Corruption In The New Yorker

On August 10, 2025, the Seattle City Council passed Council Bill 118437, which creates an ordinance allowing the City to impose a tax on businesses that sale firearms and ammunition. The ordinance added Chapter 5.50 to the Seattle Municipal Code, which states in part:

What issues divided the New York’s “old money” merchants (trade and banking) from its “new money” manufacturers?

Chicago has had its share of police corruption and scandals throughout the city’s history. Officials always vowing that corruption will never happen. One of the corruption cases that caught my attention was about Joseph Miedzianowski. According to NewOne, Joseph Miedzianowski is ranked number 4 as the most corrupt cop in the U.S. of all time. Joseph Miedzianowski was a Chicago police officer for 22 years. He served as a police officer and a drug kingpin shaking down drug dealers. He also ran Chicago’s gang unit and his own gang dealing drugs (NewsOne. 2011).

Frank Serpico was a police officer in the 1960s that was excited and nervous about it at the same time because of what the job entailed. Serpico soon realized that there was a significant amount of corruption in the field and no one said anything about it. He was placed in an “action” precinct in Brooklyn which means that area has a high crime rate which he was excited about. He soon became sick of the job and strove to be a detective which did not necessarily work out for him. He sought to fight against the corruption, the justice system, and the rumors started based on an idea of someone’s sexual orientation and no evidence to back it up.

Each of the Price sisters exhibits radically different mindsets regarding their religious faith allowing Kingsolver to differentiate between each of the girls. Rachel, the oldest, proves herself to be the stereotypical teenage girl. Obsessed with her appearance, materialism, and petty matters, Rachel simply does not have room for religion. Similar to her father, Rachel is an extremely selfish and arrogant human being. However, unlike Rachel, the second Price sister, Leah, has a strong religious faith and accepts her father’s believes.

Before the onset of prohibition, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia warned that another 250,000 agents would be needed just to monitor 250,000 federal prohibition agents (his estimation for the necessary number of agents). He was prophetic; after all, there were 18,000 federal agents hired during the first eleven years of prohibition and nearly 14,000 of them were eventually fired, often as a result of corruption. This era marked arguably the most widespread corruption in our nation’s history. After all, Roy Olmstead, one of the most powerful bootleggers on the west coast was a former Seattle cop who was fired only a few weeks after prohibition went into effect. Even after leaving the force, his massive syndicate remained in the good graces

This chapter is designed to deliver a general overview of the New York City Commission on Human Rights and how it supports the people to understand their rights and obligations under the City’s Human Rights Law that prohibits discrimination and harassment in employment, housing, and public accommodations and forbidsdiscriminatory harassment and bias-based profiling by law enforcement. This chapter has included many things for instance, description of is human rights, NYC Human Rights Law, Discrimination, and Protected Classes, (race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, religion, intersectionality and immigrant status). Subsequently, this chapter talks about human rights law protection against discrimination,historical wars, treaties, constitutional

The 100th year anniversary of The Declaration of Independence is here and the Nation is as united as it is equal. None. Although football games continue like Princeton vs. Rutgers the United states is in shambles. Following the war between the states a plan to reconstruct was put into place. It was proficient, effective, and controversial for many years. However, after the long Civil War and years spent to rebuild the Nation, the North Ultimately killed reconstruction because of government corruption, the focus change in North, and widespread racism throughout the nation.

Millions of dollars are generated from athletic events, where the athletes are at the center, but the athletes receive no compensation. The most scandalous example of corruption in the National Collegiate Athletic Association was when there were NCAA video games. Players were being put in video games without their consent and not getting anything in return for it. Players had to purchase the games themselves and when playing the games would find exact replicas of themselves. These video games raised millions of dollars because of the players, and the players received no compensation. Also, in the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament, the NCAA raises 6 billion dollars off of these players work. The NCAA could not even have the tournament without the players, but yet again, the players receive nothing.

benefits of this Act. The first time the prisoners went to their cells, they were to be naked and holding their clothes. This nudity allowed the prisoners to be vulnerable to other inmates. This continues when the inmates take a shower. There is no privacy walls in the showers, and this can promote sexual abuse. Andy had an unpleasant encounter with Bogs Diamond, the leader of “the sisters.” This gang was known to sexually abuse inmates. Bogs first words to Andy were “did anyone get to you yet,” implying sexual assault. Sexual assault in prisons is relativity common and Shawshank Redemption depicted the issue well. The Shawshank State Penitentiary staff needed to recognize the signs of victimization and prevent it from happening. However, the guards did know about the abuse and looked the other way for two years. Prison rape is unlawful and needs to be monitored closely. Another situation that needs to be vanquished from the prison is the nefarious corruption.

Corruption within the New York Police Department is a quickly growing phenomenon; to an extent, this is largely due to the cop culture that encourages silence and draws the line at honesty. The good, honest officers are afraid to speak up against co-workers and in the process become corrupt themselves. When police departments were first established in the mid-nineteenth century, corruption quickly followed suit. It began with minor acts of misconduct and today deals with serious criminal activities. Scholars have noted that there is a strong correlation between the officers taking part in corrupt acts and officers wanting to fit in with the culture. In this paper, I argue that the deeper an officer in the New York police department gets into the police culture, the more likely it is that they become involved in narcotic corruption

Police in America began as the night watch system that protected cities from crime, fire, and disorder. Of course early policing was influenced by the British, and so was American Law which derived from English common law. This would also form a correlation to American policing policies that diverged from the English’s Magna Carta and as well the French. The French established a centralized government that entailed men to take an oath of loyalty. The police in America started as night watch groups, then employment changed to police officers being political appointed which was very corrupted, but throughout the years things changed again to serve the public. Instead of a political selected police force that earns it’s pay through bribes and

Although police officers take an oath to protect and serve citizens in our society. we have some officers that our corrupt and willing do anything just to protect themselves from being exposed from their unethical behavior. In 1994 three officers from New Orleans police department committed an unspeakable crime murder for hire and a violent drug gang. The killing of Kim grove was thirty-two years old and was gunned down by police officer that were there to protect her instead they killed her.

Political corruption has had a lasting impression on New York City and the empire state all together. It is an attribute to the history and development of the city because it has been an influence on the social, economic and political spheres that are at the heart of society in New York. To develop an understanding of how political corruption shaped New York City and how it has contributed to the city’s growth is essential to under the history of the city. It is important also to understand how people reacted to it, because it set a foundation for modern times and how people react to government and its role in society. My possible thesis for this research paper would be political corruption was an element to the growth of New York City following the civil war. Through questionable political tactics, officials used their power to negatively and positively push New York City into the 1900s, which would lead to political activism by the city’s people looking for change.

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.