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Annotated Bibliography On Racial Profiling

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Isaiah Hart Jennings Eng 1020 11/7/16 Annotated bibliography Leder , Drew. "Guns and voices.": 82+. Academic OneFile. Web. 19 Mar. 2013 In this article, they don’t use the opinions of the people in the jail ,but they base it off the crimes they committed themselves. They ask about their different experiences that had with cops because of their situation. The inmates talked about how racial profiling came into play and other issues like that only came into play in lower income areas. They talked about how smaller communities were already put in these situations just because of there circumstances. This will be a very useful source because these inmates are experienced with the police. Holmes, Malcolm D. "Minority threat and police brutality: …show more content…

Czech in the interview talks about how he was taking a video of police arresting a man and surrounding him as they were taking him into custody. He talks about how police were abusing the man in custody and how after the video was sent out how they were secretly trying to speak with him. This is good evidence from a first person point of view. “US Official News”, September 17, 2014 Wednesday, 469 …show more content…

It had been reported that an 18 year old African American had been shot dead by a police officer under reasonable suspicion. So where in the line drawn when it comes to a police officer because the 18 year old had been unarmed but had been in a wrestle with the officer before he had been shot. This give great incite on how far and officer should be able to go. The Gazette (Montreal), March 16, 2007 Friday, NEWS; Pg. A6, 476 words, MAX HARROLD, The Gazette This article talks about how 400 people had stormed through the streets in Montreal. This was a protest against police brutality through the world and they were rioting in Montreal blocking traffic and going rapidly through neighborhoods. During this protest 15 people were arrested and 8 of them were minors. This is were 25 year old Mohamed-Anas Bennis was shot dead by police during the protest. The officer that shot him was never charged for murder. This gives good evidence that officers can get away with things like this. The Vancouver Sun (British Columbia), October 30, 2003 Thursday Final Edition, News; Pg. B5, 719 words, Matthew

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David Marrella 3/18/2017 Anth 0833 Prof. Hilary Symes Understanding Africville The community of Africville is a neighborhood located in Halifax that saw much oppression during the mid 1960’s ultimately leading to it’s destruction and relocation of residents. Jennifer Nelson, author of “Panthers or Thieves”: Racialized Knowledge and the Regulation of Africville, claims in her essay that racial inferiority, criminality, and social deviance of the poor, was used to illustrate the community as a slum in need of removal (Nelson 2011:121). Tina Loo, in her work, “Africville and the Dynamics of State Power in Postwar Canada” also provides her analysis of Africville.

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Vox’s news article clams that its happened again that a white police officer of unnecessary shooting killed a black man and was founded not guilty by court. Protests has erupted in St. Louise because of this verdict. Jason Stockley shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith after an alleged drug deal, he claimed he was afraid Smith was reaching into his car to crab a gun. Although, prosecutors argued that Stockley had planted the gun to justify the killing. Prosecutors claimed they heard Stockley saying he was going to kill Smith on the police dashboard camera video but, Stockley’s defense insisted that he never said this and it is hard to make out in the video.

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In today’s modern society, many feel that is okay for a police officer can kill a man armed with a harmful weapon at any cost. On many news channels, there are various amounts of articles and reports about a police officer committing this act. Even though a police officer has the right to take action against an armed man, this could be argued in many circumstances. In the 2013, Sammy Yatim was a young adult with a mental illness and was armed with a weapon on a streetcar in Toronto. Yatim was confronted by Const.

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The author of ‘USA Today’ speaks about the controversial story of what really happened regarding the Michael Brown shooting. The author explains how in the first story, it was said that officer Darren Wilson was harassing Michael Brown for walking in the middle of the street, leading up to him hitting Michael Brown with the car door and proceeding to shoot him several times. Meanwhile, in the second story the author tells how Michael Brown reaches into the squad car while officer Darren Wilson was in it, hitting him in the face and reaching for the gun; causing the officer to release fire as defense. The author also stated that even with evidence from eyewitnesses, the grand jury determined that the shooting was a lawful tragedy, and not

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Born in Vancouver 1921, John Porter shattered the conventional image of Canada as a classless society and demonstrated the ethical inequality within our culture. In his research book The Vertical Mosaic, he proved Canada to be a highly stratified society. Important to the development of Canadian sociology, The Vertical Mosaic, provided Canadians with a reality check, unveiling the fact that our projected image is opposite to factuality and revealed the discrimination within power in our society. Within our current capitalistic society, people tend to disregard class and Canada is still viewed as a middle class society with ethnic inequality still as a ruling issue.

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Rev. ed.). New York, NY: The New Press. Michelle Alexander in her book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" argues that law enforcement officials routinely racially profile minorities to deny them socially, politically, and economically as was accustomed in the Jim Crow era.

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Coker gives great evidence that supports racial injustice in the criminal justice system. She discusses on the Supreme Court’s rulings and accusations of racial preference in the system. This article is helpful because it supports my thesis on race playing a role on the system of criminal justice. Hurwitz, J., & Peffley, M. (1997). Public perceptions of race and crime: The role of racial stereotypes.

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We live in a society where ethnic minorities are target for every minimal action and/or crimes, which is a cause to be sentenced up to 50 years in jail. African Americans and Latinos are the ethnic minorities with highest policing crimes. In chapter two of Michelle Alexander’s book, The Lockdown, we are exposed to the different “crimes” that affects African American and Latino minorities. The criminal justice system is a topic discussed in this chapter that argues the inequality that people of color as well as other Americans are exposed to not knowing their rights. Incarceration rates, unreasonable suspicions, and pre-texts used by officers are things that play a huge role in encountering the criminal justice system, which affects the way

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An institutional racism still faced both past and present can be found in incarceration and racial profiling. Our prison populations have skyrocketed since the 80 's and there is a disproportionate amount of black and Latino individuals who are incarcerated. Between New York’s stop and frisk policies and the insurmountable amounts of unarmed black and Latino men who are shot by police the discrimination by the police and law enforcement is clearly evident. Although black and Latino drivers are less likely than white to be carrying drug and other contraband the majority of car pulled over are the cars of black and Latino divers. The racial profiling is just one reason for the disproportionate black and Latino prison population.

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One of the greatest challenges law enforcement are facing is providing effective policing for minority communities. Some factors that prevent minorities from gaining access to justice or being taken advantage of certain criminal justice services are language barriers, racial stereotyping, and cultural differences. Since the 30 's and 40 's, and even during the 60 's, civil rights activists damaged the police-minority relations in the United States, believing that police only interest are protecting white communities. A big explanation of why there 's a poor police-minority relations in the United States is racism on the part of the individual officers. Many minorities in the United States have continued to complain about being treated more harshly than whites and the Department of Justice believes that racial profiling and police discrimination will continue to be a big problem.

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