Essays on Skid Row

Police discretion is a term used to explain a situation where the police either choose whether to apprehend a suspect or to let them off with a warning. It is viewed in an uncategorized aspect since it is constantly used across all levels of enforcement. In other situations, some view it positively while others have negative views towards it. There are merits and demerits associated with police discretion. some merits include the fact that officers are given flexibility in the manner through which they enforce the law. It also allows for police officers to balance their work with available ...

As according to the U.S housing department and the urban development, and the homeless rapid transition and emergency assistance act of 2009 categories the homeless in four classes. The first being those that are presently homeless, the second class covers them that will be homeless eventually in the pending future, also the third class are those families and youths with children suffering from hardship and home instability. The last class covers those who encounter domestic violence and also home instability. The causes for this trend of the humongous amount of people whom are homeless vary in nature some including ...

1. Sports players are paid huge amounts of money to play games for our country. Meanwhile, there are many people living in abject poverty, even in the United States. This is not a situation which our country should be allowing and endorsing. 2. My proposed solution is that sports players’ earnings be capped at a reasonable amount, and that more money can instead be channelled into improving and introducing anti-poverty solutions. Areas such as Skid Row, in Los Angeles, are in desperate need of development, and the money being thrown at sports players’ wallets would be enough to make a huge ...