How is the following article connected to the acts, practices, and laws that have disproportionately impacted the lives of African Americans?
NYPD on Track to Interrogate Record Number of Innocent New Yorkers in 2009, New Stop-and-Frisk Numbers Show
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I know that stop and frisk have been increasing and it for the most part truly is based on racial profiling. But maybe there is another side. We need to also look at how behavior has changed in today world within races. The way kids, teens and young adult behave in society has change because of media. Movies, Music, tv show Etc. I think the way people act in public today is different than 20 years ago. That is why it has also been increasing?
ReplyDeleteDo we really act that differently? I haven't seen any studies, but in every generation there have been "bad boys and girls" and "good girls and boys."
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, in society we always tend to blame the victim rather than the attacker... Consider the following.
I think we should start to think what makes our generation different--from the various institutional perspectives we have to face. For example, the Patriot Act, the increasingly militarization of police forces, the privatization of our jails, and private for-profit media outlets. Does any of that make it "necessary" to pick up these kids actin' out?
But what do you consider acting out? Today there are even younger parents then there was 20 years ago, and I feel the majority of them do not teach kids respect, discipline, etc.. And because they are so young, they have to live in a poverty area. So what may be acting out for a kid growing up in a more well to do area is completely different, then a kid in a poverty area. That kid in the poverty area if he was to act the other way would be called a B!tch. So he has to step it up so he is not that. And it just escalates from there.
ReplyDeleteI agree, when my grandma walked down the street she would never dream of kissing my grandfather where other adults could see. Now we are lucky if all we get are kids kissing on the train. And when my dad was walking around in the street there would never have been a gay couple holding hands, now they are everywhere. I think a useful statistic we could have had with that stop and frisk is the number of homosexuals.
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