After watching “Time: The Kalief Browder Story” it occurred to me that this man had endured a major case of injustice. Here is his story, on May 2nd, 2010, Kalief and his friend were returning from a party when police stopped Kalief and began to frisk him. Upon the search the police asked an unfamiliar […]
https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549 The Netflix documentary, “When They See Us”, is a clear example of how class, race, poverty, and crime affect the decision making of the criminal justice system. This is based on a true story told by the men who were called “The Central Park Five”. There was a crime committed against a female jogger. She […]
Title – Exposing Jeffrey Epstein’s international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes Australia Producer – Thea Dikeos and Naomi Shivaraman Date – November 10, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOOxOl9l80&t=1s Brief summary of video – Video on the Epstein case and how he had an internal sex trafficking rings that took a long time to bring down. The video […]
https://www.netflix.com/watch/81025116?trackId=14170289 This documentary series is called “Trial by media”. It can be viewed on Netflix. It explains how the media influences court cases and trials across America. The cases are mostly based on race, and the controversy and that surrounds these cases is usually covered nationwide. The third episode is titled “41 shots”, by Garret […]
Can An Attorney Handle More Than 100 Cases At A Time? In this podcast episode Jeff Esparza is a public defender talking about his cases that he deals with day to day. He resides in Kansas City, Missouri where it has the busiest public defenders offices and the fifth highest murder rate in 2017. A […]
The source of media that I chose to examine was an episode from the podcast You’re Wrong About that is titled “Homelessness.” The You’re Wrong About podcast is a podcast by journalists that researches a topic, person, or event that is often mischaracterized by the media and/or the general public and debunks common misconceptions. In 2019, co-host Michael Hobbes […]