Crime, Minorities and Drugs in the City of Baltimore

Unemployment in the city limits further feeds the belly of poverty. Unemployment rates for Richmond in August 2013 were 8.2% (United States Department of Labor, 2013). These rates represent only those that are documented as unemployed and does not consider the “under employed” as they may be working but not getting paid for a full work week. These unemployment rates would likely be higher if they were accurate and all inclusive of the unemployed in Richmond. The unemployment rate for the entire state of Virginia was reported at 5.8% in August 2013 (United States Department of Labor). The unemployment rate is related to education. There are not enough good paying jobs to support those who did not finish basic high school. There are not

Baltimore, the largest city in Maryland, is located in the northern portion of the state on the Patapsco River estuary, a division of Chesapeake Bay. The city is self-governing and does not fall within any county. (Baltimore, Md., 2015) The vast majority of this city is poverty stricken, which makes it vulnerable to high crime rates. In the first six months of 2013 Baltimore had reported 117 homicides, with a population of 622, 104, (CITY DATA, 2015) this gives the city a rate of 18.8 per 100,000. It was one of few cities that year to actually see an increase in homicides; it was stated by Their City Police Commissioner that more than half of their homicides were related to drugs. Even though, the amount of violent crimes dwindled in 2013,

Black on black violence is an enormous problem in the African-American community. Living in a neighborhood that is mostly minority, many may have witnessed a lot of black on black violence. The black on black violence has continued to arise in many communities and continues to be a problem around the world. Black on black violence is ignorant, and many black Americans should be coming together instead of killing one another. African-Americans people should be helping each other achieve in the world, instead of putting one another.

Demographics provide the specifics necessary to obtain knowledge pertaining to a city’s inhabitants. Attaining this type of detailed information is vital to the creation of a flourishing municipality. Demographic data can offer crucial material in relation to the particulars, such as the districts residents reside, the districts most preferred, the areas more highly safeguarded, high crime areas, the elementary schools most preferred and what type of developments residents want to see within the area. Verification is made by evaluating the demographic attributes of the populace, areas of

Race riots are one of the major news items we hear about via the media when a social crisis occurs. The riots in Baltimore, however, were not so much about race, but more about economic and social class separations. The riots began as a peaceful protest amongst the citizens of Baltimore over the death of one of their own, Freddie Gray. Gray was a young, African-American, from a financially lower class area of Baltimore. Unfortunately, he died while in custody of the Baltimore Police. While this is a tragic loss, he was unlawfully detained by the police (Sarlin, 2015) during this ordeal. On the surface, the riots may appear as a cut-and-dry race provoked, once they are looked into further, that is not necessarily the case.

Social and economic disparities are plaguing the city of Baltimore. There are numerous issues that the city of Baltimore is facing, many of which did not come to light until the case of Freddie Gray. On April 2015, a 25-year-old black man by the name of Freddie Gray fell victim to police brutality. After the discovery of his death and the unreasonable way he was treated, Baltimoreans began to protest. The anger and frustration began to escalate due to other social and economic problems the city faces regularly.

All across the nation, in the news the black community has been making their voice heard, in regards to white police brutality, and murder against the unarmed black community. Many of these brutal attacks and flat out murders of unarmed black people haven’t been largely prosecuted, some officers have even been acquitted of any wrong doing or murder. This has led to outrage in the African American community at large. The shooting of an unarmed black teen named Michael Brown caused the racial strain in this country to break.

Over the last two years in the United States the African-American people have been fighting a war within our own backyards. The Washington Post reports that since January 2015, the police have shot and killed over 175 young black men ranging from ages 18-29; 24 of them were unarmed. On the flip side 172 young white men were killed, only 18 being unarmed. With these statistics there are similarities in the numbers but, blacks were killed at rates disproportional to their percentage of U.S population (1.Washington Post). Of all unarmed people shot and killed by police in 2015. With 40% being black men make up just 6% of the nation’s populations. In the wake of the killings of Mike Brown, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, and many more the world has been made more publicly aware of injustices black people have to handle when dealing with law enforcement. Crime in the black community is nothing new in the black community or should I say black on black crime. There is a bad stereotype that has been put on black people since slavery times that I believe has help fueled the violence between the police and my people.

