...After reviewing the facts that was looked at, I agree with the decision that the courts had made. The cases that were being viewed the police was only conducting the stop search and frisk on certain people in the community( Buettner & Glaberson,2012 ). These cases made the police that was making the stops were making the case though racial profiling. The evidence in these case showed that the police would only stop a person bases on their minority. The police have been doing this a very long time the stop and frisk started in the early 1990’s but the reason that this was started to lower crime in high crime areas of the United States (Buettner & Glaberson,2012). This is going back to the 14th amendment the police or the government can’t...
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...versus Voice: Exploring the Effects of the Stop-and-Frisk Law on Black Citizens in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. In Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine’s prose poetry sheds light on the racial aggressions...
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...The argument is void because what makes race so special? Why is race any different than age? Age and race are both physical attributes that you can’t change which is why police use them to help find criminal. Inner City areas full of minorities and gang violence are most definitely going to have a higher rate of minorities stopped because in the inner cities it is typical for a group of minorities with gang bandanas to be up to no good, the same goes for white people. Aforementioned in different words is, “Supporters of racial profiling, however, argue that the unfortunate reality is that members of minority groups are more likely to commit crimes than are white people; therefore, police officers are justified in regarding them with heightened suspicion”...
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...Stop and Frisk The Stop and Frisk program in New York City is a exercise of the New York City Police Department , where police officers would stop and question thousands of walkers annually, and frisk them for weapons and other contraband. The rules for this such actions are found in “New York State Criminal Procedure Law section 140.50”, and are founded on the result of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Terry v. Ohio. Thousands people are stopped each year mostly are Blacks or Latino. Some judges have found that these stops are not based on reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. Each day in New York City, and in many other cities in the country, police officers will stop ask questions, and every now and then frisk people...
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...Defendant: The Defendant believes that the Fourth Amendment gives officer McFadden the right to stop and frisk suspects for his own protection when he suspects a criminal activity is about to take place. Holding/rule of Law: (1) According to the Fourth Amendment, a person has rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment, "protects people, not places," and therefore applies as much to the citizen on the streets as well as at home or elsewhere. (2) When officer McFadden stops Terry, he restrains his freedom to walk away; he has "seized" him. This was within his rights to question the suspects, but he cannot stop and frisk them on a hunch because he did not have probable cause they had a weapon on them was outside the Fourth Amendment. Rationale: The court decision to allow the search and find it reasonable is questionable. It can give the police officer a green light to search people with a hunch, instead of probable...
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...were driving in the opposite direction proceeded to reverse their direction and without activating their lights or sirens they approached DePeiza. During the interaction between DePeiza and the officers, DePeiza continually shielded his right side from the view of the officers. At a point in the conversation, the officers stepped out of the car and noticed that DePeiza was displaying signs of nervousness and was likely that he would run. Without being asked, DePeiza presented his student identification and driver's license. The officers noted that the DePeiza reached into his right rear pants pocket while turning away from them in an awkward position and that his jacket pocket appeared to obtain a heavy object. Binkerton performed a pat frisk and...
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...Dan White makes an argument based around the protection and right to surveillance individuals in business settings to ensure that they don’t steal anything from the store, and had it not been for such surveillance, more than the already staggering amount of money stolen from stores and businesses would be much larger. Although the surveillance of customers can benefit a business it is not always necessary, business owners can of course do as they please within the confines of their own private business. This includes the surveillance of individuals, however is it unjust to target surveillance towards a racial or ethnic group through due process of racial profiling. The benefits can be argued to outweigh the negativity. There are also better...
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...an effective argument, at times, he racially profiles which is a definite form of deceptive reasoning; in addition, many of Wilson’s arguments lack the elaboration he needs to avoid making hasty assertions. Wilson argues in his essay that not allowing people to buy guns will have no effect on the illegal use of guns, which in essence, is the sole reasoning for wanting to eliminate guns in the first place. He makes the claim that about two-hundred million American citizens own a gun. These guns, though, are not the ones that are generally used for unlawful acts, but rather those that are stolen, borrowed, or privately purchased. Wilson then makes the point that an increase in these control regulations would take a toll on none other than those law abiding citizens that own these guns more for self-defense purposes. Wilson first extends the argument that, “Our goal should be to reduce the number of people who carry guns unlawfully, especially in places- in streets, in taverns- where the mere presence of a gun can increase the hazards we all face.” By beginning his argument with a clear, concise thesis such as this, Wilson begins to setup an organized structure for his argument. Through a clearly planned construction consisting of claims followed by data and counterclaims followed by rebuttals, Wilson makes his ideas easy to follow by this systematized set up. This flow makes his ideas more sinuous which contributes to the cohesiveness of his overall argument. This structure...
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...Terry v. Ohio was a case brought to the Supreme Court on the 12th day of December in 1967. Officer McFadden observed two males traveling back and forth in front of a store. Officer McFadden thought the act was suspicious. McFadden pulled the two men aside and patted them down. Officer McFadden found a gun on Terry. Terry was charged with carrying a concealed firearm and was incarcerated for 1-3 years in prison. Terry argued that officer McFadden did not have probable cause to conduct a frisk. Terry made is concluding arguments that McFadden invaded his privacy and violated his fourth amendment rights. On the 10th day of June 10 in 1968 the verdict was handed down. The state won the case, stating that the officer had enough probable cause to conduct the stop. When conducting a frisk all you can do is pat the outside of the suspect’s clothes and feel to make sure they do not have anything suspicious. As for the officer that reached his hand inside the suspects coat while performing a frisk and found the baggie...
