African American Police Ethnicity

The uncertain discrimination persists in the legal system with no intention of remedying it. Not only are black citizens being discriminated outside a court room, but also inside where an offense has not been committed. The selection of jurors must be based on a selection of rules. However, it comes from years back, in 1987, black jurors were systematically dismissed. Reasons given as for the motive of their eliminations are not based upon the Batson v Kentucky case. Not making eye contact, being a social worker, divorced, female and/or being well educated are among the reasons brought up at the time of jury selection. It is critically coming out of control how discriminatory the system has become and the fact that the appellant courts continue

You brought up how jurors are more likely to find a defendant guilty when the defendant is a different race, and the victim is the same race as the juror, which creates a problem if race is being viewed as a primary factor in the case. Unfortunately, as we know, racial disparities are apparent throughout every phase of our justice system. For example, black individuals are three times as likely to have their cars searched by the police compared to their white counterparts, in addition to being more likely to be pulled over (Racial disparities, 2014). On a larger scale, racial disparities in sentencing decisions are also imposed much more harshly for black individuals than white individuals in the United States. Furthermore, black males in the

As I have read the two articles of Chaney and Robertson, and Yancy and Butler, it demonstrates that mostly black men and women particularly Africans are the most victim of the brutality by the police in America. The reasons behind this situation is all about race. The results are the racism and discrimination against blacks. There are a lot of instances that unarmed black men and women see as a threat by the police. In other words, it shows that blacks are dangerous and threats. However, having white skin did not see as a threat even if they did something suspicious. Chaney and Robertson states an example of an incident of Rodney King who was beaten by members of LAPD or Los Angeles Police Department. Then, because of this incident, many people

Many say that black people hold 26% of the shootings but are only 10% of the total population. This is invalid as many will know that in the inner cities and poor neighborhoods like the streets of chicago many are involved in violent crimes, resulting in a heart-breaking death. Many will put in that statistic and rely on it with no further information. The millions that see this are influenced, and many people mostly youth begin to believe the false stereotype amongst white cops in particular. “ The second piece of evidence is another statistic showing rates of Police on Black Violence to Black on Police. “The article by the wall street journal says “Officers are killed by blacks at a rate 2.5 times higher than the rate at which blacks are killed by police” As many say cops kill black males unproportionally the FBI says otherwise. The third piece of evidence is also from the Wall Street Journal.“Officers’ use of lethal force following an arrest for a violent felony is more than twice the rate for white as for black arrestees, according to one study” If their was an existing bias it would be in favor of blacks over whites. In many cases in poor neighborhoods where a vast majority of the inhabitants are blacks or hispanic, the crime is higher, and there still continues to be less violence against

Reading your essay on Policing and African Americans, jogged my memory back to a documentary I watched, Slavery by another name. It talks about vagrancy and pigs law similar to the black code that you talked about. These laws damage the African American communities, and up to this day, our communities will never be better.

Lately there has been a lot of controversy around the topic of police brutality against African Americans. Everyone has their own opinion regarding this topic, some argue police are too harsh against blacks. Others say they are just doing their job. While indeed police can be brutal to people but it’s not just African Americans that face this brutality. Every race endures discrimination and I think it’s time for people to open their eyes and see that.

First, based on my findings there are scholars that examined police brutality against blacks which has increased quite a bit over the years (mappingpoliceviolence.org). In other words, there is a chance we may run into one of these problems now that these incidents are occurring more frequently. I believe we should all become educated on what is going on around us. Another reason for this study is the fact that according to Turner and Richardson (2016) police brutality appears more frequent minority groups. This may have a psychological effect, including racial trauma, on a person of this race. The last reason for why this study is important is because I would like to display how the public views police officers’ actions towards African Americans. Dost (2104 ) mentioned that there are significant differences in the confidence that African Americans and whites have in their local police

