Profiling By Police

The media, as we see it, is a source that relays information to the public. Though this definition of the media sounds harmless, they have way more power than you think. Since they are our only source of receiving information from the public and other parts of the world, they have the power to shape the way you feel about certain subjects. One thing that has been exploding in the media is the police. Images of policemen created by the media shapes society’s outlook on police enforcement in the United States. The police have been under this type of scrutiny before. They have also been praised for their duties. This idea of the police fluctuates because of the media and the way they report the story. But the written media, such as magazines …show more content…
This shows that the media has taken more of a race route to make it a bigger story, and the consequences are that the officer that had nothing to deal with the shooting gets a bad reputation. According to Valerie Callahan and Jared Rosenberger, African Americans think less of law enforcement and that this view has been brought on by past experience, such as a speeding ticket but only if it is a reoccurring event. If someone has a run in with the police every once in a while it will not likely change a person’s opinion. This change in opinion with occur through the media (Callahan and Rosenberger 169-70). If there was no news and you didn’t have any run-ins with the police what would you think of the police? You would most likely have a neutral or positive outlook on their duty in the workforce because you would have no knowledge about them except what you saw in the real …show more content…
He then became the scapegoat and logo for most of the related cases (Scuhulenberg and Chenier 281). The media used this one guy as an example, which is deserved, but there were eleven other officers that should have been fed to the media. This is part of media misconception that is sent out every day, and we are not getting the full story. The way the news industry influences our views so heavily is by “placing different weights on pieces of information” (Graziano et al. 54). This means they over exaggerate certain things that will make the story more interesting or controversial. For example, Fox news is what some people would describe as republican based so they will stress republican views, unlike CNN, which is still biased but attempts to get other people’s views. It’s not that they make up information, they just try to get you to focus on what will attract you to keep following there channel, newspaper, etc. Studies have shown that the more you read the newspaper the more likely you are to agree with what the paper is saying in it (Chermak et al. 272) When the media does this, it makes you focus on the things they want you to focus on instead of you getting the information from a slightly more credible source such as a person that lived or saw in first person what is being