Historical Context
What is the Indian Act?
Legally distinguishes between First Nations and other Canadians.
This demographic is more likely to be portrayed as victims of crime news compared to African Americans or Latinos.
White women
Which demographic is more likely to hold negative views on the police?
Blacks and Hispanics
What is the purpose of the Indian Act?
To control and assimilate Indigenous peoples and their communities
Are ideal victims and perpetrators real like the media says?
No
What is the event where officers made indigenous people walk home in the cold?
The starlight tours
What legal system ensured the continued subordination of black labor to white economic power?
Jim Crow Laws(Black Codes)
Negative representation in the media can lead to what?
Racial profiling and racial bias
Black and Hispanic people are more likely to believe that ___ exists in policing than white people?
Racial bias
This aspect is often ignored in the formation and organization of policing practices
Race
Television news accounts are more likely to show black suspects in these conditions than white suspects.
mug shots, handcuffed, or resisting arrest
The deaths of who sparked, protests riots and questioning of the treatment of African Americans in the justice system?
Mike Brown and Tamir Rice
Racial minorities, especially African Americans, were often subject to police harassment for being this when they left their neighborhoods
Out of their place
Name 3 way to reconstruct the media
We need to reconstruct the media to not be dramatic but more informative.
Promote fact-based reporting.
Highlight positive stories and solutions alongside coverage of problems
Put more emphasis behind the context behind events such as the rarity of certain dangers which can help reduce unnecessary fear.
Proper representation in criminal cases reported
Stop romanticizing violent crimes
What are 3 ways to reconstruct law enforcement?
Encourage community involvement
Police should work with community organizations
Put more funding in housing and social services to stop the incarceration of marginalized groups in institutions