Re: Jackie Magana week thirteen; February 24- 28, 2014.

On February 25, 2014, six police officers including their police chief were arrested for their role in preying/ targeting poor drivers in the state California. Hence, prosecutors in a rural California agricultural community said the police officers preyed upon the poor i.e. by impounding their cars as well as selling the vehicles when the owners could not afford the impounding fees. Sergeant Carrillo impounded over 200 cars and was found to be targeting poor Latinos individuals which he knew would not be able to afford the cost associated as it relates to impounding fees etc.

 Many of the cars and trucks were sold by officers and many of them also kept other vehicles for personal use. The F.B.I. aided in the investigation as well as arrests. Henceforth, the defendants were arraigned on Monday, February 24, 2014, resulting in a closure of the police department’s business office because of the arrest of so many police officers/ civilians. There are additionally details which will be released before or during the trial.  After reviewing this article I have several observations but I would like to note the following questions:

1.  Do you think the officers involved should be punished based on their respective role in this incident or should all receive the same punishment? 

2.  Do you think they should receive a harsher punishment due to their racial profiling as it relates to pursuing Latinos that were poor and uneducated?

Re: Week thirteen; Jonathan Ramos.

Hello everyone,

Welcome to week thirteen of the blogs. Have a awesome weekend!!

SOUTH PASADENA, CA -- 

The quick thinking of a nine-year-old South Pasadena boy helped save his three-year-old sister's life when she was choking on a grape.The boy and the paramedics who responded to his 911 call were honored at a news conference on Thursday. The incident was used as a lesson on choking hazards. Yaleona Santos' snack time became a life-threatening emergency as a grape slipped down her trachea.

Question: Do you think younger children nowadays are more experience in using 911? 

Why our why not?

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=9431943

RE: Elishua Williams week twelve: February 7-9, 2014.

Hello everyone,

Welcome to week twelve of the blog. I have an interesting incident involving a hire for murder plot which did not go as initially planned.

An Iowa woman has been sentenced to more than 7 years in prison for using a Craigslist help-wanted ad to solicit someone to kill her father. U.S. District Judge Linda Reade gave the 87-month prison term Wednesday to 23-year-old Megan Schmidt of Dubuque. Schmidt pleaded guilty in November to using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder for hire. In a plea agreement, Schmidt admitted that she posted Craigslist ads seeking someone to do a "one-time job" for $10,000. She later told one man who responded that she wanted her father dead and that it would be best to "either shoot or stab him because he is a bigger man." That man contacted authorities. The Dubuque County Sheriff's Office then conducted an undercover operation that led to Schmidt's arrest.

1. Do you feel the internet can lead to more crimes and malicious acts such as these or do you feel the internet is safe and people will do as the man in this case and alert authorities before any citizens will be harmed, injured, or in worse case scenarios, dead? 

2. What are some additional methods that can be promoted in order to make the internet a safer environment for its users?