Entry #3 Wednesday, September 30th

The days when bad police can abuse their authority must be ended

Chris Selley | September 23, 2015 | Last Updated: Sep 23 9:34 AM ET

Overview:

Over the past couple years, citizens from around the world (mainly North America) have started to realize for themselves, and seeing from others, that Police are abusing their authority. Each day there is tons of new videos of police abusing people from different areas, such as beating, shooting or just being treated unfairly. Police chief Bill Bratton of New York got together with New York mayor Bill De Blasio after meeting with retired pro tennis player James Blake regarding a recent incident where an officer attacked him when he was just minding his own business. This is just one of the many recorded incidents that have been recorded and are being watched globally on computers, TV’s and smartphones. They talked about trying to strengthen the relationship between the citizens and the police forces, even thought to start with, the should be on the same side as each other to begin with. A recent statement was quoted by an anonymous source ‘to many lives have been lost, when instead they should have been directed to the right path in life, now they are gone.’ Recent incidents regarding police include an Ontario police who has been secretly recording nude women over a 10 year period, got a demotion. Another where a cop was drunk driving and instead of facing jail time, he got 5 days without pay. Citizens hate this, good cops hate this, and they say there is a long overdue re-read of the piece of legislation of cop’s rights that needs to change.

On the top a demonstrator holding a sign saying 'No to police racism' 

http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2015/09/police-1.jpg?w=620

My Opinion:

In my opinion I agree with the fact that police are abusing their system and are getting away with way too much, simply because they are a cop. There’s been so much evidence of police doing dangerous, illegal and life threatening acts towards the people, yet there is nothing but minor things happening to them, if that. Seriously an incident where a cop stumbles into their station drunk and lets off a canister of tear-gas causing $52,000 in damage just gets docked 100 hours of pay. That’s it. Not even considering the murders that have happened where police shot down a homeless man or another man who was obeying orders and had no weapon. I think there’s needs to be big changes in the way they run whatever they have going on right now or there might be riots or uprisings against the police in different places. Police have a duty to help the city, town, people and things inside so why are they destroying it and hurting people? The need to serve and protect, that’s their job and obviously some (not all) are not doing what their supposed to but instead going completely against that. I also think that if a cop does do something illegal their punishment should be way worse then what they have been getting. On certain occasions these police should be serving jail time. I’m not saying that this is all cops by any means, there are great cops out there, but for the ones that think they are beyond the law, need fixing. I think the issue is it's too easy to become a cop, I feel they should be more strict to who could be employed to serve and protect.

Entry #2 September 24th

Man who pushed woman off cliff during hike in the Colorado Rockies convicted of murder

Sadie Gurman, The Associated Press | September 22, 2015 10:35 AM ET

Overview:

Last Monday a federal jury convicted a 59 year old man guilty of murder after pushing his second wife off a cliff in the Rocky’s of Colorado after failing to prove that it was just an accidental fall. Believe it or not this is not the first time Harold Henthorn was in a situation where his wife was killed by accidental causes. In 1995, Harold’s firs wife, Saundra, died after her and her husband were changing a flat tire when the jack ‘failed’ and fell on top of her where she died of result to her injuries. About 20 years he got away with this incident where they blamed the jack for the death, but when a reoccurring incident such as another wife dying, they looked even deeper into what really happened. Officials said that it was their 12th anniversary and that Harold took her to a well know hiking destination that he picked out, not expecting his wife to ‘fall’ when she was taking a picture. They said he traveled this hiking spot over 9 times to find the right spot to push his wife over a cliff where survival was very minimum and witnesses could not see. When park rangers asked why he had a red X marked where she fell, he could not give them a reason. They say he staged her death so he could get the $4.7 million in life insurance, but instead all he is getting now will be a life sentence in prison.

The picture to the left is the mother of the woman who pushed killed, giving her prayers. 

  http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2015/09/national_park_anniversary_death_40142445.jpg?w=620&h=465

Opinion:

    In my opinion I cannot believe what mental state this man could be in, in order to kill two of his wives for his own ‘benefit’. When you read about the time when he first wife died by a failed jack, and then read about the footprint on the side of the car that indicates he kicked it for it to fall, it just doesn’t seem right. When this case arose not too long ago, I’m glad prosecutors, the police, jury and judge did what was right and convicted him to life in prison. This guy obviously thought that he was a smart person who could get away with whatever he wanted, but the evidence he left behind proves his thoughts and actions were very idiotic. Leaving a big red X on a map right where you wife fell… probably not the smartest thing to do when trying to get away with murder. The amount of greed this man had to try and gain $4.7 million from Tori (wife) when she didn’t even know about is just awful, I do not know how that man can live with himself from day to day. This article just proves to me that there are indeed crazy people out there with insane thoughts, even from the people you might least expect. This is just an outrageous article, I hope I never come across something like this again.

Entry #1, September 22nd 2015

Cold weather may increase heart attack risk

Dario Balca, CTVNews.ca 
Published Sunday, August 30, 2015 10:57PM EDT 

Overview: 
     Over the past 6 years, Shuangbo Liu and her fellow researchers from the University Of Manitoba looked at every ST-elevation myocardial infraction (STEMI) that occurred in Winnipeg. In other words, they studied every severe heart attack that happened in the province throughout the 12 months of the year for 6 years. The cardiology expert and her helpers from the university found out that during the colder parts of the year in Canada, your chances of a heart attack raise 7% for every 10 C it drops below 0  C. In Winnipeg, the days that daily high was 0 C or below, the heart attack rates for 0.93 per day. When the temperature low was above 0 C , the heart attack rates were 0.78 per day, this stayed consistent throughout the 6 years. Even though the heart rate risk increases as temperatures drop, they say that does not make the cold the ultimate cause for a heart attack. Liu and her researchers said they can use this methodology to help prevent heart attacks in the future. Since Winnipeg has a population of over 700,000 and has very cold winters, it made it the perfect place to conduct the experiment. The next step for Lui and her team is to conduct these experiments outside of Winnipeg, and use what they find to hopefully in the future help predict heart attacks days prior to the day it really happens.  

 

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/cold-weather-may-increase-heart-attack-risk-winnipeg-study-1.2540367

Opinion: 

     When I first found this article and started to read it, I became more interested as in went on mainly because I know people who have had heart attacks during the cold months of the year. I find it very interesting that the lower the temperature drops, the higher the risk of a heart attack becomes. To conduct an experiment about this for 6 years and finding a slimier pattern throughout that time, makes the data they collected seem fair and reliable. The only thing I came up with in my head to know why you're more likely to have a heart attack when its cold is because I think the cold air when in hailed may shorten your breath and not give your lung as much oxygen as normal air. That is just my thought from experience, when its colder I find it harder to breath. One question that I have which was unanswered and makes me wonder is how they can use this data to help prevent heart attacks for the future. If they can use this data to one day help find a way to prevent or give notice when a heart attack will happen, it may be very crucial to saving lives. Overall I found this article to be very interesting and gave me more knowledge about something I did not know before.