police is responsible for high incarceration rates of minority ethnic groups, particularly African Americans. Drug war is a significant factor in the high incarceration rates of African Americans. There are many reasons for police acting they way they do. Police misconduct is illegal actions done by police officers.
According to the NAACP African Americans makeup nearly one million of the total 2.3 million that are incarcerated. African Americans represent 12% of the total drug users but 38% are arrested for drug offenses. Although more white are sent to prison for drug use. More African American males are sent to prison. The age they usually go to prison is from 20-24. Many wonder why there are more African Americans in prison. The answer …show more content…
They commit multiple crimes. Many are arrested for several things combined. It could be they are changed for robbery or murder and then they search for drugs and will most likely get caught.
Now, to talk about why police act they way they do. It is clear that police officers are trained a certain way. They are trained to be bad officers. A scared police officer is dangerous. In class we have seen many videos as examples. We saw a video where there was a police officer pointing at a African American that was a therapist helping a patient that was mentally ill. The man even had his hands up and the police officer still shot him. When he was asked after on why he shot him his response was he did not know. This makes you angry knowing they don’t even know why they shoot innocent African Americans. In another video we saw a police officer trying to get all these teen angers to leave this party that they had but many were freaking out. In the video it seemed to be like he was the only police
According to the NAACP African Americans makeup nearly one million of the total 2.3 million that are incarcerated. African Americans represent 12% of the total drug users but 38% are arrested for drug offenses. Although more white are sent to prison for drug use. More African American males are sent to prison. The age they usually go to prison is from 20-24. Many wonder why there are more African Americans in prison. The answer …show more content…
They commit multiple crimes. Many are arrested for several things combined. It could be they are changed for robbery or murder and then they search for drugs and will most likely get caught.
Now, to talk about why police act they way they do. It is clear that police officers are trained a certain way. They are trained to be bad officers. A scared police officer is dangerous. In class we have seen many videos as examples. We saw a video where there was a police officer pointing at a African American that was a therapist helping a patient that was mentally ill. The man even had his hands up and the police officer still shot him. When he was asked after on why he shot him his response was he did not know. This makes you angry knowing they don’t even know why they shoot innocent African Americans. In another video we saw a police officer trying to get all these teen angers to leave this party that they had but many were freaking out. In the video it seemed to be like he was the only police