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Stereotypes In End Of Watch

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The movie, End of Watch, takes place in Los Angeles and follows the recordings of police officers Zavala and officer Taylor. In this paper I am going to address some issues of race differences and race stereotypes that are related to what I have learned in class. The movie quickly jumps into stereo types against Mexicans when officer Zavala says, “Just because I look like the dudes from Home Depot, doesn’t mean I know how to do the things the dudes from Home Depot do.” The movie goes on by showing how both the officers keep doing their good deeds in their job and helping those in need and stopping crime. The calls on crime that the officers deal with are all related to Black people or Hispanic people doing the crimes and so the movie focuses …show more content…

Subcultural theory can apply to the gang members that want to kill the Zavala and Taylor. Subcultural theory stresses that lower-class residents have certain focal concerns that they follow which include risk taking, being fearless, having street smarts, pursuit of thrill seeking, and their lives are controlled by things that they don’t have any control over with. Gabbidon and Greene (2016) say that one of the ideas of Wright’s Biosocial Thesis is that of collective social behavior which states that neighborhoods with high collective social behavior tend to have lower crime rates, and that in many black neighborhoods in inner cities there is almost no collective social behavior which makes those neighborhoods have higher crime rates. Within the movie it seems that officers Zavala and Taylor get to patrol neighborhoods that have lower social behavior. Subculture of violence theory stresses that within certain groups of subcultures there are groups that encourage or normalize violence in their lifestyle or community. In the subculture that with see in the movie with the gang members it seems that they have normalized the violence in their community. They talk about killing their enemies and getting rid of them to show them who runs their neighborhood and also when they plan on killing both Zavala and Taylor. They show no remorse or any fear at the moment of doing the acts. Even though they are just theories part of them can relate to what happens in the movie and it helps explain up to some extent why the perpetrators did what they

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