Taser Non Lethal Weapons: A Controversial debate Over the years‚ the issue concerning the use of non lethal force in Policing and the Criminal Justice system has been a very controversial and debated topic. These weapons used by the Police have saved a considerable amount of lives and have proven themselves as a useful tool in making the jobs of the police more effective and efficient. Non lethal weapons are designed to incapacitate people or disable equipment with effects that are only temporary
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The seismic force-resisting system of a building structure is composed of vertical elements‚ horizontal elements‚ and the foundation (Fig.1.1). The vertical elements extend between the foundation and the elevated levels‚ providing a continuous load path to transmit gravity and seismic forces from the upper levels to the foundation. The horizontal elements typically consist of diaphragms‚ including collectors. Diaphragms transmit inertial forces from the floor system to the
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only take a few minutes and then I could get back to the more enjoyable parts of my day. Then it hit me. I was resisting folding the laundry. The whole time I was rolling socks and sorting shirts my mind was elsewhere. Instead of simply accepting that the laundry needed to be done and experiencing that‚ I was resisting it. Then I began to wonder. How many other things in life am I resisting instead of accepting and experiencing them? Resistance is Futile What do I mean by resistance? I don’t like
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Furthermore‚ when police officers use a form of deadly and lethal force‚ many people believe that officers are result to using deadly and lethal fore without necessarily having to do. However‚ that is not always the case. Although‚ officers have to use deadly force when contacting some subjects it is not fair to assume that deadly force demonstrated by the police officer is unjustified. Especially if the suspect is refusing to comply with the order and commands he/she is given by the police officers
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In this situation of road rage many laws were broken. The situation states that an old man and his wife pass the suspect’s car on the highway while blowing his horn. The suspect become angry and starts tailing the couple‚ calling them derogatory names and pointing a handgun at them till they reach the couples house. The wife continuously tells the suspects that her husband has a heart problem. This did not matter to the suspects and continued trying to fight the old man. The wife calls the
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Running head: LESSON 12 ESSAY Lesson 12 Essay Bill King Rio Salado College Developmental Psychology 240 Mr. McElfresh August 08‚ 2008 Lesson 12 Essay Level One: Preconventional Moral Reasoning Level One of Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning is called Preconventional Moral Reasoning. It is called “preconventional” because people at this stage are not able to understand the social mores and rules of good and bad or right and wrong in
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Colombia has been a very unstable country for the past fifty years. Beginning in the 1960s Marxist guerilla groups formed. The two strongest groups called themselves the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the other was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Making things worse‚ in the 1970s drug trafficking became a huge problem for Colombia. Drug cartels pretty much controlled the country starting in the mid-1970s. By the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries had formed. They
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Here in the United States‚ we‚ historically‚ have had countless instances‚ occurrences‚ and notable events related to racism‚ discrimination‚ slavery‚ and more. Social (and racial) relations in this nation have been constantly changing since the 16th century. In the decades after civil rights‚ however‚ these relations between people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds have improved significantly. Despite this fact‚ one can still argue that there are racist attitudes that continue to exist
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Part I: Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy‚ born June 2‚ 1840‚ was a novelist and a poet. His mother‚ who was well read‚ educated him until he went to school at age eight. He went to Mr. Last’s Academy for Young Gentlemen in Dorchester where he learned Latin‚ and showed academic potential. His formal education ended at age sixteen however because his family’s social position lacked the means for a university education. He was apprenticed to James Hicks‚ a local architect. In 1862‚ Hardy moved to London
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Christian Parents in the 21st Century pages January 2010 • Vol. 9 No. 5 by Kim Marxhausen Tardiness: It hurts students; and other students and teachers too the rap sheet read like a laundry list—everything from vandalism to resisting arrest. how did it all start? if you trace the life of crime to its beginning‚ you will find it went all the way back to chronic tardiness in elementary school. if only the parents and the system had nipped this behavior in the bud! OK‚ so that
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