Mcdonald's Payroll Thesis

The article “Cops Who Covered Up Laquan McDonald’s Death Back on Chicago Payroll,” by Michael Harriot, connects to the theme of Justice in Ghettoside because in the article, the police officers who tried to cover up Laquan McDonald’s death were not punished for anything they did and were even put back on the city’s payroll. Which shows that law enforcement isn’t concerned with trying to stop the violence in their cities. This is similar to Ghettoside because at one point in the book it is said that many officers just sit and do nothing acting like they’re important, and the people supervising them don’t punish them for it. These officers sitting around and doing nothing leads to fewer crimes being solved on the streets of L.A. This article “13 shot, 5 fatally, in Monday violence across Chicago,” by Chicago News, is a report of the number of deaths on Monday, June 12 in the city of Chicago. Thirteen were shot and five were killed within the thirteen. This relates to the theme of poverty because most (if not all) of these crimes happened in poor black communities. The same could be said for Los Angeles where most of their homicides happen are in poor Black …show more content…
This relates to the theme humans working together to solve problems because in Ghettoside and in other violent cities many gang members only know how to use guns to solve their problems, but in Chicago’s counseling program they are taught different ways to approach people they have a problem with, without using a gun. In Ghettoside, friends, siblings and even parents set up fights for children so that they can solve it by fighting instead of shooting at each other. It isn’t the ideal way to solve a problem, but it is better than having kids be killed because they don’t like each