When talking about discriminatory actions towards minorities in the criminal justice system, you must think of what kind of “discriminatory actions”. Police brutality, wrongful arrest, and racial profiling are things to think of when talking about how the justice system discriminates towards minorities. The government tries to control minorities using these factors because they are intimidated by “negro domination”.
The Central Park Jogger Case is a case is a prime example of how they use language to manipulate and control the 5 minorities involved in this case. All five of the boys were racially profiled because of the color of their skin, they were wrongfully arrested and sentenced 5–10 to 5–15 years in prison. The man in the case served 6 to 13 years after finding out they were right all the time. Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam and Kharey Wise all have post-traumatic stress disorder from this tragic experience. This case along with many more are reason why we should investigate our criminal justice system.
Since the dawn of day minorities been facing discrimination from the government. White people controlled minorities through what they call “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make a defense, and without right of appeal. Now they control minorities by the justice system. In 1991, 960 LAPD officers were surveyed and to the survey proved that officers hold racial bias towards minorities, which can lead to excessive forces which are a form of police brutality which is a modern-day form of lynching.
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Statistics show that interactions with black officers and black suspect significantly more likely to result in arrest than interactions involving black officers and white suspects. Now, you’ve thought that black officers would cut minorities some slack since they are a “person of color”, but it just shows you how people can be when they get to much power. It also shows you how the criminal justice system is out to get minorities.
In an episode of Scandal, it shows how the police officer felt like he wasn’t getting respected by a local teen and as someone who “supposed to protect the people he serves”, he killed the teenager. This shows you that if you don’t come to the police in a respectful tone and how they expect you to be, your sentence will be death. And this comes back to “unwritten law” because it’s not a law to kill someone just because they come at you with a negative tone.
When the police enforce the law inconsistently and become the agents of lawlessness and disorder, it serves as a tangible reminder of the incompleteness of formal equality. Meaning we are not equal and if the criminal justice system directs their forces on minorities only, we will never be equal. In too many cases the so-called “system” that was supposed to correct our mistakes only compounds us. The system is not just wasting money it’s wasting live. Some may say that the laws that are enforced upon minorities are justifiable. That the police have the rights to lock up any they think did a crime or the right to use excessive force on minorities if they feel threated.
I plan on uses all my sources I found to help me with this research. I do want to look more into ASA (American Sociological Association) and see what more evidence do they have to offer for race, ethnicity, and the criminal justice system. Cleary as a society we must join forces and fix our criminal justice system. By confronting these issues head-on, conservatives are showing that our principles lead to practical solutions that make government less costly and more effective. We need to do more of that. Conservatives can show the way by impressing on more of our allies and political leaders that criminal justice reform is part of a conservative agenda.
