African American Police Stereotypes

For many years African Americans have been judged and stereotype based on their appearance. African American women have been stereotyped as women that are angry, loud, argumentative, entitled, and hypersexual. More simply, people tend to associate African American women with negative stereotypes. Although women experience stereotypes women that have lighter skin tend to have more privileges. Women with light skin tend to be more attractive, sophisticated, and successful.

In 2005 Ottawa resident Chad Aiken alleged he was pulled over while driving his mother's Mercedes, then taunted and punched in the chest by an Ottawa police officer. As part of a settlement that was reached in 2010, the Ottawa Police Service had agreed to collect race-based data on traffic stops for at least two years with the Ontario Human Rights Commission in relation to this case. The Ottawa Police Services have not carried out this new plan as of yet police chief is asking for public feedback on how to carry out this controversial project to track the race of people they stop during enforcement of traffic rules.

This time I hated how it felt to be stereotyped. I really felt what people say about police officers. Police officers supposed to be the nice men or women in uniform. This time it felt awful to be on the side of questioning and feeling like a criminal just for minding our business. A group of friends and I were at Fort Lauderdale Airport, waiting for the arrival of two friends coming from their trip. While we waited in the garage filled with cars a security guard in his patrol car came and told us to move before the officers came. The Police officers approached us and asked us why we are here? We all politely answered that we were waiting for our friend to arrive. Thinking that the matter is resolved the officer radioed for backup. In a matter

Stereotypes seem to be very present in our country, especially stereotypes towards African-Americans. For the longest time, like it has been instilled as a fact in my brain, black people have been directly related to the words “ghetto” or “hood”. I don’t remember a time where I actually can remember the words “ghetto” or “hood” without the picture in my mind of an African-American person. I think that this is a big problem in today’s society because it is not true but still seems to be taught. In politics, society, and everyday life, it feels like African-American’s are being slammed for being hoodlums. This is a problem because there are millions of African-American people who do not fit this stereotype, but still get degraded and treated badly because of this age old belief.

The OJ Simpson murder case was an event that transfixed the nation over 20 years ago, with everyone who was around back then having some recollection of the whole ordeal. Today, that same case in entering back into the public consciousness, as a new television series dramatizing the events, entitled “The People vs. OJ Simpson”, just premiered. In an op-ed for the New York Times, John McWhorter pens an argument that the case was symbolic of race relations between the police and the African-American community. McWhorter, an African-American, goes into detail about how he did not understand why his community was cheering back in 1995 about Simpson being acquitted. McWhorter even believed that Simpson was guilty. However, he does now

The killings of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Alton Sterling can undoubtedly be attributed to the systemic racism deeply embedded in police forces across the country. Around the country African American communities are oppressed by this racism every single day. Any officer who makes a racist statement should be immediately fired, yet this is not the reality; systemic racism exists in the police force and warrants and overhaul.

The above study, proves that police officers show different characteristics, then they would to someone who was Caucasian. As mentioned formerly, it is almost as it is in the police officials ‘nature’; just like women may hold their purse a bit tighter when passing a man of colour on the street. It is set into our culture to be cautious of some individuals of a minority group, just like it is part of the police culture to use “extensive force”. Much like how it is part of the African American’s culture to be more cautious around police officers. Following the same point, African Americans may not feel safe in the hands of police officers, which may cause the distaste. “The internalization of negative Black stereotypes may be outside of his or her conscious awareness, the individual seeks to as simulate and be accepted by Whites, and actively or passively distances him/herself from other blacks.” (James, 2001, p.18) This statement shows evidence that it is hard-wired into minority groups inner brain to be cautious around people who are of high authority; especially if they are Caucasian. Based off of the on-going discrimination that is being brought upon them.

Racial profiling is when a law enforcement official believes someone committed an offense based that person’s ethnicity or race; this is usually common with racial minorities, particularly with the African American communities throughout America.

I am concerned with the issue on police officers killing unarmed African American men. The information that I gathered for this letter should be brought to your attention because police officers should not be getting away with killing innocent people. In society you hear and see many unarmed African American men getting killed by police officers. We never hear or see the police officer getting charged with anything for committing the crime. The Terence Crutcher case in Tulsa Oklahoma is an example of a police officer killing an innocent African American man. The footage of Terence walking with his hands up in the air showed that he was compliant with the officers. There was no footage of Terence trying to harm anyone, but the officer still managed to shoot him. According to the source of information that I am using in this letter, it stated that Terence didn’t have a criminal record, and the only thing that was on file was an old traffic violation (Unarmed man killed by Tulsa Police 2016, p.1). Numerous cases that deal with a police officer killing an unarmed man was because they viewed

George focuses on implicit bias largely in the educational sector and how that effects African Americans with the emphasis on specifically the black female. Educationally facilities tend to apply restrictions regarding disciplines on a sort of equality across the board basis; however, the failure of recognition is that this method is not effective and results in long term psychological disparities that will prove to affect an individual’s well-being well beyond their school years. Racism is certainly still prevalent in society and perhaps even unintentionally woven into the very fabric that has a huge impact on our

UNITED STATES --- Being lucky enough to have many friends and family living in different cities around the United States, I had the chance to travel to these many cities for long periods at a time. As I grew older, I began to notice a correlation between all these different cities, from Los Angeles to Dallas to Chicago.

This indicate a police official might pull over a driver solely because he or she is African American and then they can be interrogation, examine, and/or charged with a silly offense. Additionally, blacks are seven times more likely to be pulled over by 5-0 than Hispanics, and Caucasian. Sadly, these polices are is just one way police officers are insensitive to blacks.

Many People presume racial profiling is a recent phenomenon that occurred in the 80s as the news about African Americans being pulled over for “driving while black” made national headlines. “Racial Profiling,” however, has endured in various forms for decades in black communities from the slave trade, Jim Crow laws and in its most recent form as discriminatory conduct from Police Department personnel to the Criminal Justice System. Three Hundred years of unfair racialized practices that date back to the 1700s in the United States for people of African descent (1).

This particular essay will be about police brutality, and how it affects the black community more than any other. My position on this is that it occurs more than the news report them first thing I would like to say is that a lot of the times when this happens cops are never held accountable they are rather charged so the community will believe that they will actually get justice. The problem I have with this is that if effects more the African American community than any other, because some communities that African Americans reside in are sometimes bad and drug effected with this problem, it gives the police to the notion that they can actually get away with murder because there excuse sometimes will be that they are trying to get the drugs off the community.

In any cases the police were not the only section of the law that showed discriminatory actions, America’s court of law also tends to show acts of racial profiling, past and present. A study about the American court showed that for the same crime black defendants are given longer sentences than whites(Staples n.pag.). Explaining further the court of law assumes that black men will be more dangerous but also that a race is more likely to revert back to their old ways. A black man with the last name of foster was sentenced to court where the jury was all white. The Supreme Court later discovered that the prosecutors had kept black jurors from being in the jury meaning that Foster was given an unfair trial due to his race by the American court