Essays on Fleeing

Many are the times that the incidences of police shooting suspects have been documented and resulted in public outcry nationwide. In most instances, the suspects shot have been established not to be armed contrary to the positions that the police may have taken thus making such shootings amount in wanton violence (Saint Louis University Law Journal, 2016). The police usually use force which in this case may refer to the firing of a gun in situations aimed at preventing suspects from escaping, or in regards to defending themselves or other officers from possible harm or risk of death. There ...

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

4. Describe at least two episodes, in detail, that indicate Sledge's attitude towards the enemy. As a personal account, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa recounts harrowing and vivid events experienced by Eugene B. Sledge and his United States (U.S.) Marine comrades during World War II as members of the First Marine Division. As an ordinary soldier, the author elaborates on the military campaigns fought by his division, K Company’s Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment (K 3/5) at the Japanese islands of Peleliu and Okinawa. The memoir provides readers with the numerous and graphic horrors suffered ...

Introduction: According to the rules of the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department and the law of Tennessee, a police officer can use deadly force in apprehending a fleeing felon after exhausting all reasonable efforts to apprehend him. The police department authorizes a police officer to enforce the shoot-to-kill policy instead of just wounding the felon. Is this act constitutional? The aim of this paper is to explain to the readers why the police officers in the Tennessee v. Garner case violated the Constitution by using deadly force against Garner. Thesis: Are the Memphis police officers liable for using deadly force ...

INTRODUCTION

Sanctuary cities have increasingly captured the public eye in recent history. Most distressing has been the recent murder of 32 year old Kathryn Steinle by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant in San Francisco recently released from prison . The murder has caused issue because, “in the eyes of staunch immigration-enforcement advocates,” Lopez-Sanchez’ murder of Steinle is the direct result of liberal cities’ policies of protecting undocumented immigrants through a patchwork of laws surrounding the topic . The issue has been exacerbated by the recent rhetoric of some Republican presidential candidates, such as Donald trump, who “blamed immigration policy for Kate ...

Problem Statement and Recommendations

The growing influx of Mid-East refugees into Europe, particularly in last five years, cannot be overemphasized. The mass uprisings, civil wars and political persecution are leading causes for current refugee crisis. The path made by refugees into Europe's heart is, if anything, a major logistical issue, apparently minor but is at core of current refugee crisis. As Mid-East asylum seekers and refugees continue to pour into European countries and across borders, European security is at stake at multiple levels. First, "source" countries – i.e. countries at Europe's southern borders at which refugees first set foot from countries of origin – pose ...

Numerous women become homeless every year because of the problem of domestic violence. This kind of violence makes women feel alone and left out from the society because they stop being financially supported by the people who abuse them. This issue is a great risk of making women homeless because they lose their security by all means. These women do not have any kind of income or possessions and they never worked which can only leave them in the streets. Such victims often suffer from mental problems like depression which can also lead to drug abuse. Homelessness is closely ...

The response of states to the emergence in the second half of the 20th century as a result of civil unrest and armed conflicts of large numbers of refugees in Africa and Latin America became the adoption of a number of regional agreements. For example, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) 1969 on Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa and the 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees included in the number of refugees also people fleeing from war or civil armed conflicts, seriously disturbing public order in the country. Time has proved the necessity and effectiveness of these instruments ...