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Police salaries are something that is not a topic today’s society would care too much about. Police are held to the highest expectation, deal with the worst people, and everything they do is criticized by the public. The public loves to watch police videos and determine if the police were justified all without every understanding what a police officer goes through each every day. From being in law enforcement and having friends in many different departments, they all seem to have different pay systems and salaries. I think an officer’s initial salary should be comparable to area’s cost of living. Once they complete the initial year as an officer, they should receive a raise of 10 percent. Each year after that they should receive a three to

Underfunding is the greatest Challenge that is faced by the Canadian Criminal Justice System. This paper will discuss the Police Forces aging population and the challenges to replace them when they retire, it will also look at the insufficient quantity of officers needed to investigate all crime. The underfunding of the legal aid program and the effects on the courts and family law will be discussed. Finally the effects of long-term underfunding of the countries prison system and its effects on the most vulnerable inmates will also be measured.

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There are many changes that I have observed in my neighborhood since living here for 21 years. There has been a recent migration of homeowners moving out of the neighborhoods. The home owners are either renting out their homes, to a new influx of section 8 tenants or they have chosen to walk away from their homes leaving many in the area to go into foreclosure. Foreclosure and crime are two of the biggest element of change that I have noticed in my neighborhood, and many of these problems arise from the economy, health and illness, and familial structure breakdown.

As the leasing amount and house rent goes up while there is stagnation in wages and salaries, affording the monthly rent becomes difficult leading to gentrification in the city.

Although the worst of the fiscal challenge is over, managers need to recognize that there will not be a return to the way things were prior to 2007. As Generation X'ers move into management roles, the advancement of technology makes public safety more efficient, the service model will begin to change. The philosophy of doing more with less will start to emerge. “In the paper “Making Policing More Affordable: Managing Costs and Measuring Value in Policing,” published by the National Institute of Justice, authors George Gascon and Todd Foglesong suggest that the police model should be more like a medical model. In year’s past, when visiting the doctor's office, a physician performed virtually all of the testing, taking temperatures, measuring blood pressure, and so forth”(Matarese,

As the above pie chart (Composition of government expenditure on criminal justice 2006-2007) shows us the police services are at the head position of the overall expenditure of the three arms of the criminal justice system. The government is aware of the vast need for more funds into the policing sector, for the fact this arm is the division that provides the law and order and is out there addressing the issues that are affecting society and apprehending the criminals in, to ensure the criminal justice system continues to function in a fair and equally sufficing way.

Every Houston city worker who works hard and play by the standards deserves a impartial and protected retirement. Yet the city administration has mess-up Houston’s pension systems for years, leaving them underfunded and on unstable ground. Political leaders have cut corners on pension payments, used dicey investment return assumptions, and disregard the warning signs

The cost of living for people who make minimum wage or below can be extremely high. Particularly, in Baltimore Maryland with the closing of steel plants and the opening of the Inner Harbor, the residents were faced with an extreme pay decrease. Due to the lost of jobs and pay cuts many residents left the city, or were not able to afford housing. This contributes to a community of homeless people and 16,000 vacant houses.

In “Is Gentrification All Bad” Davidson tries to convince the reader that there is a positive side to gentrification. Throughout the article davidson provides evidence and a personal example of how gentrification is a positive change for many neighborhoods by giving an example of gentrification and credible statistics.

Most would agree that departments need more funding. However, there are discrepancies regarding where to place these funds. "Police

Over the last several years, most police departments have been facing numerous financial challenges. The main reason is law enforcement agencies are expected to do more with less and the stagnant economy. The combination of these factors has been placing pressure on many departments to begin imposing budget cuts. Evidence of this can be seen with a survey that was conducted by the University of North Carolina. They found that 67% of police departments made some kind of budget cuts for 2011. The most severe reductions were occurring in large police departments such as Los Angeles, Atlanta and Detroit. (Delfem, 2011, pp. 199 - 205) This is illustrating one of the most pressing issues affecting a wide variety of police departments across the country. To fully understand what is happening requires: examining the situation, how they are able to interact with other agencies (i.e. state / federal) and recommending the way this relationship can be improved. Together, these elements will offer specific insights about how police departments can effectively address this problem.

As a process, gentrification has had both a negative and positive impact on the society as well as affected the economic status of the involved countries or towns. As a way

Pension funds are any plans, funds or schemes which provide retirement income. The money in them varies from some offering very little making it not worthwhile for their holder to retires, whilst others pay more than the employee has earned in his lifetime. Examples of the former are the present-day crisis with Chicago teachers who have found that their pension is giving them as little as 42,000 per year ((NYT Times (September 19, 2012) Next School Crisis for Chicago: Pension Fund Is Running Dry). Examples with the latter are the absurd instances of Yonkers, where policemen in their 40s are retiring on $100,000 pensions (more than their top salaries), or in California, where payments to Calipers, the biggest state pension fund, soared while financing for higher education was cut (ibid). The largest 300 pension funds collectively hold about $6 trillion in assets (Global Investment

Sales and tax rates are stable in some states, but tend to be unpredictable in others. Counties, cities, school districts, and townships are continually expanded, becoming established and given effect in the United States. In some locations, sales and use tax rates are even more susceptible to change because of political influence, this can cause rates to even change as recurrently as a monthly