Essays on Braga

Introduction

Gun control legislation is a very controversial topic and one that has taken a lot of attention in both academic and public policy circles here in the United States for the past 20 or 30 years. One of the most powerful tools which people have discovered to dealing with the issue of controlling who should or shouldn’t have access to guns is through the creation of background checks. The purpose of background checks in a general sense is to allow for gun sellers and overseeing authorities to make sure that they are selling weapons to only those individuals ...

Everyday police work tirelessly to ensure that our streets are safe from criminal offenders. Therefore, different programs are applied to ensure that law and order is upheld. Three common programs; zero tolerance policing, community policing, and problem-oriented policing have thus been applied in various occasions by the police to deal with the law breakers. Zero tolerance policing has plenty of similarities to share with COP and POP and at the same time, there are some differences.

Similarities between Zero Tolerance Policing and COP and POP

Though zero tolerance policing, POP, and COP apply different strategies in executing their services, the biggest similarity they share is that they are ...

Abstract

Gun violence has been a bone of contention in the United States for the last several decades. The US government has taken a number of legal and strategic initiatives to fight this serious issue. However, it remains to be an unresolved issue in the US political scenario. A growing number of adolescents are involved in firearm violence. It was in this regard, the Boston Police Department started the intervention program called Operation Ceasefire to reduce the gang-related youth homicides. The Operation Ceasefire program helped the city improve its crime rates to a great extent. The program particularly focused on ...