Throughout history communities in America face the harsh reality that throughout their life they will be policed. The act of policing is the creation done that insoles personal control, social control, political control, and some aspects mind control. The form of policing has changed over time, in the past policing for slaves was done by their inability to walk freely between plantations to real policing done by legal officers. Many people face the struggle of policing on their daily lives for multiple different reasons. In society there exists oppression of many different people through the intersectionality of race, class, gender, sexuality, age and disability. The oppression people face daily stems from the existence of white supremacy that
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Victor Rios conducted his own study on treatment of young Latino boys who live in Oakland California. Rios chose Oakland to address the policing that occurs in his home town. The primary argument Rios determines for policing of this minority stems from the process of criminalization “Criminalization and punishment were practiced and perfected on Black populations. By the time a critical mass of poor Latino/as arrived in Oakland, the community and its institutions had a clear system by which to incorporate this new population: criminalization and punitive social control” (Rios 30). The process of criminalization and social control develops the ongoing policing problem that exists among Latino populations. The treatment of marginalized youth has become an everyday phenomenon and creates the mainstream notion that these people are criminals. The act of criminalizing a person cause that individual to be followed, watched, searched with no warrant, searched with no cause and treated terribly on the only notion that they deserve it. Rios states, “From our estimate, out of sixty-eight homies, only two of us graduate from high school, and only I had made it to college. About a dozen had managed to evade major tragedies and, by the standards of the inner city, had become successful” (Rios viii). The youth of Oakland are placed on a path that forces them to join gangs and end up in jail rather then move on from the “hood” to …show more content…
People with mental illnesses face policing with the lack of funding to help people in need. Liat Ben Moshe addresses this problem in her article, “Institution Yet to come.” Moshe discusses the ill treatment of people who have mental illness due to the lack of support they receive from medicine and law. The creation of prisons has created an environment where all public spaces that proved help mentally and physically to be reduced to mental hospitals. Mental hospitals do not have the same label as prisons but that’s what they ultimately are. People who deal with a mental or physical problem that is seen as “un-normal” face a different form of policing. “If one listened to the narrative of disabled people who were segregated in institutions, another obvious connection emerges in which many describe their time there as a form of incarceration” (Moshe 137). There exists a lack of funding or information about mental illnesses which causes people who suffer from any form of disability to be forgotten. Moshe approaches this problem by analyzing policing and incarceration through the prism of disability. “The disability yet to come,” describing both the fear that non-disabled and the notion that if anyone lives long enough, they will eventually become disabled in some way” (Moshe 132). The prism of
Victor Rios conducted his own study on treatment of young Latino boys who live in Oakland California. Rios chose Oakland to address the policing that occurs in his home town. The primary argument Rios determines for policing of this minority stems from the process of criminalization “Criminalization and punishment were practiced and perfected on Black populations. By the time a critical mass of poor Latino/as arrived in Oakland, the community and its institutions had a clear system by which to incorporate this new population: criminalization and punitive social control” (Rios 30). The process of criminalization and social control develops the ongoing policing problem that exists among Latino populations. The treatment of marginalized youth has become an everyday phenomenon and creates the mainstream notion that these people are criminals. The act of criminalizing a person cause that individual to be followed, watched, searched with no warrant, searched with no cause and treated terribly on the only notion that they deserve it. Rios states, “From our estimate, out of sixty-eight homies, only two of us graduate from high school, and only I had made it to college. About a dozen had managed to evade major tragedies and, by the standards of the inner city, had become successful” (Rios viii). The youth of Oakland are placed on a path that forces them to join gangs and end up in jail rather then move on from the “hood” to …show more content…
People with mental illnesses face policing with the lack of funding to help people in need. Liat Ben Moshe addresses this problem in her article, “Institution Yet to come.” Moshe discusses the ill treatment of people who have mental illness due to the lack of support they receive from medicine and law. The creation of prisons has created an environment where all public spaces that proved help mentally and physically to be reduced to mental hospitals. Mental hospitals do not have the same label as prisons but that’s what they ultimately are. People who deal with a mental or physical problem that is seen as “un-normal” face a different form of policing. “If one listened to the narrative of disabled people who were segregated in institutions, another obvious connection emerges in which many describe their time there as a form of incarceration” (Moshe 137). There exists a lack of funding or information about mental illnesses which causes people who suffer from any form of disability to be forgotten. Moshe approaches this problem by analyzing policing and incarceration through the prism of disability. “The disability yet to come,” describing both the fear that non-disabled and the notion that if anyone lives long enough, they will eventually become disabled in some way” (Moshe 132). The prism of