Jeffrey Poland 10/29/20 class and Police The media blog podcast that I chose to research today was the podcast I Don’t Wanna Shoot You, Brother. This podcast was about an incident that happened in West Virginia in a town just outside of Pittsburgh. It happened in a small town where all police officers were […]
Say Her Name? : A Different Understanding of the Breonna Taylor Case Aaron Hoda Indiana University of Pennsylvania As we all know by now, Breonna Taylor was a African American woman who was tragically caught in the crossfire in a shootout with police and her boyfriend. If you are like me you might […]
You Need to Trust Police Officers : Defunding The Police Won’t Fix The Problem. Aaron Hoda Indiana University of Pennsylvania Police officers are the most controversial topic in today’s culture as well as the police brutality that may be present. However, I will explain how police can build better trust in the community as […]
The film that I chose to watch for this media blog is called ’Poor Kids’ This documentary was published on November 22, 2017 by Frontline. This film is dependent on destitution and getting homeless from it. I state this since vagrancy and destitution is something that is being managed everywhere in the world and it […]
To reference the criminalization of poverty in the United States, I found a podcast called “Justice in America” where they explore this heartbreaking and infuriating topic. I listened to Episode 12: The Criminalization of Poverty. In this episode the two hosts, Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith, and their guest Sara Totonchi, look at cases […]
The story that I chose to focus on is “The Kalief Browder Story” which is a documentary on Netflix produced by Shawn Carter, Nick Sandow, Julia Willoughby-Nason, Michael Gasparro, Chachi Senior, and directed by, Jenner Furst. (This film was also published September 15, 2017.) This film discusses does an amazing job of capturing the injustice, […]
The podcast that I listened to was Episode 5 of Broken Justice. This covered the major failings of the criminal justice system and more specifically the lack of good public defenders. Ricky Kidd was convicted due to a lack of effort on the behalf of his public lawyer. He told his defender that he knew […]
The documentary I decided to watch was Flint’s Deadly Water, which fits in with the topic of class and crime. The documentary discusses the issues with Flint, Michigan’s water crisis and how it has led to an outbreak of a disease called Legionnaire’s. Legionnaire’s disease is a deadly form of pneumonia that was caused by […]
The media I chose to watch was a documentary called The Line: Poverty in America. In this documentary they follow four people and they tell their stories and how they ended up being below the line. The key points I took away from watching this is that anyone can end up below the poverty line […]
This media blog post I watched was a documentary called “Under The Bridge: The Criminalization of Homelessness” and this documentary talks about the situation in a city of Indiana called Indianapolis. It was filmed during the summer of 2013 and showed a group of people that lived under a bridge on a street called Davidson […]