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I simply just believe that we need to completely change our capitalistic mindset. We have the wrong focus. We will never make a lasting change until we learn to love each other neighbors. Because our nation is so big, the only real way to do this is to have the states create programs that benefit community growth and outreach. Let's spend some money on bringing communities closer together and having discussions. Let's not judge anyone based on race, color, culture, heritage, or any other bias. I believe strain theory, labeling theory, and differential association are the main culprits behind the rate of criminalization in our nation, but I also believe that we can disrupt the effects of these theories now more than ever through social media. The first step we have to take is educating our children about the realities of this world, and teaching them that all humans are valuable. We need to plant the seed that local communities are your family, so that any policies and legislation that we decide to go with, will actually last. I believe my plan would be a mixture of control theory and differential association. I would plan to create stronger bonds by creating stronger communities that support involvement, attachment, commitment, and belief.

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Too often minorities and others are brutalized by police and police officers are rarely condemned for their crimes. I think that this is because many of the lives that are lost by police are of a minority and they could have been prevented. I think that a lot of this is because people of minorities are often labeled as criminals therefore they are often criminalized by police officers and it makes them feel like they have to use more force. I think that the cure to this is contact. If we encourage police officers to go to minority communities and get to know us better and we can get to know them better, then contact could lead to more comfortability. If there were more consequences for police then maybe they would think twice before they shoot.

Katherine Gore - 33831

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i think this is the most accommodating thing in today's society. its a problem that happens everyday in america. many people get stereo typed no matter what the color of your skin is or how you approach your self. but i think colored people take up for the term racial profiling because were the ones who get targeted the most.to stop these things its simple instead of going off what you think and what society has filled in your brain just give that person a chance to see what their about. the person can be the total opposite of your prospective of them.

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It occurs too often with anyone where they approach a situation and depending on the way someone looks or where they come from chooses the course of action on that specific situation. Like when a cop approaches a scene and he sees young black men, he would be mopre likely to question and be more cautious of him rather than a white male. Also the way people dress or talk affect this too. Sadly, this is a problem that still exists in America today and will continue. There are lots of videos that can be found on the internet that show a cop using extra force for no reason on a black person, but just because they have that mindset that these people are criminals they have such negative approaches towards them. It can also be switched around. Because of increased police brutality on black people, a lot of them are afraid of cops too because they automatically assume that cop is going to hurt or kill them for no reason or just because they are black.

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As I watched the Oscar Grant movie I couldn't help but sob at the way that the cops treated Oscar and his friends. It honestly breaks my heart to think that that happens a lot still today. To think that police the people that are there to protect you are the ones hurting people is a very unsafe feeling. To me after watching "13th" to me the 13th amendment pretty much gives police that loophole that they can punish people specifically black people.  It states that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." I don'y know mush about politics but I think changing the 13th amendment would help the situation of police brutality along with more training for people that want to become police officers.

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Instead of allowing defendants to go to trial to receive fair judgement, the system offers plea deals. The plea deals scare people out of wanting to go to trial to prove their innocence. I think that if plea deals are given, they should not be used to scare people away from trial. There shouldn't be an underlying threat embedded into them. Plea deals should be used to help people, not force them into pleading guilt just because the system cannot survive if everyone goes to trial.

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War o drugs is a campaign that its aim goal is to stop drugs of being sold and used by people. Since prisons are supported by many big companies, those prisons were supposed to be filled by specific number of prisoners in order to get funded by those private companies. At that time, racism against people of colors was used to proclaim the fund. So officers during war on drugs campaign suspected any person of color of being a dealer or user of drugs. So they were able to fill out their prisons and get the fundings.
The Solution for that is to raise awareness that people of color were misjudged throughout the history. Moreover, even if they were imprisoned, policemen should be fair and treat them well instead of using violence.  Lastly, provide counseling courses for the officers in order to treat prisoners well and try to understand their psychological purpose of the crime (if the the individual committed a crime) and try to help him psychologically.

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Marijuana Convictions and The War on Drugs- Carly Davis 

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Marijuana Convictions and The War on Drugs- Carly Davis 

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One major problem in the criminal justice system is that young people, especially those from minority communities, are sent to jail because of a one time use of marijuana, which has not proven to be harmful or to be a gateway drug. Due to the war on drugs, marijuana is now heavily criminalized. If young people are sent to jail for a harmless crime such as the use of marijuana, it tarnishes their entire future. Furthermore, they are likely to be exposed to worse things in prison, and because American prisons do not place a heavy focus on rehabilitation, they will most likely return to prison.

One possible solution to this problem is the legalization of marijuana. The criminal justice system could use its time convicting actual criminals, and focus on making the world safer, rather than this archaic war on drugs. Furthermore, young people caught partaking in the drug, or even associated with it, would not be sentenced to a life as a criminal.

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As time goes by and we learn more and more about the drugs in our society. In america many have went to prison for marijuana and a lot of us feel like they are wrongly in prisoned and shouldn't be in the system. Another point is States that legalize marijuana should free or make a program for any prisoner that was charged for possession, This will help reduce prisoners in jail. Marijuana has not shown any sign of harm and actually helps in the medical field.

