African American Police Research Paper

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You might think that black intolerance has stopped but as of lately, it’s been a rise with police.

(1st para)How did police get started? According to the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund, in 1635 “The City of Boston establishes the first system of law enforcement in the 13 colonies. Called the ‘night watch,’ officers served part-time, without pay.” Later, on September 24, 1789, “The United States Congress creates the first Federal law enforcement officer, the United States Marshal,” which were appointed by President George Washington.” According to Eastern Kentucky University, “It was not until the 1830s that the idea of a centralized municipal police department first emerged in the United States. In 1838, the city of Boston …show more content…

Most police treat African Americans unfairly. For example, in 1999 Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times because police thought he was reaching for a weapon when all it was, was a wallet. The list of the killings of African Americans goes on, but all of that turned out to be a misunderstanding. One of the most recent stories found online was the shooting of a 15-year-old boy on May first in Dallas, Texas. Police shoot African Americans when they are unarmed, they claim that African Americans reach for a weapon when all along it’s the complete opposite. Based on stereotypes and appearances, police will question a “suspect”. In 2000, Patrick Dorismond was walking around in Manhattan when a police officer approached him asking where he could buy some weed, this “confronts ensued another cop to shoot him in the chest.” Now, they have rights but the stereotypes continue to affect lives that matter. “An NYPD patrol car collided with Robinson at a Brooklyn housing project, killing him, after responding to a report that Robinson was digging up paving stones to sell them for some extra cash. He was unarmed.” Even though there was possibly a crime committed, police shouldn’t shoot people who can easily be fined or serve jail time instead, not sentenced to …show more content…

According to alternet.org, neuroscientists and psychologists conducted a series of “Implicit-association tests” or IAT’s, and found that white individuals are more quick to identify someone that is black as threatening in blink-of-an-eye decisions, no matter what their views on racism are.
In this specific “Implicit-association test” white individuals were asked to categorize a word that pops up on a computer screen as either positive or negative after a picture of either a black or white face showed up. The results showed that white individuals allocated negative words much faster to blacks than white faces.
Some might argue that, more whites are killed than blacks, in fact In 2015, The Washington Post launched a real-time database to track fatal police shootings, and recorded that as of Monday, July 11, 2016, 732 whites, 381 blacks, and 382 of another race were killed since July of the year before. However, when factored in that African Americans are 13 percent of the population, and Caucasians are around 62 percent, you start to see why less are killed. The Washington posts also calculated that blacks are 24 percent of those killed and whites 49 percent. Which makes African Americans 2.5 percent more likely to be killed by

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