Another town, another attack on a cop “Another Town, Another Cop Attack on a Cop” by The Editorial Board for the Washington Times, discusses the attack of Officer Jesse Hartner by Edward Archer. Officer Jess Hartner was shot at thirteen times but only hit three times. Miraculously, the three bullets the officer was hit by did not cause any extensive damage, hitting only his left arm. Officer Hartner was able to get out of his car and return fire on his shooter, Edward Archer. The article states that Edward's reason for attacking a policeman was simply because police enforce laws that are against his religion. The mayor states that Edward's motives are not connect to the Islam religion. The editorial board believes the mayor is unable to say what the shooter's motives are and should not tell people the reason is not religion. Reasons the editorial board states he is …show more content…
The mayor did not conduct an interview with Edwards, which he shouldn’t because he is not an investigator. The mayor didn’t even wait for the police to conduct an interview, he just jumped to the conclusion. Now during the investigation, police will not be able to tell if the guys identifiers, which indicate if he is lying or not, are real or just made up for a lesser charge. Religion based crimes have a harsher punishment than the crime if just shooting a cop. The mayor gave Edward an amazing tactic to use while he is being prosecuted.
The writers have strong word choice and rarely use simple sentences. An example of strong word choice is the writers used aspired instead of hope. Most of the sentences started with adjectives which makes the article flow easier. Another example of exceptional writing style the writers used was they wrote in active voice instead of passive. A weakness the writers had was they didn’t use a lot of transitional which made it hard to
These essays show me how much I lack when it comes to descriptive writing. I often use simple vague words to get my point across quicker rather than taking the time to write about the details about the situation or the people or whatever I may be writing about.
The organization and transitions take away from his actual writing. He jumps from one idea to another and it is not clear what the point is at that specific moment. One example of this is when he jumps from masculinity, to a short paragraph about femininity, then abruptly back to the problems with being a male.
Overall, the essay seemed to lack flow as a result of a noticeable absence of transition words. The essay had bad syntax. Each paragraph seemed to be scenario after scenario and each sentence seemed to be idea after idea. For example, in the first paragraph, the list consisted of multiple sentences, instead of just one sentence with commas. “But they are few: Being mistaken for a wheat field by a cloud of locusts. Being buried alive”...“Interviews from film festivals.”, this seemed like an awful way to list ideas. In addition, the fourth paragraph of the essay was made up of only 2 sentences, one
In the first three sentences of the essay, the speaker adopts a very childlike style. He makes use of simple words and keeps the sentences short, similar in style to that of an early aged teenager. But since the text is written
When watching an episode of Cops Reloaded I observed four different arrest by law enforcement officers during the episode of the show. There were many different things that stuck out to me concerning the clothing of all that were arrested, for some reason they were all in tank tops. When looking at their physical characteristics, there was a connection between arrest number one and arrest number for they were both white females that were being arrested for drug activity (Cops Reloaded, 2017). The connection that I can make the women and their drug use is that of psychological chrematistics of antisocial disorder and a link to the nonviolent criminal behavior (Tielbeek, Medland, Benyamin, Byrne, Heath, Madden, & Verweij, 2012). The other two
What does the term ‘police brutality’ mean to you? ‘Police’ are the men and women dressed in uniform that are supposed to protect us from any danger at any time. They’re who you call when someone is breaking into your house in the middle of night, or even when someone strange is following you home. The word ‘brutality’ is physical violence towards someone. How do those two words sound next to each other?
Rise of the Warrior Cop, by Radley Balko, centers around police in the United States and how it has gone through militarization throughout the years. Militarization is a process in which the police departments take on tactics that are similar to the tactics used by the military. Police forces were initially made to make our environment a safer place to live in. In this book, Balko explains how that has changed. Practices of policing first began when people would get hired, unofficially, to keep slaves under control and catch them if they try to run away. These people were sometimes known as slave catchers. Soon it evolved into formal policing, allowing police to catch criminals and make the neighborhood safe. However, today it is not so much about catching criminals; it involves a lot of violence and Balko questions whether this is even constitutional. In his writing, Balko brings awareness to the horrible tactics police are using in today’s society and how we could fix it.
Police Academy and policing are some of the most controversial things in today 's world. This particularly pertains to our society, in which it seems that there is a different incident involving the police every week. It is extremely controversial, the media uses its power of manipulation to “expose” the police often abusing their power. This is leading to a division of our nation. There is a large clash of who 's to blame in this situation, we can even see this in class based on the various opinions of my fellow students.Some of my classmates and many others blame things like police academy, methods of policing, and the cultural separation between police and the community. I interviewed somebody who lived through both. He was in the police force for 21 years and continued on to teach and direct police academy for 25 years.
Peter Moskos‘, Cop in The Hood, is the story of a sociologist going native by going through the Baltimore police academy, becoming a cop and working for over a year. The book follows Moskos chronological journey, from the academy to the street and the last part of the book is dedicated to a pretty thorough analysis of the War on Drugs.
It’s a much different outcome than a Sunday night incident in nearby Uniontown, which culminated in the shooting of a responding police officer and subsequent shooting death of the suspect.
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.
How did the Kansas City Patrol Study affect routine patrol all across the nation? It affected routine patrol in the fact that It made officers realize that traditional routine patrol in marked police cars did not appear to affect the level of crime. Nor did it affect the public’s feeling of security. The experiment demonstrated that urban police departments can successfully test patrol deployment strategies, and that they can manipulate patrol resources without jeopardizing public safety.
Martin Luther King Jr., an American Baptist minister, African-American civil rights activist, and non-violent protest leader, once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (Ali-Dinar 1963 p.1). Such an iconic and fearless leader recognized the unjust behavior within society as a result of racially motivated police brutality and societal discrimination. Though his efforts were not in vain, today’s media representation of law enforcement impacts the societal cultivation of police officers in a negative way. Media outlets, in the forms of television, radio, or social websites, create a cynical view of police officers, which influences societal beliefs and creates negative connotations.
In the poem “Poem about Police Violence,” the use of the word accident plays an important role in the overall interpretation of the poem. Today, most people, when asked to define accident, will say something along the lines of “an event that occurs without intention.” However, the OED defines an accident as “something that is present but not necessarily so, and therefore non-essential” (“Accident,” def. 1). This definition is much more impactful in the context of Jordan’s poem, especially in the lines “that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn/ street was just a “justifiable accident” again” (23-24). By using the OED’s definition of accident, it can lead one to the interpretation that even though a man was killed, and that it keeps happening
Another observations about the form of the text is that the author uses very long sentences. There is no period at the end of ideas and that can show a very alert rhythm, like the narrator has to many to say that we won’t stop writing ideas all over again and he won’t let you get a word in. There are ideas interconnected with