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Assignment 5

I added a citation to the article: Criminal Stereotype of African Americans. I added, "In an attempt to provide general descriptions that may facilitate the job of law enforcement officers seeking to apprehend suspects, the FBI employs the term “race” to summarize the general appearance (skin color, hair texture, eye shape, and other such easily noticed characteristics) of individuals whom they are attempting to apprehend."

Assignment 6

Race is essentially a social product. However, almost every aspect of society is highly politicized. Therefore, legal institutions play a significant role in the construction of race. There are multiple cases that can be used as a reference in exploring the manner in which legal institutions formulate the reality of race. Courts, for example have made efforts of deconstructing the purely scientific and social definitions of race. They have exhibited significant efforts to not only adopt the societal racial definitions, but to also create them. In Brown v Board of Education, the Supreme Court declared that the separate, but equal concept in public schools was unconstitutional. The effect of this decision was to indicate that racial segregation was inherently a propagation of inequality. However, the court in Plessy v. Ferguson held that segregation was constitutional for all, as long as the facilities were equal. The decision in the Brown case became law, making racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. The disparity in the opinions of the courts on the same issue just a little over a few decades shows the constant evolution in the issue of race relations over time. The cases also show how legal institutions affects the significance of race as well as race relations.

In the article: Legal Definition of Race, biological classification of human beings is an indisputable fact. However, what remains to be the subject of the discussion is the use of the ethno-racial concept, which states that race is determined by blood, genes, and ancestry. This view further separates the human race into five categories to one which every human being must unavoidably belong. The biological construction of race was used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to justify the subordination of particular groups of people. The initial idea of race as a legal concept was based on biology. It was the classic liberalism concept, which favored the categorization of social relationships into biological groups. This facilitated the ideas of slavery and separate but equal, where the law was framed in a manner that justified oppression based on biology.

While people continue to argue about race, people wonder if the sole reason of just using a vague description is enough to identify a person to take them into custody. The use of race as a factor of consideration in law enforcement often facilitates the problem of racial profiling. The latter refers to the use of race as a determining factor of whether or not to engage in the enforcement process. In other words, an officer may decide to make traffic stop simply based on the racial identity of the driver. There has been an outcry about unreasonable and unacceptable police brutality against African Americans. Police have been repeatedly cited to apply more force and take more stringent action against people of color than white individuals. These statistics indicate that the law enforcement agencies do categorize, and profile citizens based on a set of traits used to identify race. Racial profiling in law enforcement is often a show of the personal biases that hamper equal protection under the law.

Assignment 7

I had the opportunity to read the article: Wireless Emergency Alerts, that was edited and chosen by Alexander Cook. In the article he discussed the importance of Emergency alerts in terms of weather and danger threats. I enjoyed the portion on how this impact society. He states. “The Least used wireless alert is the "amber alert" yet it has reached a new power in the way people find out about the alert, during the crucial and heartbreaking time and amber alert will cause to a family it is reassuring to know 99.0% of mobile users will receive an alert and hopefully retrieve the child.” The reason being is because it is another sense of security parents can rely on if their child goes missing.

Alexander's article has not been rated yet. Overall, it has no class however, I think Alexander did a great job with the edits of this, and I would not change a thing.

What i can take away from this article that I can take to mine is to implement texts that are clear, straight to the point, and has statistical context to them.

Assignment 9

I have not received a peer review yet. However, I have plans on implementing more citations and doing some restructuring to my final edits.