The Lgbt Community

Many say that black people hold 26% of the shootings but are only 10% of the total population. This is invalid as many will know that in the inner cities and poor neighborhoods like the streets of chicago many are involved in violent crimes, resulting in a heart-breaking death. Many will put in that statistic and rely on it with no further information. The millions that see this are influenced, and many people mostly youth begin to believe the false stereotype amongst white cops in particular. “ The second piece of evidence is another statistic showing rates of Police on Black Violence to Black on Police. “The article by the wall street journal says “Officers are killed by blacks at a rate 2.5 times higher than the rate at which blacks are killed by police” As many say cops kill black males unproportionally the FBI says otherwise. The third piece of evidence is also from the Wall Street Journal.“Officers’ use of lethal force following an arrest for a violent felony is more than twice the rate for white as for black arrestees, according to one study” If their was an existing bias it would be in favor of blacks over whites. In many cases in poor neighborhoods where a vast majority of the inhabitants are blacks or hispanic, the crime is higher, and there still continues to be less violence against

While racism might appear to be the primary cause of a higher proportion of African American deaths by police, when comparing that to crime rates and police encounters by African Americans, the proportional gap significantly lessens. According to “the counted” police shootings database by the guardian newspaper, police shootings of African Americans in 2016 make up around 25% even though they only make up 13% of the population. This one statistic has led many people from the general public, media, and scholars to attribute this as evidence for racism. What they fail to mention however, is that according to the FBI database on crimes committed by race in 2011, African Americans commit 28.4% of all crimes, 50% of homicides, 55.6% of robberies, and 33.6% of aggravated

This article goes through the disparities in races in comparison to violence. Statistically blacks are six times more likely to die by homicide than white people are (Robert J. Sampson, 2004). That is a significant gap between the two races. The rates of Latino’s have slowly been converging with the whites in more recent years. There are other studies that are based on police statistics that show disadvantaged communities have the highest violent crime rates.

The country of America was founded on the idea that every person should be treated equal and have the opportunity to live a happy, successful life. Therefore, it is important that Americans educate themselves on the proper terms to use when discussing the LGBTQ community. No one should feel threatened or offended because of improper vocabulary, and I feel that our country would be a better place if more people took the time to educate themselves on how to treat every American with respect, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. I also believe that discussions about LGBTQ demographics could benefit our entire country. Discussing the reality and facts about demographics will allow Americans to become more aware of the gender

Moreover, VerBruggen suggest that another reason for the appearance of racial bias is that we’re not analyzing the right sub-group, we should be examining murderers. He avows that, “according to the FBI about 50 percent of all murderers are black males.” Therefore, the only reasonable deduction is that violent-crime rates explain why police kill black males more than white males. He implies that the high crime rate in African American communities is the sole reason for the appearance of racial bias; in fact, he states bias does not exist, just

The studies concerning the correlation between race and crime in the United States is a common source for social debate for more than a hundred years. Since a few decades ago, the major focuses of controversy are the causes of high percentages of minorities at various stages of the justice system, such as arrests, prosecutions and incarcerations. For example, prosecutors tend to push for mandatory minimum sentences for Black and Hispanic defendants as twice as much than other races, which leads to more racial data disparities in incarceration rates for these races (Rehavi and Starr, p.11) on the other hand, in the midst of controversy, people disregard the merits of these studies. Likewise, the fine line between racial statistics and racial profiling is often blurred. Thus, a media-inflated event, such as the recent Ferguson Incident, blinds people from seeing the importance of these statistics in their everyday lives. Therefore, most people argue against the use of racial statistics in forensic science. However, even if the argument is that these

For many years’ crime in America has been an ongoing problem with statistics dramatically varying over the past decade (Walker, Spohn & DeLone 2012). American crime statistics show crime is commonly associated with racial aggregation, crimes include: drugs, burglary, larceny, arson and motor vehicle theft, to more violent crimes, such as, rape, robbery, assault and homicide, in which the rate is exceptionally high (Walker, Spohn & DeLone 2012). Further, racial conflict has been an issue in American history for over a century and continues to be an arguable topic (Beckett & Sasson 2014). According to Walker, Spohn and DeLone (2012) it is argued that the American criminal justice system declares they are not racist and that allegations of

As said by DailyWire.com, a 2015 statistic shows that 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. Whites make up about 62% of the population, while blacks make up about 13%. A common argument used is that these statistics prove racist treatments towards blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 13 percent of the population. However, according to MacDonald from The Wall Street Journal, a 2009 statistic from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62% of robberies, 57% of murders, and 45% of assaults in 75 of the biggest counties throughout the country despite only having roughly 15% population in these areas. "Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force," writes MacDonald. In this quote, Macdonald gives his reasoning as why police officers may resort to using lethal force regarding certain

Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our schools, workforces, and anywhere else where racism would be at. Hate crimes are our races because most of the races like black hate whites because they're grandpas and parents might hate them and they probably grew up to be like that and it would be the same with the white-hating the blacks for the same thing. Maybe When either the whites or the blacks grew up the white would be rude to the blacks or the blacks be rude to the whites, that's why they might not like the race of the color of their skin. One reason there is racism in America still is because mostly in the olden days there were a lot of racism from the older people and they have probably carried it on to the modern day and maybe they’re grandchildren carried on and started being rude to other races in school. People nowadays do hate crimes on the new technology like in Chicago these black teenagers went to go kidnap this special needs boy and made him drink out of the toilet and one of the black girls had a knife cut a part of his scalp off of his head. T the Washington Post reports on police

Civilization has set standards for certain norms, morals and measures for acceptable behaviors. Behaviors that stray from what is considered the normal is seen as abnormal. However, behavior that was once seen as abnormal may become acceptable. Social norms may occur within a certain time frame and therefore, change over time. Such as, until 1980, homosexuality was considered a psychological illness by the World Health Organization (WHO). As time progressed, homosexuality has become more acceptable amongst society and is known as the LGBTQ+ community today. Currently same sex marriages became legal and same sex adoptions are not considered atypical but are supported by many through support groups and organizations. The LGBTQ+ community may

In recent years, equality regarding the lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender community has been a heated topic within politics. Beginning in June of 2015, outrage has grown in Texas with the Supreme Court decision favoring marriage equality. Though LGBT persons now have government approval to marry whom they choose, this effort has not ended discrimination against non-heterosexuals. The LGBT community needs to be included in Article 1 Sections 3, 3a, and 32 of the Texas Constitution, because state laws must abide federal laws, it is necessary they are recognized and protected , and discrimination against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity is an injustice.

Faces of American have changed, a new culture of individuals who identify as the LGBT community. LGBT stands for lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning. This new culture of individuals are free spirited individuals who want to be accepted as an Americans and exercise their constitutional rights. Not only is the world not acceptant of LGBT community most often the first sign of discrimination against these individuals start at home. Many cultures, races, and gender have battled it out on American soil its not going to be an easy fight for this new group of individuals. However, American is a melting pot and with time and countless protest the would will one day be acceptance of the LGBT community.

Before I begin today, I’d like to ask you all a question. Raise your hand if you support the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people? Well, unless the government were looking for someone to arrest for homosexuality the question I just asked wouldn’t have even been posed prior to the 1960’s. Why? Simply because unless you were homosexual, it was assumed everyone in society shunned same-sex relationships.

Research has proven that people are able to make judgements with a fair amount of accuracy. These perceptions are drawn from cultural stereotypes that lead to categorization of others into social categories. The LGBT community has been a subject of interest over the past 25-30 years. Research has been dedicated into searching for the neurological, biological and social correlates associated with this community. The main focus of the research has been on the ability to identify people who are gay. The term gaydar has been coined by different researchers in the field and it relates to the ability to perceive another individual who is gay. However, the research involved has been strictly tied to psychology and as a result its implications are subjective in nature. The current work utilized event related potentials to measure the cognitive processes associated with making the determination of one’s sexual orientation. 21 heterosexual and homosexual male participants had electrodes placed on their scalp to measure their brain activity in response to 120 pictures of gay or straight men. Results found that homosexual males exerted more effort when processing the faces of the targets.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community does not just represent one specific group or individual, LGBT represents every race, religion, ethnicity, and social class. I would not say that the attributes that cause the such a high increase in suicide attempts and successful suicides as a “unique quality. More like, they are a vulnerabilities that make individuals feel as if they do not belong. People in the LGBT community feel out of place, not accepted, the community has an anti-gay stigma, harassed, discriminated against and little to no family or community support (Health People 2020, 2017). The rise in campus resources such as information on depression, suicide and STD’s can related to these vulnerabilities because the LGBT community is silently calling for help. They are experiencing some type of trouble, some group on campus, other individuals or just the community is not welcoming to them. The campus might not have very strict laws against bullying, which is not effectively protecting its students. The students in who identify as LGBT might not feel like the school has effective programs for them, or that the campus health is o a save nonjudgmental place for them. I do believe that the LGBT community can be divided into sections. The different L-G-B-T can each be spilt up into different sections. Since each group faces their own problem, for example, Lesbians only like women, so they will utilize different resources then say