Semester is Coming to a Close

Close of the Semester

As the semester comes to a close, I hope to take everything that I have learned from the course into my future endeavors. During the semester, I felt like a lot of what we learned from the text book will help us in our careers. A few of the hands on assignments that we did helped us correlate the information we learned from the textbook with real life experiences. I liked the interviews that we did in class. It made us think of what it would be like to question individuals and how to come up with questions that will help you get more information out of a suspect or interviewee. The documentary project helped me analyze more and think of why certain things happened.
I was hoping to get more out of this class, for example, more hands on experiences that would help me with my career. I am more of a "do it" kind of individual so  , if we would of had examples of what was simply in the textbook I would of learned a lot more.

Video Reflections

ABC 7 News Video

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The video I decided to watch was the ABC 7 news report where the cops shoot a young teenager because of a toy assault rifle. I feel like they are bound to get shot. It's your life or theres, well at least thats how I think a lot of cops have to think. Some individuals won't hesitate to take your life so if you're giving everyone the benefit of the doubt you might be the one to loose your life. Yes, in certain instances I think cops hesitate but when it comes to weapons that look like they'd threaten your life I think you can never be too safe. The fact that the officers told the boy to put the gun down and he didn't makes everything more sketch. As an officer if you see someone carrying a weapon and you tell them to put it down and they don't there goes that chance that it could be your life or theirs.

World's Wildest Police Videos

Police Articles

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Chapter 6: Arrest Reports

Key Points : Chapter 6 : Arrest Reports

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• Key points that I would like to focus on is actual arrest reports and seeing how they are written, be different individuals. 
• All of the different examples of arrest reports in the books. If we could break everything down to see how they put all of that together. 
• Limiting opinions 
• Unbiased 
• Reports are needed whenever someone is taken into custody 

Making a murderer PEOPLE Reflection

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While watching Making a Murderer I found it quite interesting how certain individuals had certain verbal and nonverbal responses. Each interviewer had a certain way of showing what they were thinking or what they thought. The individual that stuck out the most to me was definitely the sketch guy. He was sketchy in so many different ways with his attitude and the way he expressed his anger. When they were interviewing him you could really tell something was not right because of the way he came off. He was extremely defensive and always had a smart response for something that was said to him or when they explained something he did.

TOOLS FOR NOTETAKING

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Overall, I think these notebooks would be really good for note taking when it comes to field notes. They're small and easy to carry around.

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When I take notes I like to make things Different colors sometimes. I think tabs to separate certain things helps things seem more organized.

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My favorite pens to write in are anything BIC. They are my favorite. They don't bleed. They make my handwriting easier to read as well..

Chapter 2: The rules of Narrative Writing

#13: Rewrite the following report using the rules of Narrative writing. 

Additional Information: I received a radio call to meet the reporting party, Katherine Tunney, at 12330 hours on 7/25/15. Katherine Tunney lives at home with her parents, Carol and Gary Tunney. The term 28 is jargon for radio code 10-28, which is a request to check the registration of a license plate.

Information report: Location: 1647 Rancho, El Fuego
Occurrence Date: 7/25/2015
Other person: Tunney, Carol P. DOB 1/21/1966
Other person: Tunney, Katherine L. DOB 9/16/1989

Details: 
I contacted Katherine Tunney who said that at approximately 1215 hours on 7/25/2015, she was getting ready to leave her residence to do errands in the area when she saw a white Toyota van wagon in front of her residence on the opposite side of the street facing westbound. She saw the man , who was by himself, was turned in the drivers seat with a camera up to his face taking pictures of her specific residence. Miss Tunney said that the vehicle, although facing westbound, it was stopped in the middle of the street and not on the complete opposite side.

Miss Tunney said that she thought this was suspicious , she remembered that her mother was approached by a suspicious person back in April of this year.

She tried to make contact with the individual , when she left the residence, the individual immediately rolled up his driver side window and drove aways extremely fast leaving the area. Katherine said she was able to get his license plate number on the van when it slowed down for a speed bump, which was near the home. I asked Katherine for the license plate number and she said it was 836L92F.

A 28 was run on the license plate and it came back to a 2004 Toyota Wagon, registered to Bond, Stephen D. , 3381 El Balzo, El Fuego. Katherine describes the male subject to be a white male, with graying hair, NFD.

When talking to Mrs. Tunney, Carol, she said she filed a report with the police department back in April of this year. She was out in the front of her garage, in the driveway repotting a plant when the suspicious individual came up to her and asked her what her name was. Mrs. Tunney (Carol) said that she told the individual she was not going to tell him her name and then asked what his name was. She did not get any information from him.

The individual left in a vehicle which Mrs. Tunney (Carol) said had a personalized plate of ISPYONU. Information was run on the vehicle. It came back to a 2008 SAAB registered to Toomey, Richard, 36 Paseo De Bonito, El Rancho.

I told Miss. Tunney (Carol) and Katherine that at this time we did not have a crime happen. But this information would be put on file. At this time , they had no contact with the driver of the Toyota or the SAAB and information will be passed on to the investigation division.

Documentary

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For my documentary I chose to watch After Innocence. This documentary helps show how DNA evidence was used to help exonerate individual who were charged for a crime , but did not actually commit the crime. Some individuals were about to spend their entire lives in prison but because of the DNA evidence were able to be set free. Some even did time before being exonerated. This documentary goes to show the different injustices of the justice system when it comes to finding the guilty individual. Innocent individual were locked aways because they were thought to have done the crime even if they had nothing to do with it . This makes so many individuals question the law enforcement/ the justice system, which could cause so much controversy.

Music plays what role?

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While watching a murderer, I feel like there is so much bias towards Avery. The show is basically for him! When watching you can feel the different music tense when there is going to be a sketchy scene or when their trying to show that Avery was just in a tough place, they'll play sad and depressing music. I feel like if there wasn't any type of music lingering in the background we might have different perceptions of Avery's role in the whole situation. People might be less biased or might have a different opinions on whether or not justice was totally against him. In my opinion, the show was just a way to show that he was in so many bad situations with law enforcement and that he should be pardoned.

Reflection of Making a Murderer Episode 1

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Questions to Answer about Making a Murderer 

1.) What is surprising?

2.) What is problematic?

3.) How can we use writing and communication to participate in addressing this problem?

4.) Discuss your favorite part (even if it is the most troubling). Why and how did it appeal to you?

The thing that I found surprising while watching Making a Murderer was how much different law enforcements would do in order to make sure one person is made guilty even if they weren't. The state of Wisconsin made it their job to make sure that they found Avery guilty and that if he wasn't that it would not fall on their shoulders. 
What I found problematic was that an innocent man could be put away for more then a decade and that any attempt to prove his innocence would be denied. This makes you question the justice system and the saying "innocent until proven guilty". If you are made to seem guilty by everyone then how could you prove that you are telling the truth. Also, the one person who was guilty was free even when certain people thought it could be him. If people would of communicated better when it came to prove Allen had actually committed the crime, then Avery would of never been made guilty. Different reports also weren't documented accurately. If they would of been accurate and if all the facts  would have been taken into account Avery would of never been falsely accused. 
My favorite part was when avery got out in 2003. Justice was finally in his favor after more then a decade in prison he finally got to be with his family again. Also, when DNA proved that he was innocent. 

New Class.. New Excitement!

Hello Everyone!

When first taking Writing for the Disciplines, I never expected "blogging" to be a part of it. I'm excited to try out blogging for the VERY first time, maybe it'll be something that I find interesting and can incorparate into my career as well as everything that we will be learning.