Law And Order Special Victims Unit Analysis

For our media critique assignment, my media group chose to review the television show series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. This show is about an elite squad of New York Police Department detectives called the Special Victims Unit who investigate sexually based offenses and crimes. The episode I chose to watch was the third episode from season fifteen and it was titled American Tragedy. Within this episode itself, there were many stereotypes present, especially about black and white communities. In the episode you can tell that there is tension between these two communities of people and that there are many injustices that take place. This storyline portrayed the focus of increasing incidents of hate crimes against racial minorities across the United States leading towards failure of equality and justice among all individuals. The episode American Tragedy was about a white Southern celebrity chef accusing a a black 16 year old teenager of trying to rape her. The woman said he followed her to her gate and wasn’t backing away so she shot him. In reality, the teenage boy was walking on the sidewalk and she was yelling at him from behind but he didn't hear her since he
The woman was found not guilty by a jury with a majority of white individuals on it. To me this is a very unjust situation that sadly happens a lot in our society. I feel that if our justice system keeps letting people go free without consequence of taking another life for nothing but racial reasons, then the rate of this type of crime will just keep increasing and this is scary to think about. This depicts how our society really favors white supremacy and how minorities aren’t getting the respect or equality they deserve. The racial divide in our society is very noticeable, but is brushed under the rug by superiors in our society and this is a portrayal of the white supremacy that has been dominating our society for a long