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Taylor Coleman

Professor Debra Jizi

UWRITE 1104

11 November 2017

Double Entry Journal

Citation:

United States, Congress, Office of Justice Programs, et al. 2011, pp. 5,6,7,9,10,12.

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Black drivers were about What makes these drivers any

three times as likely as white different from each other,

drivers and about two times as besides the aspect of race? Is it

likely as Hispanic drivers to be coincidence that darker people

searched during a traffic are more likely to be searched

stop.(Page 10) than lighter people?

A greater percentage of black This is undisputable evidence

(4.7%) than white (2.4%) that certain communities as a

drivers arrested during a traffic whole are being unequally

stop. Black drivers (58.3%) treated better than other

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were somewhat more likely communities.

than white drivers (53.1%) to

be ticketed during a stop. An

equal percentage following a

traffic stop, while a greater

percentage of Hispanic drivers

(62.9%) than white drivers

(53.1%) received a ticket. In

addition, a greater percentage

of white drivers (11.2%)

received a verbal warning from

police, compared Hispanic

(4.5%) and black (6.0%)

drivers. (Page 9)

Among persons who had I wonder if the last numbers are

contact so small because those groups of

with police in 2008, black people make of the smallest of

residents (28.4%) were minorities within society?

somewhat

more likely than white

residents (24.6%) and more

likely than
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Asian, Native Hawaiians, and

other Pacific Islanders (20.4%)

to have multiple contacts.

(Page 6)

The likelihood of being Even though all minorities face

stopped by police in 2005 did unequal treatment compared to

not differ significantly among whites, Its almost as if certain

white drivers (8.9%), American minority groups still have a

Indian or Alaskan Native certain larger amount of

drivers (11.9%), and Asian, privilege than African-

Native Americans do. At times, this

Hawaiian, and other Pacific privilege puts those minorities

Islander drivers (7.9%). (Page side-by-side with whites.

7)

Whites did not have a higher Im curious as to whether these

rate of police contact than groups for the study came from

American Indians and Alaskan similar communities as whites

Natives in 2005 or in 2008. or different ones, such as

(page 5) American Indians living on

preserves?

Blacks were more Certainly not every African-

likely than whites or Hispanics American carries a gun around

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to experience use or threat with them, so what is it about

of force in 2008. (Page 12) them that makes the police fear

for their lives enough to feel the

need to use force such as

weaponry? What do they usually

expect to accomplish when they

use force that they dont think

they would accomplish through

talking and reason?