"Hounding the Innocent" Summary In “Hounding the Innocent” by Bob Herbert talks about how there has been more people being pulled over just so they can be humiliated by the police. The people that are being humiliated are Hispanics and African Americans but it’s really the minorities. The minorities are being stopped for no reason just so they can be seen as the “bad” people. More than 45,000 people have been stopped in 1997 and 1998. The State Police in Oklahoma humiliated an Army General Gerald for two hours and his son because they were African American.
The Ignoring of Black on Black Crime According to an article in the Sunday Montgomery Advertiser by Kala Kachmar, a professor at University of Alabama, Birmingham, John Sloan, says that Southern cities are prone to violence because of a “Southern subculture of violence.” Also he states that the fact that “violence was used to control slaves” also contributes to this subculture.” It has only been about 150 years since the emancipation proclamation! How long must the educators of this country camp out in this tired area of crime causation? It has been over a 100 years since anyone could actually truthfully testify to suffering violence as a slave. Most of the media will not, or is afraid, to bring up the obvious, that black on black crime accounts for far too much of our crime statistics. A 2007 special report released by the Bureau
Dana W. Walker Professor James R. Eisenberg CJ 370 April 29, 2004 A Debate in Capital Punishment: Blacks and the Death Penalty In the United States, approximately 13,000 people have been officially put to death since the colonial period. During the 1930s, up to 150 people were executed per year. Due to the lack of support of the death penalty from the public, the rate went almost to zero by 1967. The United States Supreme Court banned the death penalty in 1972 because of their decision on Furman v Georgia, and then it was later authorized for continuation in 1976 due to their ruling on Gregg v Georgia. The book, The Death Penalty in America, provides a table from 1995; the total number of blacks on death row at that time was 1,246 versus 1,470, the total number of whites (Bedau 65-66).
The numbers don't lie.” “The comments, and the mayor's defense of them, have touched a nerve, sparking a deluge of criticism. Mr. Bloomberg's NYPD ramped up the stop-and-frisk tactic, conducting more than five million stops since the mayor took office in 2002—the vast majority of them being young black and Hispanic men, (Saul and Faux). He practically validated his action and disagreed with the accusations that NYPD racially profile because minorities are not stopped enough compare to the murder suspect’s description and the number of stops are equivalent to the demographics of individuals who commit
There are 60 gangs in the area. The problems in the division became public in 1997 when undercover officer Frank Lyga shot and killed Kevin Gaines, who happened to be off-duty. Kevin Gaines was an African American police officer and Lyga was Caucasian. Lyga’s story was that Gaines had threatened him with a gun and the he shot him in self-defense. His statement was “In my training experience this guy had I’m a gang member written all over him” (pbs.org).
Graham was convicted of murder in 1987, after 14 yrs of wrongful imprisonment; the state gave Graham a £10 check and a coat that was 5 times too big. Whereas David Williams, Pride of the Canadian forces, Williams was set free, until further digging found that he had murdered and assaulted many women, he was finally convicted, after writings and photographic records were found. Additional research has found that accents can affect whether the defendant is seen as innocent or guilty. Mahoney and Dixon (2002) found that `Brummies` were more likely to be found guilty of armed robbery than cheque fraud compared to a defendant with a posh accent. Race of the defendant and jury`s play a massive part in the courtroom.
Ethnicity and the Police By CJA344 The police department is leaving a bad impression in many minority communities, because of the corruption and brutality that comes from the police patrolling the areas. The police should leave a positive impression with the communities that they serve, this way the police will be able to ask the community for help when needed. There are a few people in the community that speak highly of the police because they have good experiences with the police and have positive opinions of the police and are more freely to cooperate with the police department. Lack of community support to the police force can lead to more crimes in the communities, as a result of the community the police can be less likely to work up to their full potential. “When crime rate goes up there is a further dip in the public perception of the police resulting in a greater antagonism towards the police on the part of the public “(1985).
Officers must use the minimum amount of force necessary when trying to contain a suspect, but that is not always the case. Some officers are seen abusing their power and using excessive force when it is not necessary. How do we determine when the officers have gone over board and it is now police brutality, where do we draw the line? Police brutality is when an officer intentionally uses excessive
By the November presidential election, however, Klan intimidation led to suppression of the Republican vote and only one person voted for Ulysses S. Grant. Klansmen killed more than 150 African Americans in a county in Florida, and hundreds more in other counties. Freedmen's Bureau records provided a detailed recounting of Klansmen's beatings and murders of freedmen and their white allies terrorist organization" In 1999, the city council of Charleston, South Carolina passed a resolution declaring the Klan to be a terrorist organization A similar effort was made in 2004 when a professor at the University of Louisville Today, a large majority of sources consider the Klan to be a "subversive or began a campaign to have the Klan declared a terrorist organization so it could be banned from campus. In April 1997, FBI agents arrested four members of the True Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Dallas for conspiracy to commit robbery and to blow up a natural gas processing plant. In the year that followed the bureau spent $17,000,000 establishing 4,000 schools, 100 hospital and providing homes and food for former
This can sometimes lead to police brutality, and conflicts within police officers in each department. Suspicion just depends how you define it. A police officer that is overly suspicious can make many mistakes, as he has major trust issues. It can prevent him or her from making rational moves or decisions. This can also be ties into insecurity as well.