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...Racially Biased Policing Turns Fatal B.J. Johnson English 102 December 2014 This past summer on August 9th, in Ferguson Missouri, Officer Darren Wilson heard a dispatcher report of a stealing in progress. Following protocol, Officer Wilson radioed in to offer help to the officers searching for the suspects in question. Wilson’s offer wasn’t needed due to the fact that the suspects had disappeared. Moments later Wilson drove past two young black males and ordered them to move off the street. After a second look, Wilson realized one of the young men matched the description of the stealing progress. Wilson radioed for backup and in little over minute and young man lay dead at the scene. He was unarmed. That young man was Michael Brown; the 18-year-old black boy who’s shooting this past summer sparked a major controversy and raised a lot of questions about Police Shootings in the U.S. and their undeniably pattern of racial issues. Currently young black males risk of being shot by police officers is 21 times more likely greater than young white males (Staples). Due to police tactics motivated by racial profiling, racially bias news and media that enhance minority stereotypes, United States law enforcement is targeting minorities that results in Police Shootings caused by racism. After Michael Brown’s tragic death, many realized that our country had seen similar circumstances like this before. A young, unarmed, black male shot dead, taking with him, the alternative...
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...Rhetoric and Ethics Assignment "The Ethic of Expediency" by Steven B. Katz discusses the ethical problems of technical writing. The author suggest that the ethic of expediency enables deliberative rhetoric and gives impulse to most of our actions in technological capitalism. Katz explains that the problem with deliberative rhetoric and technical communication is epistemology and ethics. He uses a Nazi memo as a technical writing sample, which embodies the rhetoric and ethos of the Nazi Party but fails to take any account for ethics. He also uses Aristotle's Politic and Rhetoric to make the connection between rhetoric, ethics, technology, and expediency. Katz concludes that the deliberative orators aim is utility, to determine means to ends- a question of expediency. Aristotle believed that practical wisdom must be accompanied by moral virtue to supply the right end. Hitler used Aristotle’s work to form the ethos in Nazi Germany. However, with Hitler, there was no distinction between "practical wisdom" and "moral virtue", between expediency and the good as long as rhetoric serves its end, that is, the State. His belief in the efficacy of science and technology as the basis of ethics and politics resulted in mass extermination. Based on the ethic of expediency, rhetoric for Hitler was pure technique, designed not to encourage debate, but rather to indoctrinate. Hitler created an ethos of expediency to carry out his program for the “greater good” of Germany. Katz believes that to...
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...Racial Profiling is a form of discrimination by which an individual’s race or cultural background is used as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. Shopping while black, Driving while black, and Stop-and-Frisk are commonly used phrases and laws that are associated with racial profiling that have recently made headlines on multiple occasions in the past year. Shopping while black is the racial profiling term used when an individual is accused of shoplifting or other unlawful act while in a marketplace. There have been two major stories in the headlines recently involving racial profiling. The first incident involves Rob Brown the star of HBO’s “Treme” is filing a class action lawsuit against Macy’s for accusing him of providing a fake credit card to make a purchase and detaining him in a cell for 45 minutes. The other incident involves Barneys’ New York an American chain of luxury department stores headquartered in New York City. In this particular incident an 18 year old college student was arrested for allegedly providing a fake debit card when purchasing a $349.00 belt. This story has managed to get extended time in the headlines because Barneys is currently endorsed by renowned hip-hop, business mogul Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter. While these are not the only two racial profiling incidences that have occurred, they have gained mainstream media attention because they involve celebrities which shines a bright light on this type of discrimination that...
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...globe acknowledge that public perception and trust is crucial in order for law enforcement to be affective. One of the key issues to public perception of police is transparency. Initial studies into the transparency of police are not promising. This is why the creation of civilian complaint boards arose. Civil complaint boards are independent agencies, with subpoena power that handle complaints about different types of police misconduct (Civilian Complaint Review Board). It is the same police misconduct which erodes the public’s trust in law enforcement. Instance of racial profiling, corruption, excessive force and abuse of authority have slowly rubbed off the shine of the police in America in the last decade. In recent years stop and frisk has become a huge point of contention among the public and police....
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...Claiming that they were a failure because they did not keep violent crimes from occurring with those weapons and he believes that any citizen who follows the law should be able to own any gun that they want (Sanchez, “This is where Donald Trump stands”). However, he still wants to get guns out of criminal’s hands by using the controversial stop and frisk as previously used in New York City, which allows police to stop pedestrians to search for and seize illegally owned weapons (Sanchez, “This is where Donald Trump stands”). Donald Trump wants to re-implement the stop and frisk method because it, “helped curb gun-related violence and that crime has spiked since the law's removal” (Sanchez, “This is where Donald Trump stands”). These new plans are very different from what anybody was thinking and this could be what America needs. These new ideas could work but, there is an issue that needs to be...
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...movie for its incorrect depiction of some of the procedures and processes. The movie taps different elements of the criminal justice system as a whole. There are countless individuals who do not realize the formalities, which go into actually being convicted for a crime. My cousin Vinny explore different aspects of these pretrial stages, criminal trials and the major actors in the process of the court hearing (Crede, 2012). There are a number of similarities as well as differences amongst what the movie has portrayed and the actual process of the criminal justice procedure which will be explored in this paper. The movie revolves around two New Yorker friends, Stan and Bill, who are traveling through Rural Alabama. These two friends make a stop on their way to buy some necessities from a shop. Immediately after they leave, another car, similar to theirs, pulls over. Two men get out of the car and kill the attendant of the store and runs away. Meanwhile, the two friends, Stan, and Bill, soon realize that they have accidently taken a tuna fish without paying. They soon see a police car on their tail and are asked to pull over (Crede, 2012). They think that they are being arrested for stealing the tuna fish. They are not told for what crime they are being arrested by the police. The police arrest them as the suspects of killing the shop attendant. They contact a cousin, Vincent Gambini, who is a newly turned lawyer to defend...
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