Address: 1535 N Dayton St #8054, Chicago, IL 60642
Have you ever felt so much terror just from living in your community, and being so intimidated you saw fit to stay inside?
Hi, my name is Jahsia.L and I am a junior at GCE Lab School. And this letter is me writing out to make a change in my community for future youth. Through my eyes as a maturing young black adult, I’ve seen great things in my city and bad. Sometimes the bad outways the good when speaking on the topic of the CPD. Growing up I always thought that police were your friends, that you could tell or ask them for anything and they would happily help. Over time this became to gradually degrade as instances I starting seeing and encounters that happen with me.
Stories I would hear at young ages that cops are pigs, their dirty and crooked. Then fast forward 5 years later I began to witness horrible things from police officers such as beatings, pinning innocent people to the ground, aiming guns a children’s heads, racist slurs throw around like it was normal, and brutal slaughter of friends and kinfolk. This problem of policing isn’t the beginning as it was planted centuries ago in America. “Policing in southern states started slave patrols, made up of white volunteers empowered to use vigilante tactics to enforce laws related to slavery” They located and returned enslaved people who had escaped, crushed uprisings led by enslaved people, and punished enslaved workers found or believed to have violated plantation rules.
The first slave patrols arose in South Carolina in the early 1700s. Every state had them. See policing is used to keep blacks in order. Another resource that I found was from a study by Standford University that stated that black drivers were about 20 percent more likely to be stopped by police than were white drivers. Also, there’s currently about 200 youth incarcerated in Illinois’ juvenile detention facilities. These facts are thrown at random to lead up to my reasoning of why these topics have to be dealt with.
The bill that is currently being fought to pass is the Recidivism Bill. It states that it will decrease the number of juveniles in the system and while also doing so saving 28 million dollars per year. Thing is that more youth are in theses jails are because of racist systems put into play over generations. I can’t place myself in the event of being in facilities by force. I have visited some and I could see sadness and despair in their eyes. The parents were even worse.
Now I can’t vote against or for this bill but I can give my thought on what it would possibly do. This bill I guess would ultimately lessen the number of cases transferred to adult court.
Legislation that I would propose this to would be the lady that came to our school. Connie Jordan a public defender who has been doing this for almost 30 years. She could spread her viewpoints and awareness towards the subject and give feedback to her go-to State representatives. I don’t really wanna get into any of this stuff because its a waste of time. In the end, nothing changes because of a bill. Things around the issue may seem to be, but not really.
The first slave patrols arose in South Carolina in the early 1700s. Every state had them. See policing is used to keep blacks in order. Another resource that I found was from a study by Standford University that stated that black drivers were about 20 percent more likely to be stopped by police than were white drivers. Also, there’s currently about 200 youth incarcerated in Illinois’ juvenile detention facilities. These facts are thrown at random to lead up to my reasoning of why these topics have to be dealt with.
The bill that is currently being fought to pass is the Recidivism Bill. It states that it will decrease the number of juveniles in the system and while also doing so saving 28 million dollars per year. Thing is that more youth are in theses jails are because of racist systems put into play over generations. I can’t place myself in the event of being in facilities by force. I have visited some and I could see sadness and despair in their eyes. The parents were even worse.
Now I can’t vote against or for this bill but I can give my thought on what it would possibly do. This bill I guess would ultimately lessen the number of cases transferred to adult court.
Legislation that I would propose this to would be the lady that came to our school. Connie Jordan a public defender who has been doing this for almost 30 years. She could spread her viewpoints and awareness towards the subject and give feedback to her go-to State representatives. I don’t really wanna get into any of this stuff because its a waste of time. In the end, nothing changes because of a bill. Things around the issue may seem to be, but not really.
Opponents might say that this bill will increase the crime in Illinois and make it harder to penalize offenders after turning 21. Also, some might say that the mind is mature and the right to make a life-changing decision is there. Even after scientists can prove that it isn't.
