...bag.” Ignoring the vulgar comments, she quickly pays for her items and walks to her car. As she soon arrives to her car, she finds words sprawled on her window that says, “Go back to where you came from, Afghan terrorist.” The religion Islam has continuously been a target of hate and it has always remained a target since the terrorist attacks on New York City that brought down the famous Twin Towers on September 11, fourteen years ago. Almost yearly, Islamophobic hate crimes have occurred unswervingly five times higher in America than the pre-terror average and they consistently keep increasing since the most recent terrorist attacks produced by terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda, both “Islamic groups.”...
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...HATE CRIME A hate crime is defined as any wrongdoing committed against a specific group of people. A type of prejudice, hate crimes are directed at a group of individuals because of their religion, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, or any other significant characteristic. Here are some basic facts on hate crimes: * Hate crimes have been occurring since ancient civilization, like the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. * 6,222 hate crime incidents involving 7,254 offenses were reported in 2011 alone. * Every hour in the United States, a hate crime is committed against another individual or group. * Half of all the hate crimes in the nation are committed by people between the ages of 15 and 24. * At least eight African Americans, three white people, three gay people, three Jewish people, and one Latino person are victim to hate crimes every day. Hate crimes have been occurring in the US since it was founded, festering in groups like the Klu Klux Klan. The term ‘hate crime’ did not enter the nation’s vocabulary until the early 1980’s—around the time when groups like the Skinheads launched a wave of bias-related crime. The FBI began investigating these hate crimes as early as World War I, when the Klu Klux Klan was at its height, marching in Washington DC and murdering both white and black people with impunity. However, hate crime legislation was not introduced in the House or Senate until the 1980s. In 1990, the Hate Crimes Statistics...
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...Corruption, Misconduct, and Brutality by Police Officers Stephen D. Windish June 9, 2014 CJA / 214 Instructor: Mr. Martinez University of Phoenix Abstract Since the beginning of the structured police forces across the United States corruption, misconduct, and claims of brutality by police officers has been a problem. Police officers who were sworn to protect and serve the people of their communities have been instilled with authority over people. Throughout history anyone having some type of power or absolute authority over another has created controversy. This paper will look into the statements and details of concerns dealing with police corruption, misconduct, and brutality of police officers in the United States. Corruption, Misconduct, and Brutality by Police Officers Corruption by uniformed police officers is a form of misconduct. This is done by an officer who is attempting to obtain something for his personal gain like money or a possible advancement in career. Misconduct of this type is done with the officer using his authority or power abusively. The term police corruption is typically stated when speaking or referring to the department administration doing something to gain a political edge or possibly a kind of gain financially. The everyday uniformed officer could be listed as corrupt by accepting money to not perform his duties properly. All officers who are stated to be corrupt have committed an action that is considered to be illegal. In...
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...The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or F.B.I., is a federal national security organization that has many responsibilities and is comprised of several departments in order to, “protect and defend the United Sates against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the U.S., and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.” The FBI investigates and oversees many different types of threats against the U.S., including: terrorism, counterintelligence, cyber crime, weapons of mass destruction, civil rights, organized crime, white-collar crime, and public corruption. This federal agency was created on July 26, 1908, and is described...
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...deeply. We believe in the help for the underdog, but we want him to stay under.” The civilization of both Ndotsheni and Johannesburg are filled with “dilemmas” because the white man does not want the “brotherhood of man” to be practiced in South Africa. The white man believes that God gives every man, no matter the racial standing gifts and traits that could help the civilization become successful but the white man is “afraid to explore this belief to deeply” because they do not want to give the black man to much leadway or too much power because of what he may do with it. The white man believes that the black man can do great things but he does not want the black man to do better things than that of a white man. Because of this spiritual corruption the tribe is broken, if the white man treated the black man based on how they believed God made all men then the civilization wouldn't be “riddled through and through with...
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...As we all know discrimination has been around for a while now. So what really is the true meaning of discrimination? Discrimination is when an individual or even a group of people are treated differently due to race, national origin, age, gender, etc. Never once will the person doing the discriminating shed light on what that person’s qualifications and individual behavior are, nor have they ever cared. To illustrate the point, here are a few examples of employment discrimination. Up until the 1960s, almost all police departments, especially the southern ones, never would hire officers that were African American. If you were lucky enough to be hired as an African American officer, there were many restrictions that came with it. For example African American officers could not arrest Caucasians, and were not allowed to work in Caucasian neighborhoods. As an African American you were kept in minority neighborhoods. These are the types of work practices that show what discrimination is. Just because of an individual’s race you were treated much differently with many restrictions. Lastly around the same time frame, males were not allowed to be flight attendants. Only females were allowed to work this position. This is an example of gender type discrimination. Never were qualifications and experience reviewed about an individual first. In today’s day and age, police agencies and our criminal justice system as a whole still show many patterns of discrimination. Some of those discrimination...
