Wouldn't it be nice to feel secure about your child safety while he/she is in school. That when you fly you shouldn't have to worry about a repeat of 9/11. Police officers who try to maintain your neighborhood as safe as possible, by stopping and frisking any one who may look suspicious. Living in a society that finds ways to eliminate or drastically reduce crime, terrorism and other threats is a utopia for me.
The Columbine Massacre of April 20, 1999 had made the United States change drastically the security measures they had in their schools. The Columbine Massacre was two teenage kids who went into their schools with their mind set on killing as many people as possible, killing 13 and wounding many more. The Columbine Massacre was not the first time homicides had occurred on school grounds "between June 1994 and June 1999, 177 homicides of students between the ages five and 19 were committed at school. 84% of these homicides involved firearms" so the change in security in schools in the United States are good even if they violate student privacy. Metal detectors, police presence, and locker searches were some changes that were made after April 1999. I went to a small school who did not have metal and i wish it did, I never felt completely safe. Weapons and weed was regular in my school when it was time for dismissal I hope nothing would happen. So if a kid writes a poem expressing his hatred towards others in his school and how he feels like blowing the school up I feel as if the school does have the right to check that child locker and place him in counseling. Schools should take any measures possible to secure not only the children but the parents that their child is going to spend 8hours a day 5 days a week in a secure environment.
September 11, 2001 was a drastic outrageous unexpected day for not only New York City but for the United States. Terrorists on planes crashed into these towers killing about 3,000 civilians. After the 9/11 terrorist attack the United States created the Department of Homeland security and extreme changes were made on airport security. Shoes now had to be removed at checkpoints, all baggages even carry ons must be screened and even body scan machine were being used. Even though people might have felt violated of their privacy and that it was rude to be check so much the pre-caution is a must. Sometimes airport security might check some more than other, some being muslims or those who may look muslim it is not wrong. If you had burn your finger, you are going to not only fear fire but take as much pre-caution as you can so you won't get burn again.
In the movie Minority Report the "precogs" a trio who foresee crimes that are going to occur if the police do not intervene are like our modern day police and their 'stops and frisk'. In the same way that the precogs prevented tons of murders from being committed stops and frisks do also. People say stops and frisk are normally made in a racist manner but they are not. Many times in the past the majority of the men being blacks and hispanics have committed crimes, they make up more than half of prisons population. The same way if there was a chain of rape and murders in the city we would be quick to stereotype the man as being white, because many times in the past they have been white. Im from the Bronx,ny i see all the good things stop and frisk does for my community. Today I was in the school yard playing ball with my friends when a cop car drives into the yard and starts frisking people. Two of the guys in the school yard had drugs on them, they were dealing these drugs in that yard a place for the neighborhood children to play. Stops and frisks are now randomly done in the train stations another good thing never know when a psycho might want to blow up a train or hold it hostage.
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