Racial Discrimination In Policing

Community policing helps citizens assume that the service of the police is there to take control of whichever the case may be when a situation happens. The community also needs to have some sort of equality with the police because the police and the community need each other to make the environment work. However, majority of the problem is that the community view police officers as abusing the law and although some officers do not all officers are bad. If the police and the community do try to work together then maybe the people can see that there are good officers and that it can change the way civilians see police officers. When it comes to the role of the police and taking care of their responsibilities the public needs to understand that.

Racial profiling, stereotyping, and different styles of policing has led to the disproportionate targeting of minorities by law enforcement agencies. Warren et al. (2006) notes that law enforcement often use two forms of racial profiling. One is defined by Warren et al. (2006) as out of place profiling. This particular form of racial profiling targets an individual if they do not match the general make up of a certain community. Another method of racial profiling Warren et al. (2006) explains is drug interdiction profiles, which encourage officers to target drug traffickers using their racial background to make traffic stops and search their vehicles for contraband. Furthermore, Terrill and Reisig (2003) findings

As a police officer, I have dedicated my life in serving the people and keeping them safe from potentially dangerous criminals. I had just gotten home from duty and turned on the TV. The news was on and they were reporting about the officer that shot and killed Michael Brown. The first thing that I thought was that the media has blown this incident was out of proportion. Brown must have been seen as a threat by the officer to the public to actually be shot. The protesters are calling us cops racist, that we use racial profiling. That is so far from the truth. We take every possible suspect into consideration. We look at their motive, their alibis, etc. to make sure we arrest the right person. What we do not take into consideration is their

Because of recent police shootings of racial minorities, there has been an increased call for police reform and reduction of racial bias by police (Kahn, Stele, McMahon, & Stewart, 2017). Racial minorities often are disproportionately stopped by police. Because of the heightened racial tensions and life-or-death consequences, understanding racial bias in policing is important (Kahn, Stele, McMahon, & Stewart, 2017). In a case study preformed of 212 incidents that occurred in 2012 from a medium metropolitan police department, the results showed that racial discrimination was directly related to the level of resistance the suspects used (Kahn, Stele, McMahon, & Stewart, 2017). When Latino or Black suspects resisted, they received significantly more force than when White

Upon examining former FBI Director James Comey’s 2015 speech and question and answer session which focused on law enforcement and race relations, many points were made to what got us to this point and possible remedies moving forward. Comey mentioned areas of debates which includes law enforcement’s relationship with communities, appropriate use of force, and the real and perceived biases within and outside of law enforcement. Several points were made during the speech and question and answer session which included data driven intelligence, understanding racial bias, cynicism, unjust laws, militarizing the police, and the impact of the media. Of the many points made by Comey, the two points that I found most important and compelling were

Throughout the country, law enforcement serves to protect the nation and its people. However, throughout the past years, many disturbing cases come up and people question the true authority and power of those who call themselves protectors of justice. Within the past 30 years, four major events have caught the media’s eye: L.A. Riots, the Trayvon Martin case, and recently, the Michael Brown shooting case and the Eric Garner chokehold case.

I chose this topic because the certain police officers that had passed away in the line of duty had served for so long which made this subject so interesting. After looking at multiple tables I have come to the conclusion that the southern part of the United States has had the most casualties from the years from 2006 to 2015. As I was reading this article, one thing that caught my eye was that there were more accidental deaths of police officers in the south. Through this I can concur that the south possible could have the most problems with police officers between 2006 and 2015. The south has the most related casualties to police officers which shows that the other parts of the US don’t have problems with these officers.

A diverse society has an increase in global contacts and interactions in all areas because there is the police who ensure that every person in the society receives fair treatment, meets their particular needs and does not discriminate on grounds of color, nationality, ethnicity and a person’s religious orientation. However, some issues are at the societal and individual level and also at the power of the organization and may not be controlled by individual law enforcement officer’s own beliefs (Brown, 2013). This paper will exclusively explore how diversity and discrimination are relevant issues in policing and how these issues have changed over time.

