Social Group And My Micro Community

This story touched the hearts of the entire community. She left behind a one year old little boy. From what friends and family states, she was a fighter and strived to continue to go to school and work after having a child at such a young age. She was a student at Booker T Washington High School, which is located in one of Memphis’s hardcore neighborhoods. These murders not only affect the relatives, but the victim’s peers as well. Kids fear for their life in some instances, feeling as if they will become the next victim. This also affects how they participate in class activities. I pray that this epidemic becomes better before it gets worst because I too have two sons that I worry about daily living in Memphis,

Part biography, part social view, a very thoughtful look into inner-city violence and the rules surrounding it. This book describes how his personal history with violence influenced his work with youth and the programs that he has started to support youth. Geoffrey Canada describes the progression of violence that had happened in his lifetime. He also points out that there is a disturbing difference between what the streets were like in the 1960s compared to those of today.

Currently, as I envision my community I see cooperation, peace, and unity. As you may know, Cleveland recently had a tragic incident with a young youth, Tamir Rice. I lived around the block from Tamir and also attended elementary school with him for a year at Marion C. Seltzer. It was a heart breaking time for my community when we heard of his death through Police Brutality. However this incident brought the community together. Unfortunately, Police Brutality is a very common issue around Cleveland and many other cities who experience rough financial obstacles. However, in my particular part of Cleveland, we are working together to bring a stop to this challenge.

Over the years the rate of police brutality has increased in America. It has become one of the biggest headline in today’s news. Many African-Americans have become victims of police brutality. From young teenagers to mothers and daughters, even babies; whether the encounter was direct or indirect, all of which has encountered a form of police brutality. It’s not that the African-American community hates the police it’s their actions that we are upset and frustrated with. It’s their actions of beating, injustice shooting and killing of our brothers and sisters that have us protesting and rioting. How many more of our family members and loved ones must become a new hashtag or headline before the act of police brutality is a problem? Charles Dent argues that not all cops are bad and that we should support the police and not bash them. I agree with the point that not all cops are bad, but it’s not the police that are being bashed it’s the act of police brutality which they partake in that we don’t like and are protesting.

In order to help explain the demise of this once great city and the deviant culture of todays youth in Detroit, I will be using a documentary that I came across on YouTube entitled, Detroit Fratricide by Seven the General. According to the documentary, “Fratricide is the killing of ones own.” (Seventhegeneral) This documentary explores the reasons behind the crime and violence in Detroit. According to the Huffington post, Detroit has the highest murder rate in the United States. It is also known as the most dangerous city in the United States. In this paper I will be explaining Detroit’s broken society using the knowledge from the documentary, as well as other well documented sources. Then I will relate my findings to sociological concepts

The people of Baltimore lost their complacency though, and along with it their ability to rationalize, with yet another case of police brutality. While their decisions to begin setting fires, looting, and throwing bricks was not a positive one, these people were determined to be heard once and for all.

A notable place of rapid crime is the “Death Alley”. Located near South Vermont Avenue between Manchester Avenue and Imperial Highway. Nicole Santa Cruz and Ken Schwencke from the Los Angeles Times wrote an article “South Vermont Avenue: L.A. county’s ‘death alley’” is home to “churches, liquor stores, mortuaries one of the highest rate of homicide in L.A. County” (Santa Cruz and Schwencke). Not only have sixty people been killed, but the kills can be traced back to gun violence or gangs. Additionally in the last seven years, “100 people-nearly all of them male-have been killed in the 1.8 square miles” (Santa Cruz and Schwencke). After all, the data collected Westmont has the highest rate of killing overall. Not to mention in the documentary “PTSD and Gang Violence In South Central L.A’s “Death Alley” by Dell talks about the continuance of a war in a war zone. In the first place the “South Vermont Ave Westmont area has been going through a tragic turf war between the Hoovers, Raymond Crips, Eight-Trey, Gansta Crips, Rollin 100’s Crips and many more “ (Dell). There is a very slim chance for peace anytime soon. Thanks to the “fourth shooting and numerous retaliation killing going on daily in Death Alley” (Dell). The youth who have been raised in the area have grown and have relatives in gangs, often seek revenge against their rivals. The Westmont kids grow up with an endless cycle of violence. A life that can lead to death and more grief. In the long run violence against violence never solves anything that is why Westmont must stop for it is causing problems to the

"My city had its 40th homicide. So we are in desperate need of immediate action. Residents want something

narrator describes how the police believe that the community involvement cripples the subjects thus hiding their crimes. Throughout the documentary the audience can depict that, the Violence Interrupters understand the strength and time that is struggle involved in transformation. Similarly, Beck’s Journal of Community Practice, states, “By engaging the community, a conflict can be resolved in the best interests of the victim, the offender, and the community, rather than what the law requires.”, many of the subjects feel as if the law restricts them from transforming; the law dehumanizes them as well as labeling them as permanent criminals that will reoffend if they are not imprisoned or isolated (387). Once the community understands the problems as a team then residents will be strong to cure the violence epidemic; isolation is a disease and the only way to cure it is through involvement and interaction.

