Analysis Of The Movie ' Serpico '

In the film ‘’Maquilapolis’’ it tells the story of the human cost of globalization; focusing on group of female factory workers in Tijuana, which is home to hundreds of factories. Over the course of several years, a group of factory workers were a part of the documentary to tell their stories. The workers faced issues that included human rights abuses, danger from toxic chemicals both in the factory and in the environments all around the factories. A group of ‘’maquiladoras’’ became community advocates, and actively pushed to improve their situation and attempt to make a change and let their voices be heard. Large corporations play a key role in widening this gap. These corporations/companies move there productions to places like Tijuana to and other foreign places to for tax breaks and for cheap labor. They also use their connections to ensure government policy works for them. There is a huge gap between the super-rich and the rest of the world population that traps millions in poverty, fracturing our societies and undermining our democracy. It leaves more people living in fear and fewer in hope. Migration is a complex process and has been a feature of human societies for many centuries. There are many reasons why people choose to migrate. Migration means merely the movement of humans from one place to another with the purpose to find better opportunities. Many migrate to the states in search for

Starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, the 2001 film Training Day focuses on the portrayal of two Los Angeles Police Department officers.The story begins with Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, a rookie narcotics detective on his first day of assignment. Jake is in a 24 hour period of field evaluation under the reins of a fellow respected and decorated narcotics officer Alonzo Harris, who is portrayed by Denzel Washington. Jake Hoyt is the ideal “white knight of justice”, an individual who is morally incorruptible, and a person who seeks to defend what is morally correct and to eliminate injustice through proper practices set under federal and state laws and standards. On the other side is Alonzo Harris, a ruthless, selfish, and corrupt narcotics cop who will do whatever it takes to complete the task, whether it violates the procedures and policies. Through the entirety of the film, the concepts of moral ambiguity in situational ethics towards institutional justice and the ethical dilemma of power and corruption amongst enforcement agencies are throughly stressed, analyzed, and reflected. The film illustrates and advances the implicit message of the misrepresentation of the criminal justice system, deception of the effectiveness of institutional justice, and corruption of crime enforcement agencies through the observation, analysis, and deconstruction of numerous examples in normalization to ideologies, and formal elements as suggested through the duration of the film.

Upon watching the movie Serpico that was located in New York in 1973, and the movie Training Day that was located in Los Angeles in 2001, these were two different movies filmed years apart also geographically thousands of miles apart. I believe that both movies sharing similarities and differences can be discussed in three ways being: police corruption and misconduct, morals and the third category is education value.

Cop: A true story is a book that details the true story of an Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer, Michael Middleton. During the novel, Middleton reminisces stories of his over twenty-year service to in police force. He revels and faces obstacles such as: institutionalized racism, death, drugs, social injustice, personal challenges, and a lot more issues. Among those issues were gang violence. As a police officer, Middleton went through a period of facing off with the infamous Crips, Bloods and Black Panther gangs.

The Journalist of the year, named by the Los Angeles Press Club, Radely Balko is the author of Rise of the Warrior Cop. Balko writes about how the increase in militarization of police forces have caused a lot of harm in the past decade. He questions what the proper role of law enforcement should be and discussed the effect of the drug on war has had. The main focuses of this book started off by giving a quick history of cops in America (also the name of chapter 3). In the remaining chapters he examines and focuses on the past fifty years. Decade by decade he examines the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and the 2000’s. Balko gives examples of many innocent people being killed do raids that were in the wrong, some cases it also led to

For years police corruption has been a major problem in American society but where is the line between moral and unethical police corruption, many modern movies address this vary issue. Some films portray how types of police corruption can have a positive influence on society, while others show the dark side of police corruption. Many law enforcement agents join the criminal justice with the basic idea of "justice for all," however, most of them do not realize that the nice guy doesn't always win. Even though there are vast amounts of movies which specifically address police corruption we will use three main movies for our argument today, mostly LA Confidential, however, also Training Day.

