Being A Black Male And Society It 's Kind Of Hard For Me

Throughout history, there has been very few careers that require such a high degree of an ethical standard such as the one required for law enforcement. There is, however, a multitude of careers that require the dedication and heart such as required for a police member. Where this dedication and heart differs relies solely on the difference in the job. Officers are required to be aware of their surroundings nearly all the time as if something were to happen they would be required to navigate through the situation successfully. Somebody such as a CEO for a multimillion dollar company would not require this same quality due to the fact it is not part of their job description and the only individual that he/she needs to be worried about is themselves. However, in today’s society, and with media being an ever growing aspect, some police officers have decided on their own personal way to handle justice. So unfortunately, this small percentage of police contract a huge amount of negative eyes to the profession. This small number of individuals bring a negative view to the police department as a whole and for this cause an issue in the public’s eye. Regardless of what many individuals believe, many of the police officers decide on the ethical side of the job and are hardworking professionals who seek out to just serve the public. However, being an African American male myself the main issue I have and want to combat is the punishment officers should face if

Because of this, we would see people with different backgrounds getting shot and arrested for no reason. Whenever we go on social media, we would see that people are living in a state of fear whenever a police is nearby because they don’t know whether something bad will happen to them. In the article, “Something’s wrong when the law-abiding are afraid of police,” it talks about how a black woman was fearing for her life because a police officer pulled her over. The police officer didn’t arrest or shoot her but instead asked her if she was feeling fine since she was driving under the speed limit. People started commenting that this black woman wouldn’t need to fear the police officer if she obeyed him. Perhaps that’s true for someone else, but African Americans are live a different truth. The problem with this is that no one should fear a police officer because they are suppose to serve and protect the community. When someone is fearing a police officer then we know that something isn’t right. We see that many different ethnic people are getting killed by police officers because they don’t seem to trust them but white people. That is why as a community, we should train police officers to become more comfortable with residents of a different racial background. Police officers are required to make our society safe but it turns out that they are the one that are causing us to live in a state of perturbation. For that reason, we know that our police officers are failing their

We often trust police officers to protect our homes and our loved ones, but what if the officers we trust can actually harm our loved ones? Over the past few years, unjustified shootings, rough treatments, and severe beatings have been on and off on our tv screens and on our phones. We hear various stories especially from minorities about their unforgettable encounters with police officers who hurt and accused them. According to CopCrisis, almost 3,000 Americans have died over the past three years. One of the relevant factors why this issue keeps happening is racial discrimination. Police officers have been discriminating and accusing minorities over the littlest offenses like selling DVDs outside supermarkets or

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.

Recently, there has been much in the media about clashes between African Americans and the police. Two such cases, being the shootings of Michael Brown and Laquan McDonald - both incidents resulting in public outrage. These cases result in questions about racial profiling by police. Through research, it is clear that African Americans are the target of racial bias by many police departments in the United States; in order to remedy this situation, law enforcement agencies need to (and are beginning to) undergo scrutiny on their interactions with the public and, additionally must receive training on diversity.

I just want to take a second and have all of you guys close your eyes and think, think about you walking down the street drinking Dutch bros and your stopped by a police officer because of the color of your skin. How would you feel, (pick another person at random). Ok so imagine the people that have been victim to this, men and women of color who were stopped frisked, beaten and thrown into jail. Or the families who have lost love ones to corrupt, ignorant police officers. It’s sad. And it happens on nearly an everyday basis. Actually, a black man or black woman are killed about every 28 hours by law enforcement. Now isn’t that heartbreaking. Studies are shown that the legal system targets black and Hispanic men and women, and their communities. Another thing is that black and Hispanic people are given harsher punishments than white people for the same or similar offences. This study has been proved accurate multiple times. A 2012 research from washingtonpost.com that white people comprise about 62% of the U.S population and are victim of 49% of fatal police shootings. And black people comprise about 13% of the total U.S population and are victim to approximately 24% of all fatal police shooting. Black men and women have 2.5x more chances of being shot and killed by law enforcement and 5x more chances of being shot and killed if unarmed. 14% of monthly drug users are

In the year 2018, there are still numerous signs of racial bias that’s evident throughout the criminal justice system. The way in which policing tries to serve and protect the major population is sometimes seen being done in discriminating ways. Racial profiling is another key contributor to racial bias throughout America especially towards African Americans. African Americans are noticeably given harsher sentences than whites in situations where the offense was the same for both. There are deviant and corrupt agents throughout much of the criminal justice system and it still hasn’t been addressed properly in a way that everyone starts to understand the negative impacts that are being done together. Some police officers may feel the need to

Even in laws there’s are bias towards people of color, such as example against the usage of drugs. African Americans are more likely to be arrested for drug charges than their counter part middle-class White males’, even if the drug charges offends are the same (or some cases even higher offense than black males). In addition, there even police forces that have engaged in higher usage of drugs, such as crack, yet they are not charged against the law due to their status and authority as a police officer. That is enough evidence that there are hardly any accountability in the police forces. When there are not much accountabilities and consequences, this allows a police officer to abuse their power and potentially act among injustice actions towards

