Majority of the people that have stopped and got into jail have been and still are blacks or latinos which that makes us think why are they targeting mostly people of color. The Criminal Justice System has this laws that goes to every human being. Well therefore these laws have not been going fairly to everyone which that gives a point in examining it. Also the incarceration rate has been giving us hints on why to examine it because they have been so high. The United States criminal justice is being kind of unfair because they only stop and frisk people of color, which that has led to high incarceration rates and familiar problems such as poverty.
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“Prison has become the new poverty trap,” said Bruce Western, a Harvard sociologist. “It has become a routine event for poor African-American men and their families, creating an enduring disadvantage at the very bottom of the American society.” “Basically , I was locked up with him,” she said. “My mind was locked up. My life was locked up. Our daughters grew up without a father.” “Prison and the Poverty Trap” by John Tierney. This article was about Carl's Harris life on how he went to jail and it was during a period that his family needed him more than anything and that affected his wife a lot. This supports my evidence because it's showing how it's affecting family members and how it leads to poverty. This demonstrates to the Criminal Justice System that because of the poverty rates have been so high it's half their fault for profiling people and jailing them up just because they think they have done a crime. This paragraph also connects to my last paragraph because it talks about stop and frisk which it's basically the same thing they do with …show more content…
People of color nowadays have been feeling really insecure because of the criminal justices profiling towards people of color. “Last year police officers in New York City stopped and Frisked people 685,724 times. Eighty-seven percent of those searchers involved blacks and or latinos, many of them young men, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union.” “The Scars of Stop-and-Frisk” from the New York Times by Julie Dressner and Edwin Martinez. This quote is showing that majority of the stop-and-frisk they do is for the latinos and blacks and that is really unfair for the people, it also makes them really insecure of the things they do. People of color won't get the chance to go outside and be safe just because they still have the idea that they are going to be stopped for the way they look. This evidence really is important because it shows a lot just by they way it said that most of the people that were stopped were black and
America tries to make a greater good by putting people in jail and making people believe that …show more content…
“Prison has become the new poverty trap,” said Bruce Western, a Harvard sociologist. “It has become a routine event for poor African-American men and their families, creating an enduring disadvantage at the very bottom of the American society.” “Basically , I was locked up with him,” she said. “My mind was locked up. My life was locked up. Our daughters grew up without a father.” “Prison and the Poverty Trap” by John Tierney. This article was about Carl's Harris life on how he went to jail and it was during a period that his family needed him more than anything and that affected his wife a lot. This supports my evidence because it's showing how it's affecting family members and how it leads to poverty. This demonstrates to the Criminal Justice System that because of the poverty rates have been so high it's half their fault for profiling people and jailing them up just because they think they have done a crime. This paragraph also connects to my last paragraph because it talks about stop and frisk which it's basically the same thing they do with …show more content…
People of color nowadays have been feeling really insecure because of the criminal justices profiling towards people of color. “Last year police officers in New York City stopped and Frisked people 685,724 times. Eighty-seven percent of those searchers involved blacks and or latinos, many of them young men, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union.” “The Scars of Stop-and-Frisk” from the New York Times by Julie Dressner and Edwin Martinez. This quote is showing that majority of the stop-and-frisk they do is for the latinos and blacks and that is really unfair for the people, it also makes them really insecure of the things they do. People of color won't get the chance to go outside and be safe just because they still have the idea that they are going to be stopped for the way they look. This evidence really is important because it shows a lot just by they way it said that most of the people that were stopped were black and