As Gunman Rampaged Through Florida School, Armed Deputy 'Never went in'

          I decided to read upon the article from the New York Times As Gunman Rampaged Through Florida School, Armed Deputy 'Never Went in'. While reading the article first I focused on the concept on the tip that was received by a student telling the F.B.I that Nikolas Cruz had owned a gun and had said that he had wanted to shoot up the school and become a professional school shooter. Right then and there that is a HUGE red flag that had been missed. If anyone had mentioned anything about a school shooting they should have immediately took action and investigated and not just ignore it.

          Now talking about the incident with the deputy not going into the school while the shooting was happening is honestly ridiculous. There should be zero excuses for him to of not gone in the building and helped out the students who needed it. It seems as if he only wanted to protect himself and did not fully care enough to help out considering that is his job. People were saying how he could have been in shock and did not know how to handle the situation, but he was a trained officer and that is why he should have been able to handle the situation. It is very smart that the deputy sheriff had placed him under investigation to hear his side of the story, because I'm sure a ton of people want answers. I look it as also being selfish on his part. It is his job to protect and serve and he had done the complete opposite of that. He was more so looking out for himself rather than the students. What is also ridiculous is the fact that they have an armed deputy in the school, but now they want teachers to be armed also? That is the biggest mistake anyone could ever do. Not only could it possibly cause more school shootings, the teachers are not professionally trained to handle a gun like a police officer is and should be.

Bridgeton Covered Bridge

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       On April 28th 2005 the Bridgeton Covered Bridge had burned down. The local community had started a fund raiser to try and have the bridge rebuilt. Fund raising began and on January 12, 2006 a bridge raising ceremony was held. On August 28, 2006 the spans of the bridge were lifted onto the abutments. The completed bridge was dedicated on October 1, 2006. This bridge is located in Indiana about thirty-forty minutes from Terre Haute Indiana in which Indiana State University is located in.

I was with a group of friends driving around this girls home town area in which she brought us to this small town. The small town was dead and kind of creepy to be walking around in because nobody was there at all. I was not used to being in a town like that because where I am from which is the Mokena/Frankfort area it is completely packed with all sorts of people and places. The only thing that I really enjoyed about that place was that it would be a cool place to go and hang out with a group of friends for free. In my town anything you would want to do with friends it would require you to pay a ton of money which in my opinion is very annoying. 

             In the group project that we had to do for finding different types of genres in law enforcement, my group and I found the four types of police reports, which were Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, and Type 4. In Type 1 it is known for no action is taken from the police officers. In this type the police officers only look, listen, and write. They also record what happened before you arrive and the challenges are the accuracy, professionalism, and completeness. These types specifically include incident reports. Some examples of them are theft, sexual attack etc. In type 2 it requires investigation. It is similar to type one the only difference is that they look, listen, write and then investigate. The police officers record what happened, plus the results of your investigation. The challenges they face are that the procedures were followed, and were included in your investigation even if they were negative. The next type was type 3 which is look, listen, write, investigate, and take an active role in resolving the situation. The information that is required is what happened, plus the results of your investigation and the nature of your intervention. The last type is type 4, which initiate the investigation and follow through with it. Tell why you got involved, and the results of the outcome of it. The probable cause maybe an issue from it.

              The police report that I had to talk about was the type 1 report. In type 1 I had found examples of some police reports that did not engage in going further than just a look, listen, and write situation. There was a case involving a 10 year old girl named Victoria who was killed by her mother, the mothers boyfriend and the boyfriends cousin. While reading the article it stated that Victoria had mentioned to family friends that a different boyfriend of the mom's had tried to kiss her and also mentioned that the New Mexico's Children, Youth and families department had forward a complaint related to Victoria Martens five months before she died and the police ignored it. If the police did not ignore the situation it said they could have found out the Victoria's mother had been searching online for men who would engage in sexual activity with her children. The police did an interview with Victoria and her mother and said there was nothing suspicious with them and left it at that. The whole situation could have saved a child's life if the police would have actually done some investigating on her family, especially since they had gotten calls about it in the first place.

Snow Day!

