The Impact Of Social Media On The Criminal Justice System

Police brutality has been an issue in the United States for decades. Many of the police force today are perceived in a bad way through video footages on social media that displays images of the police brutally beating on citizens to an extent of death. In the article “Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community” written by Matthew Desmond, Andrew V. Papachristos, and David S. Kirk, discusses police misconducts causing communities to be an unsafe environment for citizens, especially the black community. Many black men have experienced racial profiling or police brutality in Milwaukee and this continues on to a point where calling 911 for help is no longer a choice for individuals to use due to a publicized case of police violence against a defenseless man, Frank Jude. Jude, as stated in the article, was unarmed, accused, stripped naked, and beaten by the police viciously. This terrifying incident caused many to protest against the police force. Desmond, Papachristos, and Kirk all believed that after this savage case, many residents in Milwaukee, mainly the black community, stop reporting crimes which lasted for a year. In Milwaukee, police violence on black men made an impact on citizens reporting

It has been documented and filmed that many rioters have demanded the streets to riot recent fatal police brutality of unarmed African American teenagers, but what has caused the most publicity is how these incidents spread so widely through social media. The article Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States by Yarimar Bonilla & Jonathan Rosa studies the affects social media has on a modern political issue and explains how “hashtag activism” can unite a group of people globally. The controversy the article presents is whether social media can be considered a platform for police brutality, and on a greater outlook, “activism”. It concludes that reports on the shooting, the

The Article that caught my attention was “The police hunting and killing of black males stops today” by Trey Ellis of The Huffington Post. This article discusses how through racial profiling police have turned their trust to proctect and surive into a way to demoralize and incrimnate Black males. The reason this article stood out to me is the events that are viral on social media such as “ Anton Sterling and Philando Castile”, these young males had altercations of some type (not exactly the same), but both ended tragically from being shot by an officer on duty.These tragities were recorded during or after the event and streamed live or posted on Facebook, giving users/views a first persons veiw of the moment. The authur decribes how many current events have involove officers who have used their power to pull over these males for no reason, but to “assume the black citizen is in some way criminalized, the officer uses an excuse to make an arrest and is then praised and possibly promoted by his supervisor.” I believe that this reading is sort of one sided, I am not condoning or in any way supporting the officers actions, but I believe in any situation there is two sides of the story( I am mearly stating my opinion on the matter).

Police officers are not held accountable for their actions, which is why there is social media awareness. Social media viewers see unfiltered videos and footage of officers getting physical. “Social Media” explains how law enforcement try to not show how physical they get to detain a citizen: “... but thanks to technology, social media audiences are becoming more and more exposed to tense, unfiltered events by clicking through shared links and by watching live video feeds” (Social Media 1). The public should see the unfiltered videos to see what kind of bad things are happening in other states. Technology is progressing so users on social media can share videos to raise awareness and bring change. Live videos on facebook of police brutality

Social media live streaming, reality television venues have allowed an opening for police officer’s actions to be brought into question. This is not a recent phenomenon but rather process before society’s eyes. The nation will never forget the vivid video involving the Los Angeles Sheriff Office, Los Angeles Police (LAPD) and one motorist later identified as Ronnie King. The incident was captured by private citizen and later distributed to various news stations all over the world. The world was shocked to see the violent way that police handled King (Jacobs, 1996). The event, trails, and riots that following the release of the video highlighted the brutal way law enforcement dealt with African-Americans.

Having access to socal media can make crowdsourcing bad on an investigation. People use the internet and social media to do their own detective work by pointing out who they think has done the crime. They are downloading altered pictures on sites like Facebook and accusing innocent people. “Social media is a huge resource”(Erickson, Christine, 2012) reaching a lot of people. For instance the investigation of the Boston Marathon Bombing “1,700 users uploaded” pictures from the scene with “suspicous people and packages highlighted” (Powers, M) to a site called “Reddits Find Boston Bombers – formum”(Powers, M). The suspicous people that where highlighted are just innocent people watching the end of the race. Crowdsourcing can cause people to use resources in a negative way by passing on false data. Innocent people get tagged as shaddy because of their religion, what they wear and how they act. These accusations get put on the internet and spread like

In this age of social media, all our issues as a society finds its way onto the pages of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc.. However, none more poignant than the eroding relationship of everyday American citizens and police commissioned to protect and serve them. Social media has put into the spotlight the behavior of the police as well as the people they serve. Before social media, the events that have flooded the media in recent months, may not have gotten a second glance. However, now every person with a cellphone is a potential witness, willing to share the footage with the world; at the push of a few buttons. Presented with these images, we have to ask ourselves a few obvious questions: Has social

Some would assume the media to be an ally and opponent of the criminal justice system. Most people will accept whatever they read in newspapers, magazines, news articles on the Internet, radio, and television. Nonetheless, I am sure most people are more knowledgeable of the enemy side that the media can control. It seems that the daily news is always informed about something negative. Unfortunately, the bad news is good news in today's society. Media continues to seem far reaching and misleading. Moreover, when information is collectively used, media can prove productive.

