Black Men : A And Iron Triangle

To many people across a variety of different nationalities and cultures, race has been proven to be a key factor for how society views you in the eyes of those who are prominently in charge. The term race has been brought up in recent years, to be considered a form of identification, as the word race is used to describe physical characteristics such as a person’s color of skin, hair, and eyes. When in reality, the correct term they should be using is Ethnicity. As a result, the term race is used to separate people into sub-categories based on the color of their skin. This type of classification, is a man-made creation used by society to classify certain groups of people into lower classes, while keeping the predominate group in charge at the top.

In the PBS Frontline documentary, Policing the Police, the Newark Police Department are under investigation for violating citizens of their constitutional rights when being stopped and searched. Newark is one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, so the police feel as though they have to be aggressive and suspicious of certain people. Others like Jelani Cobb, a writer and historian, feel like there is another way to police the community without violating their rights. A lot of people want safe to have a safe community, but how can they feel safe if they can’t even trust their own police department. The mayor of Newark and his team are destined to make this change. So, Jelani Cobb decides to tag along with some of the Newark police to help investigate.

Although most studies on police officer discretion is focused on racial profiling, it has also been shown that officers patrol hot spots. Hot spots are areas known to have a high rate of criminal activity. Focusing on hot spots is an officer’s discretion, because they are ignoring other areas that could potential produce criminal activities. All surveillance and enforcement efforts are focused on the “hot” area. Not only are officers ignoring other areas, but they have determined those areas are not as important as the hot spot. Hot spots can prove to be problematic if the criminal activity located in the hot spot before it was being patrolled is moved to a new location. The new location is prone to no police surveillance because all resources are focused on the old hot spot (Mastrofski, 2011).

Based on his training Detective Schultz knew marijuana growers frequently used greenhouses, fencing, or other means to obscure the view of the illegal activities to avoid arrest. Undeterred with his finding on the ground, Detective Schultz along with Narcotics Agent R. Rodriguez chartered an airplane and flew over the residence at 2085 Clark Avenue. From an altitude of one thousand feet, both could visually see marijuana plants growing in the back yard behind the tall fence (figure 2). Using their testimony and photographs taken from

In Benters a reliable source told Detective J. Hastings there was an indoor marijuana growing operation at 527 Currin Road in Henderson, North Carolina, and Glenn Benters owned the property but was not living there. Benters at 662, 766 S.E.2d at 596 (2014). Hastings obtained a subpoena to look at the utility use for the property and discovered that it was indicative of a marijuana growing operation. Id. Hastings and Officer Joseph Ferguson traveled to Benters’ property and saw tools used for marijuana growing outside the premises. Id. After that observation, they conducted a knock and talk on the back door. Id. at 662, 766 S.E.2d at 596-597 (2014). After no answer, Ferguson walked to a building where music was playing and smelled

With this new evidence, millions of white people now have a substantial insight into the nightmarish reality that black people have to live day after day. In state legislative hearings carried out by the Black and Latino Caucus of New Jersey, the interviews of former state troopers revealed that barracks bulletin boards were once covered with racial epithets and that troopers would use racist banter over the radio, describing cars with black drivers as “buckets of coal.” This testimony, along with other first- hand accounts given at this conference provides proof that when entering encounters with African- Americans, police often have a pessimistic view instead of an objective one.

While white women seek visibility as a means of being recognized by white men, white men seek visibility to further their political goals. What both have in common is the use of black men to amplify their visibility and expedite their success. The Brotherhood is an organization led by Brother Jack that entices the Invisible Man, recruits him, and takes advantage of his invisibility to spark a riot in the streets of Harlem. The Brotherhood takes advantage of his invisibility in multiple ways: the organization advises the Invisible Man during his speeches, the organization sends him across New York as it see fit, the organization gives him money, and the organization fuels his rise to fame and notoriety. These acts seem benevolent, but the intentions behind them were destructive and manipulative. The Brotherhood has a doctrine and all members are expected to abide by it. Individual action is frowned upon. The Invisible Man is thus, reduced to a token and through his invisibility, the Brotherhood amplifies its prevalence in Harlem and generally as an organization. Again, the black man is used and those who use him aren’t invested in him. The Invisible Man realizes this amidst the riots in Harlem: “And now I looked around a corner of my mind and saw Jack and Norton and Emerson merge into one single white figure. They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me” (508) and “It was

From past to present there’s not much of a difference. The idea is that all men are equal, but in reality there are boundaries and hardships that prevent other races from being included in equality, next to the white man. The absence of diversity in the United States, interferes with the ability for black men to transition into manhood. Thus, continues this interminable cycle of a black man fighting for his identity, power, respect, and trying to understand who he is as an individual. Black men are portrayed to be lazy,

Sometimes history just makes absolutely no sense for instance it is said that all men were created equal and yet African Americans and slaves are treated badly and have absolutely no say in the government, they aren’t even considered a citizen, Even freed “Black men” have very little rights, another fine example why things in history makes no sense is that women were treated as second class citizen but then during Jefferson’s time women were one of the most important roles in the white house. Abraham freed slaves also makes no sense during the civil war period he said that slaves under his control were freed but the north didn’t support slaves and the south didn’t see Abraham as a president so he freed no one. Jefferson did many things that make no sense but one of them was when he purchased Louisiana from France he bought it with no permission and Jefferson was the one who was all against breaking the rules.

The police has a certain amount of people they can get to without having to go through real people fighters and a lot of times when the officers

Elliott Watson was arrested for the possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute said illegal drug. Elliott Watson was stopped by Officer Timothy Johnson because of faulty mechanical problems of Elliot Watson’s vehicle, which was sputtering and stalling out, and the vehicle also fit the description of a vehicle, a sports coupe, that had earlier, was used to kidnap a three year old young girl, Wanda Jones,

During February of 2006, five researchers observed police officers in Savannah Georgia for 132 8-hour shifts. After each stop police officers would debrief the researchers and talk about how and why a character was deemed as raising suspicion. Over the course of this research, there were 174 documented cases of suspects raising suspicion. In order to form suspicion officers must have, at any time, became doubting, distrustful or otherwise troubled or concerned about an individual. Suspicion arose in a majority of cases due to the abnormal behavior of the individual(s) that seemed to pique the interest of the officer. Although the end result of the suspicion did not always end up in a stop of an individual or vehicle. In some cases, the officers

Two years ago I had an internship at the Madison Police Department and while on a ride along with sergeant Bernie Gonzalez and he said " many officers deal with anxiety. It is common because at any point in time they could be fighting for life or death." In society police officers are seen as a strong individual but inside they are still human and even the strongest individual can deal with mental health issues. He also said " Officers fear traffic stops because you never know what can happen. With all of the tension between officers and society officers don’t know what to expect." Because of the tension in society between officers it make the job of policing harder to preform every

Race assigns social and behavioral meanings to physical characteristics that separates groups by “nature.” I was most surprised by the statistic that there is more variation within a racial group (94%) than between different racial groups (6%). This shows how racial stereotypes are not representative of the entire population due to diversity within racial groups and how people are not as different as they think they are. This is important because it promotes more common grounds for solidarity and unity between diverse

June 2003, while on patrol in a well-known drug trafficking area, a group of police officers were patrolling an area in Richmond, Virginia, an