Rashawn Smith
10 page research paper
English
12th grade Do you believe black on black crime is a result of a race-biased criminal justice system? Or does it have more to do with genetics? The Black Lives Matter movement in some eyes is a racist movement. People believe that those who are involved in the movement are selfish because they blame everything on the criminal justice system and take no responsibility. Other believe that Black people are just more genetically violent. Are Black Lives Matter protesters doing something about the crimes in their cities? Is the criminal justice system to blame for the violence in the African American communities? Or are African Americans just born violent?
Harry Houck made a very controversial …show more content…
Data shows that the poverty rate for black people is almost three times that of white people.(27.2% to 9.6%).
Unemployment is far higher for black people by more than 60% and has been that way since the 1970's. The black unemployment rate for Black people at the end of 2015 was 9.5%. It was less than the national peek (9.9 percent) set in 2009. The unemployment rate for Whites that year was 4.5 percent.
But politicians and Government officials support community policing to fight crime, despite proof that these programs actually work. Attorney General Loretta Lynch stated in September of 2015 that the "Department of Justice would provide 12 million dollars for these programs". Some departments operate ticket schemes, which target races of color. According to the Department of Justice "Ferguson, Missouri, showed high incarceration rates there, because residents couldn’t pay fines from tickets. A panel of New York police officers admitted that they often target people of color. People who are vulnerable.
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With the help of the Criminal Justice System, Black communities are stuck in a loop of injustice. So Black on Black crime isn't inherited its …show more content…
According to the New York state division of criminal justice "Black Americans in New York are 33 percent more likely to be detained while waiting felony trials than White Americans facing felony trials.
80 percent of people in the criminal justice system get a public defender for their lawyer. "Stop in any urban courtroom and look at the color of the people who are waiting for public defenders. Despite often heroic efforts by public defenders the system gives them much more work and much less money than the prosecution" Bill Quigley stated. The US public defender system was reviewed in 2004 by the American Bar Association, and mentioned that “It's all too often, defendants plead guilty, even if they are innocent, and they barely understand their legal rights or what is really going on. The right to a lawyer that applies to everyone accused of criminal conduct effectively does not exist for countless people across the US.”
"Black Americans are often illegally denied criminal jury service" according to the Equal Justice Initiative in June of 2010. In Houston County, Alabama, 80% of Black Americans certified for jury service have been denied by prosecutors from serving on death penalty cases.
10 page research paper
English
12th grade Do you believe black on black crime is a result of a race-biased criminal justice system? Or does it have more to do with genetics? The Black Lives Matter movement in some eyes is a racist movement. People believe that those who are involved in the movement are selfish because they blame everything on the criminal justice system and take no responsibility. Other believe that Black people are just more genetically violent. Are Black Lives Matter protesters doing something about the crimes in their cities? Is the criminal justice system to blame for the violence in the African American communities? Or are African Americans just born violent?
Harry Houck made a very controversial …show more content…
Data shows that the poverty rate for black people is almost three times that of white people.(27.2% to 9.6%).
Unemployment is far higher for black people by more than 60% and has been that way since the 1970's. The black unemployment rate for Black people at the end of 2015 was 9.5%. It was less than the national peek (9.9 percent) set in 2009. The unemployment rate for Whites that year was 4.5 percent.
But politicians and Government officials support community policing to fight crime, despite proof that these programs actually work. Attorney General Loretta Lynch stated in September of 2015 that the "Department of Justice would provide 12 million dollars for these programs". Some departments operate ticket schemes, which target races of color. According to the Department of Justice "Ferguson, Missouri, showed high incarceration rates there, because residents couldn’t pay fines from tickets. A panel of New York police officers admitted that they often target people of color. People who are vulnerable.
Image
With the help of the Criminal Justice System, Black communities are stuck in a loop of injustice. So Black on Black crime isn't inherited its …show more content…
According to the New York state division of criminal justice "Black Americans in New York are 33 percent more likely to be detained while waiting felony trials than White Americans facing felony trials.
80 percent of people in the criminal justice system get a public defender for their lawyer. "Stop in any urban courtroom and look at the color of the people who are waiting for public defenders. Despite often heroic efforts by public defenders the system gives them much more work and much less money than the prosecution" Bill Quigley stated. The US public defender system was reviewed in 2004 by the American Bar Association, and mentioned that “It's all too often, defendants plead guilty, even if they are innocent, and they barely understand their legal rights or what is really going on. The right to a lawyer that applies to everyone accused of criminal conduct effectively does not exist for countless people across the US.”
"Black Americans are often illegally denied criminal jury service" according to the Equal Justice Initiative in June of 2010. In Houston County, Alabama, 80% of Black Americans certified for jury service have been denied by prosecutors from serving on death penalty cases.