Our lives are watched over every day by police and security every day. They are what make citizens feel like they are safe to go about their day to day business. What happens though when these people that are there to protect us are the ones who are also making people live in fear? Across the country and even around the world, people of all ethnicities face the problem of racial profiling whether they’re African-American, White, Mexican, Asian, or any other race. Not all people are racist but still to this day racial profiling exists and happens on a day to day basis. The minorities however are the ones who face the real impact of this profiling and are abused by law enforcement physically and mentally. Reputations of officers drop among these people because they now believe that instead of being there to protect them, the police are out to get them. These events of racial profiling are hardly brought to public concern because they are usually pushed aside as false claims. These accounts of profiling have left people across the humiliated and in some cases dead.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Racial Profiling Notes and Resources
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/opinion/racial-profiling-lives-on.html?_r=0
- officers are more likely to stop African americans and latinos before white person based on suspicion and race.
- racial stereo types say that an armed black man is more dangerous than a armed white man
- could stop a person for being latino and believe that they are undocumented
- officers can stop and question anyone because as long as there free to walk away, the fourth amendment doesn't apply
- officers don't have to tell a person that they have the right to deny a search request
- white officers became more aggressive due to a fact that they had stopped a black man
- due to the fact that perry said he was making sure no one was following him, the officers began questioning him further for things other than the traffic violation
- perrys mentality was to not question the officers especially since they were white and to do as they say
- officers look for things to questions such as tinted windows and begin trying to take keys from his car
- a 3rd officer shows up that is black, upon seeing perry, there is a different reaction that comes from the two white cops that are very apologetic.
- LAPD denies any racial profiling in there department and that if there is any, its very little
- LAPD refuses any type of work that involes weeding out or pointing out racial profiling in there department
- 1200 claims made against LAPD for racial profiling, all of them denied by them
- a white man who was said to be an "aggressive neighborhood watch" suspicious of a black teen walking in his complex
- due to reports of theft, it was assumed that this black teen was up to no good
- dispatchers tried telling Zimmerman that he didn't need to follow trayvon and he refused
- police defend Zimmerman claiming it was "self-defense" and that it applies under stand your ground laws
- witnesses that called the police said that the cries for help were from a boy that suddenly stopped when a gun shot was fired.
- trayvon's girlfriend was on the phone with him before this happened and there is recorded evidence that Zimmerman confronted trayvon first
- andy was a kid of Hispanic decent, a possible reason to the quick decision to shoot
- officers gave little warning to surrender before shooting
- soldiers at war don't have permission to fire unless fired upon where as the police fired on this boy before he fully turned around
- 7 shots fired within 10 seconds, a long period to be shooting at someone
- a young black man is stopped for traffic violation by an officer in street clothes and is choked by the officer
- the black man says that the officer was pulling his gun and accidently shot himself in the leg and in that moment took the gun from him and threw it and ran away.
- evidence does show that the officers equipment was scattered around the area but the gun was never found
- officers say that riley took the officers weapon and shot him with it and ran off
- there is a pattern that shows officers assume that the black body is considered a weapon.
- durham county is know as one of North Carolinas most racist areas
- other reports of racial profiling have occurred in this area that have end with physical violence by the officers who stop people based on race
- racial profiling can be found across the world and for many other races
- A gypsy family in sweeden found out that they were on a profile for police to fight violent crime
- 5000 people in this profile not limited to children
- compared the situation to hitler
- European countries are racist towards these people and are the equvilant of how people profile against minorities in America
- Some people in Europe don't deny the racial profiling such as the French interior minister who says that there lifestyle is "confrontational" to that of the French
- officers in this airport have observed evidence of racial profiling
- written complaints from the officers that they were to target minorities
- minorities were stopped to raise numbers of stops to show that there program was working but 80 percent of the stops were on minorities
- alameda county sheriff have received about 30 complaints of racial profiling since 2005 and found 3 to be improper actions by officers
- stereotyping is typical human behavior whether you believe it or not
- officer Ron Davis looks on his career of policing and realize that he has been apart of racial profiling even though it wasn't intentional
- video evidence of an officer running over a black man running on foot
- shooting another man 10 times for not listening to orders.
- officer being charged with man slaughter
- officers report that the man shot charged the car and was shot at with a tazer and missed so 10 shots were fired but dash cam shows that the man shot had his hands above his head
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
7 Times
The officers shot out of racial profiling, no doubt in my mind. I won't lie if I saw someone in a hoodie walking around with what appeared to be a real weapon, I'd be a little on edge. What troubles me is the fact that the officers were so quick to shoot without letting the boy answer. The officer fired because the kid supposedly turned around and pointed the gun at the officer. I don't believe that one second because I'm pretty sure no one is dumb enough to point a gun, fake or real, at an officer. I think the kid was just turning around to see who called him but wasn't given the chance too. If officers have free range like this, are we saying that if a ranger calls out to a hunter and they turn around, they have the right to shoot them. Even on the battlefields in Afghanistan, There are still rules to engagement. Soldiers are not to shoot unless fired upon. Does this mean that people over there who we're at war with get more protection that the citizens who are supposed to be protected by police? The article says the officer was 30 feet away. Even if there's no orange tip, that's still close enough to determine if its a air rifle. As realistic as it may have looked there are still clear distinguishable differences between the two. If this was really and accident, the officer would have shot only once, because at that point the person would shoot back immediately. Seven times though in 10 seconds though..... that tells you that this officer only wanted to kill.
Monday, November 4, 2013
Racial Profiling Lives On Notes
- Officers tend to harass minorities due to racial profiling.
- An officer is more likely to stop a African American or Latino before a white person.
- Crime rates are significantly higher for minorities but that's due to officers who patrol and frisk low in come/ high crime rate areas which are usually home to minorities.
- Officers will try and find and excuse to stop a minority.
- People don't have the right to know that they can refuse a request to conduct a search. This causes people to give themselves up to search.
- Immigration laws cause most Latinos to be stopped and checked of documents just by suspicion.
- Even if the officer was to use what the suspect would call "excessive force" court would appeal to the officer because it is there judgment.
- As long as an officer has reasonable excuse for why they stopped someone, it is constitutional and there's no proof against and officer who is supposedly using racial profiling.
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