The Hostage Crisis

In certain situations, the police may have to act quickly on their instincts. Sometimes, a situation is unpredictable and a decision needs to be made in a split second. The quick decision may to be to take a person down physically with the officer’s own hands, or to use deadly force, unfortunately. Anything can happen and the officer needs to be ready for every scenario. The different levels of force can be anywhere from just a police officer being present, to having to kill someone to prevent him or her from hurting anyone else. It’s a harsh reality, but sometimes the officer needs to make the decision to die or to protect him and do what he needs to do.

On David Farber 's book Taken Hostage, Farber informs us about the Iran Hostage Crisis and America 's First Encounter with Radical Islam. This book tells us how the United States and Iran got into conflict, leading to the Iranians holding American Embassy members hostage as revenge for them feeling betrayed by the United States. It also informs us about other events that occurred in a decade that caused the United States many problems. Farber talked about all the events that lead to the Iranian Hostage Crisis. November 4, 1979, seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran and the hostage of four hundred and forty four days following, were the first steps leading up to the perpetual War on Terror. Farber believes the failure from American policymakers and more specifically from President Carter, to identify the severity of the crisis made for the prolonged crisis. The sheer ineptitude of Carter administration was the cost of the US to lose it’s way economically, culturally, politically and even military. Carter struggled to respond to the impulses of Islamic fundamentalism within the prevailing Cold War paradigm. They saw the real battle as against secular modernism and they recognized that the US was the major force spreading this cultural and political belief throughout the world. The media misrepresentations of the struggle and mass media manipulation of Americans played on the peoples emotions. Although Carter was popular at the beginning of his presidency, this began

The American public was so captivated by the Iran Hostage Crisis because they were blindsided by this radical action and their knowledge of America’s involvement in Iran was limited. The media played a major role in influencing their emotions and they already had trouble trusting the American government. This unknown involvement began in 1943 when President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to discuss how to remove the British and Soviet military forces from Iran because Iran wanted to be its own nation. The United States aided the young Shah, the ruler of Iran, and his government with military weapons and loans. Over time, Prime Minister Mossadegh, of Iran, gained more and more power until he was the true ruler of Iran and the Shah was just a figurehead. The United States, fearing the spread of communism, devised a secret plan for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to over throw Prime Minister Mossadegh.

Not only did the American public hope to be able to rely on and trust their federal government, but they also desired strong management of foreign affairs. During the Presidency of Jimmy Carter, America faced many blunders overseas. One particular high-profile issue was the Iranian Hostage Crisis where, “Iranian students stormed the U.S embassy in Tehran and took 53 Americans hostage,” and the attempted rescue of said hostages which resulted in a collision between two helicopters and eight dead marines (Davidson, et al 937). The Carter Administration’s handle on foreign affairs proved to be disastrous. As a result, the Republican party’s platform for the election of 1980, in which Carter was running for reelection, focused heavily on

The Iranian Hostage Crisis wasn’t the result of a spontaneous uproar of the Iranian people in an overtaking of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Rather, the crisis was the result of a lengthy series of chaotic events that caused many of the Iranian people to develop a severe hatred of the United States.

The world is full of people who all have different points of view and this always leads to conflict. Many times people take drastic measures to prove their point, and this occurred during the Iran Hostage Crisis. The Iran Hostage Crisis threw both the US and Iran into chaos. The whole situation was outrageous and was all because President Jimmy Carter decided to allow the outlawed Iranian Shah into the US for cancer treatment. The people of Iran were enraged and stormed the U.S Embassy, taking all of the people inside as hostages. I learned about all of this through the movie Argo, which takes place during the crisis.

In the last past years, our country has observed numerous cases of police brutality. It has become a controversial topic among communities that have witnessed police brutality take place in front of their houses. Officers are faced with many threatening situations every day, forcing them to make vital decisions and to expect the vilest and hope for the best. The law enforcement officers granted the ability to take any citizens' privileges to restraint and sometimes even their lives. Besides, with that sort of authority comes responsibility. For this reason, that is one major fear with that amount of discernment granted to law-enforcement officers. Consentquey, there are times they must have, to execute use force or even the use lethal force.