The majority of the officers is committed to protecting and severing others and for the most part are very honorable and very virtuous people. However they are the assorted few that make unscrupulous decisions that can affect not only the officer, but also the entire agency. What affects one law enforcement agency affects all law enforcement agencies across this great nation in the world we live in today. Many times these officers will frame the argument in support of public safety over individual liberties. As each of us know we are living in a very different world than we did just a few years ago. It’s my professional experience that many whites have no knowledge or empathy for minorities who feel as though they have been stopped or beleaguered solely on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Equally many minorities sense that all police are predisposed and dishonestly target specific groups based on pigeonholes and incorrect representations. Combine this with the twenty-four (24) hour news cycle that propagates and emphasizes certain confrontations to attract viewership and provoke communities on both sides of the

For decades, America’s attention has been turned to the deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement. The roots of the outrage & unrest that often follow such killings go back much, much, much further. It is very obvious that there is a difficult relationship between law enforcement & the communities we are sworn to serve and protect. There are tons of studies proving police are implicitly biased against African Americans. Racism in law enforcement has had disastrous effects on society as evidenced by recent cases in the U.S.

Studies have shown that police are more likely to pull over blacks or Latinos than whites. New York City ran a trial for their stop and frisk law where 80% of the stops they made were blacks and Latinos, and 85% of those people were frisked, compared to the 8% of white people stopped. This is racial profiling.  The United States Department of Justice release a recent survey that stated that 84% of cops have seen fellow police officers use more force than was necessary. It hit me again! Where is the police training? Police officers are the women and men we have to trust wholeheartedly with our lives. Law enforcement has to work out new methods of training. The police department has to establish a zero- tolerance policy for racism. We cannot

Race is not an issue. Police officers are people just like us and make mistakes. It’s up to us, together, as a human race to learn from our mistakes and fix what is wrong. That’s the main idea of their job, to problem solve. Like we discussed in class, even in today’s society, police are trying to improve by using advanced technology and straying away from a military style of teaching. Someone in class that was in the military even said, that “they are trained to kill”. That’s not the job for the police. Their job is to serve and protect us from crime, not commit it. Our citizens are not the enemy, no matter what race they are. In my first two articles, it’s based on the officer. They’re either being trained wrong or can’t control their emotions. I think for the future, as a part of their training, they should be put in a situation where the suspect just says insults. Then, have the officer find a way to ignore it and not resort to brutal force. Also, it should be included when applying for the job. At the end of my interview with officer Meehan, he asked what my major was and what did I plan to do with it. I told him I was a Criminal Justice major and that I was interested in forensics or criminal investigations. I also told him I planned to get my masters at University of Baltimore. I explained to him the program they have called cyber-forensics really interested me. That it combined two things I liked a lot which is, computers and

Many places such as Chicago and New York experience racial profiling and lack of trust in the governed community. Even in Civil Court cases, it’s not always the people’s fault. The ones who govern the streets, falsely accused the people. The majority of people who are racially profiled are African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and other minority ethnic groups. Little of the media cover these unheard confrontations. As a police officer, their job is to be equal

I believe that there is a public perception that police are racist. Social media often focuses on racial issues when it comes to police. They exaggerate that police officers are focusing on African-Americans and other minorities. It causes a major uproar among the public. When the media continues to focus on police brutality amongst minorities on a day-to-day basis, their viewers will begin to believe it’s real. They will begin to believe that all police are merciless and racist. The media continues to feed the fear. They focus on the corrupt actions of a small percentage of law enforcement, but they rarely show news about good deeds that police officers may have done. The officers that are shown over the media does not represent all police

I think that many people do not notice they are degrading groups of people or making them feel unwelcome. Oftentimes, people think that certain groups are inferior subconsciously. I notice that bias can put marginalized people down, and leave the “we’s” of a community unsupervised. For example, it has been shown through a Yale experiment that bias is often used in a classroom setting. They used eye-scanning technology for this experiment and told the teachers to look for any signs of trouble in the scene (when there actually was no trouble.) In the end, most teachers focused on the black students more than the white students. This connects to my old school in Concord, as I remember that there used to be a group of Black students who were in my classroom in kindergarten. These students did not cause any more trouble than the rest of us, but the teacher seemed to constantly watch them. She yelled at the Black students much more than the White. I remember that these students never got away with any form of trouble, even if it was not very significant (such as dropping a small piece of trash on the ground). This left the White students unsupervised while she was dealing with these minor incidents. While I was not a student to get in too much trouble, I remember I used to take little multi-colored gems from the playground’s sandbox. While my teacher checked the Black student’s pockets, she did not check the white student’s pockets (for the gemstones). This extra attention given to the Black students often signaled them out, so less White students were friends with the Black students because we were treated differently. The only reason I still remember this incident is because my mother noticed that gems started appearing around the house and she did not know where they came from. I remember using the excuse that my friend gave them to me, and I never got in trouble for this minor crime. Overall, while this may seem