Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
African American men are facing hard factors when it comes to law enforcement. Police officers and black male relationships have reached their peak of who is more afraid of the other. Racial disparities have been found in the criminal justice system and to this day are still widespread in pretrial incarceration, stop and frisk, charging, jury selection, arrests, court processing, probation, and incarceration in prison and jails.
One of every three black males born today will go to prison in their lifetime. According to Alfred Blumstein, “80 percent of racial disparity is explained by the greater involvement in crime”(51). According to Michael Tunry, “Only 61 percent of the black incarceration …show more content…
What is the role of prosecutors, defenders, judges, and police in propagating racial disparities in the system, even if unintentionally? More important, what can system actors do to reduce or eliminate disparities”(8). Stops and frisk are mostly in black communities or cities with blacks. 684,330 stops by police in 2011 were 87 percent black and 9 percent white. Surveys by the U.S. Department of Justice found that African Americans are more susceptible to traffic stops and more likely to be searched than whites. Targeting minority communities for drug enforcement is the drive for racial …show more content…
Using racial statements to aid in the consequences of criminal justice policies to be able to see the effect of sentencing on racial incarceration. Stop and frisk policing done to black males are based entirely off their attire from baggy pants and or a hoodie. Discrimination against a person wearing baggy pants and or a hoodie is unacceptable anyone can wear that attire and not be pursued clothing does not make a person if those are the only clothes they have to wear it is like going after a homeless person when all they have on their back are baggy clothes you cannot judge a book by a cover because you have not read and dissected that
African American men are facing hard factors when it comes to law enforcement. Police officers and black male relationships have reached their peak of who is more afraid of the other. Racial disparities have been found in the criminal justice system and to this day are still widespread in pretrial incarceration, stop and frisk, charging, jury selection, arrests, court processing, probation, and incarceration in prison and jails.
One of every three black males born today will go to prison in their lifetime. According to Alfred Blumstein, “80 percent of racial disparity is explained by the greater involvement in crime”(51). According to Michael Tunry, “Only 61 percent of the black incarceration …show more content…
What is the role of prosecutors, defenders, judges, and police in propagating racial disparities in the system, even if unintentionally? More important, what can system actors do to reduce or eliminate disparities”(8). Stops and frisk are mostly in black communities or cities with blacks. 684,330 stops by police in 2011 were 87 percent black and 9 percent white. Surveys by the U.S. Department of Justice found that African Americans are more susceptible to traffic stops and more likely to be searched than whites. Targeting minority communities for drug enforcement is the drive for racial …show more content…
Using racial statements to aid in the consequences of criminal justice policies to be able to see the effect of sentencing on racial incarceration. Stop and frisk policing done to black males are based entirely off their attire from baggy pants and or a hoodie. Discrimination against a person wearing baggy pants and or a hoodie is unacceptable anyone can wear that attire and not be pursued clothing does not make a person if those are the only clothes they have to wear it is like going after a homeless person when all they have on their back are baggy clothes you cannot judge a book by a cover because you have not read and dissected that