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Perceptions of Race and the Police in the Eric Garner
Case.
Maria Elisa AyalaTed Gournelos Mass, Media, & Society
BACKGROUND
Reality of the Police and the Juridical System:
Racial Profiling
Enforcement
Conviction & sentencing
Literature Review
Perceptions of Race in the U.S• Class/ Hegemony: (Weitzer 1999)(Omi
2014)• “Color Blind”: (Omi 2014)• Media: (Chaney 2013)
Perceptions of Police• Police Brutality: (Tuch 1997)(Chermak
2006)• Bias: (Weitzer 1999) (Chaney 2013)• Media: ( Chermak 2006) (Brown 2002)
CNN Newsroom
White Hispanic Blacks
Panel 1 Host of the program
Director of the congressional Black Caucus
founder of yourblackworld.co
m Contributor of CNN
Panel 2 Political director of Russell Simmons
Cultural critic President of the Black Conservative
Coalition
Panel 3 Host of the Program
Legal analysts CNN contributor
In depth Interviews:
• Gianna Hernandez - Campus Safety Coodinator
• Stephanie Briganty -Community Standards Coordinator
• Paola Berrocal - International College Student
• Sean Hips - National College Student
MethodsTextual Analysis
Textual Analysis
• The majority of the participants
consider that there was police
brutality involved in the Eric
Garner case, due to this they have
a negative view of law
enforcement.
• The non-White participants agreed
that he was targeted base on his
size, race, and background.
(Negrophobia)
• The White participants questioned
the debate itself, they tried to
excuse the police officer.
In-depth Interviews• Participants consider race a current issue, but
society pretends that people do not have racial prejudices.
• The participants believe this case has affected other security companies as well, and has resulted in a lack of trust overall regarding law enforcement.
• The majority of the participants believe that media exaggerates the story.
Implications Media create such a scandal
because they were trying to
maintain a conversation.
Media portrayed both sides of
the story, without making any
specific points about what was
right and what was wrong.
Eric Garner was a case study to
show the lack of trust from
minority communities and how
non-White citizens consider
police officers are doing a poor
job.
BIBLIOGRAPHYBrown, Ben, and Reed Benedict. 2002. “Perceptions of the police” Policing: An
International Journal of Police Strategies & Management 25, (3): 543-580
Chaney, Cassandra, and Ray V. Robertson. 2013 “Racism and Police Brutality in America.” Journal of African American Studies 17, (4) : 480-505.
Chermak, Steven, Edmund McGarrell, and Jeff Gruenewald. 2006. “Media coverage of police misconduct and attitudes toward police.” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management 29, (2): 261-281
Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. “Racial formation in the United States.” Routledge, 2014.
Tuch, Steven A., and Ronald Weitzer. 1997. "Trends: Racial differences in attitudes toward the police." Public Opinion Quarterly 61, (4): 642-663.
Weitzer, Ronald, and Steven A. Tuch. 1999. “Race, class, and perceptions of discrimination by the police.” Crime & Delinquency 45, (4): 494-507
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