“In 1995, the New York State Division of Criminal Injustice did a review of disparities in processing felony arresting, and found that New York’s African American criminals are 33 percent more likely to be detained while awaiting felony trial than whites facing felony trials.” (huffington post). Racial discrimination in the court of law is present, but consistently ignored (Dosomething.org). In 2010, U.S. commission said that 10 percent of african americans will receive longer sentences than whites for the same crime. The effects of racism in the courtroom can make a difference. Looking at felony trials, if a black man was to face an all-white jury there would be an 81 percent chance that he would get convicted. Whereas if it were a white
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In 1875, Congress passed a new Civil Rights Act to help eliminate racial discrimination in the jury selection process, but as shown today, it has done little to help. On page 323 of To Kill a MockingBird, it says “ He had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men.” The majority of the people in Maycomb were racist and thought lowly of African Americans (and generally anyone associated with them), so the chances of the jury consisting of racists are very high.The trial wouldn’t have been valid if the white man already won just because he was white. “Their underrepresentation and exclusion of people of color from juries has seriously undermined the credibility and reliability of the criminal justice system, and there is an urgent need to end this practice,” said Bryan Stevenson. They are not allowing blacks to be apart of a jury. The jury is being rascist when it should be equal. Npr.org says, “Numerous studies demosntrate that prosecutors use peremptory strikes to remove black jurors at significally higher rates than white jurors.” When selecting a juror the judge and attorneys will interview each juror about their backgrounds and beliefs. Then judge and attorneys would be doing this to make sure the future juror isn't going to be racist towards a specific religion or …show more content…
The community, rightfully outraged, took to the streets to protest his death, as well as the ongoing racist policing in the community of 21,000 people” (telesurtv.net) Protests about racial discrimination in the justice system could help solve this issue by drawing more attention to it. “I don’t think the Department of Justice would have done an investigation if it weren’t for the protests that brought the issue under national spotlight and helped people to realize that this is really a broad problem where every couple of days … a person of color is killed by a police officer.” telesurtv.net. If a colored person was getting shot by a police officer every few days you would think they would get a little suspicious on why it was mostly black, but no because of a lot of stereotypes about blacks people think they are lazy or want to hurt you.
An issue in the court system that is commonly ignored is racial discrimination in the justice system. The problems in the justice are mainly in the jury system. Racial discrimination is a pretty big issue. These are reasons and explanations to why racial discrimination is an issue on the court of law in a thought-provoking
In 1875, Congress passed a new Civil Rights Act to help eliminate racial discrimination in the jury selection process, but as shown today, it has done little to help. On page 323 of To Kill a MockingBird, it says “ He had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men.” The majority of the people in Maycomb were racist and thought lowly of African Americans (and generally anyone associated with them), so the chances of the jury consisting of racists are very high.The trial wouldn’t have been valid if the white man already won just because he was white. “Their underrepresentation and exclusion of people of color from juries has seriously undermined the credibility and reliability of the criminal justice system, and there is an urgent need to end this practice,” said Bryan Stevenson. They are not allowing blacks to be apart of a jury. The jury is being rascist when it should be equal. Npr.org says, “Numerous studies demosntrate that prosecutors use peremptory strikes to remove black jurors at significally higher rates than white jurors.” When selecting a juror the judge and attorneys will interview each juror about their backgrounds and beliefs. Then judge and attorneys would be doing this to make sure the future juror isn't going to be racist towards a specific religion or …show more content…
The community, rightfully outraged, took to the streets to protest his death, as well as the ongoing racist policing in the community of 21,000 people” (telesurtv.net) Protests about racial discrimination in the justice system could help solve this issue by drawing more attention to it. “I don’t think the Department of Justice would have done an investigation if it weren’t for the protests that brought the issue under national spotlight and helped people to realize that this is really a broad problem where every couple of days … a person of color is killed by a police officer.” telesurtv.net. If a colored person was getting shot by a police officer every few days you would think they would get a little suspicious on why it was mostly black, but no because of a lot of stereotypes about blacks people think they are lazy or want to hurt you.
An issue in the court system that is commonly ignored is racial discrimination in the justice system. The problems in the justice are mainly in the jury system. Racial discrimination is a pretty big issue. These are reasons and explanations to why racial discrimination is an issue on the court of law in a thought-provoking