This paper will focus on the basics and justs of three major topics. These topics being The Civil rights Act of 1964, Affirmative Action and The fourteenth Amendment and its effects on the diversifying police departments.
Before The Civil Rights Act of 1964, equality wasn’t really a priority. Although we did have some barriers broke like Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. According to Stewart (2009) The law revolutionized a country where blacks and whites could not eat together in public restaurants under Jim Crow laws or stay at the same hotel. With the Civil Rights Act being passed this lead to discrimination being outlawed.
Civil Rights Act passing would obviously have some effects. With a country being used to discrimination, something …show more content…
With the passing of this this opened up equality for women, and minorities not just in general but also for workplaces giving them better opportunities for higher end jobs especially in the police force which had been a struggle for many women and minorities to join for a long time. Civil RIghts Act still will always be an issue with discrimination still being an active thing in the workplace, workplaces still deal with harassment and unfair treatment that sometimes may go unnoticed with still the fear of losing a job or getting in …show more content…
I think the over consensus is that discrimination doesn’t exists still in today 's society. Today’s media portrays being a cop in this world something similar to Joker’s henchman and being colored of skin a target for these cops. How many times have we flipped on the Tv and have seen a cop killing an innocent black man but doesn’t make a huge deal when a white man is shot down. This can almost relates to the reverse discrimination and we should ask ourselves is Affirmative Action just reverse discrimination. Reverse Discrimination according to (Stewart 2016) A label who those who believe quotas give the minorities in policing a special treatment. (Cliff notes) states that is is just reverse discrimination. It is wrong for police departments to give this kind of special treatment to minority groups who are not victims of discrimination just to eliminate a past problem. Some white police officers have found this to be a threat to their jobs and police forces then have lowered standards for the hiring of minorities in the police
Before The Civil Rights Act of 1964, equality wasn’t really a priority. Although we did have some barriers broke like Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. According to Stewart (2009) The law revolutionized a country where blacks and whites could not eat together in public restaurants under Jim Crow laws or stay at the same hotel. With the Civil Rights Act being passed this lead to discrimination being outlawed.
Civil Rights Act passing would obviously have some effects. With a country being used to discrimination, something …show more content…
With the passing of this this opened up equality for women, and minorities not just in general but also for workplaces giving them better opportunities for higher end jobs especially in the police force which had been a struggle for many women and minorities to join for a long time. Civil RIghts Act still will always be an issue with discrimination still being an active thing in the workplace, workplaces still deal with harassment and unfair treatment that sometimes may go unnoticed with still the fear of losing a job or getting in …show more content…
I think the over consensus is that discrimination doesn’t exists still in today 's society. Today’s media portrays being a cop in this world something similar to Joker’s henchman and being colored of skin a target for these cops. How many times have we flipped on the Tv and have seen a cop killing an innocent black man but doesn’t make a huge deal when a white man is shot down. This can almost relates to the reverse discrimination and we should ask ourselves is Affirmative Action just reverse discrimination. Reverse Discrimination according to (Stewart 2016) A label who those who believe quotas give the minorities in policing a special treatment. (Cliff notes) states that is is just reverse discrimination. It is wrong for police departments to give this kind of special treatment to minority groups who are not victims of discrimination just to eliminate a past problem. Some white police officers have found this to be a threat to their jobs and police forces then have lowered standards for the hiring of minorities in the police