In addition to the pervious studies conducted in Canada, Discrimination or “Good” Good Policing? The Racial Profiling Debate In Canada. Canadian cities law enforcement officers in Toronto, Montréal and Halifax only seem to be targeting African American drivers, stopping and searching their car, and questioning them for simply driving while black. Researchers conducted a longitude study that started in the year 1995 and ended in 2000, recent issues relating to racial profiling in Toronto in the African American community have reached a boiling. Studies consistently show that African Americans are once again the main targets and overly looked at when it comes to suspicious activities, consistently searched to see if they are in possession

In a research article entitled Race-Based Policing: A Descriptive Analysis of the Wichita Stop Study, Winthrow takes an objective look at research that shows that minorities, more specifically African-Americans are stopped by police in a disproportionately higher rate than they are represented in the community. (p. 225) When the number of a group are stopped at a higher rate than their representation in a community, this may be indicative of racial profiling. These stops are also relative to an officer’s advance knowledge of these individuals, Winthrow takes this previous knowledge of involvement in criminal activity into consideration during his research.

the street after looking boths ways.I honestly have alot of questions for you so called cops. Why are so many americans getting killed by the police? Black Americans are more than twice as likely as white Americans to be killed by police officers. Researchers agree that racism almost certainly plays a role in that disparity. But “racism” is too broad an explanation to reveal much about the more immediate causes or to point to a way to reduce police killings of black people like the recent ones in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. People who have studied the issue say that racism manifests itself in different ways, requiring a range of solutions. If the disparity arises because bias among police officers makes them

Since the unlawful shootings of young, Black men (and women) from 2012 to the present, including the much disputed Trayvon Martin case, the death of Sandra Bland, and Tamir Rice, both political and civil unrest has ensued. Shortly after the murder of Michael Brown, Black Lives Matter, an international activist movement for the equality of lawful interactions with civilians, began to emerge from its hidden origins, and started to lead massive protests city-wide, bringing thousands of protestors onto the streets, fighting for the lives of Black people to be acknowledged as an equal significance (Canon). Thousands have been injured in city-level disputes,

My position on if there is discrimination in law enforcement or the institutions that they are from is that they are not discriminatory towards minorities. I've come to this conclusion by reviewing data from various credible sites such as FBI criminal database, the daily wire news, Columbia University, and bjs.gov. I will first start with the stats from the federal bureau of investigation´s annual report from 2015, it states that from a total of 9,014,635 the vast majority of crimes committed is by whites at the majority of 6,214,197, in contrast, the only ⅓ of crimes in America are committed by non-whites. The difference between white and nonwhite offenders is that nonwhites commit the majority of violent crimes making up 52% of murders and

Is the society’s draconian attendance towards the people of distinguishable race a fair measure of precaution or an act of discrimination? In the society we live in today, the enactment of racial bias has made a monumental impact, shaping many individuals ' lives by default. However, is it fair for the innocent individuals to be shrouded with the burden of being a particular ‘race’? After witnessing, the incident of Ferguson, I became dreadfully discontented to discovered that people today have self-established the immense belief that people of color are the primary cause of danger, and therefore, they must be regarded as hazardous creatures. Moreover, the reason triggering the detrimental policing was due to the color of the victims, illustrating the ugly truth of racial profiling still remains intact to our society. Although racial profiling and prejudice are disavowed publicly by Americans, many statistics and research on implicit racial bias debated the citizens of the United States still perceive a person 's physical in determining their likeliness to committee crime (Bornstein, Avram). Unfortunately, it is ingrained in today’s society that institutional structures demonstrate persistent inequality and unequal distribution of societal resources (White, Rob).

In Ferguson, it is hypothesized that white officers and court staff members in power use their position in the system to further oppress the community of color and create a cycle of marginalization. This is a new form of keeping African Americans away from white people by keeping them in poverty or behind bars, reflecting modern day segregation. The impact of structural racism in the community creates fear and a hold on life to those who identify as a person of color. This gives law enforcement the power to act as they would like and not consider the constitution, depriving these individuals from their rights. In Ferguson, manner of walking or waiting for the bus could be interpreted as an offense for a person of color. The citizens are outraged and terrified that such injustices happen in the community and no one in power takes an effort to address the problem or make steps in the right direction. Law enforcement treats this injustice as a joke and a way to make revenue. There is some dissonance on making this a profit as they are taking the money out of those in the community who do not have it.