S. V. Jones Case Study

Gang violence is a problem in every major United States city including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Las Vegas Metro Police Department (LVMPD) has implicated many programs to fight the increasing gang issue across the valley, from bringing back the gang unit to having more police officers patrol the known gang spots. These programs were implicated to stop the criminal gangs that are looking to build their territory in Nevada. The three criminal gangs that are mainly affiliated with Nevada are the Gersons’, the Crips, and the Playboys.

Parties: Charles Katz (Defendant-Applicant) v. United States (Plaintiff-Respondent) Facts: Katz had long been suspected by police to be involved in the local illegal gambling scene. In an effort to obtain credible evidence of his illegal activities, the police placed Katz under surveillance (Katz v United States, 1967). That surveillance revealed that Katz liked to use a particular phone booth, which police suspected Katz used to place bets. Consequently, the police attached a “bug” or listening device to the phone booth in order to record Katz’s conversation and hopefully obtain evidence against him.

In 2006, a traffic police stop Adrian Moncrieffe on a federal highway leading to two federal cases. First legal proceedings following the arrest by the local police - a plea bargain habits and confidence in the criminal justice system of a Georgia drug crime hinging on ownership by a small amount of marijuana. Based on the belief that alone, the U.S government proceedings the process in immigration court for a removal requests of Moncrieffe.

Time buried in Leakin Park: 7 pm in first interviews and trial testimony, and midnight in a recent interview. All of the listed inconsistencies were made possible with the help from the police, his stories has been altering so that his evidence can corroborate with the cell towers. An article claims that Detective William Ritz was involved in a case where witnesses were encouraged to lie, exculpatory evidence was hidden, and in short, the investigation was corrupt. By doing so, this help Jay and a possible third party involvement. These so-called “evidence” does not arrive to the fact that Adnan killed Hae.

New York experiences the most issues with the policy being used everyday in The Big Apple. Police started using this as a technique to prevent future crime in 1968. Other cities like, Oakland, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Chicago also practice Stop and Frisk. My research is based on the evidence and data as the program was used in New York City. It is also known as the Terry Stop or Stop and Seizure.

CS5) were involved in analogous transactions, the affidavit showed that both former Chicago PD officers instructed the federal informant, in a recorded conversation to call them or go to a specific gas station that they stated and ask for them whenever CS5 was ordered to transport drug monies for the traffickers. Facts proved that former police officers Ronald Watts and Kallatt Mohammed extorted several thousand dollars in cash from various drug couriers for years in exchange for police protection in the South Side housing projects area in Chicago. "Watts receives weekly payments from drug dealers," stated FBI agent Robert D. Grant in the sworn in affidavit that concluded the investigation. "These payments are typically in the amount of $5,000." Furthermore, according to court records, CPD Officer Ronald Watts and his Chicago Police Department tactical team victimized the Ida B. Wells housing complex residents for several years and wrongfully convicted more than 15 victims

In Summary, Serpico first started to learn about the corruption in the New York Police Department when he was transferred to the plainclothes detail. Plainclothes detail was all about going after criminals committing crimes like gambling, prostitution, and drugs. Serpico first encountered Stanard which he learned about all the corruption centered around the gambling side of crime. Stanard told him about how he could make 800 dollars more a month if he wanted to. Stanard brought Serpico to a restaurant and went to the back, where they encountered a mob boss which was responsible for the big gambling problems going on in the city.

David Leon Riley, a gangster who is in the Lincoln Park Gang in San Diego, CA was involved in a rival gang shooting. The rival of Riley’s gang shot at the Lincoln Park Gang and then got into Riley’s vehicle, stole it, and drove off. Riley had his cell phone in his possession when he was apprehended. So a detective analyzed the videos and photographs of Riley making gang signs and other gang indicia that were stored on the phone to verify whether Riley was gang affiliated. On August 22, 2009, the police pulled Riley over which he was driving a different car which later they found out that he was driving on expired license registration tags.

In the case of Riley V. California, Mr. Riley was stopped on a traffic violation, which led to his arrest on weapons charges. The officer searching Riley’s incident to arrest seized a cell phone form Riley’s possession. There was information on the phone and repeated use of a term associated with a street gang. Hours later a gang detective examined the phone’s digital contents and based in part on photographs and videos found, the State charged Riley in connection with a shooting that occurred a few weeks earlier. They sought an enhanced sentence based on Riley’s gang membership.

One of the leading supporters andreaserchers of the Elvis-mafia conspiracy, Gail Brewer-Giorgio, claims after searching and scrutinizing thousands of official and released FBI documents, she has discovered that Elvis joined the FBI in 1976 as an undercover agent. He did this to help the agency infiltrate a criminal organisation known as “The Fraternity” which was a cult like organized crime ring that operated much like a mob (Chan) (Daily). He was spurred by his love for his country and his overwhelming respect for the FBI. Brewer-Giorgio says that the FBI consulted Elvis because he had had some dealings with the Fraternity over the sale of a plane that he had had. She says that unfortunately Elvis had been found as a mole shortly into the time his mission began and he had to go into the FBI’s witness protection program.

Dean O’Banion made the roaring twenties roar by running a gang in Chicago. During this time the Prohibition Act was in place and alcohol sale was illegal. O 'Banion saw this as an opportunity to make a profit. He hijacked a whiskey truck and sold the alcohol illegally to people who wanted it. He was also the reason a gang war started.

Although crime existed prior to the prohibition era, it would see a new extent of the meaning throughout this time. Petty gangster began to monopolize the alcohol industry (illegally) and became millionaires by engaging in lucrative criminal operations. These criminal operations included bootlegging, speakeasies and smuggling. What was once a petty thug with little reign, now gained dominance throughout their community and managed to create a criminal empire that provides them with not only wealth, but power. This power could be seen with the merge of prohibition and the political machine in Chicago, thus creating the most notorious criminal organization in U,S, History, the mob.

Almost a decade ago, Antoine Jones was tried, convicted, and given a life sentence for operating a drug trade. Of course, his possession of illegal drugs and involvement in the selling of illegal drugs is enough for his conviction, but Jones argues that the police secured evidence unconstitutionally. When the police first started observing Jones on suspicions of his participation in the drug trade, they fastened a hidden GPS device on his car, in order to track Jones to a so-called “stash house,” although they did not procure a warrant to use the device. The police were able to successfully apprehend Jones based on evidence procured from the GPS. Citing the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, Jones took his case to the Supreme Court.

I first heard of RICO when watching the television series Sons of Anarchy (SOA). It appears in SOA because the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms unit) is trying to put the motorcycle club away for weapons trafficking – which is a serious crime in the US, especially if it 's international. Soo what is R.I.C.O.? RICO stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. It is a law that was passed in the 1970s that was designed to fight organized crime in the United States.

This is what happened with Antoine Jones in the Supreme Court Case of The United States v. Antoine Jones. Jones was arrested for drug possession when police attached a tracker to his jeep without judicial approval and followed him for a month. Jones argued his conviction because it violated the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The Supreme Court’s ruling was delivered by Justice Scalia, and with a 5-4 split they decided this: "the Government 's installation of a GPS device on a target 's vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle 's movements, constitutes a 'search '" under the Fourth Amendment” (Scalia 5). This court case ties directly to the Patriot Act.