Racialized Policing

Prince George’s County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C., Provides a study on if police are actually racist, the county’s experience suggest that racism is deeply structured of policing, and isn’t going to change

CHICAGO- Since our social media has been shedding more and more light on police brutality, the kind people of the Windy City shared their feelings and experiences about their unkind law enforcement. Those feelings and experiences shared were negative, and expressed with fear and dissatisfaction. These same feelings that have persisted throughout the years and especially today. These Chicagoans also express their agreement with Chicago’s Mayor, Rahm Amanuel, and his idea of recruiting more minorities for law enforcement.

Brunson and Miller’s article about gender, race, and policing is focusing mainly on African Americans in poor urban communities and what roles come into place when it comes to law enforcement. Solely focusing on race, Brunson and Miller bring a point that states use more physical violence on minority groups than whites, many Law Enforcer are stereotypical when it comes to certain races. Brunson and Miller claims that it is no different in any other neighborhood and that there are always drug dealers in the neighborhood, and feels that it’s the norm. In the article Brunson and Miller display a chart that shows the percentage of African Americans, poverty level, unemployment levels, female headed families in Youth neighborhoods, St. Louis City

The Toronto’s Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy allows officers to put Black people, specifically Black males, under more intense police watch. The Ontario Human Rights Commission in their report on systemic racism acknowledged the existence of severe racial bias against blacks throughout the justice system (Toronto Star 2013). The social construction of black criminality coupled with the denial of certain rights can further debilitate effects of racially discriminatory practices against blacks. By referring to minority groups as criminally inclined and certain neighbourhoods as high-priority, police can target racialized neighbourhoods thus avoid being labelled discriminatory. It is clear from our findings that differential police practices

“Forget the rhetoric: the evidence shows the NYPD's policy is not about stopping violent crime, but racking up arrests for non-violent drug offenses. While New York should immediately put a stop to its illegal practice of stopping and frisking anyone with a complexion a shade darker than Celine Dion, don't kid yourself: only when the U.S. ends its insane devotion to the war on drugs will we ever be able to effectively address the racist impacts of the criminal justice system.” (Davis, 2010)

Politically, in the article “The Racial Reality of Policing,” Conlon who served in the New York Police Department explains why the right wing politics insists that the police should not be blamed for the practice of racial profiling for crimes because it is in line with the higher crime rates and not the leading cause of death among the black men. Conlon believes that even though “police bias and misconduct are serious problems,” the public ignore one thing that the death among young black men in the U.S. is largely due to homicide by their peers. Rhetorically speaking, Conlon, as a former police, presents solid reasons, credible evidence, multiple viewpoints, and vivid examples to convince the readers successfully that the public should not ascribe a large number of the death among black

This thesis project will use a directed content analysis approach to analyze the data over other analysis methods, as this thesis project will be adding to prior research instead of creating a new theory and this method allows for a structured analysis of data. There is no exact theory that will explain how carding affects the Sikh population, as there has never been a study on how carding has affected the Sikh population. Regardless, this thesis project will be guided by Elizabeth Comack’s Racialized Policing theoretical framework as it is applicable to this thesis project. This thesis project would either verify or extend that theoretical framework with the addition of the Sikh perspective. The use of past of research is beneficial in structuring

Although racial profiling will never be eradicated due to personal views and beliefs there are way to help officers not become part of the problem. Racial profiling by police officers can be reduced if there are repercussions for actions and adequate training. Setting aside personnel feelings when coming into work will help to minimize racial profiling and legal troubles an officer can get into if they are caught doing so. Officers who take an oath to uphold the law are judged by their integrity by everyone they come into contact with. According to Gottschalk (2010), “police integrity is a number of concepts and beliefs that in combination provide a structure and a culture within which police officers are characterized by honesty, honor, knowledge,

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else” (Malcolm X) is a contestable ideal. Do we Americans allow our law enforcement to continue killing innocent African Americans whose own ancestors contribute to the success of this nation? No! We cannot sit on the sidelines and watch innocent lives ruined over and over again. We must auscultate to the cries of our four fathers. In order to halt the self-destruction of this nation we should fight for change in the police force, attempt to cease the embodiment of racial profiling, and support the efforts of those striving to bring about change.

