Betty Lewis was just an average person. Admittedly, she didn’t set out in her life to join the criminal justice career. She started out as a manager for an apartment complex, but soon tired of receiving calls all day and night over frivolous things she had no control over. The added stress of living thirty miles away from her complex and being unable to rush to the building on short notice finally pushed Lewis to look in the classifieds for a new job. There, she found that the Minden Police Department needed a dispatcher. Lewis calls Minden home, which helped in her decision to apply. She also found a sense of personal satisfaction in being able to help people with real problems. However, there were some drawbacks. At the time, Minden was a small sleepy town with just 2,835 people. Due to a lack of demand, Minden had just one dispatcher on duty at a time. Lewis described her twelve-hour shifts as slow, but there was also an added pressure of needing to be available on a second’s notice. “If the phone happened to ring while you were in the bathroom, you were running out with your pants unbuttoned,” she remarked with a laugh. Lewis remained in …show more content…
These people dedicate their entire selves to taking phone calls, just hoping to help. They must deal with never knowing how they did. They may never know if someone who needed immediate medical attention lived or died. In situations where a caller hangs up and doesn’t answer return calls, they must keep that feeling of loss and frustration under control so they can be there to help someone else. Dispatchers are the silent heroes standing in the shadows and on behalf of Buffalo county, I took the time to thank Betty Lewis for her effort and the good she did during her time as a dispatcher as well as for the incredible interview. It really opened my eyes to this side of law enforcement I had never even thought
In 1836, the gruesome death of a prostitute encaptivated the public eye and began a newspaper frenzy that centered on a morbid fixation of the life and death of Helen Jewett. Patricia Cline Cohen's The Murder of Helen Jewett pieces together the facts of Helen's life and death in an attempt to describe gender inequality in America by giving a meticulous account of life in the 1830s. (Insert small biography) Around three in the morning on Sunday, April 10, 1836 Rosina Townsend, the madam of the brothel, was spurred from her bed at the south end of Thomas St by a man knocking on the front door.
Sam Richards Legal Studies: Vicki Lee Roach On December the 14th, 2002, Vickie Lee Roach, in a failed attempt to evade police after a robbery gone wrong, smashed into a young mans car, inflicting grievous burns to over 45 percent of his body. She was sentenced to 6 years prison with a non-parole period of 4 years. In 2006, the Coalition, under the hard line right wing John Howard, passed the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Act that made it impossible for any prisoner to vote during their period of incarceration. Prior to this, prisoners voting rights were protected under the the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (amended 1983). The Electoral act of 1918 made it possible for any prisoner serving under
How we could avoid more cases like this from happening would be to figure out during the job interview if the person would be reliable during a call. That may not the fix all solution, so employers should keep a close eye on calls that are answered by the dispatchers, and listen through them on occasion to make sure they are doing their job
Robert Latimer was convicted for murdering his 12 year old daughter, Tracy Latimer. Tracy had cerebral palsy that lead to severe mental and physical disabilities causing seizures. She was constantly experiencing severe pain and had five or six seizures a day. On October 24, 1993, Tracy died in the care of her father, while the rest of her family had gone to church. Her father informed the RCMP that she died in her sleep.
Stoughton, S. (2015). Law Enforcement’s “WARRIOR” Problem Harvard Law Review Association. In this non-fiction article printed inside Harvard Law Review forum the author, assistant professor of Law at the University of South Carolina and prior law enforcement officer Seth Stoughton presents the debate of law enforcement possessing a “Warrior Mindset” vs. “Guardian Mindset”.
Janice Green was a wife, mother, and community organizer in Perry County, Alabama. Right now she is an inmate sentenced to 37 years in Prison. This narrative is an attempt to explain the story as it was collected from a variety of sources, such as witness interviews, family interviews, released statements, legal sources and good old fashioned research. As I understand it, here is how they hemmed up Janice Green.
One of the first thing Jane Addams at Hull House did was to establish daycare for children. Children were being left at home tied to a table leg while their mothers were working in the sweat shops. While at the daycare children were given a safe place and at least one meal a day.1 She also help create the juvenile court system because children were being sent to prison with harden criminals.
The Harris case is related to the course material because it illustrates the formal criminal justice process related to the court. Harris is being charged with a felony, which is why the case did not end in a plea bargain. The article also illustrates an instance in which discretion within law enforcement may be used. Hill points out that when investigating the murder the team failed to investigate other likely suspects.
1. The problem that is identified by Anne Milgram, the attorney general of New Jersey, was that the criminal justice system wasn’t tracking the things that mattered. When she came to be attorney general, she wanted to know two simple things: who was the criminal justice system putting in jail and was the criminal justice system making decisions that made the people safer. She found quickly that the answers she got were not satisfactory. A lot of the arrests being made were low level drug busts close to the stations, and murders and robberies were going unsolved.
The Sheila Dixon saga Sheila Dixon became mayor of Baltimore city in 2007 following Martin O’Malley gubernatorial win. She was elected to city council in 1987 and Baltimore City Council president in 1999. She was among other city officials were finally indicted on corruption charges following an investigation led by state and federal agents. The following excerpt summarizes the scandal’s details and the circumstances surrounding the charges levied against Dixon as published by The Economist (2009).
Context: The investigation for the murder of the Clutter family is open and sheriff, Alvin Dewey, will stop at nothing to solve the mystery. “ But nothing so vicious as this. However long it takes, it may be the rest of my life, I’m going to know what happened in that house: the why and the who (pg 80)”.
In Suzanne Lebsock’s A Murder in Virginia, 2003, the judicial proceedings of a court case are depicted after a women, Lucy Pollard, was found brutally slain in her own backyard. Most would think this to be a simple illustration of a murder trial, but this case comes with a twist. The twist is that the murder took place in rural Virginia in 1895. This is a time period that is characterized as post Reconstruction but before the implementation of the Jim Crow Laws. Being a Confederate state shortly after the Civil War, one would believe that race relations in Virginia would be extremely tumultuous, but this case just happens to fall in a small window of time in which relationships were surprisingly harmonious.
Either way, law enforcement officers are demanded to put themselves at risk to keep the general population safe. However, this does not keep this career from having its flaws, specifically the threat of death and/or injury, increased rates of depression or suicidal tendencies, and the mental strain of required duties. Methods Castaneda, L. W., & Ridgeway, G. (2010). Perceived Pros and Cons of Law Enforcement Careers. In Today’s Police and Sheriff Recruits: Insights from the Newest Members of America’s Law Enforcement Community (pp. 15–40).
Polly Ann Myers Polly Ann Myers and Autherine Lucy were trying to get admission to the University of Alabama. The university didn’t allow them to attend classes at the university. This was a violation to the Fourteenth Amendment. The situation with Polly and Autherine went to court. The case was called the Lucy v. Adams case.
When dealing with barriers its best that woman working in Law enforcement figure out how to deal