These continued, unlawful acts of violence against young black teenagers have progressively affected the black community in not only a growing number of deaths, but also the emotional welfare of the victims’ families, and the general opinion of law enforcement towards minorities. The level of trust and respect for law enforcement officials has been tainted due to a lack of ethical decision making and racial stereotyping. Due to the continuing acts of violence, communities and cities have suffered tremendously by both the perception legal injustice and economically, due to the costs of damage to infrastructures by violent protests. Businesses have also faced loitering due to acts of aggression, and destruction by physical defamation and arson

These heartbreaking stories understandably angered the African American communities, bringing them to rally for equality under the law and rightfully assert that Black Lives Matter. Despite the endless, passionate contest for feeling truly protected by cops, there has been little, if any, progress in this movement. Out of frustration and pain, violence has become the next step in this revolution against racism. Consisting of verbal and physical abuse as well as outright disobedience and disrespect displayed toward officers, citizens across America are simply fueling the fire. While only further developing the animosity between the people and the police, violence will do far more harm than

Throughout all of South Central LA, violence rules the minds of all who inhabit its grounds and cause them to harm one another, to become savages. A lot of children die and a lot more spend time in the hospital for gunshot or stab wounds. Unfortunately, things like that happen so often that people talk about them nonchalantly like when Angelica states, “he was just shot in the leg” (Beatty) like it was no big deal. Death and shootings occur so frequently that no one even takes a second look at it and the media does not know how to televise it. The differences between other cities and South Central LA shocks most but no one wants to help do anything about it. Everyone feels so safe and invincible in their little bubbles thinking that the world remains safe in big cities and no one needs any help but, unfortunately for them the world does not work that way and someone will always need help. Violence occurs not too often for the everyday American and to hear that it does for children in LA, just seems so terrible. No person, let alone a child, should have to grow up around so much violence, especially children who should grow up around a loving and compassionate family. This appeals to logic because of how much of a problem this poses to society and how if something could be done, the problem would go away. The conditions remain in bad shape and

During the Labor Day weekend, twelve people were shot in Charlotte, North Carolina. Last week Tuesday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney stated that the incident is like a ‘gang behavior’ and they were two groups that were involved in this incident. Putney also suspects that these two groups already had issues between each other. One of the victim is a seven year old, named Kevin Rodas, Kevin was attending a birthday party and at the same night he was killed. Putney expressed that this shooting exists because of their stupid gang fights and unfortunately innocent people were killed. Therefore, Putney wants the public to help the Charlotte Police station to identify people that were involved in this shooting so the families that

The events leading to the 38 people who didn’t report a murder was horrifying. 38 cold-blooded bystanders didn’t intervene or report the stabbings watched as Catherine Genovese was stabbed 3 times and found dead. A community like this should be more involved in taking action when observing violent or life threatening combats between other people. Martin Gansberg’s, the author, purpose of writing this essay is to persuade readers in order to make changes in our society’s mindset on public safety. His proposed readers were towards anyone in general, especially to those who may witness violent quarrels between other people. This story spooked me because citizens in a community are supposed to back each other up in times of need. Because this is a true story this makes me have doubt of the people in my community, if anything happened to me. I strongly believe in times like this, a community must take some sort of action when they see a bystander in a deadly

" For more than half an hour thirty-eight respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens” (Gansberg # ). He had three chances to kill Miss Genovese. The police questioned some of the neighbors why no one called the police when they heard her first cry out. The responses that were given were, “I did not want to get involved” and “We thought it was a lovers’ quarrel” (Gansberg 128-129). These neighbors were fine individuals that were frightened, lazy, or just didn’t know why they did not do something. Their excuses indicate that something does not concern them or affect them why should they bother. These thirty- eight neighbors should have taken immediate action when witnessing these brutal