Rap Music Crimes

Superior Essays
Bryant Brogdon
5/4/2016
Crime and Social Order
“My Beliefs”

Should rap music lyrics and videos be used as evidences in criminal trials? Critical discuss the argument in favor and against the use of evidence in trails?

Firstly, I do not believe that rap music lyrics and videos should be used as evidence in criminal trials. Rap has a long history in this world to be many things than just negative. I believe that if rap music lyrics and videos were used as evidences in trials it would cause many difficulties. Some of these difficulties could result in misjudgments and bad decisions. Music as a whole is entertainment and taking the lyrics or videos for evidences I feel is unprofessional. Rap is really an exceptionally old
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In case you're killed in America, there's a 1 in 3 risk that the police won't distinguish your executioner.
A Story in Two Parts Martin Caste reported this sound story in two sections on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Listen to Part 1 above. To hear Part 2, tap the sound connection beneath. To Catch Up On Unsolved Murders, Detroit Detectives Mine Cold Cases to utilize the FBI's phrasing, the national "freedom rate" for crime today is 64.1 percent. Fifty years back, it was more than 90 percent.
What's more, that is more regrettable than it sounds, since "leeway" does not equivalent conviction: It is simply the term that police use to portray cases that end with a capture, or in which a guilty party is generally recognized without the likelihood of capture — if the suspect has kicked the bucket, for instance. Criminologists assess that no less than 200,000 homicides have gone unsolved since the 1960s, leaving family and companions to hold up and ponder. "It resembles the boogeyman," says Delicia Turner. Her significant other, Anthony Glover, was discovered killed — alongside a companion — in Boston in 2009. Police never made a capture. She says the open case preys at the forefront of her thoughts. "You don't know in case you're strolling by the individual, on the off chance that you've seen the individual ... on the off chance that the individual knows you." (Kaste,

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