Tania Caldwell  

Urb200  

November 11, 2021  

                     

In the last year, the Black Lives Matter movement became stronger; after the death of George Flood, the media broadcast the encounter of African American men and the police every day. The article “Black Lives and Police Tactic Matter” by Rory Kramer, Brianna Renters, and Camille Charles explained different reasons for the disparity between African Americans and whites with policy every year. Some research shows that African Americans are most likely to be arrested by police. One reason could be that police assume that African Americans are violent, their physical look, or, sadly, encounter policy in poor and high crime neighborhoods. Also, other researchers showed that police and African Americans have more negative interactions because African American men are most likely to be involved in crime compared with white.  

In the podcast “Ruth Wilson Gilmore Make the Case of for Abolition,” Gimore described her point of view of the case that African American communities still face a high level of crime. Also, Gilmore described how those communities could overcome the incarceration by defunding the police and investing those funds in resources that could benefit African American communities. The police had been violently oppressing  African American for centuries, making strong during the Jim Crown era. Although the end of Jim Crown might have reduced the not reasonable arrest with police violence, today, more African American men face police brutality. The system has failed African American communities, which is the leading cause of condensing high crime communities and negative interaction between African Americans and polices. The rehabilitation in jails, governmental institutions such as public housing, environmental justice, and family support continue failing African American communities, where high crime and poverty negatively impact African Americans.   

The roof of crime in the African American community still lacks resources to improve their quality of life. The slavery system has been inherently in the economic and social life of African Americans. Fewer resources are distributed in African American Community which leaves more poverty and crime. Even after an African American man goes to the criminal justice system, the rehabilitation does not positively impact those men after getting out of jail. Today, some activists asked to defend the police. The mass fund that the police department receives every year should have been distributed to African American neighborhoods, schools, colleges, and the health system and it will benefit all.  There should be support for families in poor Neighborhood which can reduce crime. To put more funds into community policing and police training will not eliminate the root of the high crime that still existed in African American communities. The target of the police is African America because police still monitoring those communities, which leave the more arrest in African American communities. More research’s, more programs and more resources should be the solution to end century of inequity in the African American communities.