The Iranian hostage crisis occurred on November 4, 1979. This crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran, which lasted 444 days. A group of Iranian students from the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line took over the United States embassy in the capital city of Tehran. This crisis is known as the longest hostage situation in recorded history. A total of 52 diplomats and citizens were held hostages within the U.S embassy. In Iran, this crisis was widely viewed as an attack against the United States and its influence within Iranian borders. During this crisis, the United States also granted asylum to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after he was overthrown in 1979. The people of Iran demanded that the United States return

24. Hostages often identify with their captors and develop anger toward the law enforcement officers who are trying to rescue them. This phenomenon is known as:

If the police repeatedly tells the accused to stop, or do something certain that is not often caught on video. What is caught on video, is the police ultimately having to use force to get what is asked done. They have to push, get on top of, taser, or aim a gun at the suspect to get him to comply and thats the only video proof the bystander, friend, or family member gets on video. Where the violence comes into play is when even after all those extra measures are taken, the suspect still continues to resist. Rather if you are or a police officer or not, in the state of Texas,(not sure about other states laws) if you feel threatened by someone and you feel like that person is about to harm you, you are allowed to use as much force as possible to help yourself out of danger. “No law enforcement officer wants to shoot and kill someone — ever”(Klimas). I firmly believe in this quote and I agree; there are very few people who wake up in the morning with the thought of “I think I'm gonna kill someone today” and if they do they are usually not able to gain a job in law enforcement for other, mental, reasons. Video evidence really is not a good piece of evidence if it starts in the middle of an altercation. For a video to be considered reliable evidence, the video should have to be started well before the officer arrives, and then cut off when the suspect in in custody, or the situation is at an end. Pictures are also not an accurate use of evidence because they are only a snap shot of what was happening at that exact time, there is absolutely no way to know what happened before or after the picture was taken, so you cannot be for sure how to correctly interpret the

On November 4, 1979 the Iranians had had enough with the United States. Thousands of protesters gathered around the United States embassy, yelling anti-American slogans. At about 10 that morning approximately three thousand people started to climb over the 10-foot wall that surrounded the embassy, forcing their way into the chancery building. The guards were ordered not to fire at the crowd in case it should start a war, but use tear gas. The tear gas was unsuccessful however and the protesters captured the marine guards, military officials and the embassy workers, totaling 66 men and women blindfolded and tied up. It was unclear if Khomeini helped plan the hostage crisis, but he did little to prevent it. Khomeini saw how popular the hostage

Argo is an Academy Award winning movie, directed by Ben Affleck. The movie shows the first couple months of the Iran Hostage Crisis. Argo is a hollywoodized way of showing the true events of the escape and rescue of the six United States diplomats during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Subsequently there has been various documentaries made based on the events of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, one of the best ones to date is Argo: Inside Story.

One of the earliest incidents involving hostages was the Romans use of them to further their agenda. A lot has changed since then and so have the tactics over the years. The hostage crisis that really changed everything was in Munich in 1972. As a result of the incident the NYPD created tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for resolving those types of conflicts while minimizing the loss of life. “Shortly afterward, the FBI developed a national training program for police officers who wanted to learn about hostage negotiation” (McMains, J., Mullins, C, 2014, p G5). As the years have changed so has the way that negotiators have dealt with the different scenarios which also require different tactics. In this paper we will discuss a crisis incident that occurred in Chula Vista, CA on May 28, 2015). We will then demonstrate how the reading coincides with the events that unfolded there.

What might be going on in their minds for the hostages, is If they are going to come out of this situation alive. If they will be able to see their loved ones again. Is there a way out. Why them and why now. As for the Hostage takers in their minds they are probably thinking how things escalated so quickly. It was probably not meant to go that far. They have to decide whether they will go out guns blazing or surrender, during the hostage situation. After the hostages are released, there should be an immediate intervention. To increase their personal recovery. Follow up resources for hostages can include counseling and therapy. Multicultural considerations to take into account can be language. Possibly not all of the hostages are able to speak

The coverage of Moscow theatre hostage crisis by the Russian media demonstrated how media coverage of terrorism can lead to government censorship and manipulation of the media. In the case of the Moscow theatre crisis, this censorship and manipulation included the shutdown of various independent media outlets, the creation of legislature that further diminished the possibility for a free and independent press in Russia, and the outright travel embargoes for journalists. These restrictions, created during and immediately following the hostage crisis, not only changed the state of the media in Russia to a "dictatorship of the law", but also changed the perception of Russia’s control of the press around the world as well.