Will More Black Cops Matter?
Officer Race and Police-Involved Homicides of Black Citizens
This article talks about police instruments in the united states against the black. That is the black Americans in the united states. The article talks about how one black American named Michael Brown was brutally shot by the white American police under the unclear circumstance. The report indicates that Michael was unarmed when the incident was taking place and that the white police are to blame for the murder of that black American. This was just an example of the murder and shootings of black Americans under unclear and suspicious circumstances. In the abstract of the article, we are introduced to how the white police have been getting themselves involved in the murder of black citizens of the united states. This has led to calls and suggestions that the number of blacks in the police force be increased to prevent the constant murder and shooting of black citizens of the united states under circumstances that cannot be explained. These suggestions have been backed up with the argument that increasing blacks’ representation in the police force would reduce the level of discrimination and racism among the police in their duties. However, the big question is: will racism in the united states be solved by increasing the number of black cops in police service? Some criticism leveled against this increased representation is that this will assist in improving discrimination. While this article produced well-elaborated incidences when and where the police brutality against the black took place, the report is relatively too shallow in naming the perpetrators, that is, providing a list and names of the police officers who shot the black and the actin that the government takes on each of them.
This article has majorly focused on the representation of the black American in the police system and findings the possible solution to reduce or to ultimately end the issue of discrimination and racism in the country, especially in the department of the police when executing their duties of maintaining law and order in the country. The article suggests that the three should be thorough scrutiny of the criminal justice to revise the punishment related to discrimination and racism to make it very difficult for the perpetrators of the act to get away with it (Dryzek, 2009). Mass and active representation in the police force have also been called for, arguing that mass and dynamic representation in the police force will significantly solve discrimination and racism. Police – citizen interaction has also been pointed out in the article. The exchange will enhance the friendship relationship between the two to not see the other as inferior to the other or something of that kind.
However, the article has failed to provide the exact number of the blacks who had been killed before under the same unclear circumstances. Instead, the report has only provided the percentage of the killing. The article is also misleading in the war against this discrimination in that it has failed to indicate those who black cops had killed because we are aware that even black cops get themselves involved in this act.
Moving forward, there should be more diverse conversations on this matter. All the citizens in the country are affected in one way or the other, and that all contributions towards this should be considered necessary.
What’s in it for us? Benevolence, national security, and digital
surveillance
This article talks about Digital Surveillance Technology and the process that everyone who is the united states’ citizens should be ready to embrace Digital Surveillance Technology all the time. In other words, the article tries to suggest that private life should also be surveilled to combat the insecurity problem.
The presence of digital surveillance technology advocates for both benefits in the security sector and privacy risk both in equal measures. Therefore, although it supports the adoption of Digital Surveillance Technologies, there should be no direct tradeoffs between the digital surveillance technology and the individuals’ private lives without extensive proper consultations to arrive at a decision. Although it is generally assumed that digital surveillance technology benefits outweigh the benefits of personal lives, it shouldn’t be assumed that all citizens are ready to embrace the technology. Some individuals value their privacy than even their security.
The article itself admits that the institution is providing digital surveillance technology services their trustworthiness is in question. This means that questioned trustworthiness, those institutions cannot be trusted with sensitive information in that they may leak the sensitives information, for instance, to the public, and this may result in the breach of privacy of an individual. The article says that the perception that ordinary citizens have towards the country’s public servants would compromise the technology in that the general perception is that the trustworthiness of the public servants is in doubt. Since it is the government through its public servants who will execute this plan, the idea might not effectively work. The article would have preferably provided different alternatives for the argument’s execution other than solely relying on the public servant who suffer negative perceptions and stereotypes.
With the introduction of the Digital Surveillance Technology, the article speaks on data vulnerability and the relationship between DSTs and data vulnerability. According to the report, some data are considered to be more vulnerable in the sense of the risks associated with the collection of the data and the risks associated with the misuse of the data. In this context, the risks associated with collecting data may include broad exposure of the sensitive data, the issue of collecting sensitive information in excess, and the violation of human rights in collecting the data. On the other hand, the misuse of data may include the issue to do with the confidentiality of the data and breaches of some data’s confidentiality and privacy. Although the article appreciates the vulnerability of the data, the same article does not define a clear roadmap of how to deal with data vulnerability if the DSTs violate some of the issues involved with the data vulnerability. The report only highlights what should be done to mitigate or avoid but does not give what can be done if the data’s exposure is violated by the DSTs (Vance et al., 2013).
In conclusion, the DSTs is a good idea that should be embraced at all cost. However, there should be the obvious and transparent framework that should be followed strictly when executing the technology. The government should come up with a win–win formula that would see that privacy policies are not violated and at the same time the technology is embraced and adopted smoothly.
References
Dryzek, J. S. (2009). Policy analysis as critique. In The Oxford handbook of public policy (pp. 190-203). Oxford University Press, USA.
Vance, D. E., Talley, M., Azuero, A., Pearce, P. F., & Christian, B. J. (2013). Conducting an article critique for a quantitative research study: perspectives for doctoral students and other novice readers. Nursing: Research and Reviews, 3, 67-75.