Essays on Fugitives

Abstract

The slaves in the Southern part of US faced inhuman treatment where they were by law, the property of their owners. The slaves were subjected to harsh treatments including working for long hours in the fields while returning at night only to be met by meager food to fulfill their hunger needs. The husbands were taken from their wives with professional slave catchers tasked with tracking the runaway slaves and torturing those who were suspected to have the intentions of escaping. To be able to save the slaves and make them see the light of freedom, it was necessary ...

Fugitive Slave Act was a couple of federal legislations that allowed for the incarceration and return of runaway fugitives within the territory of the US. Initially, the Congress enacted the Fugitive Slave Act in 1793 that empowered the local governments to capture and return the slaves who have escaped from their owners and impose penalties to people who aided the escape of the slaves. The extensive resistance to the 1973 legislation later spurred the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.The new law further complicated issues by imposing harsher punishments for the people who were interfering with the ...

Is the U.S Southern Border patrol Effective?

Abstract The primary role of the United States border patrol is to detect and prevent illegal aliens from getting into the country. Furthermore, it also plays a big role in preventing human trafficking. All kinds of people with ill intentions do find their way into America. Such individuals are a threat to the security of American citizens. They participate in acts such as smuggling, robberies, homicides and murder cases. In fact, a significant portion of the prison population in America is composed of illegal immigrants. Moreover, these people become a burden to the government since they increase capital expenditures ...

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Background of the Scandal:

Organized crime has been the most worrying thing that has been haunting the experts of governance and public management as it can be very hard to trace and even harder to avoid. Rather than doing their jobs, the law enforcement agencies like police and related other institutes can be made a part in the organized crime in order to ensure that the criminals get protected when caught or worse yet, do not face hurdles in their operations. Drug addiction has been one of the biggest problems that the policy makers and governance specialists have ever claimed to ...

The Uniform Crime Reporting is a program operating nationally in gathering crime statistics from different law enforcement agencies. It has operated from 1930. After collecting the statistics, the FBI completes periodic assessments of the type of crime that the nation faces. The objective of the program is to provide reliable and accurate crime statistics that will allow the security agencies to enforce law to the society. It allows the security agencies to operate and manage security at the Federal and State level. The statistics from Uniform Crime Reporting program is useful to sociologist, municipal planners, legislators, students of criminal justice ...

Governments across the world have different branches to address different issues or areas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a major arm of the U.S Department of Justice and a member of the U.S Intelligence Community. Created in 1908 by Charles J. Bonaparte, who was the Attorney General (The FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation).

The FBI has the power and accountability to scrutinize crimes assigned to it and to provide other law enforcement agencies with cooperative services. Some of the functions of the FBI are to carry out proficient investigations and approved discretion collection to see and counter the threat ...

Executive Summary

The key priorities for the St. Louis County cyber-crime task force will be placing emphasis on online fraudulent activities, child exploitation, and pornography and identity theft. Online fraudulent activities are enormous challenges for private and public organizations since fraudsters can manipulate information to suit their needs. Moreover, fraud compromises the security of the nation and has the capability of affecting people far and beyond the state of Missouri. Identity theft is a rising threat in St. Louis and the world at large posing threat to personal info and promoting fraudulent activities (O'Day, 2005, pg.63). Despite the fact that parents try ...

- The above case touches on issues to do with services that are unsolicited. From the facts above Debbie really was not in a position to negotiate with Pete or his agents in the ambulance as to whether she will take the first aid or not, due to her unconsciousness. However, it also should be noted that it was in her best interest to receive the first aid because any assumption or inaction would have put her life in danger. By definition, unsolicited goods are products or services provided to someone who did not specifically request or order them. ...

Introduction

When the European settlers came to North America, it was already inhabited by an indigenous group of people. In the 19th century white Americans came with the idea of Manifest Destiny and in order to realize their idea of possessing the entire continent of North America, they began removing Native Americans from their ancestral homeland into reserved territories for the Indians. The US government initiated the One Big Reservation policy in 1851 and according to this policy Native Americans were to shift into 'One Big Reservation' but the constant migration of European settlers, the evolution of transportation technology which ...

Discussion

The policy of rendition refers to the process through which persons, usually fugitives, are handed over by one state to the other. In the United States of America, rendition can apply in two ways. One, the person could be handed over by one state to the other, or the person, usually the fugitive in this scenario, is handed over by the Federal Government of America to another foreign nation. Usually, the first case is guided by the constitution of the United States of America, while the second is amorphous and guided through presidential decree in coordination with the American ...