Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Reform Era

Fear mixed with public view about rising crime rates contribute to a lack of faith by citizens in the criminal justice system. I believe that the news wants more ratings sometimes so they try to exaggerate a story to make it sounds interesting and exciting. Social media has a major impact on people’s attitudes especially young people. People read something that’s so convincing and believe it immediately. They don’t do any research of their own to get a point of view of all sides of a story. I believe a good example of attitudes of people was the Alton Sterling shooting. The altercation was videoed by witnesses and went viral. People automatically were condemning police because they shot and killed a man that looked defenseless in the situation. People just made assumptions and social media impacted their view on what happened. Not until later was the detailed story of the incident came out and the body camera footage. Some people changed their minds, were indecisive or still believed what they first saw and heard. Media caused a major response of public attitudes on how and why this happened. It caused attitude change of how we view the police. Citizens didn’t feel safe or protected rather targeted because of their race. This case caused a domino effect almost because of the negative attitude towards police officers here in Louisiana and the rest of the country. I believe media has a major impact on citizens attitudes because it can cause a

Gender inequality and slavery were the two biggest evils that reformers tried eliminating in the time period. The abolition of slavery had many reformers behind it. Two very important men trying to achieve this were Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, a white man, going to show there was support from all types of people. Two of the women’s rights advocates were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sarah Grimke. They both achieved great things to help out their cause. Although slavery and gender equality are arguably the most important evils in the time period there were still many other. One of these was alcohol. During the time period the Temperance

Uchida detailed the beginning and progression of American policing in his article. Police departments were originally under the control of city governments and city officials and was heavily influenced by politics (Uchida, 2004, p. 12). Because of this political influence, there were no hiring or training standards. Elected officials would hire men that would agree to keep them in office and further their agenda with no regard for whether the men were the most qualified people to police (Uchida, 2004, p. 12). Politicians exchanged positions for political support and resources, resulting in an environment that fostered police misconduct and corruption. This system fostered loyalty to the person and/or party that helped the job-seeker acquire

Social media has evolved dramatically in its way it impacts our community, nation and world as a whole. Websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are the reason that we are so aware of our surroundings and everything going on around the world today. It is incredible when we think about how much these social media platforms allow us to see, from what is going on in The White House, what is going on in our local community, or even the latest fail videos uploaded to YouTube. The way videos can go from being filmed on one’s personal phone or camcorder, to being the top viewed video on the internet is truly mesmerizing. In 1992, there was an incident in California that involved Rodney King, a taxi cab driver who had a run in to the police that

In certain cases when police brutality is reported its always involved with a negative side from the race down to certain sexes. Law enforcements have mistreated minorities in many cases and got away with it. However, sometimes mistreatment isn't always consisting of physical harm to an individual in most cases. Disrespect and abuse come hand in hand when it gets down to police brutality. Police assume the victim is disrespecting their authority and they are quick to arrest or shoot an individual. Social media is changing the game for governments under pressure. Social media has suddenly turned into a powerful instrument of public scrutiny. And it is certainly here to stay. As a result, devising efficient means to subdue traditional media will not be sufficient anymore for governments intent on concealing the harshness of their law enforcement.Still, social media

As opposed to the old times, such departments had been fully entrenched in political affairs and were used as political mercenaries. In particular, they offered assistance to political allies and even harassed their opponents. The irony of this is that police departments were promoting the vices that they were expected to fight. For instance, they were fully expected to fight crime. However, it was widely known that the political machines that the police were protecting and acting to their interests ran activities such as prostitution, illegal gambling, racketeering, and even distribution of drugs. It was, therefore, impossible for the officers to act against their masters; all in all, they ended up protecting the vices that they were supposed to fight. By the turn of the 20th century, police were seen as agents of politicians, enforcing organized crimes in every city in the United States of America. This tarnished their reputation, and they were subjected to public ridicule by the citizens who needed

In the history of the United States, working men and women have attempted to survive the social, political, economic, and social changes from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. In order to ensure their survival, these working people chose from a range possibilities to organize and strengthen within the restrictions and opportunities of political, structural, and cultural situations. This paper will prove that throughout the Antebellum period, the long nineteenth century, the reform era of the twentieth century and up through present day, the United States’ working people have been responsible for both their successes and failures in their organizing attempts, but during contrasting eras, other entities such as the government, employers, and the economy have been responsible for the successes and failures of the organization workers.

Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a blast of metropolitan police offices in the United States. These early police divisions were composed around the area or ward-based political frameworks that commanded this period. It was the nearby neighborhood government official who gave initiative and oversight over a significantly decentralized arrangement of policing. Work choices inside police departments were made at the ward level, and occupations were allowed in light of an arrangement of political support. This framework compensated residents with police work in return for their reliability to the nearby ward government official who gave them the employment.

