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EyeWitness ID’s
In this article of the NY Times, it talks about eyewitness id’s, and how most of the time they are wrong. These is actually interesting because this interferes with statistics. Of course we have the statistics of what percent are wrong, but it makes you think why would you call something in if you are lying. I think this is what they are trying to do in the supreme court now. Can those who lie of eyewitness be convicted for lying and providing wrong information? Then it brings up the issue of maybe it was just an honest mistake. How will the court know what an honest mistake is, or whether maybe you are trying to cover up someone or something. The supreme court will visit this issue after 34 years where it has not been brought up. I think this also links to women and their statement. Even though the article does not mention anything about women and their statements, but after all of our readings, we know that we can sound convincing, and if we convince the jury of something that we did not see, then someone innocent might get to go to jail. Eyewitness “research shows that juries tend to ‘over believe’ eyewitness testimony.” In the long run a lot of innocent people might be wrongfully convicted because of this.
-Armenis P.
Bad Police Officers
In the Daily News on Aug 15, there was an article of police officers robbing. Now this has become a too often coincidence that police officers are abusing their power. Not only did they commit these crimes guns, knifes and even “bogus warrants,” they were getting away with it for almost a year. This string of robberies started in Oct of 2011, and they have continued until the feds caught up with them. I feel that once again police officers have betrayed their citizens trust. We do know that they are some good police officers out there, but finding those bad picks from bunch, is giving the nypd such a bad name and reputation. These type of news are happening way to often. We talk about surveillance on us, and how it deters us from doing something wrong, so i wonder what type of surveillance are these police officers not receiving, that they are doing all these terrible things?
-Armenis P.
Broken Windows Theory
This article in the Washington Post, talks about the broken windows theory and depending on what race you are then it depends on how you view the theory. They did a couple of studies around this theory and what they found was very interesting. Depending on your race, you viewed certain situations differently. They took surveys, home videos, phone interviews to gather all of their information. Whats interesting about the whole thing is that they all had negative things to say about other races, but nothing about their own. The look at the faulty things on other people, and think that no-one from their race is capable of doing such graffiti on the wall, or throwing litter on the floor. If something such as this is not part of their everyday lives, then they are against it, but me, growing up in the south bronx, its a normal everyday thing for me. Of course its wrong, but no-one is the neighborhood seems to care. They actually stand back and let it happen. I see the difference when sometimes there is a home game at yankee stadium, and the white people (no offense to no-one) will not dare go pass the grand concourse, because everything seems different to them. Its an environment that they are not used too, so they are against it. Then again you hear so many bad things about the bronx, but its not always true, so i dont blame them for not wanting to stick around after the game.
-Armenis P.
Murders in Retreat in the US
According to this article of the New York Times, murders have decreased in the United States from 24,000 in 1991, to 15,000 this past year. But then again we would have not known that because of so many crime shows that we watch on an everyday routine. The article talks about how crime shows are very popular now a days. It has its own channel, Investigation Discovery (i love this channel by the way) where they show, shows such as 48 hours and dateline. These shows are actually based on real life murders, or murders that happen in other shows or books, and they just add their little twist to them. These type of shows have become very popular within the last few years, maybe because it gives you that suspense, as to who was it really that committed the murder and why.
I now think if these type of shows is the reason why murders have gone down. If you really think about it, these shows for the most part, at the end of the day the culprit is found at the end, and technically in the perfect murder they are not. Maybe after watching these shows people are starting to think that there is no such thing as a perfect murder.
-Armenis P.
Public Surveillance History
In this article that i found, it gives you some type of history on how video surveillance became about. It gives you what rights you have, as well as what they can do with the surveillance that they just taped. What i thought was interesting was:
A person traveling in an automobile on public thoroughfares has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his movements from one place to another. When [an individual] traveled over the public streets he voluntarily conveyed to anyone who wanted to look the fact that he was traveling over particular roads in a particular direction, and the fact of his final destination when he exited from public roads onto private property.
This is a different side of the surveillance cameras, and if you think about it this way, then its true. Technically, if you are walking down the street, then you are in the pubic eye, and you are giving all your rights up, because at the end of the day, everyone can see your actions. You are not in a private property, hiding from everyone, but you are actually giving up that right when you step out in the public.
The article also gives us information on how different countries such as England, and France use the surveillance system to make sure everyone is okay. It also has different cases and charts, and lets you know what type of surveillance was implemented and how effective it was. For the most part, having that type of video surveillance did something positive for the community, either crimes being lowered, or local business benefiting from them.
-Armenis P.
