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In the book Between the World and Me, author Ta-Nehisi Coates shares the experience of a traffic stop through the eyes of a Black man. Recounting a memory to his son, Coates explains, “They took my identification and returned to the squad car. I sat there in terror… At that point in American history, no police department fired its guns more than that of Prince George’s County” (Coates 75-76). Given the increasing number of stories arising of unjustifiable police brutality, when pulled over by the police, understandably, Coates was genuinely concerned that they may take his life away.
The incidents I chose that have shown the most criminal justice malfeasance is the Eric Garner incident in New York and the killing of Justine Damond. All five contextual themes can be seen in this case and the administrative concepts that could have prevented these situations can be seen as well. I will go over these cases one at a time to not be confusing to the reader. The first case I will discuss is the case of Eric Garner and the incident that ultimately led to his death. “Eric Garner was lumbering along a sidewalk on Staten Island on a July day when an unmarked police car pulled up.
The laws that the city enforces don’t do much because they are broken everyday. Jill Leovy, the author of Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, made it her mission to spread awareness about the crimes that are being ignored in Los Angeles everyday. Leovy’s first attempt to spread awareness was the online crime website. This website was a method of Leovy’s to alert people about the crime in Los Angeles.
In the essay “Just Walk on By” written by Brent Staples, the author uses a mixture of exaggeration, quoting, and word choice to grasp the attention of his readers and further his point that racial profiling is an unfortunate circumstance that impacts African American men in negative ways. One can witness very early on in the piece that exaggeration is used, particularly with the way Staples describes his actions. By referring to the first woman to run from him as “My first victim”, two effects are created. The harshness of the word “Victim” draws in attention, and causes one to crave a further investigation into the story. When reading further, the exaggeration is put into place once the reader realises that he committed no crime, and was simply walking down the street.
He walked past neighbors whose eyes overflowed with desperation and depression, people who had watched their once-proud neighborhood become synonymous with the collapse of the American inner city” (Moore 43). By using this quote he is able to show that the people were scared of the community that they were in. As well as to explain the change in the city and towards other communities that were affected by drugs as well. He uses these quotes and statistics to prove to the audience about the past and how it affected the district. To sum up, everything that has been stated so far, Moore explains why it’s essential to learn from the past and how it can be painful to face the past and look toward the
While the other book used is useful for providing an account of what happened at the beginning of the decade, this book is able to look at police brutality throughout the 1990s and how the earlier events impacted the later ones. Journal Articles Matheson, Victor A., and Robert A. Baade. “Race and Riots: A Note on the Economic Impact of the Rodney King Riots.” Urban Studies, vol. 41, no. 13, 2004, pp. 2691–2696, Academic Search Premier, doi:10.1080/0042098042000294628.
They were associated with gangs and were out in Central Park when the crime occurred, and that was good enough for most to believe they must have been responsible. The brutal nature of the attack influenced public demand for justice, which pressured the legal system to solve the crime as quickly as possible. The media's portrayal of the case, focusing on grisly details and dehumanizing the suspects, only intensified the city's motivation to send the accused to jail. When the boys were found to have confessed, even though these confessions were made by youths who were simply frightened and trying to please the investigators, the evidence was considered sufficient for a guilty verdict. The documentary therefore shows how systemic racism in both the justice system and amongst the American public encouraged a verdict that should never have occurred.
The book On the Run by Alice Goffman narrates six years Goffman spent hanging out in a black poor neighborhood of West Philadelphia that she calls 6th Street. During her stay there, she became friends with a group of resident young men, and got to know their surroundings such as girlfriends and family members. This experience in this disadvantaged neighborhood pushed her to write this book where she describes the neighborhood’s conditions, the violence encountered by the police and the residents, and the injustices of the criminal justice system. The book’s primary argument is that the continuous threat of surveillance and continuous investigations that lead to the arrest and imprisonment of young people did great harm to 6th Street, turning many of its residents into
When the justice for Mr King was not given rightfully, the people from the streets who went through alike problems hear about it, they immediately want change. From gang members who initiated the truce that helped decrease street violence, to the average high school student being active in protest around the city, the riots were portrayed heavily by the people affected by the beating. At these times, around the clock news and live television coverage followed but also in Ice Cube’s “The Predator” and Rodney King 's speech to the city of Los Angeles. Rodney King, intoxicated, speeding down the interstate had ignored all police sirens and warnings. He led the California Highway Patrol on a eight mile chase down freeways and city streets.
Alexander explains how political figures created a way to convince the people into the idea that the crime rate was a very serious issue that needed attention as a result of fearing “black progress.” Political figures called this “the war on
Mike Samusenko Mrs.Crays English 9/10 26 February 2018 The City In a disappointing and dystopian future a story was set to reveal the flaws in current society. Ray Bradbury in a fictional story, Fahrenheit 451. illustrates a technologically advanced dystopian world in which people are forbidden to own books. This is enforced by a group of firefighters, who ironically start fires instead of fighting them. Driving the orange “Salamander” is our main character Montag.
The source has limitations because it strictly gives the background of the history of policing strategies to reducing crime. Jeffrey Rosen uses former Mayor Giuliani’s quotes and worked closely with transit-police authority. I would be able to use quotes from this article because it relates to my topic, being in New York and dealing with stop and frisk. My final questions for Rosen would include, why did he not mention more about these policing strategies tie in with Supreme Court cases? Did the Supreme Court tell former Mayor Giuliani to get a more strict policing policy to increase the UF-250 forms?
I always imagine a dystopian world far into the future when we have to discuss the detrimental impact that humans have on our planet but as I have mentioned before in other discussion posts, I truly believe we as humans have the ability to turn things around and of course everything is trial and error, as how would we have known plastic was going to be a major problem until we got through the process. Humans certainly do unintentionally (not always as it can be intentional from the start) at first contribute to the destruction of ecosystems and then it becomes intentional when they are now aware of their destruction yet they continue with their actions. Let us examine the desert as an example of human activity and whether it is beneficial or harmful. The Desert All deserts have one thing in common is that they are arid and can be divided into five types according to the causes of their dryness; subtropical, coastal, rain shadow, interior, and polar.
--- How to survive the forced military service (part 1) How to find joy and relief under harsh realities Compulsory military service I was born in South Korea — NOT where the mighty leader Kim Jong-un holds his mandatory Pyongyang dance party — and raised at a boarding school in California since age 12. Although I had spent most of my life in the United States, I was (and still am) proud of my cultural heritage. But as much as I liked my identity as a Korean citizen, it bothered me that I was most likely going to be forced to serve in the Korean military for approximately 2 years.
Make believe societies appearing to be perfect, but under the surface are corrupt and falling apart. An ideal parts, called utopia and the destructive parts, dystopias are known to be imaginative worlds typically, that both relate to each other. Dystopia is a society characterized by human misery as squalor, oppression, disease and overcrowding ("dystopia"). Whereas utopia is any real or imaginary society, place or state, etc, considered to be perfect or ideal ("utopia"). Utopias have an idyllic world where its citizens live in peace and harmony without any disruptions.