“He who saves a nation breaks no law” (Napoleon) My purpose in this assignment is to define police culture, deviance from the standard, acceptable behavior and suggestions on how to amend the organizational culture that promote police deviance. What I hope to illustrate is the traditional, historical purpose of a police force and the functions ...
While the United States is largely a law-abiding society, most Americans do not consider the manufacture and sale of illegal alcohol as much of a crime. If anything, freedom-loving Americans think of bootleg distillers as underground heroes who do the dirty work of fighting government intrusion. The reality of bootlegging is very different from its ...
Several months ago, I wrote a piece on the condition of the Spoken Word scene in Atlanta. I received tons of feedback from artists, including comments from some who felt that my “research” was too inadequate to submit an “informed” opinion on an art form which has been extremely popular as part of Atlanta’s thriving ...
Memories of Murder is, quite simply, the best serial killer movie since, at least, Silence of the Lambs and probably since Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. It is yet another example of how Korean cinema does right what Hollywood too often does wrong. Of course to label Memories of Murder a serial killer movie is as ...
Street Kings, starring Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, was unfortunately, a typical police corruption flick. It reminded me a lot of Training Day, but then again, Training Day was written by the director of Street Kings so I suppose it shouldn’t be such a stretch. Reeves’ character, Detective Tom Ludlow is in a special unit ...
Antoinette Frank was sentenced to death on October 20, 1995 for the March 4, 1995 murder of Officer Ronnie Williams, Ha Vu, and Cuong Vu in New Orleans Louisiana (Wikipedia 2007). Antoinette Frank a former police officer and her accomplice Rogers LaCaze committed an armed robbery at the Kim Anh Restaurant where the victims worked ...
As with many disciplines, theories about how police corruption comes about have flourished over the years. The three theories that are often in evidence in the criminal justice field are the society at large theory, the structural/affiliation theory and the rotten apple hypothesis. Each of these theories takes a different perspective about how police corruption ...
According to philosophers a fallacy is a statement or argument that presents a logical problem. It is a statement or argument that does not hold up under philosophical scrutiny. A fallacy is most easy defined as any error in reasoning. It’s a logical mistake in which the conclusion is erroneously thought to be proven by ...
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