Essay On Racism In Law Enforcement

In our current society nearly every action one makes or every word one says has to be carefully thought out and contemplated before the action is done to ensure that a person of another ethnicity, gender, or incompatible cultural background, isn 't offended and think it is biased towards the other factor (i.e. male to female, or white to black). This is especially true when it comes to law enforcement in our country. Currently, our nation is undergoing social unrest and up rise due to verdicts made by the Supreme Court in regards to situations where a white or black officer is put in the difficult situation to defend him or her self against a person of another race. Though one may argue the officer wasn’t using self-defense but rather acting out of spite, the main argument we are seeing is that of racism by the officer towards the person of “wrongdoing.” The main focus of this paper however, is to explain the problems …show more content…
Not implying that everything is racist towards the minority group, but in recent cases, the Caucasian race is being said to be racist towards those of a different ethnicity. From information gathered from the Federal Bureau of Investigations official website, arrest and conviction reports show that more people of the Caucasian race have been arrested and convicted of a felony than that of any other ethnicity (FBI). Table 43A on the FBI’s website shows the numbers for arrests in the year of 2010. The table shows that approximately 4 million more people of the Caucasian ethnicity were arrested and convicted than any other race in America. Thus totaling 69.4% of arrests in the year of 2010 were white, 28% African American, 1.4% American Indian, and 1.2% Asian