Hamm and Wolfe (2020) asked participants to respond to four scenarios: being pulled over, being misidentified as a perpetrator, reporting a burglary, and living in a community with a specific officer assigned to patrol. Respondents were then asked to divide 8 points amongst the following traits: Procedural justice: willingness to listen, respectful treatment, lack of bias instance Trustworthiness: ability, care, integrity • Based on their methodology, how would you have answered their survey? Did you draw on any contexts or personal experiences when answering?

Answer:<br /> It’s interesting that Joseph Hamm a man of color, professor at Michigan State University and Scott Wolfe, Professor of Criminal Justice who is white would create this survey. My question with answering this survey is where and what neighborhood where they are being pulled over because if it was in East Lansing Michigan certain neighborhoods like most, when it comes to police matter. Based on their methodology, I don’t know how I would have answered the questions because the missing piece to me is where did these specific scenarios happened and what location? Was it in Lansing and what neighborhood? I drew on personal experiences because my sister lived in an upscale part of East Lansing and you were pulled over at times while being black and in the “hood” lower income areas and in a nice car driving to the beauty supply that was only in the hood, you got pulled over there too. According to an article I read to support my beliefs, “data newly released by the East Lansing Police Department shows that in the last four months of 2020, the average African American resident of East Lansing was almost three times as likely to be stopped by an ELPD officer as a white resident.”

An era of policing and the challenge of a time that happened in history that police questioning young black men who live in upscale neighborhoods questioned if they lived there and or white neighbors call the cops and they believe the white neighbor and without asking the youth, the harass and arrest the kids, only later to find out they live in the neighborhood, this was in the 60’s, 70’s and even 20th century. This is still a problem today. “Many black boys have been racially profiled, arrested or even killed in white neighborhoods because the residents were afraid of them. A new study suggests the boys are afraid, too.” Says, Sandra Garcia who interviewed boys in Brooklyn neighborhood. Heck, I was even pulled over and the cop said, "All I wanted to know was this really your car." What a woman of brown skin can't drive a BMW?

References

Heather Brothers, Alice Dreger, February 5, 2021 East Lansing’s Black Residents Are Three Times As Likely to Be Stopped by ELPD as White Residents; East Lansing News Paper

https://eastlansinginfo.news/east-lansings-black-residents-are-three-times-as-likely-to-be-stopped-by-elpd-as-white-residents/Links to an external site.

By Sandra E. Garcia, Aug. 14, 2018, Black Boys Feel Less Safe in White Neighborhoods, Study Shows, New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/black-boys-white-neighborhoods-fear.html

Michael Eboda, "When being black and driving a Jaguar makes you a criminal", https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/23/race.ukcrime