Essay on Examining Mumia's Guilt in White's 'Caught in the Crossfire'

In The Scarlet Letter Hypocrisy is evident everywhere. The characters of Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and the very society that the characters lived in, were steeped in hypocrisy. Hawthorne was not subtle in his portrayal of the terrible sin of hypocrisy; he made sure it was easy to see the sin at work , at the same time however, parallels can be drawn between the characters of The Scarlet Letter and of today’s society.

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The Catcher in the Rye is one of J. D. Salinger's world-famous books about the disgruntled youth. Holden Caulfield is the main character and he is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden separates the “phony” aspects of society, and the “phonies” themselves. Some of these “phony” people in his life are the headmaster whose friendliness depends on the wealth of the parents, and his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. This book deals with the complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Holden senses these feelings most of the time and is guilty about many things in

On October 31, 1963, a Cleveland police detective named Martin McFadden saw two men, John W. Terry and Richard Chilton, standing on a street corner looking suspicious. One would walk by a certain store window, stare in, and walk back to the other to confer. This was repeated several times, and the detective believed that they were plotting to do a store robbery. The officer approached the men and addressed himself as a policeman, and asked their names. When the men appeared suspicious in their answers, Officer McFadden patted them down and discovered that both men were armed. He proceeded to remove their guns and arrested them for carrying concealed weapons. Terry was then sentenced to three years in prison.

On May 16th, 2010 Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a seven-year old Black girl from the east side of Detroit, Michigan was fast asleep at her grandmother’s home when Detroit Police Department’s Special Response Team mistakenly entered the residence during a midnight raid. Officer Joseph Weekley discharged a bullet that entered Stanley Jones’ head leaving her body lifeless. Initially, Weekley was charged in connection with Stanley Jones’ death but prosecutors cleared him in 2015, ensuring he would face no repercussions for his negligence that resulted in the premature death of Aiyana Stanley Jones.

In Salem, during the times of the Salem witch trials, the church and the people were very close. This is what led to the hysteria and chaos which was the Salem witch trials. It also led to many conflicts between the characters in this book, because anyone who was against the church was considered a criminal. Some of these conflicts were between; Abigail and the other children, Danforth and the town folk, and John Proctor with himself and his wife.

People are often told that lying is the wrong thing to do; it is evil, inhumane, and overall terrible. Despite this fact, lying has been shown to hand people multiple benefits. These benefits can be anything from getting out of doing house chores to looking cool in front of classmates. Because of this, many people use this form of deception to remove themselves from unwanted problems in the community. The Crucible, a play written Arthur Miller, portrays a disrupted society where people are accused of witchcraft for any abnormal activity. The accused witches are either forced to “confess” to their involvement with witchcraft or be executed in the gallows. The characters in the play display to the readers that lying provides protection towards people in different ways.

Recently, I saw the film, “Fruitvale Station” in which a BART police officer fatally shoots Oscar Grant. On January 30, 2010, prosecutors charged, police officer, Johannes Mehserle with murder for the shooting. He resigned his position and pleaded not guilty. Michael Rains, Mehserle's criminal defense attorney, argued that Mehserle mistakenly shot Grant with his pistol, intending to use his taser when he saw Grant reaching for his waistband. On January 30, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson set bail for Mehserle at $3 million. A week later, with the help of fundraising from the police union, Mehserle posted bail.

In March 1998 the next event occurred when six pounds of cocaine evidence was missing from the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD chief officer, Bernard Parks, started to question the missing evidence and focused his investigation in CRASH officer Rafael Perez. Later in the investigation it became cleat that another pound of cocaine went missing from the evidence room right after an arrest was made by office Frank Lyga, the officer who shot Kevin Gains. It was believed that officer Perez soled the cocaine in retaliation to the death of Gaines that was caused by Lyga. Later is was confirmed that other incidents occurred where Perez switched the cocaine evidence with Bisquick, a pancake mix. Perez was later charged but made a deal with the prosecutors where he pled guilty to the cocaine theft but provided information about other CRASH officers who have also been involved in illegal activities. Perez provided information about 70 officers who were involved in some kind of

Michael Dowd worked for the New York City Police Department for precinct 75 for ten years and five months. Throughout his career, he committed extortion, narcotics trafficking, protection of drug operations, engaging in personal drug use, committed thefts and admitted to the courts that he had committed hundreds of crimes. At the beginning of it all, East New York in the late 80s was extremely poor and there were about 3,500 murders a year and a lot of crime. The 75 was known to be the deadliest precinct in the country, leading the city in homicides and shootings; the calls did not stop (Russel, 2015).

There are many ways to decide what makes a man guilty. In an ethical sense, there is more to guilt than just committing the crime. In Charles Brockden Browns’ Wieland, the reader is presented with a moral dilemma: is Theodore Wieland guilty of murdering his wife and children, even though he claims that the command came from God, or is Carwin guilty because of his history of using persuasive voices, even though his role in the Wieland family’s murder is questionable? To answer these questions, one must consider what determines guilt, such as responsibility, motives, consequences, and the act itself. No matter which view is taken on what determines a man’s guilt, it can be concluded that

Every law enforcement officer is bound to a code of ethics. When sworn in to any police department within the United States you read the code of ethics out loud so that you may never forget them. As per the indictment case file (11-020053-01/02/03-KHV-JPO) Officer Daryll M. Forrest was indicted with having stolen an Apple iPod Touch, video game console, Nintendo Ds with games and 300 in U.S. currency. Officer Sillings was indicted for stealing while under the color of law while conducting searches and seizures 340 in U.S. currency, six Play Station game, possibly other items that haven’t been identified. Each one of these officers had the responsibility to report the unethical act they each committed. Officer Forrest mumbled that he was influenced

Live from Death Row is written as a different array of essays, which can be viewed in a political manner. Mumia Abdul Jamal was sentenced to stay on death row in 1982. Mumia Abdul Jamal starts his works by recognizing numerous Africans Americans who have battled for racial equality. He recognizes past and present people, some who have been named and other people who have not. Jamal will probably uncover the shameful acts towards him and his kindred detainees while in the correctional system. He likewise endeavors to reveal insight into the degenerate American criminal justice system, which is proven by his examples, sentenced him to death in the 1980 's. He shares his own stories as well as incorporates the account of a number of the death row inmates he has known there. Jamal likewise utilizes current insights to support his cases.

Several witnesses directly complained to the police department. Consequently, two of the officers were charged with felony assault, one was convicted of a misdemeanor charge which led to the officer's being let go of his position. As with most major cities like New York's police department, it has gone through many scandals involving corruption and the use of unnecessary force. A widely admired reformer and Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy, tried during the early 1970s to hold supervisors responsible for the abuses of officers under their control and to put into place an early warning system to help recognize officers who have committed human rights violations. He tried this following the 1972 Knapp Commission report revealing major corruption.

In January 1993, a gunman murdered seven people in a fast-food restaurant in Palatine, a suburb of Chicago. In his dual roles as an administrative executive and spokesperson for the police department, Deputy Chief Walter Gasior suddenly had to cope with several