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...Slide 1 No act is inherently deviant. It depends on 4 factors: time, place, consequence, identity of victim/offender How you perceive yourself is strongly based on how others perceive you Your interactions with others shape who you are. Master – the role that defines who you are (eg. CEO) Self fulfilling prophecy – you embrace what others label you Driving While Black Study (New Jersey)– study to see if blacks are pulled over or arrested more, to see if there is an official or de facto policy of targeting blacks * Determine the total % of black drivers, and the total % of black drivers stopped on the road * They also drove 5 mph above the speed limit and looked at the racial composition of people driving cars that drove past them * They violated traffic laws at approximately the same rate * 73% of drivers stopped and arrested were black, while only 14% of drivers on the road were black. * 35% of all who were stopped were black * Very small probability of this being a fluke * CONCLUSION: Blacks are several times more likely to be stopped than non-Blacks * Studies in Maryland yielded similar results for all minorities Howie Becker – the group creates rules and people that break those rules are labeled outsiders and deviants. Moral Entrepreneurs – people that make a career out of enforcing morality eg. Police Primary deviance – committing a deviant act before the rules are formed. You aren’t stigmatized as being deviant. Person who...
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...Fire and Ice Will the world ever come to an end? And if so, should it end in fire or in ice? These two core questions are raised while reading Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice”. But just for a moment, if we were to take the physical world out of context and replace it with those who live in it, then maybe there is something more to it. Maybe the physical world will not end in such tragic ways, but perhaps society will. These two powerful elements, fire and ice, that are on complete opposite sides of the spectrum, somehow bring out a thought-provoking process about the deterioration of society. The two elements that Frost incorporates into his poem are very vital to its analysis. Fire can symbolize many things negatively as well as positively. The negative affiliations with fire include chaos, war, ruin, and destruction. Few years prior to the American Revolution, there was a chaotic clashing between American colonists and the British because of heavily imposed taxes, thus, portraying an unorganized and hostile society. Plenty of wars have occurred on this earth because of societies. Ruin and destruction also exemplify the notion of this idea. After the tragic 9/11 incident in the United States, many Americans developed such a hatred for the Muslim people (and vice versa) to the point where racism was deemed acceptable. The actions were responsible in the production of one society against another leaving practically no lee-way for peace. Although these characteristics...
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...humans are born with, it is a behavior that is taught and bred into people. In most cases this act of instilling hate is incepted during child hood, by a parent or a close relative. In some cases people who breathe hatred may have been introduced to this way of thinking out of their household by close friends or acquaintances. In either case this way of thinking has caused a strain on intercultural relationships in past years and it stills haunts our current society. The Deep South still wreaks the singe of racial discrimination, it seems the further south you travel the more you can experience or hear about how prevalent racism still is in these areas. It is always bad when the common citizens have this mentality; however when your judicial system is comprised of individuals who still embrace this thought pattern, then you really have to ask yourself who can you trust ?or who can you even turn to? when the officers that are suppose to up hold the laws are tainted along with the laws that are suppose to govern the land. It is apparent that the governing body of the United States places racial issues on the back burner; it seems to me that the government will only address certain issues if media attention warrants it. There is no excuse why all laws are not equivalent throughout the United States; each state currently has different laws to govern the same crimes. If there is one governing body why are the laws not the same every where? The recent incident that took place...
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...It seems that every few years a new trend comes along that effects law enforcement. Several years ago it was racial profiling, before that it was Rodney King and police brutality. In the last two or three years there has been an alarming trend in assaults on police. It seems that we are losing officers at a faster rate than ever. People seem to have no respect for law enforcement nowadays. I don’t know if it is from the media making such a big deal out of corrupt officers, or just a general reaction to the economy. Whatever the reason, it is taking a toll on law enforcement. I know from experience that I hate reading that another officer has fallen. However, I read what happened so that I can try to avoid the same situation as much as possible. That brings on another problem with paranoia. It is possible to be too paranoid; it causes overreaction to situations that are unthreatening at face value, such as the officer drawing his weapon on a normal traffic stop where another officer probably wouldn’t. Is it bad to do? Yes and no. On one hand it is an overreaction and could cause a complaint, and could be totally inappropriate to the situation. On the other hand we are taught from day one in the academy that anyone at any time could try to harm us. So now the officer goes around thinking that he may die at any moment. It is good to have your guard up, but not to the point that you mistreat the public. I think in the near future, the word of a police officer without any physical...
