The Laws Enforced By Police Have Multiple Effects On The...

The laws enforced by police have multiple effects on the citizens that they control. Quite often, these laws are too harsh and upheld as a means of catching the minor crimes as opposed to the more severe ones. This creates an effect on citizens that manipulates their minds and emotions. The criminals become easier to pick out of the crowd and revert to a life of crime rather than back into society as honest citizens. People in society live in fear of whether they did or are going to do something wrong or not and of the criminals who come back into society. In some cases, physical violence is the result of a confrontation between an officer and a criminal. Police enforcement tactics impair criminals and regular citizens in society both†¦show more content†¦Many officers find that their excuse for this racial profiling is that they are not actually racially profiling since the people who they stop-and-frisk are subject to this tactic because of the area they live in. Hot spot policing is another tactic used by the upholders of the law that supposedly avoids profiling. In the article The Caging of America by Adam Gopnik, he states that â€Å"In the nineties, the N.Y.P. D. began to control crime not by fighting minor crimes in safe places but by putting lots of cops in places where lots of crimes happened† (Gopnik). This allows officers to get away with profiling because the neighborhoods they searched had mostly people of the same color. The areas subject to hot spot policing include the slums or ghettos. Back alleyways and dark buildings can provide cover for criminals but also become targets for officers to check these areas routinely. Others most often see cops in these areas of higher crime. Officers that bring in more criminals are paid more and so are encouraged to find these areas rather than singular crimes occurring over vast distances. Too often, hot spots encourage officers to bust cases in quantity and not quality in relation to the intensity of the crime committed. These lower crime busts come from officers getting too comfortable after all the major crime offenders are locked away. For example, the common and relatively harmless drug marijuana is a