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    California Vehicle Code Section 22500 (f) — Application in the City of Los Angeles The City of Los Angeles is notorious for its space congestion: in most neighborhoods, simply finding an open parking spot is considered a luxury. To make matters worse, California vehicle code section 22500 (f) exacerbates Los Angeles congestion as it precludes vehicles from extending over any portion of a sidewalk or onto a street. This paper will draw attention to the fact that 22500 requires amendment, doing so

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    Assignment 2, Part 2: Interpretive analysis of Dragnet’s formal elements by Tina Li 1000603723 Submitted to Paul Babiak April 7, 2016 Dragnet is a television series centering around Sergeant and police detective Joe Friday in Los Angeles that originated in the 1950s. It is a police procedural/detective drama and was produced by Jack Webb. Through previously interpreting the findings of the show’s mise en scene and other stylistic features, it was found that the formal features of Dragnet are

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    In an L.A. Times article published on their website on November 6, 1017, a Los Angeles Police Department captain named Lillian Carranza, who is in charge of the Van Nuys station, claims that high-ranking members of the LAPD of misclassifying violent crimes incidents to mislead the public about the true state of crime in the city. In the claim against the city, Carranza alleged that she began notifying her superiors in 2014 about the underreporting of crime in the Foothill area, which includes Pacoima

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    The United States justice system has been around since the signing of the United States Constitution in 1787. It was created to protect its citizens and provide justice throughout the nation. The U.S. Justice system is broken down to three branches. These branches are Policing, Courts, and Corrections that create the justice system. Policing is the branch that enforces the law in the public. Courts is the decision to whether you are guilt, not guilty, or fined for the actions from the enforcements

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    Los Angeles possesses the characteristics of great fame and fortune as well as immense homelessness and poverty. Often times, young people are misled by the financial success of some and assume that is typical of city people. Writers Joan Didion and Carol Muske-Dukes characterize the realization that an adolescent’s lifestyle is not suitable for the demands of a city as signaling the dawn of the apocalypse. In the essay, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” Didion highlights how the failure of society

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    there was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you!? You were sittin' home watchin' your TV, while I was paticipatin' in some anarchy,” these are the lyrics Sublime uses in their song ‘April 26, 1992’ to describe what happened during the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. “First spot we hit it was my liquor store. I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford. With red lights flashin' time to retire, And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire,” people ,running through the streets, had

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    perspective is fair or unfair is debatable. However, what’s not debatable is that homelessness in the United States of America is a domestic social problem that is at an epidemic level. Statistical data quantifies the concern from the city of Los Angeles, where the recently re-elected Mayor Eric Garcetti is the political leader; the state of California, where Governor Edmond Gerald “Jerry” Brown is the political lead; and on the national level, President Donald Trump is the elected official. Consequently

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    Paparazzi are stalkers! They keep following, taking photos, and harassing celebrities. Celebrities can not even have a family vacation without having a picture taken and put online or in a magazine with a rumor attached. The children are being involved, and being exploited across the world. Paparazzi is out of hand invading the privacy of celebrities' lives and should have limitations. In Hawaii, the Senate has approved legislation named after Steven Tyler (known as Areosmith), which will make it

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    residents were forced to find alternative sources for jobs, a task that proved to be extremely difficult (Tucker Jr.). This truth was only accentuated by the lack of transit, which prevented many from getting jobs far from their communities (“1992 Los Angeles Riots”). Consequently, from June 1990 to February 1992 (20 months), more than 300,000 jobs were lost, a number that accounted for 60% of the all the jobs lot in California during that time. This means that over 20 jobs were lost every hour on average

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    Denzel Washington plays veteran L.A.P.D. Det. Sgt. Alonzo Harris. For thirteen years this highly decorated cop has been on the front lines in the war against narcotics. He's pledged to protect and serve the citizens of Los Angeles, but his optimism about police work has long since been chipped away by the reality of life on the streets. He and the tight-knit group of officers that report to him have crossed the line between legality and corruption. They find themselves breaking the laws they're supposed

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