In other words, courts are struggling to successfully and randomly select jury pools with a structure which reflects the racially diverse populations they serve. One reason which has been identified as a cause of this struggle is a “key factor associated with the underrepresentation of minorities is that jury questionnaires in many predominantly minority areas come back to the court as undeliverable or do not come back at all” (Joshi & Kline, n.d.). So, if the court cannot locate a potential juror or does not obtain a completed form back, this significantly cuts down on the potential jurors which Prosecutors and Defenders have to choose from. By implementing a mandated jury for each and every criminal trial, not only are the benefits of receiving an impartial and fair trial increased, but the opportunity to have the evidence heard in order to come to a verdict rather than basing it off of the defendant’s race or gender is also

Regardless of the black men only making up only 2% of the total US population, African American males between the ages of 15 and 34 comprised more than 15% of all deaths logged in 2015 by an ongoing investigation into the use of deadly force by police. Their rate of police-involved deaths was five times higher than for white men of the same age (Jon Swaine, el at, 2015). In the first half of 2016, 532 people were killed by the police and must of these people were unarmed, mentally ill. However, James Holmes and Dylan Storm Roof and many other were taken into custody by the police while arm and dangerous after committing mass murders. Why do the laws allow the black to be profile without concretes reasons or a proffer cause?

We read about it almost every week in social medias. New victims of the police shootings are displayed and sympathized with. What many do not realize is that most of this injustice remains unheard, usually not through police brutality but through convictions. Much more African Americans are convicted than white people, and get worse punishments for the same crime.

This is proof that there is racial discrimination in law enforcement that affects police brutality. This also reinforces the culture of people of color being less human than white people, which takes its roots all the way back to slavery in America. When slavery was still prevalent in the United States, white people believed that black people(slaves), did not feel pain like they felt pain. After slavery was abolished, black people were still strongly regarded as inferior to white people and white people still saw them as wild creatures rather than human beings. White people saw themselves superior to every other race of people, so it was common for them to mistreat other races that weren’t white. This mindset is not as strong as it was in the past but, it is still strong enough to affect the choices police officers make during interactions with people of color. As a result of discrimination at the police level, many people have turned to court system’s to reach justice.

In the previous year, the amount of people killed by the police department has increased, and even worse African Americans are three times more likely than Caucasians to be killed by the hands of a police. In 2015, the percent of unarmed African Americans killed was 30 percent compared to 19 percent of Caucasians. Although, 2016 is not over yet already 793 people have been killed by policemen. Mike Luckovich drew this cartoon representing the fear of African Americans, and to point out that recently the shootings are reoccurring. The number has made it so difficult for African Americans to live peacefully, they are in constant fear that their life could be taken away by the police. The cartoonist drew a black man in the car conversing with

90 percent of the homicides are not occurring due to police officers. 90 percent are occurring due to other African Americans. Police officers do not even take up 5% of the chart. That is excluding the cases where they did so to protect those around them and themselves. Most of the cases of African Americans being killed by the police were justified and were not their fault. Media outlets have wrongfully manipulated facts in order to please communities to show their cause is right when in fact it is wrong. Police on black shootings are not an issue that should be focused on in such a severe case, black on black crime should be. Especially when most homicides committed towards African Americans are done by other African

In The United States of America much of mainstream media picks up on police violences that includes shootings and beatings that get dished out to anybody caught on camera. One of the earlier and most controversial events in the media was that of Detroit in 1967 between police and African American protesters. This event started when a group of African American partygoers were arrested for having a party at an illegal bar and the Detroit Police Department aggressively arrested the partygoers, sparking a conflict with citizens. When police make a lawful arrest there is never a reason to resist or fight back, but when police starting throwing and pushing citizens around during an arrest there is understanding among protests to be started. The protests

In the world today the color of your skin implies more than we might suggest. The topic that I have chosen to analyze is Police Brutality. Police brutality is often affiliated with racial profiling. It is frequently said that we live in a “white man’s world” yet the white race is by account not the only race in America. Recently, the death by police rate has immensely expanded. African Americans are the number one victims in Police Brutality. Police uniforms are utilized to speak power, yet they misuse their authority by utilizing "self-preservation" to conceal their homicides.