racial profiling
Racial profiling in law enforcement is a deep-rooted issue with far-reaching ramifications; voice your take on 'broken-windows' policing and controversies surrounding race and crime.
Timeline of Central Park Jogger Case
April 19, 1989: after 9pm, a group of 33 teenagers went into Central Park at 110th Street and 5th Avenue for the purpose of beating and robbing people in the park – an activity known as “wilding.”As the group traveled south through the park, they harassed and assaulted random people they encountered. At least seven men – joggers, walkers, and bikers – were attacked by the group between 9pm and 10pm. Two of the men had such serious head injuries that they were hospitalized. As the group was rioting through the park, different people who saw them or who were harassed by them notified the police. Central Park police officers began searching for the group, traveling to the last destination where the group had reportedly been. And the young men, seeing approaching police lights, retreated into the darkness and behind trees to avoid the police. Finally, at almost 10pm, the group left the park at West 96th Street. The Central Park police officers, unable to find the youths, also left the park and immediately saw a large number of young men walking north on Central Park West. The officers tried to detain the group, but the young men scattered – some running west and others jumping the wall and running back into Central Park. Five of the teens – including KEVIN RICHARDSON and RAYMOND SANTANA were arrested in or adjacent to Central Park, shortly after the last assault and robbery occurred. The rest of the group fled. At the time, the group was intercepted, the police did not yet know that a female jogger had been raped, beaten, and left for dead in the woods north of the 102nd Street transverse. The police were interviewing the young men who had been apprehended and preparing paper work to charge them with the assaults and robberies for the crimes against the male victims.
By Gladys W. Muturi2 years ago in Criminal
Good Cop Bad Cop Psycho Cop
The George Floyd catastrophe was not an arrest so much as it was a crime in progress. From the beginning, the encounter between Floyd and the Minneapolis Police Department disintegrated rapidly, and it culminated in Floyd’s death. A cluster of complicated factors, including officer complicity and the phenomenon known as contempt of cop, played into the debacle, with race looming over the entire encounter like a miasmic cloud. Taken together, these factors solidified themselves into a gordian knot of police mistakes that ended in murder and the launch of the Black Lives Matter movement.
By L. Erin Giangiacomo2 years ago in Criminal
If You Think Scottsboro Boys & Central Park Five were wrongfully accused of crime, Think Again.
Unlike the Scottsboro Boys and the Central Park Five, a group of teenaged boys from the 1930s and the 1980s who were wrongfully convicted of crime then years later exonerated after they were founded innocent.
By Gladys W. Muturi2 years ago in Criminal
Conspiracy Theories
Have you noticed how many conspiracy theories have sprung up the past five years? Why do you think so many have given us pause to ponder? Do you think it had something to do with war, politics, crime, economy, love, peace, beauty, sickness, and/or the loyalists of the "keeping it real" trend? I do. I'm mentally-ill - Nice to meet you. Do you agree with the Chesire Cat that "we're all MAD here...." ? I do, but some of us got an official diagnosis, which can be difficult or helpful depending on how one utilizes their title.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman2 years ago in Criminal
What Is Environmental Racism, and How Can We Fight It?
What’s it like where you live? Does the air smell fresh? Do you have a green space somewhat nearby that you can enjoy? Is your water clear and clean? These seem like basic requirements for any living situation—and they should be. But they’re not the reality for certain communities in America that are affected by environmental racism.
By Buehler Bowen2 years ago in Criminal
RACISM AND HATE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Has the American Southeast changed from its intolerant and unjust past? Is racism, ethnic and religious intolerance still factors in how justice is laid out and how people are treated by their neighbors in the southern states, also called the Bible belt? Many would say, yes, it has changed do to great men and women like Martin Luther King JR, who fought peacefully to gain rights for all to live in justice instead of injustice. The Bible belt has become more diverse over the years, because of climate, cheaper real estate and jobs, which bring people in from New England, western states, (like California), and from other countries. This means that the once very homogeneous white Protestant Confederate South of the past has a mix of different cultures, ethnicities, races and religions. Many cities like Atlanta, Georgia have a cosmopolitan atmosphere, with many different communities interacting together, not at all like the stereotypical old South.
By Sherrie D. Larch2 years ago in Criminal