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Drugs are often used as an escape from this reality, something to numb the pain. With this in mind one can begin to understand humans and why they choose to engage in the use of illegal substances. I think drug addiction and substance abuse is directly linked to social situation of these individuals, and when we label these individuals as criminals and start shunning them from society we only prolong the problem. Labeling combined with a system that is ment to target minorities is a horrible way to perpetuate the problems that we have today.

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We label young black men as criminals in the US. Oscar Grant is a prime example of this stereotyping. It is a problem that can't just be remedied by acknowledging it, though. I think we have a deep implicit bias that goes back hundreds of years in our country's history. Black people are less than and dangerous. I hope that in future generations we will be able to root out this bias.

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I think we are approaching the war on drugs wrong. The fact that people are getting arrested and having their lives ruined for simply having a substance is wrong. The irony is that some states have legal marijuana while others don't. These inequalities in the same country are silly, because people are being punished for legal actions. There is money to be made by having people in prison, so the motivation to keep arresting for drug crimes is there. The solution is to decriminalize certain drugs and then eventually legalize. In states with legal marijuana, crime has gone down.

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Jenna Pate
There have been multiple viral leaks of police officers beating "criminals" that are already on the ground who are just laying there waiting for in to be over. You are at risk from the ones who are suppose to be keeping us all safe. This is not good for our society and will only make things worse. I think crime rate will keep growing because neither the law or the people have any respect for each other. Also the prisons are horrifying. People are not treated as human beings in there and its seems that things have been escalating over the years instead of someone getting control of the problems and fixing them.

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A major problem in society that plays a huge role is stereotyping. From the judgements made in the 1970 on how black people where seen as dangerous, rapist and criminals, that images is still labeled on black people today. An example of a case that focused on profiling was the killing of young black male Trayvon Martin. A white man witnessed a young boy walking at night who he assumed was suspicious because he was a black male walking at night with a hoodie on. He followed Treyvon because he felt as though he was up to no good (stereotyping) and killed him without reason.

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Often times in today's society, law enforcement agents are guilty of taking action on a scenes that should be left alone just because they are stereotyping based on race, ethnicity, and the way an individual presents themselves. A huge case that is represented of this is the Trayvon Martin case. A young kid was walking down the street at night with his hood over his head. The cop involved immediately saw suspicion based on the fact that he was black and the way he was carrying himself. The people of the United States should not be stereotyped based off of what I listed above. No situation should be based off of color. It's sad because racism still exists today and we are in 2017. The law should uphold every person to a standard and not stereotype no matter what the situation.

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Police officers are rarely prosecuted for killing and brutalizing unarmed black men, and are often acquitted if they do have their day in court. One of the reasons it is so challenging to end police brutality is because police officers are still held in such high regard by the public. It is not as though reform, or at least an effort to root out bad cops, has not been attempted. Efforts at the local level to create legislation that punishes bad cops are usually met with strong opposition from police unions and the politicians who favor with them and white voters. If police brutality were just a matter of a few bad cops, it would be a lot easier to solve. But it isn’t. Protecting bad cops is even part of police culture, and is a structural issue that has to be corrected with structural solutions. The start of a solution? Prosecutors can start bringing murder charges to police officers who deserve it. We can create laws that can hold police officers accountable for deaths due to brutality. An officer who is convicted of killing an innocent person or being abusive should lose his right to work in any law enforcement job, and serve jail time just like you and I would if we did the same thing.

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Just like crime in 90s early and late profiling still exists in todays future. People shouldnt be profiled because they look suspicious that is racist. Police abuse power and want to have their way with civilians. They now have cameras on police uniforms because so many blacks have been killed these past few years. Police shouldn't have the right to search or touch some one and it is unfair for them to instigate regarding their professional state. A solution to this crime would be for the police to be fair when they approach civilians. I believe cameras are a good idea but we need more. Police should not be able to touch innocent people they need to fight the real criminals. People dying over petty traffic infractions is uneccessary. Profiling is racism and the law should be treated just like everyone else and be sentenced for it.

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we have more than two millions of prisoner in america, majority of prisoner in america are black african american.Most black prisoner are innocent they are forced against their will to plead a pleas deal.since, they come from a poor community with low funding they  are not able to provide sufficient fund to afford a lawyer. African american are know  to be in prison over the white race this is because of the skin, they are label  as criminal and a rapes. i strongly think that it is disgusting to urge someone to go behind to go behind because of crime they did not commit for more than twenty years or the rest of their life because of racism but, oscar grant killer was only sentenced two years in eleven month but he got release early because he is white .we all need to get over the race barriers,  us black folks need to do better for our community , prove them that we are not violence , not a criminal we are human and as for white people/cops  you need to understand that you dont have the authority to murder someone or put them behind bar because you depise them for the colour of their skins.

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50% of the people in federal prisons and a quarter of those in state prisons are there on drug charges. The drug laws in America are extremely racist, even though every racial group participates in the use of drugs, mainly marijuana, African Americans are ten times more likely to be sent to prison on drug related charges over white people. I think they way we approach this issue of crime needs to change. Marijuana being legalized is the first step to stopping the war on drugs because this will definitely decrease the number of people in prison, which I personally think is ridiculous if it is just for marijuana charges. I think that cops having body cameras is another solution towards this crime but I think they should have them recording at all times on duty. Cops should also have to go through sociology training and learn about racial profiling so they may be more sympathetic towards it.