Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Vocabulary #9

Ultimate-being or happening at the end of a process
Interactive-influencing or having an effect on each other
Principle- an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct
Guidance- advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty
Collaboration- the action of working with someone or something to produce or create something
Formative- used to describe the time where someone or something is growing or being formed
Summative-additive, cumulative
Racism- poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race
Intelligence- the ability to learn or understand things or deal with new or difficult situations
Hyperbolic- or,realting to, or marked by hyperbole
Consent- to agree to do or allow something
Doctrine- a set of ideas or beliefs that are taught or believed to be true
Hunch-  to bend your body forward and down so that your back is rounded
Predominant- more important, powerful, successful, or noticeable than other people or things
Discretion- the right to choose what should be done in a particular situation
Provision- the act or process of supplying or providing something
Seizure- the act of taking control of something especially by force or violence
Warrant- a document issued by a court  that gives the police the power to do something
Infraction- an act that breaks a rule or law

Monday, November 4, 2013

Racial Profiling Lives On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jqXeW5C324

After reading the article i decided to look up some racial profiling on youtube and i came upon this video which was quite disturbing to see. I think its absolutely wrong and absurd that policeman judge a person on their race like for example if they see an African American just walking minding his own business that they have the right to question what he's doing because they find there is something "suspicious" going on its wrong that they only think there is something suspicious because hes walking by himself and the main part of it is because of his race! In the video there is a Latino who was verbally assaulted by a policemen because he was asking why he was being questioned for not doing anything wrong and i really believe that it is against our fourth amendment to be searched or just judging us because of our race that we were looking suspicious when obviously you werent doing anything wrong  it just really bothers me. Even through all this non sense that the Major of New York thinks that its ok for policemen to racial profile because they are protecting people from harm but hes not getting the big picture here think about if policemen spend there time questioning these innocent people who arent doing anything wrong they can be spending all that time helping someone who is actually in danger.