The Pros And Cons Of Punishment

Training police to enact broken-windows or zero-tolerance policies upon youths, who have, more than likely, only experienced areas of high-crime throughout their lives, is not the way to stop them from committing crime in their lifetime. These types of police tactics, when administered to juveniles, are more likely to skew the child’s view of themselves and their self-worth, serving to create, not only a distrust towards authority figures, but also a person who genuinely believes that they are destined to nothing more than a life of crime. Perhaps if officers were more lenient with inner-city youths, they would be more likely to see police as helpful and more likely to realize that the decisions that they make do have an effect on the outcome

Elevating punishments as a child continue to misbehave allowing for the child to consider what the consequences of their actions may be, decide whether or not they believe that the action is worth the punishment, and ultimately make their own choice whether or not to do the same thing that they have already been warned about. All while preserving the idea that police are there to help them rather than to harass them and without making the child feel as though they are a criminal or a danger to the

In the article, he states that police claimed that the protest was peaceful, but also questions “…if the driver of that tractor-trailer thought it was a peaceful demonstration?” (Stearns, 2016). However, Stearns fails to acknowledge how the unfair treatment of this group of people has led them to this point. He also fails to acknowledge that the United States government has neglected minorities for so long that the they feel the only way to be heard is by having such a large protest that an entire freeway is shut down. Lastly, Stearns fails to acknowledge that the reason that this group of protesting minorities, who ultimately resorted to violence, probably do not know anything different than violence because of the situation that they were put in by the United States government when they were children growing up in high-crime areas. The United States’ population can no longer ignore the unfair treatment of minority youths without some sort of