Romona Moore Case Study

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I had never heard of this tragic Romona Moore case until we had a chance in the class to watch the horrific crime, which was perpetrated against this young woman, in the. It is a terrible distress what happened to this smart and hard working young woman, by two despicable pieces of garbage, but what is even more of a tragedy, is the way, the New York City police department dismissed her family and friends when they reported her missing. All of civilians have a right to the same resources as anyone else who need a help from police or who reports a missing person, yet, victim’s family were ignored. In addition, there are another ignorance which was deprived of humanity. The man who knew about Romona Moore's kidnapping and torture did nothing to aide or assist her even he didn’t report to police. I would guess he might have practiced to call 911 phones as a fun at least once but he just ignored her deadly situation in front of his eyes. I wonder it is possible to disregard to him if it was…show more content…
I could guess there are lots of stereotypes of Black communities. Because the detectives in her local district where she resided concluded that she was with a boyfriend or just took off even her family convinced the NYPD that their daughter was not a runaway but no one listened to their allegation. The NYC police department treated her case and her family with disregard. However, Do the NYPD act the same ways if Romona Moore is White girl or wealthy family girl? I don’t live in US for a long but I could notice that there are always issues of racism everywhere in U.S. Probably, It is no secret that racism, bias and classism, exists within American police department. When it comes to the way the NYC police department handle crimes perpetrated against blacks and crimes perpetrated against whites, it would be very different, especially when the perpetrator is black, and the accuser is

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