It’s the same story in “Tips for Being an Unarmed Black Teen”, where the author asks their readers to try to see it from the police’s point of view: “You may be unarmed, but you’re also black.” This reasoning might explain why a black person is killed every 28 hours by police, or how “A black person is killed by a white police officer more than twice a week”, probably because “Instead of black people being presented as savages and beasts like they once were, the media perpetuates the notion that black people are gangbangers and thugs” (Taylor). Black people in America are better off hiding out than walking the streets--you know, like a normal
Ethical Dilemma for Boston P.D. turns Deadly Abstract In the late 1980’s into the 1990’s Boston Police where under large amounts of pressure by political leaders and the public to crack down on the drug problem in the city. Unfortunately this turn deadly in February of 1988 when a member of Boston P.D. was gunned down where he and other officers had illegal obtained a search warrant. The ethical dilemma they where faced with was should they do everything by the book and not get the job done, or do things a little off the record and get the job done?
Ferguson & Baltimore, Segregation to Separation: Prophecy Coming To Pass It is unfortunate that, the violent racial riots in Ferguson and Baltimore, that occurred after the death of clearly innocent Black youth, has diverted the public debate to ‘need for better policing’. The casualty has been obfuscation more fundamental issues like; century-old public policy of systematic social segregation, increasing economic inequality, and wholesale abdication by the state of social welfare obligations Century-Old Systematic Segregation According to The University of Chicago’s sociologist, Douglas S. Massey, “Housing segregation is both a consequence and a cause of Black poverty. Housing markets distribute not only a place to live, but they
For example, racial profiling is considered to be a form of stereotyping and discrimination, which fuels the injustice of racial inequality – racism. There are countless examples from centuries past and up to now that support claims of racial discrimination amongst minority groups. For example, “during the eras of lynching in the South in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the civil rights movement in the 1950's and 1960's, southern sheriffs sat idly by while racists like the Ku Klux Klan terrorized African Americans (ACLU, 2013).” More recently, another example is “the targeting that has been ongoing since the September 11th attacks, of Arabs, Muslims and South Asians for detention on minor immigrant violations in the absence of any connection to the attacks on the World Trade Center or the Pentagon (ACLU,
Individuals have also made good arguments about the negative outcome that racial profiling might bring to our society. Obviously it has led the dominant race to have superiority to the minorities – racial discrimination. James Zogby, the president of the Arab-American Institute have made a point that he have seen a lot of dark skinned people being searched and treated with humiliation, which is really wrong – Racial Relations. David Harris, a writer and Professor at Toledo College, have already written a couple of books about racial profiling. He states that law enforcers think that they would be more accurate in targeting a suspicious group, but in reality, what happens is the total opposite wherein officials have inaccurate results in targeting the suspect—Race Relations.
The Sandford Police department is faced with many ethical issues since the shooting death of a young black teen in February. The department is facing racial issues in the community that are fueled by the mass media coverage of the case. The police chief has been forced to step down, the community is in a rage, and the news outlets are only reporting information that keeps the community thinking that this case is about the defendant being Hispanic and the victim a young Black man. The Sanford Police department is facing high racial tension among the members of its community. The shooting of Trayvon Martin a young black teen by a Hispanic male; has sparked many protest by the black members of the Sanford community among others.
THE CONTROVERSY OF MALCOLM X Ever since he first appeared as a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X has raised many controversies. His revolutionary speeches influenced many disadvantaged black people. However, he was also severely criticized for his demands for total separation between blacks and whites in America. In his speeches, he often referred to the whites as the "devils". In his view, the white race in general was guilty for the suppression and sufferings of the black race.
Its imperfectness was experienced after the Oklahoma City bombing when experts first thought the suspects were of Middle Eastern descent (Amnesty, 2006). The perpetrator of the bombing was actually a white American. After the 2002 Beltway killings of black citizens began, authorities focused on a white male acting alone, the typical profile of a serial killer, allowing the two black men committing these crimes to go unnoticed although their car license plate was checked many times (Amnesty, 2006). When racial or ethnic characteristics are the primary cause for targeting a person for criminal investigation criminal profiling becomes racial profiling. The term ‘racial profiling’ is a new term commonly associated with the old practice of discrimination and owes its existence to prejudice that has existed in this country since slavery (Racial, 2006).
Recent high profile court cases have led to many voicing their belief that there is deep institutionalised discrimination against minorities. An example of this is the ‘Zimmerman vs Martin’ case. Zimmerman (white male) actively ignored dispatcher advice and chased Trayvon Martin (black make) before a fight broke out, in which Zimmerman killed Martin with a gun. Zimmerman then walked free. Many believe that the outcome would have been completely different had the roles been reversed.
Hate Crimes Hate crime, are directed against different types of people that poses a challenge toward the public enemy, organizations, groups. Such hate crimes are anything from arson, harassment, personal assaults to killings. American society views hate crimes as being bias such as the killings of African Americans. The first recorded hate crime came back in 1922 and still goes on as of today. The hate crime can be brutal such as lynchings.