Purchase Solution

Police and Minorities

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Three to five reasons why the interaction between police officers and each of the special groups listed (minorities, gays & lesbians, juveniles, elderly and women) is often negative.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This solution gives you a detailed discussion on police and minorities.

Solution Preview

Minorities:
1. An accusation of police abuses of forces has fostered a negative attitude towards the police.
2. The overrepresentation of the blacks and Afro Americans in the criminal justice system leads to a belief in the police that the minorities are involved in crime.
3. There is increased police presence and aggressive police patrol tactics in minority community areas.
4. Stereotypes lead to harsher penalties and sentencing for minority offenders.

Gays:
1. The police associate gay with lower levels of education and ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Title VII Laws

Learn the basics of the laws under Title VII.

Criminal Defenses Review

Test your knowledge of the basics of criminal law and defenses with this quiz.

Constitutional Law Rights

How much do you know about Constitutional Law Rights? Find out with this quiz!

Evidence

Do you know your evidence objections? Find out with this quiz!

Contract Requirments

How much do you know about the legal requirements for a contract? Find out with this quiz!

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Policing - Minorities, Policing Culture, Probable Cause, Critical Issues

    Therefore, equality between the community and police is tantamount for success as is equality for women and ethnic minorities within police agencies.

  • Recruitment with Police Agencies

    294527 Recruitment with Police Agencies How could a police agency improve it's recruitment efforts for women and minorities?

  • Police Recruitment, History, and Discretion

    Discretion has many benefits, but the playing field for minorities is unlevelled currently and community policing may be the solution. Police recruitment, history and discretion is examined. Police discretion is determined.

  • Affirmative Action

    In several countries positive action has been taken to recruit more ethnic minorities into the police force. This makes the police more sensitive to issues related to ethnic minorities.

  • Law enforcement and trust

    Police are the initial entrance into this unjust system for minorities but if prosecutors were not untrustworthy, these same minorities would simply be arrested and not actually charged with crimes and subsequently convicted by primarily white jurors

  • The Courts and the Image of Police Officers

    The police often police in areas of poverty and minorities or both and are seen as aliens (white middle class) and both parties feel misunderstood, hurt and abused. (http://links.jstor.org/sici?

  • Contemporary issues in CJ

    The criminal justice system is racist and targets minorities from the police to the prosecution to sentencing, and finally in regard to incarceration rates.

  • Controversy of racial profiling

    Some argue that the disproportionate arrests, stops, searches, and interactions of police with minorities are reflective of the higher incidents of crime in areas that are concentrated with majority populations of ethnic minorities while others including

  • Minority Communities

    Therefore, many African Americans are reluctant to trust police as they do not protect and serve African Americans but rather engage in unconstitutional abuses against these minorities.

View More Related Solutions