In today’s society discriminating race has brought a huge concern to our court system. Each and every day it almost just seems to get worse and worse. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 African American men and 1 in every 36 Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 white men. With hearing this it does not mean courts discriminate and that will all be brought up later. A long-standing principle embedded in our system of justice is that defendants should not be treated differently because of their race. This principle is codified in the “Equal Protection” clause of the 14th amendment to the Constitution. In today’s society the courts are not the ones discriminating, it all starts
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The police are the ones to send each suspect to the courts for the crime they committed on a specific day. “The first step in putting people in jail starts with interactions between police and people. From the very beginning, Black and poor people are targeted by the police” (Quigley, 2016). The Center for Constitutional Rights held a study that the police stop 500,000 people annually without indicating if they have been involved in crime or not. The results of that study just gave more evidence that the police perhaps were being a little racist on who they stopped. When the results came back it showed that 80 percent of these people stopped were either Africa American or Hispanic. This study was done in New York City where the population of African American is around 25 percent and 28 percent being …show more content…
In 2010, An Iowa dental assistant was fired because her employer named James Knight thought she was too attractive for his business. “James Knight, fired Nelson for being so attractive that she was irresistible to him, and therefore, she threatened his marriage” (Friedricks, 2015, p. 503). Nelson then took this case to court for sex discrimination and was unsuccessful through the Iowa Supreme Court. Many people would instantly think this is the first time something like this has happened but it is not. She was not the first women to lose her job for being over attractive and she was not the first to lose her job for her appearance. Since this case was blown up all over the internet, immediately people think it was sex discrimination but legally this can actually happen, it just does not happen on a daily
The police are the ones to send each suspect to the courts for the crime they committed on a specific day. “The first step in putting people in jail starts with interactions between police and people. From the very beginning, Black and poor people are targeted by the police” (Quigley, 2016). The Center for Constitutional Rights held a study that the police stop 500,000 people annually without indicating if they have been involved in crime or not. The results of that study just gave more evidence that the police perhaps were being a little racist on who they stopped. When the results came back it showed that 80 percent of these people stopped were either Africa American or Hispanic. This study was done in New York City where the population of African American is around 25 percent and 28 percent being …show more content…
In 2010, An Iowa dental assistant was fired because her employer named James Knight thought she was too attractive for his business. “James Knight, fired Nelson for being so attractive that she was irresistible to him, and therefore, she threatened his marriage” (Friedricks, 2015, p. 503). Nelson then took this case to court for sex discrimination and was unsuccessful through the Iowa Supreme Court. Many people would instantly think this is the first time something like this has happened but it is not. She was not the first women to lose her job for being over attractive and she was not the first to lose her job for her appearance. Since this case was blown up all over the internet, immediately people think it was sex discrimination but legally this can actually happen, it just does not happen on a daily