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For a long time many minorities faced discrimination in the United States. Racial tensions hit it’s peak in 1950s and 60s. To fight discrimination, President Kennedy in 1961 signed an executive order creating affirmative action. Affirmative action required businesses and colleges to have a certain amount of minorities in admittance. In the following years since affirmative action, racism has dwindled away, but our society continues to hold on to affirmative action. This system once made to fight…

As a result of the War on Drugs and latent racism in the justice system, in his lifetime, one out of every three black males can expect to be incarcerated. (ACLU, 2015) In spite of the fact that blacks and whites use drugs at approximately the same rate, blacks are incarcerated at ten times the rate of whites…

police-minority interactions through untainted lenses by hyperbolic perspectives difficult, the recent abundance of questionably handled cases within the United States involving people of minority groups and police officers has nonetheless incited national debates over what changes need to occur in order to have a more efficient policing system. The American justice system must take the initiative to put an end…

Still Fighting for Civil Rights Civil rights will always be a movement. It’s something the United States, the land of the free, has always struggled with. Every time an issue about civil rights is brought up, millions fight against making a change. The United States has come such a long way with civil rights, but it’s foolish to think that the civil rights movement is over. The fight is still going on and will continue to go on until this country values all lives equally. Malcolm X fought for…

The police department needs the community trust in order to for them to do their job correctly. Since the police department are using racial profiling as a base to stop crimes that force the community to turn against them. In the article is say that “The Commission’s inquiry has also revealed that the impact of profiling…

Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella, The D.O.C, and Arabian Prince, also known as N.W.A composed Fuck Tha Police released in 1988 both songs protesting police brutality against African-Americans in the United States of America. Both Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Kendrick Lamar and N.W.A express their disfavor towards the justice system through their music. Police brutality persists against blacks today this includes: mothers, daughters, fathers, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, sisters, grandmothers, and…

Each Country has their own Justice System and each will differ slightly from the United States. In the end the end result is all the same which is getting their country as safe as possible and looking up the offenders that cannot be a good member productive member of their society. The two Justice System in this paper that will be discussed are the United States and The German justice system. Three items will be compared and contrasted within this paper such as International Police Cooperation…

The authors purpose is to determine the cost of crimes by examining the pain, suffering, and fear caused to the crime victims. Today, criminal activities have affected the cost to society. The state, local, and federal governments spend an estimate of $35 billion annually for community protection, public defenders, and correctional supervision (Miller, Cohen, & Rossman, 1987). Other out-of-pocket expenses includes household items such as locks, burglar alarms, watchdogs, etc. The study estimates…

different people played large and important roles. Another main cause is the Bolshevik revolution. The Bolshevik became disinterested in the great war and signed a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1918, taking them out of the conflict. The United States saw this separate peace treaty as a betrayal. This result was the idea that the Bolshevik, in the American mind, was the epitome of evil. On the other hand, some Americans sought sympathy for the Bolsheviks, creating American Radicals for…

Prison According to the National Conference of State Legislators, in 2018, only thirty states in the U.S. had any sort of legislation passed to address racial profiling by the police. Minority rights groups, including the NAACP, have continued their fight to try and push states to pass laws that protect minorities when dealing with police. Many group leaders are looking to separate the duties of an immigration officer and a police officer. In many states, the law requires a police officer to…