Chokehold

Desire, persistence, and hard work are the key elements to a successful career. A guest speaker at our Criminal Justice Theory in Practice 300 class broke a stereotype on how a Chief of a desired division within the police department should look like or behaves. A Chief of Patrol, Terence Monahan, shared stories from his life since he applied for the law enforcement profession. Chief Monahan of Irish descent grew up in Bronx, New York. In 1982, he joined the NYPD, the largest class of 3000 recruits

with excessive and unjustifiable force on Bob. In Tardif v. Weibe, the courts ruled the fact that the business instructed employees not to use force does not operate as a defense. So, even though Wal-Marts training video that clearly states that no chokeholds are to be used on any suspected shoplifter, Wal-Mart can not use this as a defense. Investing in training one’s staff could have prevented this. c) Dale could claim that he was acting in reasonable manner according to section 494 (1) of the criminal

Over the past few years police brutality and the use of deadly force on their part has risen very rapidly. It has always been around but the death of Michael Brown back in August of 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri was one of the very first cases that started the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. Here in the U.S. the use of deadly force by a sworn police officer is only lawful when the officer has reason to believe that the subject he/she is pursuing poses a threat of serious bodily injury

A video of Hunger Games' Amandla Stenberg criticizing white pop stars who she feels have capitalized greatly by borrowing elements of black culture. Stenberg addressed Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Madonna, and others in her video called "Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows." "Pop stars and icons adopted black culture as a way of being edgy and gaining attention. In 2013, Mikey Cyrus twerks and uses black women as props," the 16-year old actress stated. She continued,"Then in 2014, in one of her videos called

“With liberty and justice for all.” Those are the final words of the United States Pledge of Allegiance. However, is it true? Is there truly justice for all men and women without any biased interference? Unfortunately, there isn’t always justice nor liberty especially for minorities. Instead people of color are forced to face discrimination and unfair treatment from our Justice Systems. Despite years and years of protests and laws passed to prevent it, discrimination and institutional racism is still

and when I was a child, I believed all of that to be true. Fast forward to the year 2014, when a young black man named Michael Brown is shot 6 times while attempting to raise his hands in surrender, and a man named Eric Garner is suffocated by a chokehold applied during an arrest by police officers, amongst a

Andreea Draghici Prof. Turner ETHC232 8/27/15 Ethical Dilemma in Law Enforcement – Power Abuse Throughout many professions, we witness multiple instances where power is being abused due to one’s title in society. When it comes down to the topic, my group and I decided to go with ethical dilemmas within law enforcement. The topic I will be covering is the power abuse that some police officers participate in on a daily basis. Some, based on theories, others, based on experiences and facts. However

The original occasion that I watched this film, I was not prepared for it at all. I was not prepared for the casualties, and I was not prepared for the intensity. What I got from the first time I watched the film was that Spike Lee plays the role of Mookie as a youthful man simply existing in a black and Puerto Rican region in Brooklyn with his sister, Jade played by Joie Lee, and is employed as a pizza delivery man for a native pizzeria. Salvatore Sal Frangione played by Danny Aiello, the pizzeria

he won. Retreating back to our corners, Josh began the countdown. Both of us charged to the middle. Carson dove for my legs once again, but I was able to keep my balance, I bent down and wrapped my arms around his neck and fell forward into the chokehold. Not even six seconds passed and he tapped out. With the final round, Carson and I were enraged from both losing and being choked . We went back to our corners. I jolted into the middle, but this time instead of him diving at my feet, I dove at

increasingly becoming a large concern. Various sources of statistical data indicate a strong correlation between race and a negative treatment in the criminal justice system, as outlined in Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehsisi Coates and Paul Butler in Chokehold. Although some continue to disregard the existence of systemic racism in the criminal justice system, those who have acknowledged its presence debate the best mechanism to dissolve this issue. Among the various theories which discusses the concept