Modern Race Relations

Although some victims of this type of abuse took legal action and attested that the war on drugs is racially unjust, their claims were rejected and disregarded by the court. “The Supreme Court has made it virtually impossible to challenge racial bias in the criminal justice system under the Fourteenth Amendment, and it has barred litigation of such claims under federal civil rights laws as well.” (Alexander 106) For instance in the McCleskey vs. Kemp case, the real matter in question was whether the court would permit racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. The sentence given to McCleskey was the Court’s reply, “racial bias would be tolerated––virtually to any degree––as long as no one admitted it.” (Alexander 107) So in reality, the Supreme Court has sanctioned racial bias in the criminal justice system and policing instead of opting for rules prohibiting it.

Race in the United States has always been a problem in the past and still remains the same in the present society. Race relations is defined by relations between members or communities of different races within one country (en.oxforddictionairies.com). Minorities have been denied legally and socially rights in the past by the dominant race, White Americans. Now in modern society minorities are the majority of the United States, but are still being racial targeted, profiled and killed by White Americans.

Racial disparities occur in arrests, stops and use of force. A report on the Minnesota police department found that Black people are stopped more than twice as much as they should be, for their share of the population(4); In Ferguson it was found that police arrest black people at a rate three times higher, than their share of the population, and “At least 1,581 other police departments across the USA arrest black people at rates even more skewed than in Ferguson” (5). Force was also found to be used at more disproportionate rates against black people. It was found that blacks are 50% more likely to experience “use of force”(6). These are clear cases of racism in the police force, it shows that there is bias rooted in all enforcement actions. It would be statistically impossible for these disparities to exist, without some element of racism in many actions and levels of the police force, and the only way to change this is to completely reconstruct how enforcement is carried

Racism exists in our American justice system… many years later. Many assume that racial profiling is a problem that just arose recently, due to multiple infamous incidents where “justice” was served to innocent victims. Most people have this assumption because the extremes of racial profiling has been making national headlines. When in fact racial profiling has been around and in use since the 1700s. By definition racial profiling is the use of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or national origin by law enforcement agents as a factor in deciding whom to investigate, arrest or detain absent evidence of a specific crime or criminal behavior. In other terms it is using racism and stereotypes to assume the worst of people. Racial profiling is executed by law enforcements by multiple tactics, such as a stop and frisk , vehicle or bag search search, a pat down, etc based on the police having a reasonable suspicion that the individual is going to commit or has already committed a crime whether it is a felony or misdemeanor. Racial profiling has destroyed our trust in police officers due to the fact that the law enforcements can use this to their advantage by using discrimination to interrogate citizens or immigrants, whom are by a large percentage African American or a minority. According to the U.S Bureau of Justice Statistics, African American males have a one-in-three chance of going to jail in their lifetime, a rate more than six times higher than whites (Knafo,2013). This statistic however is not based on crime rates yet based on illegal drug offenses. Although most african americans are incarcerated due to drug crimes it is a proven statistic that African Americans are ten times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than the rate of white men.

Today there is a lot of negative response when it comes to police department agencies and their officers. When you look at drug offenders it is estimated 13% to 20 % of the total of black and white drug offenders which they, should constitute a roughly similar proportion of the total number of blacks and whites who are arrested, convicted, and sent to prison for drug law violations. But all other things are not equal. Some people say that some research has clearly and consistently shown that blacks have been and remain more likely to be arrested for drug offending behavior relative to their percentage among drug offenders than whites who engage in the same behavior. There are many reasons for the racial disparities in drug

In the article by Jim Leitzel, he discusses the policing that has been done. In the beginning, he praises the police system for keeping crime rates low in the United States, but that praise is ultimately tarnished from their role of race. He gives examples of certain situations that have happened to put his point across; one example is in 1997, when the police tortured a Haitian immigrant for no specific reason. He also brings up the question if disparities exist and if it is implemented in policing today. There are disparities in policing since it does indicate criminal profiling (Leitzel). Leitzel questions the police, if they are private citizens of their country shouldn’t they act as a good citizen? Sadly, they do not, most cops judge

