Race Jones
gangster. grace. alchemy
theres this wide spread belief that crime has been rising in the US and the media uses places like chicago, philly, and baltimore as examples for why we need more police
but the facts are contrary to that belief (crime keeps decreasing over the past few decades). so what is feeding this perception that crime is going up?
1. mass media’s disproportionate coverage of crime and violence, especially among poor communities
2. a deeply rooted belief that Black communities need to be aggressively policed.
the problem is racism and the social constructed categories like crime, law, and violence uses police to maintain and enforce structual inequalities between communities
Crime data is manufactured and only used to achieve certain outcomes that keeps historically looted areas overpoliced and void of resources
but the facts are contrary to that belief (crime keeps decreasing over the past few decades). so what is feeding this perception that crime is going up?
1. mass media’s disproportionate coverage of crime and violence, especially among poor communities
Why some say the phrase 'Black on Black crime' distracts from police brutality, unfairly perpetuates racism
A 2018 national survey found offenders were the same race as the victim 70 percent of the time for Blacks and 62 percent for Whites.
www.11alive.com
When Does Murder Make The News? It Depends On The Victim’s Race.
Mainstream media is less likely to cover Black homicide victims and less likely to portray them as complex human beings, a new study shows.
www.themarshallproject.org
2. a deeply rooted belief that Black communities need to be aggressively policed.
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
Lack of transparency and biased training data mean these tools are not fit for purpose. If we can’t fix them, we should ditch them.
www.technologyreview.com
Does neighborhood crime matter? A multi-year survey study on perceptions of race, victimization, and public safety
Using multiple large datasets over time from Kansas City, Missouri, hypotheses drawn from theories of racial stereotype amplification, violence desens…
www.sciencedirect.com
the problem is racism and the social constructed categories like crime, law, and violence uses police to maintain and enforce structual inequalities between communities
What the data says (and doesn’t say) about crime in the United States
The two primary sources of government crime statistics both paint an incomplete picture, though efforts at improvement are underway.
www.pewresearch.org
Million Dollar Blocks | Center for Spatial Research
c4sr.columbia.edu
Crime data is manufactured and only used to achieve certain outcomes that keeps historically looted areas overpoliced and void of resources
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