In Unit V, your assignment was to begin writing the first part of the final research paper. This required students to submit the first several pages of their project: APA title page,APA abstract,intro

Youth and Community Policing

Hattie Hill

Columbia Southern University

Police and Community Relations

Professor Jamie Gauthier

November 17, 2020

Youth and Community Policing

Brunson, R. K., & Pegram, K. (2018). “Kids Do Not so Much Make Trouble, They Are Trouble”: Police-Youth Relations. Future of Children, 28(1), 83–102.

The primary focus of this article is the racial disparities in how police interact with African American and Hispanic youth as opposed to whites. The article will provides an insight of how police view youth, how they are stereotyped, and the early targeting of those who will eventually end up being part of the criminal justice system. Data in the article will show how officers apply discretion unevenly in communities of color. In addition the information provided will discuss how police use more aggressive strategies such as the stop-and-frisk law more often on black and Hispanic youth as opposed to whites. White youth are less likely to be accosted by police if they are seen in groups of five or more than other races. The article states” Young people’s encounters with the criminal justice system generally begin with the police officer’s decision about how to handle these encounters are affected by their on the spot assessment of young people’s proclivity for delinquency, prospect for rehabilitation and overall moral character” (p.1). I will incorporate this article in my research of how police interact with youth in predominately black and brown communities.

Beck, B. (2019). No City for Young Boys: “The Hate U Give,” “When They See Us” and African American Youth. Multicultural Perspectives, 21(4), 202–205.

This article will provide present day insight into what is happening between the police and youth in today’s society. “Present day insight of how “contradictions between precious ideals and social realities are often handled by locating the problems of inequality in a limited setting, so that the rest of social life will not be disturbed” (p. 1). Because of the social unrest between the younger generation of black and brown youth in America, the movie productions agency has gotten involved. Two recent movies, The U Give and Why They See Us, focus on the injustices faced by youth involving the police. The article will discuss police shootings of unarmed young men, as well as wrongful convictions of innocent young men of color. It will bring up the formation of “Black Lives Matter”, and how the organization relates to what is going on in American in the African American communities. I will include this article in my research and explain how critical the matter is as it pertains to certain groups of people and community policing.

Miles, J. (2016). They Don’t Really Care about Us. A Year in the Life (Journey through the year with a Teaching Artist). Teaching Artist Journal, 14(2), 120–125.

This article will further expound on the lack of concern for human life as it relates to the communities of color. Police disproportionately have shot and killed African American young men as opposed to white kids. It is true that race has no place in mass shooting involving schools and theaters. However, in instances where the police are called by private citizens in cases of black youth it can end up in death. This article discusses the case of 12 year old Tamir Rice who was playing with a toy gun outside a community recreation center in Cleveland. Further the article will discuss how even though the police were advised that the individual was most likely a kid and the gun was probably fake, Tamir was shot and killed no more than two seconds after the police arrived. Further the article states that no means of aid was offered to save the boy’s life and the officer refused to allow family members near young Tamir as he lay on the ground convulsing. I will use the information in this article as part of the research to give a broad spectrum of how police are viewed and the lack of concern for youth in communities of color.