Police Brutality Summary

As a Pulitzer Prize writer Junot Diaz believes that “The Police Chief should direct officers to cease engaging in stop and frisk” (442). By using this form of racial disparity the police officers are engaging in racially profiling members of the public by detaining tax paying citizens due to the color of their skin. Stop and frisk is primarily focused on minority civilians and not white members of the community. Initially stop and frisk were minimally invasive and the officers did not use excessive force. Mr. Diaz believes “this stipulation was that stop and frisks did not involve police force, such as handcuffs or guns” (1997). Meaning, that initially when officers used stop and frisk procedures they did not detain civilians and/or hand cuff them or draw a weapon on them just to perform a minor stop and frisk procedure. Now more often than not, officers are detaining minorities of color and even pulling them over by use of weapons. This behavior is more heavily focused on minorities and African-American

Everyday growing up as a young black male we have a target on our back. Society was set out for black males not to succeed in life. I would always hear my dad talk about how police in his younger days would roam around the town looking for people to arrest or get into an altercation with. As a young boy growing up I couldn’t believe some of the things he said was happening. However as I got older I would frequently hear about someone getting killed by the police force. It still didn’t click but I knew what was happening. Growing up police brutality wasn’t broadcasted as much as it should’ve have been. This then made me think about how to improve police brutality not only dealing with African Americans but also with other colored skinned people.

Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New

Robert Davis, a retired elementary school teacher from New Orleans (Who was 64!), was arrested and brutally beaten by police on suspicion of public intoxication. On the night of Oct. 9, 2005, just a little over a month after Hurricane Katrina, Davis returned to New Orleans to check on his family’s property and went to a gas station to buy cigarettes. There, he was attacked by four police officers who said he was “Belligerent and resisted arrest by not allowing them to handcuff him.” The beatings were videotaped by somebody that worked for a newspaper, who was also assaulted that night. The officers were either fired or suspended for their involvement, but many of the charges against them were deleted. "I haven 't had a drink in 25 years," said

This paper is focus on the racial inequality of crime rate in the criminal justice system. Also, it argues the different treatment of black and white groups in the criminal justice system. Moreover, it shows the relationship of black males with crime rate. The black males face high crime rate than white males in the criminal justice system. However, in relation to police relations, the police stop black males more frequently than white males. It also suggests that black male with higher earning face more police target than other groups. The black males receive more police attention in compare to whites and has more arrested rate than whites.

I highly disagree with majority of Mac Donald’s argument. Firstly, her inclination that officers “have more to fear from black men than black men have to fear” from the officers does not sit well with me. Although blacks may make up the highest percentage of cop-killers, blacks are more likely to be shot than whites. I suggest that since both facts are true to an extent, social culture and biases have become the driving force for both instances to play out as they are: Black men are more likely to kill cops, cops are more likely to kill black men. I believe that social injustice in the view of both sides cause them to view each other in this bias; therefore, both sides would instinctively commit these actions in a hostile situation, but claim them as self defense. The argument that I will never agree on is her idea that “if

Regarding to racial profiling and the multiple perceptions that go along with it, the issue refers to the use of race as the answer in police decision making. More importantly, let’s look into the public’s perception of profiling through the classification of race, class, and personal experience. Weitzer and Tuch (2002) conducted this study to stretch this issue that has grown over the recent years and has touched based on the classifications mentioned earlier. Their major findings from surveying the respondents’ attitudes contributed towards the citizens’ hostility with the police. Basically, the classifications that were most affective to the citizens in their findings were race and personal experiences. They have constructed three tables with substantial evidence hinting at different

Our country has been suffering a spike of fatal shootings of men of color by their own neighborhood police officers in the past recent years. However, the data of cases where racial inequality has been evident in policing duties has not been made readily available to the public. In fact, the federal database does not provide for any such records. Despite this fact, the case of policing and its impact on racial inequality has fetched innumerable research and investigations by the academics and media

Numerous studies have provided different perspectives and evidence on the impact of racial inequality in the criminal justice systems, specifically how these racial inequalities affect black Americans. Lisa Miller found in The Invisible Black: Victim, “mistreatment by law enforcement, law-makers, and federalism” in the racial bias toward black Americans (2010). Pettit and Skyes in Civil Rights Legislation and Legalized Exclusion, point out that black males are more likely to end up in jail (2015). A sociologist named David Garland contrived the term “mass incarceration” to explain high incarceration rates in the United States (U.S) (Pettit and Skyes 2015). Currently, the highest incarceration is among black men of 1 in 15 (Miller 2010). Through these findings, it is evident there are serious inequalities that effect the criminal justice system.

home calls the police and wants us to stop someone, we are going to do it

Using several examples, my intention is to first bring attention to the fact that black men are feared in public spaces and then demonstrate how the United States government uses fear as a form of social control of black males. Through the use of unjust laws and policies – namely the government’s role in the creation of poor black neighborhoods and their targeting black men during the war on drugs – the U.S. has been implementing racial inequality and creating stereotypes. As stereotypes about black men are created and perpetuated, innocent men are viewed as a threat and treated as

If it were not for profiling, I believe that only seeing an actual crime in progress, such as actually witnessing a man snatch a womens purse. As well as people who match the description of a someone on a “wanted” flyer, people who are loitering or acting strangely such as emotional, angry, intoxicated and etc. In addition to the above, if it were not for profiling other reasons that would constitute a reason for a stop by a police would include officers being in a high-crime area as well a witness people running away or engaging in a discreet manner such as attempting to avoid notice or attention.

Racial and ethnic concerns have been plaguing the media from rants on social media, to CNN, and even the President of the United States (POTUS) has spoken of racial discrimination in the United States as more than just racial slurs, but instead it’s a deep rooted bias that many Americans preconceive of the many people with whom they interact with. When a person holds on to a negative bias regarding a specific race of individuals or ethnic group, unethical behavior can lead to unwarranted actions and those actions can lead individuals down the wrong path. When it comes to law enforcement personnel, these men and women are like every other person in the world; they are doing a job that many would be unable to perform on an everyday

The People and the Police is a book written by Algernon D. Black. Black was born in Manhattan and faced unnecessary actions while he was in school. As a child, a teacher once slapped him, causing minor injuries in which he obtained a scholarship from. Algernon D. Black was a graduate from Harvard, a teacher, and a leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Black was on several committees, including the Civilian Complaint Review Board for a police department. During his life time, Black has written several articles and books stating facts and information about racial discrimination, police actions, and religious beliefs. The People and the Police is a book written about police brutality, racial discrimination, and how police officers interact and respond to the community.

Forty-three year old, Krista, believes the article generalizes all police officers. She knows many officers who take their oath seriously, so she doesn’t like how the piece lumps all officers into one negative category. Regardless, she believes some officers do target people of color, but on the flipside she knows plenty of officers would never dream of doing such a thing. She doesn 't believe the videos prevent policemen from fulfilling their duties. Sixty year old, Gloria, believes we are in a downward cycle with crime running rampant, and police brutality and racial profiling. As these build upon one another and become worse and worse the public becomes afraid of both the police and the criminals and feel their only recourse is to protect