I show more white people than statistically what the truth is in terms of street crime. If you look at the prisons it’s 60-something percent people of color, and 30-something percent of white people. If you look at COPS it’s 60 percent white and 40 percent colored, it’s just the reverse. And I do that intentionally, because I don’t want to contribute to negative stereotypes.” Langley admits to censoring black crime for political reasons not because he is racist. Research has shown that African Americans are over-represented in news reports on crime, and within those stories, they are more likely to be shown as the perpetrators of the crime than as the persons reacting to or suffering from it.
That is where private prisons come in. These prisons bring in a lot of money. Big business is a main component in putting minorities in prison and in keeping them there. The number of minorities in prison is not justified by the crimes that
The book written by the author share some of the most powerful things that happen around us. I believe it is a good source of literature to understand and open our eyes and mind to real life situations in one fiction book. The Novel describes an eleven year old African American in Ohio who lived during the early 1940’s who prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful. Although the book actually expresses some very explicit sex scene of rape, I believe readers should have the mindset of realizing the harshness that goes and has been going on in our world for years and how very hurtful it could be for those who had experienced such inappropriate act in our society. Becomes a very life changing for most.
The idea of racial profiling puts many people on edge, although deep down we all do it from time to time. Now is the time for common sense to come forth to keep this country safe. The fact is, according to “Incarcerated America” by the Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, Americans of African decent make up only 12.32% of the
She talked about the environment being challenging at times when having to deal with people from the Arabic nationality. She expressed how much she disliked seeing them come into her office and how much they try to get over on the welfare system. As I listened to my friend talk, I found it very disheartening to see that she was an agency worker acting as a perpetrator of institutional discrimination. She made it very clear that she doesn’t hesitate to terminate welfare benefits such as food stamps, medical care or cash assistance if there are any discrepancies with their paperwork. There have been moments where she has purposely avoided getting a translator to help her Arabic clients with the English
While the statement is true and affirmative action has in fact opened many doors to African Americans it has also set many up for failure and has begun a path of separation again. People of colored skin have been singled out by rules and guidelines of companies for decades and yet the government still wants to call it fair. Is it really fair though? Is it fair to give a job to someone just because of the color of their skin? We are now separating people based off our assumptions of what someone can do and what someone cannot do.
In the Stanford Prison Experiment and the events with occurred at Abu Ghraib, the guards weren’t trained to be guards of any sort. The guards weren’t given set of rules to of how to detain the prisoners; therefore, they were to be creative in regards of doing their job effectively. In both situations, the guards resorted to sadistic and inhumane forms of torture to keep the prisoners in place. The guards didn’t have any history of psychological problems or violence prior, but it’s shocking what type of measures the guards went to because of their environment and power trip. For the prisoners, they became depressed, psychologically distraught, dehumanized, and powerless.
The thing that Hope was protecting Andy from was the voices in her head. She would hear the voices telling her that someone were going to take him or hurt him in some way. Hope had many problems because she did not have the parenting skills that she needed to take care of Andy. Hope needed people in her life to help her care for Andy and to tell her what she was doing right and what she was doing wrong. Social services should have removed Andy from her care because she could not care for him.
Most of them only engage in the experiment for the money, none of them new exactly what was actually going to happen. It was supposed to be a safe environment to study weather the violent in prison was due to the prison setting, or is it due to the personalities of the prisoner and guards that causes the violence. One of the biggest mistakes that were done in this experiment was that Zimbardo himself was one of the participants of his own experiment, which I think had a huge effect on the course of the events. Since He was the superintendent he was on the guards’ side instead of just observing without any influence of the direction of the experiment. Another ethical problem accrue when there is an invasion of privacy of the participants, like when the prisoners were stripped naked.
Therefore, many people try to avoid talking about such controversial subjects. When living in a country comprised of a variety of races, one might think that acceptance and the freedom to live free of discrimination, especially by law enforcement officials, should be automatically granted, for a society of different individuals allows the realization that a specific race is not the only one inhabiting this world and that other races are here for the same reason. And yet this is not the case with the majority of the population today. Even though black people tend to be less educated and are lower income, the judicial system is racial profiling because white people commit the same amount of crimes as blacks but more blacks are in prison than whites. In 2010, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that “in the United States an estimated 558,700 African American adults were incarcerated under the state and federal jurisdiction.