The documentary states that police officers are pressured to fill monthly quotes of arrest and stop and frisks usually of drug dealers. But while attempting to fill theses quotas police officers fail to report the most serious crimes such as rape or

Noble cause corruption follows the teleological ideal of ethics. Teleological ethics are based on our concern with consequences (Thiroux & Krasemann, 2014, p. 30). The approach emphasizes that good officers are trying to do the right thing, but due to some complexities or even a lack of evidence, they feel forced break the rules to catch the bad guy (Grometstein, 2007). Police officers believe that if they ignore certain legal policies, then they can successfully eliminate criminals and protect their communities from detriment. Often overlooked strategies include planting evidence, making false reports, or even abusing their authority (Martinelli, 2006). In this essay, I will evaluate the merit of the police action in the three videos and

Where the victim, Eric Garner, had just broken up a fight and was being stopped by officers, because he was suspected of selling “loosies” . After Mr. Garner proceeded to say he didn’t sell anything, and to ask the bystanders, the officers, Damico and Pantaleo, ignored it. Garner suggested that Damico and/or Pantaleo have made the same allegation once before, and he had then proven he was innocent. One police officer tries to handcuff Garner, and Garner pulls his arms away. He is then placed in a chokehold, and surrounded by multiple officers.

The ethical transgressions of public officials destroy the public’s faith in public agencies by completely contradicting their very purpose. The purpose of the public officials is to serve, protect, and uphold the law at all costs. However these specific officials have done the complete opposite. The public officials in this film have proven that there is corruption throughout law enforcement. Characteristic such as lying, false accusations, failure to conduct a thorough investigation and physical abuse are all but some of the many things that these corrupted public official have exhibited amongst Brenton Butler.

This is a film following the life of Nino Brown. He has become an “American success story with a twist'; (Rosenbush “menace';). Brown is the main character who is young, smart, handsome, rich, successful, and prominent in his community. But, Brown is a big time drug lord and head of a gang and two cops are out to put an end to him. This late ‘90’s drama was directed by Mario Van Peebles set in New York City. This film also had all of the conventions of “New jack cinemas/black social dramas';.

The movie is set out as an officer who impersonates and identifies himself as officer Daniels, who prank called a fast food restaurant manager Sandra at ChickWhich in Ohio. Sandra falls into officer Daniels plot and gets caught up in the wind. Feeling guilty of a crime that wasn’t committed by a co-worker there named Becky. Sandra is asked to bring Becky into the room to discuss the falsely claimed downfall in which, was complained by a customer that she had stolen money from an hour ago. Sandra shocking moment send her into regret of trusting Becky. Becky’s

Demetria Devonne Lovato, also known as Demi Lovato, is wildly known for her acting and singing career. She was born in Dallas, Texas in 1992. Growing up in her household consisted of living with her mother and two sisters. Demi’s acting career began when she was 10 years old as a regular cast member on Barney and Friends. However, she made her big debut acting in Disney’s Camp Rock with the Jonas Brothers, a boy band that was very popular at the time and contributed to her success. Additionally, she has been seen as a judge on the X-Factor, has been the spokes girl for Hasbro "Hit Clips", and has done some work with voiceovers for both television and the radio (Billboard.com). Within the last few years, Demi has been in the spotlight for coming out about her mental health issues. Most recently, Demi has been involved in a variety of mental health campaigns, and speaking to the public to raise awareness.

From the movie, The Searchers, it portrays a more idealized version of the whole great romanticized American West than a challenged version. Throughout the movie, Uncle Ethan is depicted as some determined cowboy who is willing to do and give anything to get his family back and prove his loyalty to them. He even goes to great lengths to hunt and kill the Indians just to get back what is his. He challenges the romanticized American West a little when it comes to making some decisions you wouldn’t see most cowboys doing as he brutally murders the Indians and undeniably shows his racism and hatred towards them. The movie mainly romanticizes and challenges the myth of the cowboy a little to show the more unrealistic version of how a cowboy is

The script also poses some intriguing moral questions, especially for the police chief Joe. He has to struggle with the moral argument of family vs. justice. He clearly has a moral dilemma.