Summary: Outline On Racial Profiling In Law Enforcement
Racism in Law Enforcement: Outline
CJUS 300
I. Introduction- The criminal justice system can be bias toward other races, meaning certain races are criminalized and profiled more othen than others, historically and presently.
a. Statistics- Bureau of Justice statistics will be discussed and disclosed comparing races/ethnicity and imprisonment rates amond them. Discussion will include rates of police brutality, as well as mental health stats.
b. Definition
i. Racial profiling- discrimination and picking someone out as a suspect or suspicious merely based on race or ethinicty and nothing more. ii. Social Injustice- Showing favoritism toward someone because of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, etc. iii. Equality- everyone having same rights, …show more content…
The war on drugs and racisim- charging innocent people to meet quotas; these have primarily been blacks. Poorer neighborhoods tend to have higher crime rates as well as higher level of minorities.
b. Corrupt Police practice
i. Racial profiling and police discretion ii. General sterotypes iii. Enforcement- law officals tend to protect their own and make excuses even when the officer is in the wrong doing.
c. Police Enforcement practices
i. Racial profiling ii. Sentencing practices- more blacks (percentage wise) per capita end up with jail time or harsher punishments in general compared to other race populations. This is even more true and disportionat rates for drug related crimes.
1. Incarceration
2. Crime rates
III. Media impact
a. Portrayal of criminals- there is inquality in the races in how crimnals are portrayed in movies and television. This was especially true in 80’s and 90’s portraying blacks as drug crimnals during the beginning of war on drugs.
i. Stigmization- target blacks and Hispanics disportionalty.
b. Sensationlism of “race wars” and general media coverage- media wants attention and higher rating and more viewers. They will often blow things of of proportion expoentionaly to get people anxious and passionate for one side or the …show more content…
Understanding past and making changes for present
c. Differciating media sensationism from truth
V. Conclusion- wrapping up all the info and concluding overall the best combined solution based on the research to make a difference in the present and into the future for people of all races to feel equal and heard.
VI. References
Bureau of Justice Statistics- http://www.bjs.gov
Barrett, G.A. and Fletcher, S.M.G. (2014). Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing: Findings from a study in the north of England. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14 (2), 196-215.
Chaney, C. and Robertson, R.V. (2013). Racisim and police brutality in America. Journal of African American Studies, 17 (4), 480-505.
Dale, D. (2015) FBI Director Acknowledges racial bias in policing. Retrieved Aprl 28, 2015 from: http://www.sentencingproject.org/detail/news.cfm?news_id=1907&id=122
Feagin, J.R. (2014). Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. Ney York, NY: Routledge-Taylor and Francis.
Reiman, J. (2007). The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison. New York: Pearson
Stone, C. and Travis, J. (2013). Toward a new professionalism in policing. Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies, 13,
CJUS 300
I. Introduction- The criminal justice system can be bias toward other races, meaning certain races are criminalized and profiled more othen than others, historically and presently.
a. Statistics- Bureau of Justice statistics will be discussed and disclosed comparing races/ethnicity and imprisonment rates amond them. Discussion will include rates of police brutality, as well as mental health stats.
b. Definition
i. Racial profiling- discrimination and picking someone out as a suspect or suspicious merely based on race or ethinicty and nothing more. ii. Social Injustice- Showing favoritism toward someone because of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, etc. iii. Equality- everyone having same rights, …show more content…
The war on drugs and racisim- charging innocent people to meet quotas; these have primarily been blacks. Poorer neighborhoods tend to have higher crime rates as well as higher level of minorities.
b. Corrupt Police practice
i. Racial profiling and police discretion ii. General sterotypes iii. Enforcement- law officals tend to protect their own and make excuses even when the officer is in the wrong doing.
c. Police Enforcement practices
i. Racial profiling ii. Sentencing practices- more blacks (percentage wise) per capita end up with jail time or harsher punishments in general compared to other race populations. This is even more true and disportionat rates for drug related crimes.
1. Incarceration
2. Crime rates
III. Media impact
a. Portrayal of criminals- there is inquality in the races in how crimnals are portrayed in movies and television. This was especially true in 80’s and 90’s portraying blacks as drug crimnals during the beginning of war on drugs.
i. Stigmization- target blacks and Hispanics disportionalty.
b. Sensationlism of “race wars” and general media coverage- media wants attention and higher rating and more viewers. They will often blow things of of proportion expoentionaly to get people anxious and passionate for one side or the …show more content…
Understanding past and making changes for present
c. Differciating media sensationism from truth
V. Conclusion- wrapping up all the info and concluding overall the best combined solution based on the research to make a difference in the present and into the future for people of all races to feel equal and heard.
VI. References
Bureau of Justice Statistics- http://www.bjs.gov
Barrett, G.A. and Fletcher, S.M.G. (2014). Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing: Findings from a study in the north of England. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14 (2), 196-215.
Chaney, C. and Robertson, R.V. (2013). Racisim and police brutality in America. Journal of African American Studies, 17 (4), 480-505.
Dale, D. (2015) FBI Director Acknowledges racial bias in policing. Retrieved Aprl 28, 2015 from: http://www.sentencingproject.org/detail/news.cfm?news_id=1907&id=122
Feagin, J.R. (2014). Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. Ney York, NY: Routledge-Taylor and Francis.
Reiman, J. (2007). The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison. New York: Pearson
Stone, C. and Travis, J. (2013). Toward a new professionalism in policing. Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies, 13,