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.
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 Giangiacomo3 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. Muturi3 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 Angermeyer Norman3 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 Bowen4 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. Larch4 years ago in Criminal
Angry Mother Confronts BLM Protesters over Police Shooting Man Who Got into Her Home
A woman who lives in Minneapolis didn't hesitate to confront BLM protesters on Saturday after they gathered in her neighborhood. The protesters were demonstrating after the fatal officer shooting of Andrew "Tekle" Sundberg.
By Amy Christie4 years ago in Criminal
