The Tenant From Hell : How A Serial Fraudster Took Advantage Of Toronto 's Red Hot Real Estate Market

Chapter Four is entitled, “[The] Scope and Nature of the Current Gang Problem.” It focuses on recent trends in number of gangs, gang members and gang-related crimes in each city. In Inglewood, almost all the neighborhoods were claimed by at least one gang, with gang-unit officers agreeing that the city was facing a major gang problem. In Albuquerque, gangs were involved in drug trafficking and property offenses, with 7 out of 8 gang-unit officers believing the city had a major gang problem. In Las Vegas, migration from other cities was thought to be the primary cause of an increase in gang members. 50% of crime in Las Vegas is attributed to gangs, with most officers believing they had a moderate to major gang problem. In Phoenix, the gang problem is described as wave-like, with 70% of gang-unit officers thinking the city had a major gang problem. These statistics were backed up through interviews with officers and city records.

When it comes to the media and its relations to victims, the media can and should be viewed as a form of victimization. This is because victims want privacy and the media threatens that or rather disregards it whoever. In terms of law, it can be seen as a violation of there basic right to privacy. Although the general public has the right to what is occurring in their neighborhood, the real question is how much detail should the public get to know? The public should be satisfied knowing the crime and a general description of victims, but the media broadcasts personal details of the

Does the sound of the city ring a bell as a place filled with violence and gruesome stories? That’s what I have always noticed with the reports involving the city of Oakland. To news media everything has to have just the right amount of darkness to it in order for that news channel to have a good amount of viewers. Like it or not we all have that little dark side within us that is more curious and interested to see something terrible happen in news reports; because for some reason it’s entertaining to us. During my critical thinking class with my professor Larry Salomon, I learned that this is why most news channels like to show gruesome and tragic stories more often, because we as human beings find some sort of interest and satisfaction hearing about these stories; and this makes work for news channels more easier to gain more viewers. Some people are more eager to learn about a tragic story unlike the other reports that have a more hopeful and cheerful description. How is this linked to violence in Oakland? News reporters know that Oakland is the place to go when you need a story that will help you get viewers. I have talked to some residents in my community of Oakland and they stated that they were tired of being the notebook of bad stories to be told on live television; the only reason why violence seems to continue in this community is because reporters always point the finger at the city as being a place filled with

Organized crime in Canada can be identified as a multi-layered issue throughout the country. Posing a significant threat to the safety of Canadian citizens, it would prove beneficial to seek further information on crime networks in relation to how and why organized crime networks occur and how they can be/are being controlled. Illegal acts such as human trafficking, drug trafficking, prostitution and theft undoubtedly catalyze adverse effects on the communities in which they operate in and around, and should therefore be analyzed more in depth in an effort to keep Canadians safe. This paper will be discussing the description and function of organized crime networks in Canada, as well as how these networks relate to street gangs, drug trafficking

Even though gangs provide a sense of support, the "values" instilled in members are horribly dangerous to society. Murders and drive-by shottings go unpunished more often than not in areas like the Henry Horner Homes. Gangs have become powerful enough that high-ranking members who are forced to face the law are protected by high-priced attorneys and investigators (163).

In the above mentioned case, “Kansas City, Mo., Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives” teams took down these seven gang members (United States Attorney’s Office).

The media, in particular broadcasting news, has catered to stereotypes of non-whites by over-representing minorities as the assailants in violent crime. These types of practices are clearly detrimental to the advancement of those who have been handicapped by the ignorance of the past. In the first part of the paper we examine the effects of the rise of local news, charting specific studies

Criminal cases being more publicised will cause the viewers to be distressed about the number of murders and robberies occurring in Canada. The media will catch fire over these felonies causing many people to talk and spread the news making it seem like there is an epidemic of crimes even though the police-reported crime rate in Canada has been decreasing for over 2 decades. However, since the news stations and media will be broadcasting to the public about all these scandals and modify some of the facts to make it more “entertaining”, many people will believe it and think there are many criminal acts committed in Canada than there really are. The point here is that what the media chooses to focus on often times becomes the facts regardless of what the actual facts

The article presented on this paper reveals the problem of gangs and gang related violence in our nation’s institutions. Corrections Canada has seen a 44 per cent jump in gang members in federal prisons in the last five years, to 2,040 in 2012 from 1,421 in 2007, according to the documents obtained under access to information. The correctional service constructed a strategic framework for dealing with gangs in 2006, and implemented its gang management strategy in 2008, aiming to convince inmates to drop their affiliation and limit security risks. Gang numbers have continued to rise, according to one correctional service management document. It raises a number of

Our images of crime can be found upon the media, this includes: Television, News Publications and Novels in which we read. It is known that news editors and journalists make the decision of whether or not a story is fit for publishing, they determine this by looking at certain values including: the risk, violence level, immediacy, unexpectedness and the amount of drama/action.

In recent years, the subject of crime has become an increasingly important theme of political, academic, and public debate. In particular, the media today is more focused on victims than it has ever been before. Through media representations of the ‘ideal victim’, this essay will subsequently show how the media are able to construct and re-affirm pre-existing traditional ideologies within the public realm. In effect, this assignment will critically assess the concept of an ‘ideal victim’ and show how the media have used this when describing crime.

Series of crime stories requiring framework, social approaches can progress, this invention may be misjudged and may actually create more difficulties over time than it resolves but the report of new media and the resulting resistance with old media only mean that the media will have more effect on crime discernments in the 21st century than they did in the 20th. It is difficult, most times, to measure the effect of the recurrent disconcerted crime reporting on overall public view. It is more likely to affect the way the individual perceives the outside world somewhat than their life.

There are possibilities for a frivolous lawsuit, but the severity of the housing crisis trumps frivolous lawsuits that are unlikely to make it to trial. The proponents of the frivolous lawsuit argument are similar to the voting ID argument. It is unfounded that voting ID fraud is rampant, however, the chances of this happening is less than 1%. 32 One percent is a nominal figure that does not raise a situation to code red and allows for the disenfranchisement of whole sections of voters. Similarly, the possibility of a nominal number of frivolous lawsuits brought by indigent litigants should not disenfranchise the right to representation in housing court. Most importantly, there safeguards and screening put in place to reduce the chances of frivolous lawsuits. For example, attorneys must listen and evaluate a case using their legal knowledge to determine if a case is meritless or not. In addition, the court and the judge must examine the case and can make a determination if the case is meritless or not. Moreover, landlords bring eviction cases, not tenants.35 Therefore, indigent litigants cannot increase

The effects that media has on crime is very significant because they report what they feel is newsworthy. Not to say they do not believe that all crimes are not, it is because violent crimes will catch our attention faster than a person getting scammed, a company going bankrupt, just to name a few not so violent crimes. When the media reports violent crimes, it seems as if they play on our fears that that crime will come to where we live. A person does rely on the media to get information about crimes, but we should form our own opinions about what is being said to us. What I mean by that is that we should research the information about the possible rise in crimes in our areas and not let the media make decisions for us. We as individuals need

The importance given to certain crimes in the daily newspapers and other media sources shows us proof to the fact that crime is a topic that has the public’s interest and is a focus of their worries (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001). It goes on to discuss the fact that crime as reported on by the media increases the public’s levels of fears and that there is little or no correlation to actual levels of violent crime in our society today.