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...sociological topics shown that we have learned in class. The major topics that were shown were corruption in the justice system, deviance, and racial inequalities. This documentary focuses on the life and crimes of Lonnie David Franklin Jr, The Grim Sleeper. In Los Angeles, California poverty was everywhere you looked as well were drugs. There were prostitutes on every corner not to mention people openly smoking crack cocaine on the sides of the roads. In Los Angeles less than 50% of high school students will graduate and at least ⅓ of black men will receive a felony conviction at some point in their life. Very few of the black residents do not feel comfortable with talking to the police about any crimes that are committed. When the police first became aware...
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...Valentin 1 Dennys A. Valentin Mr. Brooks February 12, 2016 Is Graffiti an Art or a Crime? One believes that graffiti is more of an art than a crime. When one judges art as a crime then what creativity will we have in this world? This world has run on art ever since the beginning of time starting when cave men expressed their stories in the form of figures on stone walls. Graffiti is the same thing for our modern society, people draw on walls to tell their stories and their expression on topics, so why put a law on Graffiti? When it comes to the issue of graffiti prople tend to have questions. Is graffiti an art or a crime? Some would wonder why there are charges on your freedom of expression. America is not as free as they say, Americans have come across many roadblocks that threaten freedom of speech, religion, and the likes. We all have to pay to get what we feel inside of ourselves out. Like coming out of the closet, it such a hard struggle because we see the price. Putting a charge on graffiti is almost the same thing as selling art and the proceeding to destroy it.. Some would say that graffiti makes the streets look rather messy, or that it is destroying the property value. Others say there should be justice and to not put so much jail time in this form of freedom of expression. Valentin 2 It is considered to have started in New York City in the late 1960s and became a hit thanks to a young, and flourishing, generation during that time...
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...Poverty is the mother of crime Poverty is the lack of income source to buy food. In some cases it is not only the state of having income that is below the line of poverty but it is also the inability to sustain a specified level of well being. So it is in fact that most of the crimes that occur are due to poverty. No matter how much moral the person is, if the poverty threatens his or her life then he/she is likely to indulge into such criminal acts and could try to attack the prevailing social structure. Sometimes honest people who hate corruption from depth of their beings fail to keep their mental balance and due to the pressure of poverty and resort to crimes just to maintain their existence. In such circumstances the judge only looks at the crime committed instead of finding out the cause that lead the committer to such an act. What happens is the person is sent to jail and is labelled as a criminal and after his release he is further humiliated by the society and therefore is forced to become a habitual thief. The majority of men that are locked up came from a background of poverty. They did not have their fathers. Many of their mothers had them at a young age. They did not have any positive, real male role models. They basically had to raise themselves. The fathers did not have the money to get abortions and then once the baby arrived, they did not have the money to raise the child. Then once the baby arrived, they were living in squalor and poverty and they turned on...
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...Omar Hamada 900141417 Social Problems in the Middle East Dr. Nazek Nosseir Research Paper What Are The Real Reasons Behind Poverty In The Middle East? "Poverty: The state of being extremely poor" by Oxford Dictionaries Introduction With the recent revolutions in the Middle East demanding word and social justice, and the high levels of unemployment in the region. The Middle East is still suffering from a high poverty rating, and a huge wage gap between the social classes. Rich people literally are getting richer while the poor are facing more problems and disasters as time goes by. Many questions remain unanswered: What are the reasons behind poverty in the Middle East? Why do rich people get richer while the poor get poorer? How do the rich people benefit from the current situation? How laws are fixed to protect only the rich? Are governments involved in these acts? Poverty rate in MENA has been slightly declining since 1990 to 2005, 17 percent of the region's population live below $2/day in 2005. The region faces various challenges in poverty reduction, such as the persistency of poverty, as poverty in this region is impacted by a hasty economic growth, which is above 2 percent per capita. This is a result of the nature of poverty, which is concentrated on groups that benefit the last ones from that economic growth: the uneducated, rural residents, families with a lot of members. Another challenge the region is facing is the increasing inequality, which is increasing...
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...you only see the top layer of it all, but when it starts to unravel that is when you know whom your neighbors really are, crooked. In To Kill a Mockingbird, you will begin to see the crime and corruption, behind every whisper. Corruption is like a shadow, following you everywhere; all you have to do is peel off each layer to find the truth. Each person will be known as a fine citizen but in reality they live behind a mask of shame and regret. In some situations they will be portrayed as an evil being but will be found to be the opposite. During this time of hate, the white man will come and be manipulative and greedy: while the black man is faithful and loyal to his companions. Good neighbors will be known to be prejudice and stereotypical of one another. “It’s like bein’ a caterpillar in a cocoon, that’s what it is,” he said. “Like somethin’ asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that’s what they seemed like” (Lee 215). Unfortunately, Jem realizes that not everybody in this town can be portrayed as a good individual. He finds himself in a world of hatred and evil; Even the most heartwarming place can have that lingering sent of unsolved crime. When the hidden thoughts of a person are shown, it can illustrate the corruption of a whole town. The Radley house...
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