In reviewing the article, Canadian Critical Race Theory, I found that the author, Carol Aylvard, raises some very interesting as well as disturbing questions on the nature of racism within the realm of police enforcement. In looking through the lens of the Rodney King case, we are provided with a very specific example of how the issue of race was dealt with, or not dealt with within the LAPD and judicial system. To gain a clearer understanding of how race was a major issue in this case but at the same time not confronted on the front lines, Alyvard highlights several aspects of the case. In the 1991 state trial of the four police officers accused of beating Rodney King, the prosecution did

I have chosen the debate of 26th September. The reason I am selecting this is because, it was the first debate and was instrumental in leading up to future debates. In a way it was an inception point of agendas and policies that would unfold with time.

Over time more and more news reports have raised flags on law enforcement, courtrooms and their outcomes due to the crime and the criminal and their racial background. Although a long time has passed since all decision making came from the white supremacist and we do have a more diverse system the race of the criminal seems to still be affecting the outcomes of criminal justice. In earlier times, courtrooms and many jurisdictions were all white decisionmakers. We can see a lot of poorly executed decisions by law enforcement such as stop and frisk due to racial profiling or taking advantage of young minorities influencing them to falsify a confession . Race plays an important role in the justice

Race refers to the idea of identifying people into groups based on various physical characteristics. An ethnic group or ethnicity is a population whose members identify with each other based on shared social traits. In America, we currently have six dominant races: white American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, black or African American, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races. The Census Bureau also classifies Americans as "Hispanic or Latino”. Hispanic and Latino Americans are a diverse ethnicity that composes the largest minority group in the United States. Throughout the last decade many sociologist around the country have gathered evidence to prove the evolution the American population is witnessing.

Many people in the world think about the relationships that police officers have with their communities and if they treat all people with the same respect? There are also people in this world that will tell you that all people are treated differently in every community whether they are black, white, Asian, Hispanic or whatever race they may be. As long as people continue to bring race in the picture there will always be a divide and unfortunately it will always remain a problem. “The difficult relationship between the police and blacks in the United States is evident in the deep-rooted racial divisions in the public’s view of law enforcement and the criminal justice system”. Race has been a problem since the beginning of time and it will remain

When Europeans arrived in the America, they encountered people whom they had never before seen. The natives were viewed as savage and uncivilized, regardless of their well-established culture and presence. As the colonies formed and Africans began their slave-bound voyages to America, many colonists perceived them as inferior. Eurocentrism allowed for a foundation on which the race concept was built and flourished. As research shows, there is only one species of human beings, Homo sapiens. “Race,” used as a construct to stratify societies, is not a reference to biological variation.

Race relations in America have been a problem and a heavy debate for many years now. There are many people who believe that there is no such thing as racial inequality, and there are many that believe that there is. Both sides inevitably clash with one another, causing riots resulting in multiple injuries and death. I believe that there’s a strong amount of racial tension in this country (specifically between whites and blacks. and those who say there isn’t are being extremely ignorant. Ignorance may equal bliss, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing. You can’t look at the news without seeing or hearing an article about this topic. Let me show a couple examples.

The cops, the justice system, courts, these things have one thing in common, people and communities look towards these things to keep peace and serve justice the right way. In the last couple of years however, the cops and the justice system have been exposed by the public because of their unjust ways of handling certain situations. There have been many different videos, pictures, and other things that suggest that the police are basing some of the actions that they take based on race. There is a movie that depicts this in a very good way, this movie is a biopic of the death of Oscar Grant, the movie is called Fruitvale Station directed by Ryan Coogler. The most important scene of the movie shows Oscar Grant, portrayed by Michael B Jordan, in a Train station where he is on the train, there is a guy there from another rival gang which picks a fight with him and he throws the first punch at Oscar, Oscar fights back and the cops are called. The cops arrive, and the hostility is on, the cops stop Oscar’s friends and Oscar gets back on the train as he tries to escape, it does not work. The cops

I am agree with this trend 'Race relations in America and abroad' you mentioned.The revolution against the racial equality is in paper and policy but still present in practically. Access to health care in various races and outcome better reflects the racial inequality. Without racial equity, public health will not be able to achieve it's