Walker,+Clarence

Clarence Walker SAP Intermediate Proposal ** Solution ** My solution of this problem is to find a system that can avoid this kind of treatment. My proposition will be to enforce a monitoring system that will keep tabs of who the police officers stops and where they are stopped. There will also be trackers of where the officers’ vehicle is going and most often visited. There should be an area of where the officer spends a majority of their time on their shift, whether it is in a suburb or a crime stricken neighborhood. There will be people of law enforcement that will overlook officer’s logs weekly given to them by their police chief. The over lookers will have to remain biased while looking for patterns in stops because the identity of the officer will be withheld from them. For certain cases witnesses accounts of what happened will be taken into consideration, such as a person getting assaulted by officers after they have surrendered themselves to an officer without resistance or was resisting by running but them gave up and stopped struggling but still remains to be apprehended in an overly aggressive manner such as getting kicked, punched, hit by an officers possession (example: flashlight, baton, or nightstick), or getting aggressively put into an officers vehicle, as I have seen all of these things firsthand whether it be all at one time or different instances. I bring the witnesses into consideration because like me, about 20 other people were witnesses to an act in which all these acts were committed at one time but none of the witnesses were ever brought into consideration of speaking in what they saw happen during that incident to state that the officers abused their power and used unnecessary force, we were just told to disperse and go home. The victim of this act was my friend I told the officers that they were using unnecessary force and to stop, not in those words, but I was told to be quiet and get away, put into a more appropriate terms because the officers direct words were in a more aggressive and vulgar manner, or I will be arrested to for interfering. Like me I feel like people have accounts like these all the time and it should be put to a stop. My thesis is: In the world there is a lot of racial profiling, and there seems to be no solution to it. Racial profiling is both hurtful and can ruin lives. I will try my best to find a working solution that eliminates this problem by proposing a system that will cut down on racial profiling. ** Audience ** My audience is government officials or anyone that can make a change in the way racial profiling is being handled. ** Research ** 1. Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work. 2. "Policing: Black People Are 26 Times More Likely Than Whites to Face Stop-And-Search." 3. Racial Profiling Fact Sheet. 4. Da Enemy (song) 5. Philadelphia Police Are Sued Over “Stop And Frisk” ** Rhetorical Strategies ** 1.Statistics. To show how many people get affected by this problem within a period of time. 2.Definition. To explain to my audience what a word means if they are unaware. 3.Cause/Effect. To explain that if my solution is taken up how it can change society. Sap Initial Proposal

Clarence Walker

My social issue is racial profiling made by law enforcement, this is a worldwide problem. Even though this is a worldwide problem I will focus on the United States of America. Racial profiling is hurtful to the victims and a direct violation to our civil rights. From my knowledge just about every minority has been a victim of racial profiling, whether it be from law enforcement to store owners to just a random person in the elevator grabbing onto their belongings like you will snatch there purse or stick them up right in the elevator. But in my opinion racial profiling by the law is the worst and most affecting because they can just make a story up and send you to jail for no reason at all or make you do cruel or unusual punishments, a power that random people or store owners don’t possess. They have this power because they have a badge. They wear this badge as a symbol of their power, and to them it says I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. But most white people think that that is a symbol that shows a pledge to uphold the law, but in reality they think this because they do not fall victim to these persecutions because the majority of law enforcement officials are white, so why would a white person discriminate against his own people.

My solution of this problem is to find a system that can avoid this kind of treatment. My proposition will be to enforce a monitoring system that will keep tabs of who the police officers stops and where they are stopped. There will also be trackers of where the officers’ vehicle is going and most often visited. There should be an area of where the officer spends a majority of their time on their shift, whether it is in a suburb or a crime stricken neighborhood. There will be people of law enforcement that will overlook officer’s logs weekly given to them by their police chief. The over lookers will have to remain biased while looking for patterns in stops because the identity of the officer will be withheld from them. For certain cases witnesses accounts of what happened will be taken into consideration, such as a person getting assaulted by officers after they have surrendered themselves to an officer without resistance or was resisting by running but them gave up and stopped struggling but still remains to be apprehended in an overly aggressive manner such as getting kicked, punched, hit by an officers possession (example: flashlight, baton, or nightstick), or getting aggressively put into an officers vehicle, as I have seen all of these things firsthand whether it be all at one time or different instances. I bring the witnesses into consideration because like me, about 20 other people were witnesses to an act in which all these acts were committed at one time but none of the witnesses were ever brought into consideration of speaking in what they saw happen during that incident to state that the officers abused their power and used unnecessary force, we were just told to disperse and go home. The victim of this act was my friend I told the officers that they were using unnecessary force and to stop, not in those words, but I was told to be quiet and get away, put into a more appropriate terms because the officers direct words were in a more aggressive and vulgar manner, or I will be arrested to for interfering. Like me I feel like people have accounts like these all the time and it should be put to a stop. (//Clarence, You may want to just focus your solution on how can the lines of communication between the police and community be opened up so that people like yourself can submit your preception of an arrest without encountering aggression from the police. I suggest this because you have a big idea solution with many parts that will be difficult to put into action all at once.)//

My research will consist of how many times minorities get stopped by law enforcement compared to that of whites. I will find this information based on at least one print source, two databases, and two websites. I will find this information to support my cause in getting a change in law enforcement, whether it be my new system taken on completely or just a few of my ideas taken into action.

Bibliography (//Be sure to add anotation to your Bibliography-what are the main ideas for each entry, this will help you set up the main idea for your note cards//) Harris, David A. Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work. New York: New, 2002. Print. Book Gives me another perception of how people feel

Townsend, Mark. "Policing: Black People Are 26 Times More Likely Than Whites to Face Stop-And-Search." The Observer [London, England] 17 Oct. 2010: 22. Print. This is from the web, unless you have a physical copy of the London Observer. What is the URL? When did you access the article? Did you get this on a database? Newspaper Article Lets me know how minorities in other world wide get treated

United States. Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. Racial Profiling Fact Sheet. Www.USDOJ.gov. U.S Department of Justice, June 2003. Web. 8 Dec. 2010. []. Internet source Tells me how racial profiling is accepted and what is not accepted in America