As the history of police progressed in the United States you can divided police history into 3 different ears. Kelling and Moore (1991) describes the eras as, one; the Political Era, two; the Reform Era, and three; the Community Era. During the Political Era (1840-1930) many police officers saw their positions as opportunities to make extra income. “Bribery was common; a police officer would request “favors” which went into the police officers pockets or into the coffers of the local political party as contributions. The Political Era also saw police officers taking an active role in providing social services for their bosses’.” (1) Politicians realized they can attract more votes by offering social services to citizens than by arresting them. ← good points regarding community policing.

Reform Judaism started as a response to the Enlightenment that occurred in the late 17th and the early 18th century. The Jewish people needed to determine how to best combine new ideologies with their religious practices. The Jewish people suddenly had a new, non-Jewish world that they could be apart of. Some started to lose interest in religion. The Reform Judaism movement was created to adapt to these changes in society. The movement’s fundamental belief was that religious change is good (Kaplan 183). Platforms were created to define the boundaries for Reform Judaism and show how the Reform Movement is different than the traditional form of Judaism (Meyer & Plaut 195). The Reform movement has undergone many significant changes of their

The most urgent reform to be implemented is to have more women hold management positions, and train current employees to be understanding of cultural transformations within the company. We should increase the ethnic group, specifically African American and Hispanic, by educating Facebook 's Human Resources Department. Currently there are only 1 percent African Americans and 4 percent Hispanic that are working for Facebook. It is critical that more minority groups are hired, because bringing in individuals from different backgrounds and experiences could potentially make a business more effective. This will benefit Facebook, because Facebook will be meeting all of their consumers ' needs by having employees that come from different ethnic and racial backgrounds. However, the predominated race that is holding a management position is white, therefore Facebook will not be able to fulfill the needs of their consumers if this remains the same.

The movements in the Age of Reform were mainly successful in the short term. The prison reform movement succeeded. Debtor’s prisons were abolished as the working class gained the right to vote. Brutal punishments in prisons were eliminated and the number of capital offenses were reduced. Prisons became places to reform instead of just to punish. The education reform also was fairly successful. The common man again voted for the reform and called for free education. In the beginning, the schools were not very good and taught only reading, writing, and arithmetic. Then the education system was reformed a gain to have better schools, longer terms, and a better curriculum. Over the long term the education reform was even more successful and higher

With the turn of the century came a crusade for reform. This municipal movement shifted from America’s second manifest destiny and came to be known as the progressive era. Decades prior, Americans settled the final part of coastal America and living accommodations finally increased nationwide. Americans turned to the political parties to legitimize every impulse and vision to improve life. However, the developing trusts and corporations purged the parties’ autonomy and hindered domestic trade growth. In doing so, the trusts and corporations established a codependence and direct association to United States Congress. Here the trusts blocked a citizens input on Senate and House and depraved these Americans of an advantageous government. Americans desired to restore the government they once knew and turned to their political parties for assistance. Within these parties came leaders garnered and pronounced with the power imparted upon them by the countrymen they sought to serve. Of these leaders came Woodrow Wilson, the former President of Princeton University and a man held back by his upbringing in the south. During his campaign to the White House, Wilson primarily ran on the platform of restricting the control that businesses held on the government. Upon induction as the 28th president of the United States Woodrow Wilson demonstrated his increasing command through achieving his campaign goal and restoring the public 's control over the domestic trade markets. Having achieved

The Era of Reform, also known as the American Renaissance was a tribute to the astonishing productivity and collection of legendary success decades before the civil war. This curved every phase of life in the United States. However at this time their importance was on slavery injustices, woman’s rights, institutions of the church and state including prisons and schools, also dietary concerns and domestic relations. Much more was added to this era but, all these causes did not rise at the same time, but were fully enunciated one by one. This was a time when all “reformers affirmed the power of the word whether spoken or written”, (728) Most believed in the people of self-improvement and social improvement. Although in reference of the war this era takes me back to the Gettysburg Address because, ‘that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Although each reformist spoke on their own concerns this era contributed to religious calling and duty for the people.

Reformers rejected politics as the basis of police legitimacy. Reformers believed political involvement and corruption was ‘the’ problem with American policing. They moved to end the close ties between local political leaders and the police. Civil service positions eliminated the loyalty for jobs and political influences in hiring and firing of police officers. Law and police professionalism was established as the principal basis of police legitimacy. Reformers were so persuasive in their removal of political influences, police departments became one of the most autonomous public organizations in the government. (Goldstein) Policing of a city became a legal and technical matter. It was left to the discretion of