Eric Holder

worsens the dilemma. In 2014, there were a total of 1,264 Americans killed by the United States police, and in 2015, American policemen killed 1,296 Americans. Eric Garner is one of the 1294 Americans who was unjustly killed by a white American police officer. On July 17, 2014, police…

games during warm-ups wore shirts with that exact saying on it, to show support to Eric and his wrongful death. Garner's death was filmed by his friend and became a viral video. Without this video, we may have never known what actually happened at the scene where he died. On the first police report of this incident, it failed to say he was put in a chokehold. The Police Officer was told multiple times that he got Eric Garner, and did not have to have him in the chokehold anymore. He looked up…

Cesare Lombroso, Raffaele Garofalo, and Enrico Ferri worked together to come up with the positivist school which stated that everything that happens to a person happened for a reason, their fate was predetermined. On April 15th, 2013 there were two bomb explosions that resulted in three deaths and over two hundred injuries at the Boston Marathon. Investigations led police to identifying two brothers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, responsible for the bombing. The positivist theory…

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said that despite advances, the United States remains “a nation of cowards” on issues involving race. “Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.” That the nation “still had not come to grips with its racial past, nor has it been willing to contemplate,…

Who Are the Real Racists? “White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." (Al Sharpton). Who are the real racists? As the media portrays who the racists are, white people and conservatives. Or is it actually, liberals, blacks and most of the media? Racism has existed since the earliest of…

They believed that women were, “…little more than a servant to her husband and children.” as Charlotte Perkins Gilman put it in the book Voices of Freedom edited by Eric Foner. There was the belief that women couldn’t make the correct decision on votes and that they were not capable of handling. Some people were even under the assumption that most women did not actually care about getting the right to vote. Not only…

. “America incarcerates more people than any other country on Earth,” argues Shane Smith. Seventy-five percent of people arrested for nonviolent drug charges are blacks and Hispanics. For minorities the system is broken because the system is biased to them. The justice system is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but for Latinos and blacks the system is guilty until proven innocent. Society today has proven time and time again how unfairly minorities are treated. America is supposed to…

Politics money the law & marijuana International trade in marijuana was place under strict controls during the 19601.most countries had enforced restrictions on trafficking and use of marijuana severe penalties for possession, sale, or supply. Beginning in the 1970s, some countries and jurisdictions reduced the penalty for the possession of small quantities. In the United States, several states passed legislation in the late 1970s and early ’80s to fund research on the legalization of…

officers begin at the academy, and therefore should be taught values concerning the safety of society. On the opposite side of the spectrum, there are those who believe as they call, excessive force, is necessary under certain circumstances. As Eric Holder said, “Communities of color don 't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.”. What these people don 't realize is the disportionate amount of “excessive force” against…

violent criminals off the street, but now we’re stepping back, and I think it’s about time, to ask whether the dramatic increase in incarceration was warranted” (Eckholm, 2015). In fact, many Democrats under the Obama administration along with Eric Holder have outspokenly called for a reduction in prison sentencing emphasizing the disparagement of the current justice system in place today. Commonly associated with their prison sentencing cut proposals is economic progress the country would make…