In a world where we can upload anything to the internet as our “facts”. We have transformed the way News is told, it is no longer the fact-based information we were once accustomed to receiving. The News has now become what most would consider entertainment television, with the most captivating stories making the headlines with social media becoming one of the biggest outlets for News. Focusing on the most triggering events going on in the world, with an emphasis on those involving law enforcement. Questioning how Police Officers do their job and why are there so many Black individuals being arrested or shot by Police Officers. It draws to question, is the media’s portrayal of Officer-involved incidents igniting racial

Everyday on social media we see a person of color getting mistreated by the police. Recently it has been getting worse as more and more people of color have been killed by the police for minuscule reasons. The police are meant to protect and serve but for people of color that reality is false. Social media has allowed us to show our reality to mainstream

In today’s society violence in the media has taken a toll, when white cops starting shooting black unarmed people. In the Washington Post, is sited the 492 people have been shot and killed by the police. There were several shootings that took place daily. The media on television would show every one of the shootings. The shootings were on Facebook, the news, and the newspaper. After showing these shootings, people would start to riot and protest. I saw the video of Philando Castile shooting on Facebook.

Due to the new media presenting mainly sensational crimes and police involvement the public’s view of law enforcement is skewed and molded by what is depicted from the media rather than what is actually occurring around them (Bohm & Haley, p. 14, 2011). The media reports high profile crimes along with heinous crimes to get ratings and a higher viewer involvement. Often the news media reports what they believe is going to grab the viewer’s attention rather than the facts of the event. The effects that this type of reporting has on society's view of law enforcement and the criminal justice system is substantial in that the conception is that sensational crimes make up almost all calls for service when they are actually marginal in the total scope

Fifth, the mobilization for action began from the community's desire for justice for what the policemen did to many innocent black people. They started to intercede by creating protests and bringing awareness to social media by using items such as hashtags. This showed in Michael Brown’s case when people began to organize protests called, “No justice, no peace” and hashtags, “if they gun me down” as seen on Twitter (Complex News, 2014). People started to use social media as their source of movement by revealing videos of the shootings and posts of the location of the protests.

In the world according to the population clock there are about 7.2 billion people on Earth, and about 320 million people in the United States. Social media has grown and spread drastically around the world, media sites like Facebook (1.3 billion) users, Instagram (300 million) users, and Twitter (288 million) users, will be the main networks that will be focus on for this research. This research proposal will discuss criminals use of social media. The main question of the research is : Is it safe to post and interact with social media without worrying about being targeted? The aim of this research is explanatory because more information is needed to fully understand why this is happening. The research will reveal crimes that had occurred during use of social media. Why do these crimes occur? what influences criminals to do these types of crimes? The following crimes like burglary, cyberstalking, phishing, social engineering, malware, and spyware. Looking at location on photos or status ' to find someones location, identity theft, cat fishing, and cyber bullying have been linked to social media. I will also focus on the victims who have suffered from these crimes with the use of surveys and

Community relations with law enforcement is a daunting and a intimidating task. Over the years, the media has shown positive and negative interactions of law enforcement officers and the public. When crime or negative interactions are capture via cell phone and upload into cyber space; it circulates around the world faster than a blink of an eye. For instance, if a police officer stopped a citizen on the street for whatever reason; some people will not make anything of the encounter. However, if the encounter gets out of hand, that is when the people around the area start to pull up their phones and begin the recording process that can show an officer using force. It is imperative that local and other types of governments around the world find and change their ways whenever officer encounter community members, especially in urban minority areas. Professor Gonzales (2017) stated that, “many Central and Eastern European countries have experienced totalitarian governments, where the national police agencies were often used to intimidate and rule their citizens” (Gonzales, 2017). Although, this is extremely unfortunate, these community members from different parts of the country have been created a mistrust with their own police leaders. Ultimately, something ought to be changed. Where do we start? Law enforcement leader should put more emphasis on ethical considerations and leadership. Hence, it is crucial that law enforcement leader build and establish and regain trust and