Throughout the later chapters, Browning tells us what the Police Battalion 101 participated in. The Police Battalion 101 cleared the ghettos, deported Jews, participated in mass shootings and were involved in Jew hunts. During these Jew hunts the Jews that had avoided deportation and execution were chased down. The Police Battalion wanted to cleanse the Lublin district by sending small death-squads into the woods in search for hiding Jews. This was the bloody climax for the Reserve Police Battalion 101 in the Nazi Holocaust.
During the War on Drugs, the federal government cut down on the presence of drugs by taking money out of other federal spending to militarize police and build strong law enforcement. As a result, throughout the War on Drugs in America, black communities all across the country were devastated, specifically in Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore, which takes place in Baltimore, focuses on two boys who share the same name but have vastly different life stories and covers the environment of Black America during the 1980s. In the text, one of the protagonists' childhoods is influenced by the War on Drugs and concurrent events, while the other protagonist, Wes, is dragged into the Crack Epidemic. The War on Drugs and Concurrent Events during the 1980s contributed to and drove Wes’ connection to the crack epidemic by creating a lack of opportunities and by developing an environment
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers is a novel that will keep you on your toes. Inspiration, courageousness, nervousness, and depression are all the emotions you feel while reading Lockdown. A topic based around someone making a mistake and ending up in jail isn’t easy to digest, but when the prisoner is only fourteen it’s unbelievable. While reading this book it was quite obvious Walter Dean Myers arranged a lot of research for this novel, it was written very well and full of facts. Hearing stories of gang violence, drug abuse, and shootings is a big wake up call for anyone who interprets this novel it reallys make you realize how grateful you should be for what you have.
The book has messages that make people think about how their government could have prevented the influx of drugs and crime rates. “Crack was different from the drugs that preceded it. It was crazily accessible and insanely
Shockingly enough the increase in those who have been incarcerated have been due to drug convictions. Drug crime was low when the war was declared—it still is. What’s changed is that Alexander points out that no other country in the world incarcerates so many of their racial or ethnic minorities. To back up the reasoning that people of color are specifically targeted, studies have shown that white youth tend to be more active in drug crime than people of color—but yet, who are the majority of those in prisons? Alexander explains that the reason as to why this current racial caste system is hidden is due to the popular notion that the U.S no longer engages in the same practices as Jim Crow and
Keywords that are most important to the documentary are, War on Drugs, incarceration, drug involvement/abuse, and racism. All of these words are loosely or heavily connected to each other. The words drug involvement/abuse highlight the purpose of the film, and the reasons for the War on Drugs and numerous laws created to fight drug abuse that cause death and destroy abiding citizens of communities. Furthermore, the War on Drugs simply labels the struggle against drug use and the governmental involvement to enforce anti-drug laws. The word incarceration and racism also link together to explain how as a result of the War on Drugs, the U.S. is one of the top countries with the highest imprisonment rate and more African-Americans or low-class minorities are convicted of drug crimes than any other ethnicity or social class.
(38) – The film The House I live in, is an extraordinary film that gives light to one of the biggest problem in the United States, and that problem is the war on drugs and how such creates sociological problems such as mass incarceration. Throughout the duration of this documentary, a Correctional Officer by the name of Mike Carpenter is interviewed and gives his opinions on the ideologies governing our society. He strongly believes, that people in prison are paying for the fear that we as Americans have created over the years. In my interpretation, what Officer Carpenter is trying to get to is basically this whole idea of blaming those who are inferior. The war on drugs created the impression in our society, that those responsible for many of our problems were young African Americans; what did we do in return?
I found this ridiculous. Why punish the people who are the most vulnerable financially for a miniscule crime. The chapter mentions that someone in possession of marijuana could get less of a sentence in some area. I think the justice system is unfairly rigged against the Americans
The subject of this response is from “Under Suspicion” by Clark Howard. In this story, Howard informs us as to what really goes on when it comes to detectives of the police procedural. In “Under Suspicion”, Howard suggests that detectives are manipulative and selfish in the real world; unlike how other stories might portray them. In this short detective narrative, Clark Howard’s characters are detectives who more often than not seem to take rules and laws into their own control.
Thao Tran Professor Aboulian English 1C 21 March 2017 The War on Drugs: A Rhetorical Analysis The War on Drugs, which was declared by President Nixon in 1971, efforts to control drug use and sales in inner-city neighborhoods. The government has been recently targeting poor communities of color. In 1980, the skyrocketing drug arrests reflected a surge in illegal drug activity. In The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, the author also stated that “huge cash grants were made to those law enforcement agencies that were willing to make drug-law enforcement a top priority” (73).
Stop Injustice, End "Stop and Frisk" Do you want to feel discriminated against? No? If you do not want to feel discriminated against then stop "stop and frisk". "Stop and frisk" is a law that caused much trouble for the people of the United States and the people of planet earth. This law allows police and officers to stop blameless people and frisk them.
Stop and Frisk is a program performed by many police departments around the United States. New York is the origin of the Stop and Frisk program; it is also practiced the most in New York. The policy is starting to spread nationwide; but that is not a good idea. The policy of Stop and Frisk is when a group of undercover police officers unexpectedly stop and seizure a person under reasonable suspicion to look for weapons or other contraband. This program is meant to catch suspects off guard and out of order.
I have to agree with those statements. The theme of the film is ultimately about morals. The movie opens with a massive meeting of gangs of New York City listening to the top brass of another gang talk about how they outnumber the police and the city being theirs.
Third and final point is that the book has a political and moral ideology of America that many of us see the nation and its history. The book beginning talks about the labor of literally “scraping” crap off the streets of Baltimore in 1829. Rockman uses the background of four men who believe that they
This law led to people being arrested crack being sentenced to much harsher punishments than those for cocaine. The people being for crack were predominately black and for cocaine predominately white. “Crack was largely a inner-city issue and crack was largely a suburban issue”(13th). After the war on drugs Bill Clinton became president, and pasted more to crack down harder on crime. One of them being mandatory minimums this didn’t let the judges decide the crimes.
