The Criminal Justice System

The criminal justice system is about how a society deals with people who violate criminal law. The criminal justice system has a lot to do with politics. Politics expresses what is and is not criminal, and what the consequences are. The community plays two important roles in criminal justice system. The community is responsible for reporting crimes they witness happening. Police depend on the community for this information as they can't always be there to witness a crime. Lastly, the community makes up the members of the jury who convict or acquit criminals.

Racial prejudgment in the criminal justice system keeps more African Americans on probation and in prison than ever before. Drugs have been a huge conflict in communities of color. The

racial differences are that whites engage in drug offenses at a higher rate than African Americans. African Americans are incarcerated on drug charges at a rate that is greater than that of whites. When the judge incarcerate drug offenders they stay locked up for a long period of time and often some get life. The criminal justice system increasingly sentence offenders to life in prison under petty drug crimes. African Americans have a number of unfair encounters with law enforcement, showing that racial profiling continues to be a problem. African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than whites. Also African Americans have a high risk of experiencing the use of force during encounters with the police. Most African Americans don’t have the money to get a good lawyer to back them up in court. When most of the time whites usually look to rich family members to get them out of trouble, by waving lots of money in the systems face. With that being said wealth has a lot to do with the outcome of one’s criminal case.
Students of color face stricter punishments in school than their white peers, leading to a vast number of youth of color incarcerated. African Americans and Hispanic students are most likely involved in school related arrests or recommendations to law enforcement. Both African Americans and Hispanics are restricted in the world today. Young African American and Hispanic youth are most likely to drop out of school, experience unemployment and come into contact with the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many aggressive youth have short tempers, and they are quick to lash out at others pointlessly. Most of these youth are basically on their own, to survive. In most black communities you don’t see that may programs to help the youth stay on a straight and narrow road. The youth in low income communities need programs that help strengthening their self-control, that way they could become better at taming down angry urges and thinking through situations before acting.
Although there has been a huge incarceration and the overrepresentation of African Americans and Hispanics within the criminal justice system, African Americans and Hispanics have experienced an opposing impact on themselves and on their communities from obstacles to restore society in engaging in the democratic process. There have been a number of advantages from the state and federal level to approach the racial inequalities in the youth and adults incarceration. But nothing has changed, there are far more whites committing crimes in ski masks as well as suits and ties. The common reality is the entire playing field is not balanced. The white power structure because that’s what it is. My view on a white power structure are white people who work as a financial banker, law enforcement and Wall Street all have steadily raped, stolen, and influenced a system and laid waste to an average family’s opportunity to hold a job, keep a house and afford healthcare and an education and now want to blame the victims. In my eyes the world will always treat African American, Hispanics, and Middle Eastern people as the bad guy, because of the history leading up to racism. The criminal justice system will never be fair towards us people of color, it we don’t stand up for what’s right or wrong to get justice we deserve.