Policing: Treat Black Men And Boys Like Victims

The article “Race and Policing: Treat Black Men And Boys like Victims, too” written by Gene Demby; focuses on the matter how black people are more likely to become the perpetrator of crime instead of the victim. He researched on the matter. His article focused on the study by the two sociologist names Andrew Papachristos and Christopher Wildeman. The passage argues bout the fact that people focus more on the fact the black men and boy are getting blamed for the crimes, but people don’t focus on the part about them being the victim. The police department in the areas where the majority of the people are black, do not seem to care about solving the crimes as much as the other areas. In the essay, it was mentioned that in an urban area in Chicago, where the majority of the people that live there are black people had 21% homicide solve rate, whereas in Washington D.C. the solve rate is 62%. To specially look over the black community, police department made this strategy called hot-spot policing, its where polices would cycle around an area more than usual. To begin with, the essay started by explaining how the sociologist Papachristos and Wildeman approached the problem of gun violence. They compared …show more content…
Then he provides example to prove his claims. Then the author includes data showing that how the justice system is against the black people. Next the author tells how the police tried to fix the problem by introducing new strategies: hot-spot policing, stop and frisk, biking while black etc. These 3 strategies were in the light blue colored text. The text is in light blue color because there is a link to another website that gives more information on these three topics individually. He uses blue text prior to this paragraph and afterward. The author included police scandals to show how bad policing had become when in it comes to black communities. He also includes a picture of one of the