Contrastingly whites are underrepresented. However such statistics do not tell us whether members of one ethnic group are more likely than members of another ethnic group to commit an offence in the first place; they just tell us about involvement in the criminal justice system. For example differences in stop and search or arrest rates may be due to police racism, while differences in rates of imprisonment may be the result of courts handing down harsher sentences on minorities. There are other sources of statistics to reveal link of ethnicity and offending. Victim surveys ask individuals to say what crimes they have been victims of.
“Those two guys came out of nowhere, made everyone go to the corner,” the bagboy said/. Also, according to the bagboy, one of the masked men took the clerk working at the time, Celeste Turner, to the register. During the investigation, investigators found that the store only had two surveillance cameras, one over the register and one in the loading docks. After all the damage, the robbery left five dead bodies, including one police officer, two customers and the gunmen. Story 2 Las Vegas, NV— Officer involved in grocery store shooting is put on leave Officer Frank Fromanski has been going through questioning from Internal affairs this week, about his connection in last Monday’s grocery story robbery.
http://www.usa.com/philadelphia-pa-crime-and-crime-rate.htm When will these crimes decrease, where the residents will feel safe again? There were unsolved cases like 19-year old Rameek Roland who was shot multiple times in South Philadelphia, who was later was pronounced dead. (Grubola, H, 2009) 26-year-old Montague White - was found shot multiple times in his chest and hip. There were Priest who was molesting little children and no one was doing anything about it. Philadelphia had a few serial rapists which only two of those rapists were caught.
After the case was reviewed, The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the police couldn’t use the confession because they had failed to inform Miranda of his rights to consul and against self-incrimination. This case really changed the Criminal Justice system because it keeps people from being able to abuse the system. Also people don’t always know all of the laws, so having counsel present is very important, having an attorney keep people from self-incrimination because the lawyers can tell them when to stop talking about whatever they may have been involved in. An attorney is very important in cases like these where people who have no educational back ground and aren’t mentally stable have someone to represent them. In the Law & Order: SVU case, the boy was 17, and although he waived his right to being questioned
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.
Gates found the front door to his home jammed shut and with the help of his driver to force it open. A local witness reported their activity to the police as a potential burglary in progress. That Crowley had explained. Gates came to the door and said “why because I’m black man in America?” Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct, by Police St. James Crowley. On July 21, 2009, charges against Gates were dropped.
This was one action taken by almost all of the colonies to get rid of it, and was the first example of unity. Decisions being made by these colonies had benefited the colonies’ alliance. According to Document 4, because of the king’s tyrannical rule, colonists were not permitted to trade around the world; they were given specific colonies to trade with. The colonists were also being imposed of taxes without their consent, or being voiced. He deprived them of many cases of the benefits of trial by jury.
This legislation, however, proved to have many loopholes around it for illegal immigrants to obtain drivers’ licenses regardless of their illegal status because the states were not obliged to conform to the standards. Therefore, states like Washington and Oregon that did not conform to the national standards until later in 2008 when the federal government made it that non-conforming licenses were no longer accepted in any federal agency, became a sort of a safe haven for a lot of illegal immigrants from various states to obtain drivers’
Community standards were upheld by Justice Finnane DCJ. At the time of the sentencing, society was strongly against gang rapes as there was considerably more media coverage of gang rapes than in previous times. The problem that arose after the reduction of the sentence was that it discouraged other victims of sexual assault from reporting incidents as the legal process for the R v Skaf case was lengthy and emotionally traumatic. Therefore by reducing the sentence victims may see it as a waste of time and a blow to their emotions and mental state. In this aspect justice has not been achieved for other victims of sexual assault.
As I quote this is how the incident occurred “On the morning of January 28, 2008 New Orleans Police Officer Nicola Cotton approached a man sitting down in a small strip mall in the Central City section of New Orleans who matched the description of a rape suspect. Surveillance footage from one of the store’s security cameras showed that she motioned for the man to come toward her. The man then attacked Officer Cotton and they struggled in the parking lot for seven minutes. Eventually, the man took Officer Cotton’s gun and shot her 15 times, killing her. The man then sat down in the parking lot and waited as other police responded to Cotton’s radio calls for help.