In a recent study they found 75% of white Americans believe that there is no issue with the criminal justice system and that racism is not a problem in the world we live in today. ... Tatei Thomas says "Racism, especially in our society is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. ... The United States Sentencing Commissions released a report saying that African Americans sentences are 20% longer than white Americans even though they both were convicted with the same crime. ... Since it is harder for Hispanics and African Amer...

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But, what happens when the law enforcer turns out to be the lawbreaker by targeting African Americans for traffic stops? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... With more African Americans being targeted and pulled over, the chance of arresting a black motorist is greater. ... Racial profiling is an unethical act that causes African Americans to experience fear, humiliation, and anger towards law enforcement officers. ... Racial profiling causes African Americans to have a lack of confidence and trust in the pol...

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Media has a big influence in how people perceive African Americans and other minority groups. The media usually depicts African Americans as typical drug users. ... Some people just have negative views towards African American groups and other minorities. ... Slavery has caused many people to perceive African Americans differently. ... African Americans would have been perceived as actual humans instead of criminals. ...

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While African American youth represents 17% of their age group within the general population, they represent 46% of juvenile arrests (The Sentencing Project 2008). ... African Americans are arrested for drug offences at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites. ... Trials are rare, only very small numbers of criminal cases go to trial - the rest are plea bargained- with most African Americans defendants never getting to a trial. ... In 2000 only 4.2% of attorneys were African American, 3.4% were Hispanic, and 2.2% were Asian. ... A recent Gallup poll showed that nearly two-thirds of...

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Reforming America's criminal justice system is a top priority, in order to end racism, and to clear up the population's tarnished image of law enforcement. ... There have been countless African American men and women who report being subject, to not being promoted because of their color and who they are affiliated with, according to (Martin, 1994). ... The article states indefinitely that African American female officers are less promoted because of their affiliation with African American men, whom most likely are not in a position of power. As you can conclude, it also states that C...

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Other countries have also recognized the racism of the death penalty; in 1994, for example, South Africa outlawed the death penalty because it was often associated with an official policy of racial segregation that had been in place since the last 1940s known as "apartheid"("Capital"). In America's history, in the over 18,000 convictions of capital punishment, only thirty-seven were of a white person being punished for the murder of an African-American. Also, despite the fact that African-Americans constitute only 12% of the national population ("Five"), they comprise 43.1 percent of the...

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Although, when we begin to dig deeper it becomes evident that incarceration in the United States poses a broad moral and ethical dilemma that stems from years of racial injustice perpetuated against minorities, namely, African American and Hispanic men. ... It is well documented that there has been a substantial increase in America's prison population within the past 30 years. ... There is also the fact that over 90% of prisoners are men, and that incarceration rates for African American men are about 8 times higher than those for white men (Pettit and Western 152). ... Mandatory minimums...

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In fact, "African Americans are overrepresented in all stages of the criminal justice system" (Thompson par 9). ... Police officials are more likely to stop and search an African-American man over a white one. ... Also, that the police are churlish when it comes to African-Americans. ... Inadvertently, it has vilified African-Americans and associated them with negative connotations. ... African-Americans have been mistreated by the criminal justice system for many years. ...

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In one case, which happened on March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King. When this case was brought to court, it was to a nearly all-white community without any jurors that were African American. ... Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% more likely to be stopped than white Americans, and police were more than twice as likely to search the car of an African American or Hispanic driver than a white driver. ... In addition, a third of all African American males aged 20-29 are right now either locked up, on p...

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Over the course of history, African Americans, Mexican Americans and Native Americans have been placed under the label as being a minority. ... African Americans face the most racial profiling when dealing with the police and how they are treated and have been treated and discriminated against throughout much of our history. ... The most common and dominant form of individual racism is against the African American community. ... Not only do African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans fall under the banner of being victims of hate crimes, but post 9/11, people with a Middle Eastern backg...

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Popular images have African American people being poor and committing more violent offenses, while the white people are supposed to be members of the middle class and carry out extreme "white-collar" offenses. While this is common thought in America, empirical evidence illustrates that offenders in all racial and socioeconomic groups commit mainly humble and ordinary crimes, such as shoplifting, burglary or driving under the influence. ...

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Popular images have African American people being poor and committing more violent offenses, while the white people are supposed to be members of the middle class and carry out extreme "white-collar" offenses. While this is common thought in America, empirical evidence illustrates that offenders in all racial and socioeconomic groups commit mainly humble and ordinary crimes, such as shoplifting, burglary or driving under the influence. ...

