Thursday, November 18, 2010
Brooklyn DA
On Monday, November 13th a man from the Brooklyn DA's office came to St. John's to discuss the gang borough of Brooklyn. He was a student at St John's, lived in Queens his whole life and attended school in Queens his entire life. The Brooklyn DA's office is a progressive look at crimes to progress the safety of the city. They have 9 DA's handling the gang borough. The first thing in the gang borough is judicial prosecution, then they talk about the investigated branch with proactive prosecution. What everyday people call snitches, the DA's office calls confidential conformance which are people who realize that this is not the life that they wanted to live. So they decide to try and reduce their sentence and tend to give useful information in reducing crime. The role of the prosecutor is to protect the constitution and to protect people's rights. If they do not have enough information to prosecute the criminal then whoever is defending him must help the defendant get out of that situation. Even if that man did commit that crime. Although NY has a high crime rate they are not as bad as LA or Chicago. The gangs of today tend to recruit kids at the age of 13 or 14. With that they tend to get people known as the "going along to get along". Which they are only in the gang for their best safety. These people are looked at by the DA's office, and the DA's office will help these people live a better life if they were prosecuted. The gangs of today are hard to control, police and prosecutors try and do their best but members of gangs are having kids. With their kids being raised up in the gang, it will be hard to stop a gang completely. The DA's office will try and control this problem one day at a time.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Late 90 dynasty
The New York Yankees under new manager Joe Torre would prove to be baseball's favorite team and the most disliked team once more in 1996. This is when they played in the fall classic and brought home the trophy that they had not won in 18 years but it would be their 23rd title. They would go on to win the World Series in 1998, 1999, and 2000 as they were proven to be the dynasty of the 90's. With those four teams they had some of my favorite players that I would grow up with starting with Derek Jeter and ending with Paul O'Neil. They would prove to be the best team going into the new millennium, and have high hopes that are not met until 2009 when they will win their 27th World Series title.
The summer of magic
The strike in 94' really put a damper on America's past time. Baseball needed something that would spark this great sport, something with pop. That is when the long ball became a thing of glory especially in the summer of 1998. Mark McGuire or Big Mac and Sammy Sosa, Slammin' Sammy, would have a lot of pop in their bats this fine summer. Mark would leave yard 70 times breaking Roger Maris record of 61 in the summer of 1961. Sammy, Mark's counter part would fall 4 short with 66. But the passion of the sport was back and baseball was proving to be Americas sport once more, until these records are tainted.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
FBI and its legacy
Johnathan Corbett
On Monday November 8th, 2010 Thomas J Pickard came to St John’s and presented to the St John’s students the life of a FBI agent. He said that it is not an easy thing to get in to. Only 30 out of 3,000 applicants get accepted at a time. The hardest part about being a FBI agent is that they do not know that they will be transferred. They have to deal with it, inform their families that they will be moving and leave. In order to get into the FBI you must pass a physical fitness test, firearms test and take classes for this specialty. They have to train in Quantico, Virginia which is a marine headquarter and an Army base. He was selected for the job and worked at NYO headquarters which deals with bank robberies and fugitives. His first week on the job he had helped the police chase down a bank robber and in telling the robber “FBI freeze or die” he threw his shotgun and gave up. His first undercover mission was under ABSCAM which was an undercover construction worker site that had captured 5 or 6 congressmen who where taking 50,000 dollar bribes for approval of Arab citizens (illegal aliens). He then was promoted by 1998 he was the #2 man in the FBI, he worked on the 747 that disappeared off of the radar. They concluded that it was the engine that had exploded not terrorism that took down this plane. In 1992 he tracked down terrorist Ramzi Yousef, for the bombing of the 1992 World Trade Center. He said that Ramzi is the smartest man that he has ever come to know, he can speak 7 languages and was very exceptional with dealing with Sciences. He represented himself at court and had a 8 month trial until he was convicted. He also talked about how he had to travel to another country and pick up one of the terrorist that they had on their list. The country cooperated until the very end, when people came up with a machine gun and demanded the terrorist. Pickard wanted non of this so he babbled on until the next morning and they gave in, a couple of weeks later he had learned that the FBI agency had flyers coming in to rescue him and they had informed the people on the machine gun scaring them away. He had fun days with the FBI but he had called it quits in 2001. He now works at Bristol Myer Squibb, and has been employed there for 9 years.
On Monday November 8th, 2010 Thomas J Pickard came to St John’s and presented to the St John’s students the life of a FBI agent. He said that it is not an easy thing to get in to. Only 30 out of 3,000 applicants get accepted at a time. The hardest part about being a FBI agent is that they do not know that they will be transferred. They have to deal with it, inform their families that they will be moving and leave. In order to get into the FBI you must pass a physical fitness test, firearms test and take classes for this specialty. They have to train in Quantico, Virginia which is a marine headquarter and an Army base. He was selected for the job and worked at NYO headquarters which deals with bank robberies and fugitives. His first week on the job he had helped the police chase down a bank robber and in telling the robber “FBI freeze or die” he threw his shotgun and gave up. His first undercover mission was under ABSCAM which was an undercover construction worker site that had captured 5 or 6 congressmen who where taking 50,000 dollar bribes for approval of Arab citizens (illegal aliens). He then was promoted by 1998 he was the #2 man in the FBI, he worked on the 747 that disappeared off of the radar. They concluded that it was the engine that had exploded not terrorism that took down this plane. In 1992 he tracked down terrorist Ramzi Yousef, for the bombing of the 1992 World Trade Center. He said that Ramzi is the smartest man that he has ever come to know, he can speak 7 languages and was very exceptional with dealing with Sciences. He represented himself at court and had a 8 month trial until he was convicted. He also talked about how he had to travel to another country and pick up one of the terrorist that they had on their list. The country cooperated until the very end, when people came up with a machine gun and demanded the terrorist. Pickard wanted non of this so he babbled on until the next morning and they gave in, a couple of weeks later he had learned that the FBI agency had flyers coming in to rescue him and they had informed the people on the machine gun scaring them away. He had fun days with the FBI but he had called it quits in 2001. He now works at Bristol Myer Squibb, and has been employed there for 9 years.
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