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Rogue Officers
What makes good police officers turn bad? Some people may not even say that they are bad, some may say that they are just doing there jobs to the full extent. When I read the Voice article on NYPD the main thing that stood out was the rapist who eluded arrest for so long because his case was being mishandled. As far as all the tickets and all of the summons and extra arrests go that’s their not necessarily doing anything illegal, they are just following the rules to the full extent. Its up to the police officer whether he wants to let someone go, write them a ticket, or arrest them and I feel that as citizens we are in no position to pass judgment onto them. In blatant cases of police abuse, like taking bribes or planting evidence, that is obviously wrong and illegal. A lot of people say the cops are just thugs with guns and things of that nature, but my response to them is what is your alternative? What other better and more effective solution do you have for catching murderers and rapist? The fact of the matter is that these people put their lives on the line day in and day for lousy pay and no respect. What do they get in return, accusations and threats, when someone breaks into your house at 3 a.m. I’d like to see who the first person you call is. The clip I provide is by Officer Schoolcraft and his recordings. I don’t condone everything the cops did, but I admit they have a very difficult occupation and need some slack. NYPD Corruption
Are Microhips the Solution or the Problem?
With all the talk about surveillance we’ve done in this course, I figured this would be an appropriate clip to show. This clip (Microchip Implants) talks about how everything is becoming more digitized, and in a few years everyone will have chips implanted in them, which upon scanning will be able to divulge personal information, financial information, medical information, and basically your entire life in a single scan. It also discussed new facial recognition technology which police will be able to use to track criminals. Facebook actually introduced similar face recognition technology to a lot of negative criticism and privacy groups, because they felt it was a violation of peoples rights. The benefits that would come with such technologies would be tempting to anyone. Who wouldn’t want to have more affective methods of catching criminals (besides criminals themselves), the amount of man hours and money that would be saved would be phenomenal and all that money and time could be allocated towards other tasks, increasing overall productivity. How great would it be if people would no longer have to carry keys or cash and could just open and pay for everything with a finger swipe? Crimes like robbery would go way down and people’s general sense of security would rise. Of course there are the security issues, there are people who do not see the benefits of this technology and just view it as another method of government surveillance and tracking. All of that information could and probably would be stored somewhere, and could be potentially used against you, may it be something as innocent as advertising or something as sinister as blackmail.
Crying Wolf – False Rape Accusations
Rape is a very topic. I believe that any human being that forces themselves onto another, is not worthy of life, air, they are just the lowest scum of the earth. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, in 2007, there were 248,300 victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.1 (These figures do not include victims 12 years old or younger). That’s almost a quarter million people assaulted each year, and that’s just the one who reported the attacks. Although most people believe that females are the only victims of rape, what they are not aware of is,
“About 3% of American men – a total of 2.78 million men – have experienced a rape at some point in their lifetime” (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2006).
Because of these biased beliefs, the judicial system shows favoritism towards women when it comes to these matters. Authorities are much more likely to believe and investigate a woman’s claims of rape then a man’s. Also the jury is more inclined to believe that a man is guilty of rape, and are less likely to convict a woman because it’s difficult to put the woman in the aggressors’ shoes. Also women are the majority of the sexual assault victims, so when it happens to a man its just difficult for people to fathom. Women know this fact and will use it to their advantage. There are women out there who have screamed rape, because they know that most people will not only suspect them of lying, but will fully believe their claims. This puts the man in a very vulnerable position, because it’s basically his words against the women’s and lets be realistic here, most juries will side with the women. Society has labeled the man as the aggressor and the woman the victim when it comes to these matters. The link I provided is a rare instance where a women’s guilt got the best of her and she actually admitted she was lying. The accused was set free, and I personally believe she should be held accountable and be incarcerated herself! This is just one instance; there are hundreds of men sitting in jail as I am typing this, because of an evil woman’s lies. LIES LIES LIES!!!!!
Are women more guilty then we’d like to believe?
I believe that in our society women are held to different more lenient standards then men, mainly because they are viewed as nurturers, caretakers and the thought of them being violent and evil is not something that society is ready to accept. Women have been killing their husbands for centuries, as we see in Lisa Downing’s, Murder in the Feminine article, where she talks about several women who committed murder such as, Marie Lafarge and Marie Fortune. I believe there are gender biases in the judicial system, when a man kills someone or commits some sort of violent, heinous crime he is made out to be a monster, a person who must be removed from society immediately, sometimes even by execution. If a women were to commit the same crime, she would not be labeled a monster by all right away, people would begin to examine the reasons why she committed the crime. No one wants to come out and flat out say she’s a violent murdered who should be executed for her crimes! People start to attribute her acts to her childhood, various forms of abuse she suffered, and things like that, while trying to circumvent the fact that she in fact did commit this crime. In the clip that I am going to show, How likely are women to commit violent acts an expert criminal intelligence analyst goes to say, what I already believe, which is that there are plenty of women out there who can kill, steal, shoot, gang bang, sell drugs, and commit any violent and brutal act as well if not better then any man could and I feel they should be prosecuted equally and accordingly.
Socially Acceptable Tattoos
Some people would say that this phrase is an oxymoron, that any tattoo or bodily ink is an indication of some sort of deviant behavior, may it be criminal or something out of the norm. Lambroso believed that the more tattoos a person had, the less sensitive to pain that person was, which in turn made them less developed and more inclined to the criminal lifestyle and the more tattoos a person had the more correlation to crime they also had,
“tattooing is practiced by them to a far larger extent than by normal persons….whether thieves or murderers, show the highest percentage of tattooing…another fact worth mentioning is the extent to which criminals are tattooed” (Lambroso, pg 244).
This discussion of tattoos reminded me of this clip from one of my favorite shows MSNBC LOCKUP which is a documentary about Americas Prisons. Lockup Tattoo Clip.
This clip shows two prisoners with had their eyeballs filled with color ink. I believe that certain places on a body to get tattoos on are more socially acceptable then others. If you see somebody with a tattoo on their forearm for example you are going to assume that they were/are a sailor or had some sort of affiliation with the Navy. If you see a tattoo of someones name on a persons upper arm, its generally their parents, someone who was close to them that passed away, maybe even a significant others name. My point is that certain tattoos most people will see and will barely have a reaction to, because they are socially acceptable to an extent. Me personally if I see a person with a tattoo above their neckline I automatically have preconceived notions about that person, usually with negative connotations, mainly because a person with a big skull on his forehead is not going to be working a nice corporate job but will probably be selling drugs on the corner, now although that is not always the case, that is the impression that they project.
