In my criminal justice class, we always discuss how the black people make up almost half the prison population but only make up 13% of the nation’s population. Black people are targeted as threats to the police officers therefore wrongly killed and arrested more than whites. The system is set in place to keep everyone safe but African Americans are looked at as statistics instead of people. We have to improve the criminal justice system and make it equally just to every race, ethnicity, and culture. I believe in order to have a better criminal justice system the people must set rules and proper punishment must be given to officers that think they are above the
In my criminal justice class, we always discuss how the black people make up almost half the prison population but only make up 13% of the nation’s population. Black people are targeted as threats to the police officers therefore wrongly killed and arrested more than whites. The system is set in place to keep everyone safe but African Americans are looked at as statistics instead of people. We have to improve the criminal justice system and make it equally just to every race, ethnicity, and culture. I believe in order to have a better criminal justice system the people must set rules and proper punishment must be given to officers that think they are above the