Black Lives Matter Interview

Morgan State University is a HBCU in the eastside of Baltimore. Baltimore is known as a dangerous city with serious health issues, high crime rates and excessive police brutality. We are predominantly black school, 84.4% are represented by blacks, as a student body we must contribute to the cause “Black Lives Matter”. In the DOJ report they listed that they interviewed several creditable sources such as current commissioner Kevin Davis and former commissioners. Our student body can do the same, on my field trips to Baltimore City Detention Center and Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup. We can interview the wardens and guards at these prisons, ask them what they think about unconstitutional arrests and police brutality. We can create more panel discussions about violence, situational awareness and policing. …show more content…
My thoughts were, people are big and bold behind a keyboard but you never see their face at these panels gathering information from credible people and trying to make a change. Our bark can be bigger than the bite, It all starts with leadership as well. If Dr. Wilson would have a panel of his own alone with the sociology majors and teachers, I believe we can make change not only with Morgan and the surrounding community but all over Baltimore. Then it would be a domino affect, Towson, Johns Hopkins, and Loyola would all contribute to help raise awareness about current social issues we are facing. I believe change is happening, arrest numbers declined beginning in the late 2000s in light of falling wrongdoing rates and endeavors to move towards a more all encompassing policing model concentrated on building group