In the weeks that followed the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of the Baltimore police, a group of protestors known as BlackLivesMatter, gathered with the intentions of demanding public awareness over the persistent discrimination and violence that African Americans are subjected to by Police Officers around the Country. Following Mr. Gray’s death, on April 25th of 2015, a small number of protestors attending the B.L.M. protest turned an otherwise non-violent protest into a violent bout of civil disorder which led to several dozen arrests, an estimated 15 officer injuries and mass rioting, looting and burning of the local businesses including a CVS pharmacy. Ultimately, a state of emergency was declared and the National Guard was brought in to resolve the conflicts.

If we really want a solution in the issue of cops killing blacks, we can not ignored black on black crime. Obviously, cops killing unarmed black men has gotten our society 's attention, but we can not ignore the fact it is because of black violence. Blacks killing each other has not stop, and they take fifteen percent of homicides in this country. One thing to considered, or an alternative for this issue is effective policing and how are leaders within our communities can do in reducing crime. We need more organizations like NAACP, that give solutions by focusing on education and jobs to minorities. By all means this solutions can be more effective and we can decrease the among of crime in black communities. Also by been part of a solution we can see less confrontations among cops and African Americans. We can not blame white cops for doing their jobs, when they are saving, protecting, and serving the community by preventing crimes. But we can not justified their actions either, nor African American when they are committing crimes. In the other hand, and I speak from my own personal observation I do not believe all African Americans are criminals. We have criminals from all backgrounds that commit crimes, and it 's not an issue of race but of crime.

After looking at all of the tactics that were used and the government’s involvement in implementing those tactics one must ask is being black condemned? Do our ideals matter? From the very beginning there has been a belief that blacks and their activity are inherently criminal and cant be trusted to do the right thing.These racial ideals have been an unfortunate result of slavery and Jim Crow. The recent murder of Trayvon Martin confirms that many Americans believe in these extremely dangerous social constructions. It has resulted in a relentless attack and suspicion upon people of color and the creation of policies like New York City’s “Stop-and-Frisk” law that simply target blacks and latinos in greater numbers as if it was the original

As a criminal justice major, there is one topic that people continuously dwell on. This topic is the connection between race and crime. Although this topic is not one I am fond of discussing, it has been one of the most important and controversial topics in criminal justice. I want to look through several sources and articles to find these connections. I am also interested in some information on the other side that try to disprove the connection between race and crime. Most people will just take what the media wants to feed them and never consider that they are not getting the full story. I want to research the statistics that show whether or not a specific race is connected to any amount of crimes or if the media tries to spin it that way.

One of the biggest problems we have is crime, poverty, and race. Crime never seems to go away, and it tends to affect certain areas more than others. When a community is plagued with crime then everyone starts to look at the community that it is affecting, the housing in the area and the race that is mostly affected or committing the crimes. This can create a domino effect, because the citizens are scared, victimized, and they begins to worry more about how they will be able to protect there family and if anyone cares what is happening in their community. Therefore, within this report we will examine statistical data from different areas and see if there is a trend with a particular group, race, or city and compare the data so that we can gain a better understanding of the collection of this data and make suggestions if at all possible on way to improve the data once it has been reviewed.

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When people hear about crime in lower class neighborhoods, it technically can be stereotyping for some people that live in lower class neighborhoods. Yes there is crime that occurs a lot in lower class areas, because people tend to commit crimes like stealing which is because people in that area there is a lot of poverty and unemployment ratings. Most lower class area have gangs that fight over each other and the youth in these neighborhoods either get into some trouble that they shouldn’t had been in the first place from inappropriate influence on the youth their living environment. Certain circumstances can apply to the neighborhood environment, because their