10-03-07 Assignment 1

Assignment: Create an outline of a famous event that involves a chain of causation.Write a short essay based on the outline.

According to the article of O.C. McSwite (2001), a city that confronted a growing problem of drunk driving made a stricter rule and instructed its police to crack down on drinking drivers. When the police began to do this, police service deteriorated as a result of the considerable officer downtime to make arrests. In order to ameliorate the additional time demands on officers, the city bought expensive vans to go to the arrest scene, test drivers, and complete the necessary paperwork on site. This increased arrests further and resulted in judges dismissing a large number of new cases. In order to combat this, the city next launched a training program for judges. As a result of this training, convictions increased. Finally, the city administration began to experience a great deal of political pressure as citizens became upset at what they saw as an unreasonably harsh police crackdown on typical “Friday and Saturday night” behavior.