Racial profiling in law enforcement is referenced when a law enforcement officer targets an individual for suspicion of a crime. A broader definition of racial profiling in law enforcements is when a law enforcement officer, uses an individual’s race or ethnicity, age , time of the day (usually later in the day), dress code and also location to accuse a person of a crime. In today’s world the term racial profiling can be viewed in various view points, because of people having different opinions on the term, many disagreements occur. Some people believe that specific incidents are not cases of racial profiling and others think otherwise, needless to say an argument occurs.

What is racism? Racism is defined as discrimination toward someone’s race or religion etc. As we know today, this is a big issue, especially in United State. This is important to me because it does not matter what skin color you have or what religion you believe in. All that matters are that a person follows the law. Police officers, for example, they are supposed to use the power that they have for the bad people, people that do crimes and our threat to our society. Using violence against people that haven't done any threat to our society is wrong. In Sweden there is some racism, but not to the extent that black people will get harassed because of their skin color. In Sweden, the law is for everyone and whoever breaks the law will get the punishment they deserve. We all know that it is always two side of a story for example what happened to Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. Michael Brown was robbing a grocery store. The police officer stated that “He shot Brown after the teen attacked him”, While brown’s family said, “Brown was surrendering when he was shot dead.” You are always going to hear two different sides but the justice will find out who is the guilty one and who is the victim.

Throughout the last one hundred and fifty years, there has been a history of tension and conflict between the police and minority communities in the United States. In principle, the police exist to enforce the law and protect all citizens regardless of race or ethnic background, yet police departments across the country have been repeatedly accused of targeting and harassing racial minorities, and of failing to root out racist attitudes and practices within their ranks. In recent years, high profile cases such as the beating of Rodney King in Los Angles and the assault on Abner Louima in New York have only served to heighten concerns over the mistreatment of minorities by the police, resulting in widespread calls for major legal and institutional reforms. The recent shootings of Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Eric Garner, and Terrance Crutcher underscore the danger Black men and boys face when they cross paths with law enforcement officers. In the absence of a coordinated national strategy, state and local police departments have largely been left to develop their own solutions to the problems of policing minority communities and improving cultural sensitivity amongst their officers. Many departments have sought to reform recruitment and selection policies in the hope of attracting greater numbers of minority applicants, while others have instituted diversity training and education programs aimed at improving police understanding of minority cultures and communities. To date, however, these efforts have yielded mixed results. Some departments have achieved notable successes, but on the whole, relations between the police and minority communities across the country remain strained. of cultural diversity and the police.

San francisco is a major city of California and the United States as a whole. A city with this much power generally sets the score for other counties to follow. When San francisco undermines justice with institutional biases, they set a dangerous example for others to follow. While San Francisco has shown great strides to improve itself internally and externally, there are still major issues that need to be addressed, specifically in their incarceration system. San Francisco has created a system where minorities are more susceptible to being imprisoned due to the city’s precarious handling of funds.

Similar to Ferguson, Oakland is another city having issues of crime and racial profiling. In a city where black citizens “comprise 28 percent of the population,” “…62 percent of the stops involved African American people” (Johnson). Although these numbers show there may be a racial profiling, the crime rates tell a different story. “African Americans also accounted for 67 of the city's 90 homicide victims last year and were most likely to be the victims in attempted homicide and assaults with firearms or other deadly weapons” (Johnson). It seems that even though Oakland police stopped and frisked disproportionately more black people than other races, the numbers were in a line with the disproportionate rates at which blacks committed crime. America is still not a color blinded country; there may be some racial disparities in the legal system; however, when requiring Law enforcement officers not to do racial profiling, black people should regulate their criminal behaviors. Otherwise, eliminating the police bias would do little to materially decrease the total number of black

Racial profiling and Police brutality has harmfully impacted the different ethnic/colored communities by the overrepresentation of minorities that are incarcerated, the high number of killings of unarmed minorities at the hands of police, and the institutionalization of people belonging to the respected communities because of the frequency of these events, it has become a burden on many people and there needs to be a change for all, the oppressed and oppressors, to move forward. I think I have to revise this a little bit on my stance on this topic but I wish to research more about injustices in North America.