The reality Today
Within California about 64% of Americans in 2013 to 2023 were arrested for crimes without any violent crimes.
What are low level offenses?.
The idea of eliminating the native people to acquire land to do business and using the native people as a resource to produce goods.
What is settler colonialism?
the ideology of controlling the political and economical conditions of "less civilized" nations either by direct territorial acquisition or military force from more civilized nations.
What is Imperialism?
A new law states that when a criminal who has two past criminal backgrounds will be sentenced to 25 years or life if they commit a third crime.
What is the three strikes law?
This type of housing discrimination led to an increase in police presence in those areas impacting the neighborhoods through police violence and higher incarceration rates.
What is redlining?
Black people are 3 times likely killed by police and 1.3 time likely to be unarmed compared to white people.
What is racial profiling?
Southern colonies created a group where they would capture slaves who had run away and prevented any rebellions from starting.
What is slave patrols?
Obstacles created to make the voting process more difficult to Black people in the South
What is Poll Tax & Literacy Tests?
President Nixon, in 1971 introduced a national campaign that focused on reducing drug use using stricter policing and criminal punishment.
What is the War on Drugs?
Ronald Reagan brought an end to involuntary commitments of people with mental health disorders, increasing instances of police arrests of individuals struggling with mental health.
What is the LPS Act?
44% of Latinx community, 15% of Black community, and 28% of White community killed by police, however, there is a predominantly larger quantity of white individuals compared to POC.
What is Police Violence by Race?
Black individuals and immigrants were exploited, controlled, and denied rights through police violence in order to benefit enslavers and businesses allowing them to access wealth/status.
What is Racial Hierarchhy?
The idea of the responsibility of the white man to uplift the subordinate.
What is White Man's Burden?
A rise in unemployment throughout the nation due to high labor competition fueled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964
What is de-industrialization?
Maintaining public order, enforcing the law. Preventing crime and ensuring community safety.
What is Policing?
According to the data from prison policy initiative, The members of the LGBTQ+ communities are more likely to get arrested than regular straight people.
Does sexual orientation play a role when it comes to people getting arrested?
Slaves were limited to fleeing without the masters’ acknowledgement and those without those were given twenty beatings.
What is the 1680 Virginia Slave Code?
The approach of war mentality in policing as a way for police to find fault in communities rather than protecting them.
What is Military Psychology in Policing?
5 grams of crack cocaine and 500 grams of cocaine is equivalent to the same amount of time in prison (5 years).
What is ADAA?
How society fosters racial discrimination through racial discrimination by manipulating education, employment , media and criminal justice and many more to favor the majority.
What is structural racism?
The act of resorting to violence rather than finding other solutions during an arrest. According to the Mapping Police FactSheet, 73% of killing are done which accounts that 1.6 people are killed every 10K arrests.
What is police brutality?
To prevent the voluntary freeing of enslaved people, it was strictly illegal to teach enslaved people to read/write. Chattel property individuals were legally considered property and couldn’t legally own assets/contracts to testify against themselves in the court?
What is Charleston Law?
Theory argues methods of counter-insurgency, social control, and repression being tested in the Philippines then deployed against the marginalized back in the U.S.
What is Imperial Boomerang?
During the 1980s, this policing strategy focused on the idea of cracking down on small things such as graffiti in order to prevent more serious crimes from happening.
What is Broken Windows policing?
From the development of slavery to segregation to the mass elimination of competition between majority groups and minority groups. Minority groups exploited to create profit for capitalist economy.
What is racial capitalism?