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    Police Brutality in America The Police Department was established to control order and promote good conduct for the civilians in their community. Since the beginning‚ the police department has been scrutinizing for taking the law into their own hand to restore order. In most cases the individuals affected by brutality is the minorities. Even though the people are happy with the police present in their community‚ one incident can change the way the community feels towards the Police. Consequently

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    reason‚ so no matter what not every person will be pleased. Research and plenty of study have been done to find out the truth about why distrust is so high amongst the citizens and the police. They found that "police violence against Rodney King‚ Amadou Diallo‚ and the racist attitude of Mark Fuhrman led to a broad decline in public support for the police‚ violence against the police‚ and attenuated police careers. Negative attitudes also undercut crime control efforts by contributing to low levels of

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    Reflecting on Police Brutality against Black Youth: Explaining Black Identity When you think of police brutality not too many distant stories pass through our minds. “… They didn’t have to beat me this bad. I don’t know what I did to be beat up” Rodney King‚ March 3‚ 1991. Most adults remember what they did‚ how they felt‚ when seeing Rodney King on any local news station being brutality beaten by police. This country witnessed various cases of police brutality. Yet controversial topics among communities

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    1. BIAS IN POLICE STOPS? In the late 1990s‚ popular‚ legal‚ and political concerns were raised across the United States about police harassment of minority groups in their everyday encounters with law enforcement. These concerns focused on the extent to which police were stopping people on the highways for “driving while black” (seeWeitzer 2000; Harris 2002; Lundman and Kaufman 2003). Additional concerns were raised about racial bias in pedestrian stops of citizens by police predicated on

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    Intro story (optional): some students start with a short‚ very short‚ story to draw the reader in before they start their thesis topic.  For example‚ a student who wrote a paper about ethnic profiling starting his paper by talking about a man‚ Amadou Diallo‚ walking down the street who was pulled over by cops.  The cops asked him for ID‚ he attempted to extract his wallet and they fired 40 rounds on him.  In the next paragraph (the introductory paragraph)‚ he began "Circumstances such as this indicate

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    overwhelming majority of people fear and distrust police‚" and that only a quarter of New Yorkers feel that police treat blacks and whites evenly. This report came in the wake of the police murder of Amadou Diallo‚ a New York man shot 42 times in front of his apartment by police looking for a robbery suspect. Diallo was not the suspect and he was unarmed‚ (New York Times‚

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    Between The World And Me Most of the American history serves a great deal of pride‚ acknowledgement‚ and importance to its culture. Spreading democracy and liberty all over the world yet forgetting some part of the history full of abusement‚ racisms‚ and evil. The novel‚ Between The World And Me‚ written by Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ who is know for expressing black culture by writing novels‚ talks about some of this history. In his novel‚ he confesses all the fears filled in black Americans’ body in a letter

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    Thesis Statements The Case For Temporary Agencies Thesis: This paper demonstrates why temporary agencies provide a benefit to both the company and the employee. With this in mind‚ the advantages and disadvantages of temporary agencies will be explored. The evidence shows‚ to make a good fit for both the company and the employee‚ companies need to use temporary agencies. Animal Testing: Should It Be Banned Thesis: In American society many groups and organizations are debating whether or not animal

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    First Name Last Name Professor First Last Business Analysis and Decision Making September 24‚ 2014 To Think or Not To Think‚ That is The Question “Judgment matters: it is what separates winners from losers” (260). Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about understanding how we arrive at the judgments we make. There are two ways that we make every decision: in the blink of an eye or with well thought out decision making processes. In this book Gladwell explores the many different ways

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    In the image‚ the words are both strong and direct‚ “I’m going to kick your ass” is bigger‚ bolder and is at the top of the image. The second part of that sentence‚ “and get away with it” is at the bottom and is slightly smaller. The image also has the words “public” on the left hand corner and “service” on the right hand corner at the top. It also has “serve” and “protect” at the bottom corners of the image. The image is implying that white policemen can get away with beating up an innocent person

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