The past few weeks have been brutal with this cold weather. The other day they had closed the campus down a 4:00pm because of a bad snow storm coming our way. On February 8th we actually had gotten a call saying that the whole campus will be closed on February 9th, because of another snow storm. I was very grateful for the campus being closed down because I commute to campus, which is a thirty minutes drive for me, which I have to cross over that horrible one lane bridge. I know other people commute way further than me, but still I am very happy that they had cancelled classes that day. I believe though that my parents would not even let me drive to class, so it all worked out in the end. It is nice to have snow days to take a break once in a while from classes. It was kind of annoying though because that day I was still required to go into work that day, which again I only live five minutes away from work, but you would think even after so many places shutting down they would have to. You would not think that a fitness center would be getting people to come out and work out in a snow storm, but boy was I wrong. So many people still came out to work out. After working at a fitness center, you would truly understand how crazy people are to actually be putting themselves at risk just to get a quick thirty-to an hour work out in. People kept saying they did not want to be stuck in the house all day. I do not understand how these people could not miss one day of working out. People are nuts!!

After Innocence - Trailer

I have provided the trailer of the film After Innocence by Jessica Sanders. In this film it is very interesting to watch and understand how the Criminal Justice System handles certain types of situations that they come across. The Criminal Justice System shows us how careless they really on to actually help out people who are later found to be proven innocent. These seven men who were in this film were all proven innocent from as short as 6 1/2 years to as long as 22 years. Throughout the film it shows how one man had the DNA evidence proven to not be his for three years after he was convicted because his evidence was given to them too early, so they said they could not do anything for him. Half of these men would still be in prison if it was not for the group they found called the Innocence Project or from just someone else confessing to the crime. It is an understanding that a ton of people get accused of rape if they did not do it because whoever was the one being raped could give a false description because at that moment they were not fully paying attention to who their rapist was, that was not their focus. It is an upsetting situation that people have to go through, but it happens. Overall, I really enjoyed watching this film because I feel like it give whoever watched it a good insight on what really goes on in the Criminal Justice System.

An 'Iceberg' of Unseen Crimes

              Reading in the New York Times, I came across an article called An 'Iceberg' of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unreported, by Al Baker. In this article it talks about all of the unseen crimes like finding out that there was a lack of data on internet sales of fentanyl, when IPhones were getting stolen the detectives treated it as an unrelated street crime rather than a vast scheme with connected channels used by thieves to sell stolen phones, and lastly investigators had no meaningful statistics on a nasty new swindle called the "cheating husband" email scheme, which threatened to unmask a large number of men's infidelities. Each of these cases demonstrates how the tools are used to fight crime and measure crime trends in the United State are outdated. Certain crimes are decreasing but plenty more are increasing.

            With these types of crimes happening the only way detectives found out about the "cheating husband" scheme from faithful spouses who were not victims. The type of crime did not fit into any existing category, so the police had made no arrests, and had no statistics to feed to a national crime database in Washington that could prepare other jurisdictions for the scheme. Technology has created an extraordinary moment for criminals by increasing profits without the risk of street violence. These criminals could easy use stuff like the dark web etc. to get plenty of information or to be able to sell stuff on there with out getting caught from it.

             In 2000, an Internet Crime Complaint established by the FBI to capture internet crime received more than 298,728 complaints in 2016, reflecting 1.3 billion in combined losses, according to a new report by Mr. Wexler's group. Mr. Wexler's group said its findings represented wake-up call for the nations 18,000 policing agencies facing an increase in technology-based crimes, that sprawl across jurisdictions, and recommended they fight back with similar tools by: developing their own digital expertise; hiring civilian analysts, etc. Above all, policing needs better systems for gathering data. Once you get out of cyberspace, data about anything is very limited that its really hard to figure out rvrn east might be happening locally that impacts that crime.

College Experience

        I started college in August 2015. When I first went to College I went to Indiana State University for only one semester. Personally, being three hours away from home was not enjoyable for me. I was not really home sick, but I was missing my boyfriend because I hung out with him every single day. He would come to visit me every 2 weeks, but he worked Fridays and would not get there until 10pm, and he would have to leave early Sunday. I just felt like I never got to be with him a lot. When I came home for Winter Break I did not want to go back. My dad made a last minute call to Joliet Junior College and I got into it right away with no problems. It was honestly the best decision I have ever made too. I started off with over $3000 and came home with less than $2000. For that time period of only one semester I spent all of that money. I could not even picture if I was still going there because I would really get the whole "broke college student" experience. Not only was a spending money so quickly, I also gained a ton of weight known to be the college 15. Being at home made me save my money way better, and also considering I now work at a fitness center I am able to get the membership for free, which helps me be more motivated to work out more. Now I am in my first semester of Lewis University. Overall, the experience is fantastic and it is not that much different from Joliet Junior College expect the walking outside to other buildings. I really think I am going to enjoy my last year of college at Lewis.