Bias In The Central Park Five

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Bias is being in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another. Being bias means having favoritism and being prejudice. Bias played a huge role in the Central Park Five. The Central Park Five focuses on the five black and Latino teens who were convicted of the crime, served their sentences, but were later discharged after the real rapist came forward in 2002. It was more as a racial bias. The detectives would tell the teenagers what to do, even if they were innocent they had to make up stories just because this was the most current popular crime ever in that time period and the detectives just wanted this case to be done with. The media were also bias, they’ll name the teens as ‘Thugs’ ‘Negroes’ and that they were

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