Throughout the course of history, plenty of civilizations have been based on sets of laws to maintain balance and equality for the people. In our society, the legislative branch makes the laws, the executive branch carries out the laws, and the judicial branch evaluates the laws. You may be wondering if this is a essay for government class. Where am i going with this essay? I am here to talk about an issue in my community to that i feel most passionately about, and that is a law passed on Stop and frisk.
Stop and frisk is when police temporarily detain somebody and pat down their outer clothing when there are specific articulable facts leading a reasonable police officer to believe a person is armed and dangerous. In my community police stop and frisk people in our neighborhood particularly the races African-Americans and Latino Americans on a regular because we “fit the description”. What is the description? is the question I always wanted to ask. Is the description a black or fair skinned man? So does this give police officers the right to detain every single black and fair skinned person because we so called fit the description?
Everyday i sit and wonder how do we solve this problem? From what direction do we address this issue? We can’t protest because we’re obviously getting ignored. No one is willing to put the time and effort in it so our voices can be heard. A way that i can maybe resolve this issue is to maybe start a program that stands against the law on stop and frisk. This program would let cops and the whole police department know that the people in our community are not tolerating the presumptions that every black and latino male are up to no good.
Maybe i have been over thinking these problems, but this issue doesn’t only affect me but everyone in our community that has dealt with a stop and frisk encounter. Other people may have different perspectives about the the stop and frisk laws, but that doesn’t make it right for police to harass people. My idea may not work or go as far but it’s best to make ideas then sitting around doing nothing. You don’t sit and wait for change, Change waits for you.
Maybe i have been over thinking these problems, but this issue doesn’t only affect me but everyone in our community that has dealt with a stop and frisk encounter. Other people may have different perspectives about the the stop and frisk laws, but that doesn’t make it right for police to harass people. My idea may not work or go as far but it’s best to make ideas then sitting around doing nothing. You don’t sit and wait for change, Change waits for you.
Do you think the new mayor will change the policy?
ReplyDeleteWhen you use others language like "Stop and frisk is when police temporarily detain somebody and pat down their outer clothing when there are specific articulable facts leading a reasonable police officer to believe a person is armed and dangerous." You need to put their words in quotes and tell us where you found the information.