Racist Brooklyn Police Officer

In global, we have looked at many accounts of racial targetting. A lot of the cases we have watched seem far from the world we live in. Most of us, of course, hope for a world where there isn't any racial discrimination, however, we are far from that. Racism is still very apparent in America. Even in groups that are supposed to protect and be safe.

Multiple police officers in Brooklyn say they were told by a commander to leave white and Asian people alone, and instead try to target more black and Latino people. At a police station tucked into an end-of-the-line subway terminal in South Brooklyn, the new commander instructed officers to think of white and Asian people as “soft targets” and encouraged them to instead go after minority groups for small offenses like jumping the turnstile, a half-dozen officers said in sworn statements.

“You are stopping too many Russian and Chinese,” one of the officers, Daniel Perez, recalled the commander telling him earlier this decade.

Another officer, Aaron Diaz, recalled the same commander saying in 2012, “You should write more black and Hispanic people.”

Constantin Tsachas, the commander, led a group of over one hundred police officers who an area of the subway system. Many of these officers openly admitted that he urged officers to discriminate and target certain groups.

If we look at the scope of American history, we have actually made significant steps toward racial equality. Yet, there is still much more progress to be made. Racial targetting in the subway sounds like something that would have happened sixty years ago, but here we are still having accounts of it today. Racism is not always so clearcut and obvious like in this case. Sometimes its open discrimination and other times it isn't. Builtup stereotypes and unconscious biases have been planted in each of our brains. It may just take time; it's hard to sway an alter stereotypes that have been planted in society for so long. Or it may not. As a society, if we continue to work towards these issues, we can probably make significant progress. Looking back, we have made major strides in the last century and can keep improving. But then again, it's not going to be an overnight fix; it will take time.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/11/15/13595508/racism-research-study-trump