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First and foremost, the news report that I will analyze is about an African-Canadian man, Curtis Young, who was assaulted by the cops for no legitimate reason. His rights were breached, the police written a false report about what happened, and as a result, he was detained in 2012. Fortunately for Curtis Young, a cellblock video captured the scene of the crime and by 2014 the judge concluded the case to be police misconduct which lead to his release from jail. The judge also concluded that the cops had lied and over exaggerated the situation about what happened.

Furthermore, cultural conflict reinforces cultural domination or ethno-centricity (Mayer, 2000). According to Mayer (2000), culture are common norms, values, practices, and behavioural patterns of a particular group or community. People become consciously unaware of their own cultural patterns because it has become natural part of life to them (Mayer, 2000). Referring back to police culture, it does not matter what ethnicity, race, or culture an cop is from, as long as their on duty, that individual conforms to the cultural practices and values of their job. For instance, polices are known to over-patrol minority communities because the neighbourhoods are framed with pessimistic views and representations. The police believe the pessimistic notions of the minority communities to be true and overwatch low socioeconomic class more than middle, upper class neighbourhoods because the officiers believe they will find more trouble. Therefore, there are more personal encounters with the police and minority population. There are also different values in each culture that can cause conflicts (Mayer, 2000). For instance outcome value which is associated with how decisions are mad...

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...riving force (Mayer, 2000). Nevertheless, dominant cultures do have the power to patronize and control subordinate cultures (Mayer, 2000).

Overall, conflicts reinforce power and inequality between cultures. A solution would be to increase cross-cultural awareness and engage conflicts across culture as a learning tool (Mayer, 2000). Therefore, in this case, police force should be more open minded and not be pessimistic towards ethnocultural minority groups. There should be an equal power relation between cultures. However, the structure of Canadian society allows different cultures to vary in handling conflict. The case of Curtis Young is an issue that should be assessed from a broader social context and not to be individualized. This society relies on government legal system that have formal authority and hierarchy like cops to that deal with problems (Mayer, 2000).