Since the early 1990’s, there has been statistically an insignificant amount of data collected on cases of police brutally involving young, men and women in America. These past few years, these particular types of cases have been highlighted and placed at the forefront of mainstream media. Recent incidences involving police brutality such as what happened to Mike Brown, Eric Graner and, of course Aiyana Stanley-Jones, have triggered an outcry for more information on police brutality cases. Unfortunately, because of what’s happening, the news has portrayed these victims as criminals while the police are viewed as icons by giving their audiences more opinion based data rather than statistical research. From both the citizens and law enforcement,
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Yung-Lien Lai and Jihong Solomon Zhao of Sam Houston University’s College of Criminal Justice both found the influences of these demographic factors such as race, age, and gender. They found the main focuses on the relationship between neighborhood contexts such as crime related factors and residential evaluations of their environment (Yung-Lien Lai, 2008). And finally, they examine the citizens’ evaluation of police performances and police/citizen relationships. Based on what they found on their paper, these are the key factors that determine the explanatory results of police brutality towards young Americans regardless of gender. In a review of research on individual attitudes toward the police noted that race and ethnicity was singled out as a significance. There have been studies that found that African Americans were viewed more ‘less favorably than whites’. However, in some cities like Detroit, it was found that African Americans actually rated that the police department is actually more controlling to the demographic and environment than whites respondents in neighborhoods. Studies have also found a positive relationship between a person’s age and the attitude towards the police. Contradicting this fact, in large cities in Washington State, surveys …show more content…
Because of these ‘myth-associated’ characteristics of sexual assault, there is statistical data that views the behavior of reporting sexual assault of women towards the police. There is a question whether these women are “real victims” when comes to sexual assault and the police. Sexual assault in general remains one of the most underreported crimes. For example, in Canada, the Violence Against Women Survey found that 65 of sexual assaults reported had been disclosed to the police. Unreported rapes are considered to pose a “serious threat to women in particular and to public safety in general”. In the United States, studies found that women have been “frightened to be silent” by their offenders. It is even worse when the offender of the assault is in fact, a police officer. There have been increasing number of cases where police officers are raping women while on duty. For example, in Florida, there is a police officer that finally got fired for raping a woman while on patrol and threatening her with arrest (Wagner, 2014). Investigators said that he held a gun while he assaulted the victim and threatened to kill her family if she told anyone. According to data provided, 23% of black women are likely to report that they were raped by their offenders, and of those offenders, are the
Yung-Lien Lai and Jihong Solomon Zhao of Sam Houston University’s College of Criminal Justice both found the influences of these demographic factors such as race, age, and gender. They found the main focuses on the relationship between neighborhood contexts such as crime related factors and residential evaluations of their environment (Yung-Lien Lai, 2008). And finally, they examine the citizens’ evaluation of police performances and police/citizen relationships. Based on what they found on their paper, these are the key factors that determine the explanatory results of police brutality towards young Americans regardless of gender. In a review of research on individual attitudes toward the police noted that race and ethnicity was singled out as a significance. There have been studies that found that African Americans were viewed more ‘less favorably than whites’. However, in some cities like Detroit, it was found that African Americans actually rated that the police department is actually more controlling to the demographic and environment than whites respondents in neighborhoods. Studies have also found a positive relationship between a person’s age and the attitude towards the police. Contradicting this fact, in large cities in Washington State, surveys …show more content…
Because of these ‘myth-associated’ characteristics of sexual assault, there is statistical data that views the behavior of reporting sexual assault of women towards the police. There is a question whether these women are “real victims” when comes to sexual assault and the police. Sexual assault in general remains one of the most underreported crimes. For example, in Canada, the Violence Against Women Survey found that 65 of sexual assaults reported had been disclosed to the police. Unreported rapes are considered to pose a “serious threat to women in particular and to public safety in general”. In the United States, studies found that women have been “frightened to be silent” by their offenders. It is even worse when the offender of the assault is in fact, a police officer. There have been increasing number of cases where police officers are raping women while on duty. For example, in Florida, there is a police officer that finally got fired for raping a woman while on patrol and threatening her with arrest (Wagner, 2014). Investigators said that he held a gun while he assaulted the victim and threatened to kill her family if she told anyone. According to data provided, 23% of black women are likely to report that they were raped by their offenders, and of those offenders, are the