Often you see people with a different skin color. Our world is diverse with different ethnicities and cultures with nothing separating us but ourselves. Some people discriminate against people who simply have a different color of skin pigment. This practice today is commonly called racism. The negative consequences resulting from racism exist throughout the world. People are injured physically and psychologically all of the time with racism at the heart of it. Men are beaten and killed by police because of it. Racism destroys lives and sometimes entire countries. Events like these affect us as individuals and us as a group, and a group must always unite to meet their full potential as human beings, regardless of skin color.
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Two cites in America you may have heard of are Ferguson, MO and of course New York City, NY. Ferguson police were recently investigated by the U.S. Government and the results were shocking. African Americans are a large target for police in Ferguson as they are the largest ethnic group convicted of petty crimes (U. S. Department of Justice...). The report finds that the Ferguson police department racially discriminates against the black population for a majority of its arrests and citations. If you’re pulled over in Ferguson and happen to be black, you’re 2.07 times more likely to be searched for contraband (U. S. Department of Justice...). Hopefully, you don’t have anything illegal in your car because the Ferguson Municipal court is prone to not dismiss cases for African-Americans (U. S. Department of Justice...). Ferguson was investigated when Michael Brown was shot down by police officer Darren Wilson and is now merely pop culture to us. There is more than one community where the authority has racially biased statistics: New York City. Perhaps you’ve head of stop and frisk? Stop and frisk is a New York law that police may stop you at any time and search you if they have “reasonable suspicion” that you are doing something illegal or carrying something illegal. The NYPD have done over 5 million of these over the past ten years and they target the black and Latino crowd (McCauley). Many get even more frustrated as the whole thing seems like a waste of time. Nobody really fights it because it is the law and almost nobody gets arrested anyway. 90% of suspects stopped in a “stop-and-frisk” stop are let go because they’ve done nothing wrong (McCauley). You would think they would target the suspicious people but they have their orders. Most police in New York City would, rather than look for criminals, try and find the closest minority to arrest. Several officers of the NYPD were in court and
Racism is often …show more content…
Two cites in America you may have heard of are Ferguson, MO and of course New York City, NY. Ferguson police were recently investigated by the U.S. Government and the results were shocking. African Americans are a large target for police in Ferguson as they are the largest ethnic group convicted of petty crimes (U. S. Department of Justice...). The report finds that the Ferguson police department racially discriminates against the black population for a majority of its arrests and citations. If you’re pulled over in Ferguson and happen to be black, you’re 2.07 times more likely to be searched for contraband (U. S. Department of Justice...). Hopefully, you don’t have anything illegal in your car because the Ferguson Municipal court is prone to not dismiss cases for African-Americans (U. S. Department of Justice...). Ferguson was investigated when Michael Brown was shot down by police officer Darren Wilson and is now merely pop culture to us. There is more than one community where the authority has racially biased statistics: New York City. Perhaps you’ve head of stop and frisk? Stop and frisk is a New York law that police may stop you at any time and search you if they have “reasonable suspicion” that you are doing something illegal or carrying something illegal. The NYPD have done over 5 million of these over the past ten years and they target the black and Latino crowd (McCauley). Many get even more frustrated as the whole thing seems like a waste of time. Nobody really fights it because it is the law and almost nobody gets arrested anyway. 90% of suspects stopped in a “stop-and-frisk” stop are let go because they’ve done nothing wrong (McCauley). You would think they would target the suspicious people but they have their orders. Most police in New York City would, rather than look for criminals, try and find the closest minority to arrest. Several officers of the NYPD were in court and