Black; a word that mainstream society have used to group and segregate humans of a darker melanin skin tone with no immediate trace of ethnicity other than American. Individuals categorized as "Black" are often so used to societies suddenly form of segregation and unfortunately it has become the norm, to the extent that young African-American boys and girls are growing up calling themselves black when they are asked their race and still answer black when their asked "what 's your ethnicity?" Race has no biological background at all, "race" as we all know it is a social construct created for the intensive purpose to segregate; whether the intentions of creating race was done beneficially for the youth to easily distinguish with one another
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In the article An analysis of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy in the context of claims of racial bias These gentlemen expresses "Racially disproportionate stops and searches by police take place in a wide range of everyday citizen transactions and movements (Sykes and Clark, 1976, Langan et al., 2001,Durose, Schmitt, and Langan, 2005) and have been perceived to be a problem by a majority of Americans as measured by Gallup polls in 1999 and 2003".(Page 2). It has almost been thought of as the norm, socially in struggling neighborhoods cops are seen as untrustworthy pigs with too much powers this in return causes hatred and the beginning of division between people of color and police …show more content…
Based on the article An Analysis of the New York City Police Department 's “Stop-and-Frisk” Policy in the Context of Claims of Racial Bias They say “Recent studies by police departments and researchers confirm that police stop persons of racial and ethnic minority groups more often than whites relative to their proportions in the population”(Gelman, Fagan, and Kiss). The discrimination is so apparent around the U.S it’s more like a given at this point. And given the fact that the war on drugs is still flaring up in New York being racial targeted because of ur ethnicity can get you in a lot of trouble. In the article Off the street and into “the cut”: Deterrence and displacement in NYC 's quality of life marijuana policing The writers put it best when they said “NYC marijuana smokers about the information and values underlying decisions about where to smoke. We do so to assess the deterrent value of NYC 's “quality of life” policing of marijuana in public view. Participants indicated a general awareness of escalated marijuana policing and its attendant risks and almost universally spoke of avoiding public use in high-traffic locations and in the city 's cultural and commercial centers. Beyond that, however, the deterrent value of aggressive marijuana policing appears limited.”(Elliot, Dunlap, and Golub). And being a Jamaican in the heart of this war on drugs and police
In the article An analysis of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy in the context of claims of racial bias These gentlemen expresses "Racially disproportionate stops and searches by police take place in a wide range of everyday citizen transactions and movements (Sykes and Clark, 1976, Langan et al., 2001,Durose, Schmitt, and Langan, 2005) and have been perceived to be a problem by a majority of Americans as measured by Gallup polls in 1999 and 2003".(Page 2). It has almost been thought of as the norm, socially in struggling neighborhoods cops are seen as untrustworthy pigs with too much powers this in return causes hatred and the beginning of division between people of color and police …show more content…
Based on the article An Analysis of the New York City Police Department 's “Stop-and-Frisk” Policy in the Context of Claims of Racial Bias They say “Recent studies by police departments and researchers confirm that police stop persons of racial and ethnic minority groups more often than whites relative to their proportions in the population”(Gelman, Fagan, and Kiss). The discrimination is so apparent around the U.S it’s more like a given at this point. And given the fact that the war on drugs is still flaring up in New York being racial targeted because of ur ethnicity can get you in a lot of trouble. In the article Off the street and into “the cut”: Deterrence and displacement in NYC 's quality of life marijuana policing The writers put it best when they said “NYC marijuana smokers about the information and values underlying decisions about where to smoke. We do so to assess the deterrent value of NYC 's “quality of life” policing of marijuana in public view. Participants indicated a general awareness of escalated marijuana policing and its attendant risks and almost universally spoke of avoiding public use in high-traffic locations and in the city 's cultural and commercial centers. Beyond that, however, the deterrent value of aggressive marijuana policing appears limited.”(Elliot, Dunlap, and Golub). And being a Jamaican in the heart of this war on drugs and police