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The most common targeted of racial profiling are individuals of African American descent, along with Hispanics and Muslims. ... Multicultural Implications of Racial Profiling "There is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. ... " President Barack Obama, July 22, 2009 In addition to targeting the African American community, racial and religious profiling also affect a broad range of communities, including Native American, Latino, Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities (Rights Working Group website, n....

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Data collected by the Ferguson Police Department from 2012 to 2014 shows that Africa Americans account for 85% of vehicle stops, 90% of citations, and 93% of arrests made by FPD officers, despite comprising only 67% of Ferguson's population (p. 4). The Justice Department clearly indicates the Ferguson Police Department has racial bias further alienating the African American population as well as diminishing the legitimacy of law enforcement agencies in the United States. ...

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An example of a current disparity related situations is Ferguson Missouri and New York City when time and time again a white police officer either gunned down and African American or choked another African American resulting in his death. ...

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The most recent crimes to sweep across America and generate controversy are known as "hate crimes". These crimes differentiate from normal crimes because they are violent acts against people, property, or organizations to which they belong or identify with according to the American Psychological Association ("Hate"). Hate crimes have evolved drastically over the years and have become a main focus in American society. ... Studies report that the largest determinant of hate crimes is racial bias, with African Americans at the greatest risk. ... Furthermore, crimes committed against African A...

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Amnesty International also revealed, according to a 2007 study of Connecticut sentences that were examined by Yale University School of Law, African-American defendants receive the death penalty at three times the rate of white defendants in cases where the victims are white. ... Despite the fact that African Americans make up only 13 percent of the nation's population, almost fifty percent of those currently on the federal death row are African Americans (Death Penalty Information Center, 2015). ...

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Racial profiling has become a major issue in today's American society both on and off the streets. ... It is a fact that African Americans are six to eight times more likely to be not just arrested, but convicted of a violent crime than a Caucasian. ... This is not because they do not look like the majority of Americans, but because past history displays this "stereotype" as terrorists, which is valid. ...

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There were almost 8 million marijuana-related arrests in the US between 2001 and 2010, according to a 2013 American Civil Liberties Union report. ... Sadly, African-Americans, who have already faced discrimination on many different levels, account for a disproportionate number of those arrest. ...

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Even whites are forced to admit that statistics indicate that the Black community is disproportionately affected by the American legal system. ... The decision as to what kind of conduct by African-Americans ought to be punished is better made by African- Americans themselves."1 The means by which Butler proposes for Blacks to implement these decisions is termed jury nullification. ... Although several commentators have voiced criticisms with the ideas of Professor Butler, most of these criticisms focus on what is best for the American legal system, what legal precedents dictate, or as is most...

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It has been outlawed in Britain bit in America it is still allowed. ... In America, Asia Africa and the Middle East most countries still hold on to the death penalty for certain crimes and use it at their will. ... Anti capital punishment campaigners in America view the higher cost of executing someone over life in prison but this is (whilst true for America) has to do with the endless appeals and delays in carrying out death sentences that are allowed under the American legal system where the average time spent on death row is over 11 years. ... For example, in the American state of Texas, a ...

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For example, "Thirty-four percent of those executed in America since 1974 have been black, while African Americans represent only 13% of the general population" (Mears, 2008). ... This seems to initiate that in most cases the targets of race are African American and Hispanics/Latinos, which actually happen to be the minority of the overall population. As previously states, "Thirty-four percent of those executed in America since 1974 have been black, while African Americans represent only 13% of the general population" (Mears, 2008). ...

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On a unanimous vote, "unfairly long sentences" for crack offenders, who are mostly African Americans, were reduced to be more compatible with sentences given to powder-cocaine offenders, who are often white and sometimes affluent (Serrano). ...

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Zimmerman targeted Trayvon in part because he's African American" (Are Hate Crime Laws Necessary [Interview], 2012). ... Michelle Lyon who is Caucasian and Shayne Howe who is African American and their five children were home at the time. 20 year old Justin Rehberg admitted to building the cross, pouring a flammable substance on it and lighting it on fire. ...

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The officers chased the African American couple that was speeding away from them and fired 137 shots at their car. ... Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams were an unarmed African American couple who only had an empty Coca-Cola can and several crack pipes in their car (Daly, 2014). ...

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