens will generate several training issues for sworn personn ...

(3 pages) 102 0 4.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

A Study of the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.

ace to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." This gives us the protection against unlawful search and seizures performed by law enforcement. But with everything in this government ther ... thirteen exceptions that have been recognized by the courts, federal and state.Search incident to a lawful arrest:The most prevalent exception is that of the search incident to a lawful arrest. This w ...

(9 pages) 387 1 4.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Economics Theory and Crime. Why do criminals commit crime. Why is law enforcement failing in the war on drugs.

cle explains that crimes which have high profit maximization such as stealing and drug dealing need laws to reflect punishments that hit the criminal where it hurts them the most; financially. Suppose ... le analysis of choices "among the alternative combinations of costs and benefits." This being said, laws don't need to make it impossible for people to commit crimes, they need to make it unprofitable ...

(2 pages) 193 1 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Title IX--This essay is on Title IX and the 3 issues that have happened in Bakersfield, Calif. It includes statistics and quotes.

tional programs or activity receiving federal financial assistance." Title IX was the first federal law that stopped from discriminating against sex in universities, including the teachers and the stu ... versities had separate entrances. Females were not able to attend certain classes like auto body or law enforcement. Also males were not allowed to take the class home economics. In many medical and l ...

(6 pages) 101 1 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies