Hunter's Struggle With Discrimination In The Workplace

Discrimination is a topic that is worldly known, and many people continue to struggle with discrimination whether it be in the workplace, on the street, or just while living the daily life. Particularly in the criminal justice system. Police and prosecutors have similarly agreed that there is no discrimination in their agencies and their offices. While they have said discrimination does not exist in their professions, I disagree. There has been many things that have shown that there is discrimination in these certain professions, and certain environments. Environments being in sections of poverty, and sections of towns that are low income. There has been reports of police brutality, and showing the difference in social classes. Police have …show more content…
Being a native of the town he works in, he does know all the ins and outs of the town. Growing up as a “street” kid, Hunter knows that in order to gain respect he must give respect where it is needed, this being the code of the street. Hunter works well in this community, not just because it has been home for so long but because he wants to control crime, not prevent it from happening it at all. Even though that might be something that is ideal for most people, it is much harder to be trusted when being seen as an officer that is trying hard to prevent crime, and not being sympathetic to the situations and ways of …show more content…
Courts are now being said to be using discrimination when charging and convicting people of crimes. Power has an ability to make people see things in a different light. If a certain race continouly is being placed in front of a judge a judge may then just assume that every time they seem someone of that race in their court room they are automatically guilty because of previous encoutners. An example of this is from The Code of the Street, a man named John Turner was aressested for an illegal firearm, the officers believed John when he gave them his reasoning for having the firearm. He was using it as protection, as there were previous stabbings in his neighborhood. While the officers were sympathic to John, they still had to arrest him. When John apperared in court he did not know that he was supposed to have a lawyer present with him, so he was given a public defender. This public defender, was no help to John at all. He wanted John to lie to the judge and plead not gulity even though John had been completely honest with the