The most interesting thing that i learned about my decade was that during the 1990's when there was an incident where a black male named Rodney King who was beaten by several white police officers from the LAPD. The thing that surprised me the most was when three out of four of the officers were acquitted of their crime and the jury failed to reach a verdict on one charge for the last officer. It also surprised me of how long it took people to start the famous Rodney King Riots of 1992. After the judge acquitted three of the officers it only took a few hours before the people of Los Angeles were outside on the streets rioting and setting buildings into flames. Something that has changed ever since the 1990's was The massive wave of south-of-the-border immigration to the United States in the 1990's transformed South L.A. from majority black to majority Latino. The area went from 80 percent black in 1970 to about half African-American in 1992 to nearly two-thirds Latino today. The demographic shift was clear in the years after the riots. There was a bloom of taco trucks, Mexican markets and pupuserias. There hasn't been much economic improvement, however. A recent report by the Russell Sage Foundation concluded that L.A.'s poorest neighborhoods in the 1990's tended to stay that way through the 2010's, regardless of their shifting ethnic demographics.
Twenty-five years later, expert observers say the LAPD is a department transformed -- and that the change was made possible, in large part, by a consent decree, a police agreement with the federal government. The future of similar agreements with 15 US cities -- including Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland and Baltimore -- was thrown into question this month when Attorney General Jeff Sessions placed all pending consent decrees under review."We're in a place I could have never imagined the LAPD 25 years ago," said Connie Rice, a civil rights attorney who used to regularly sue the department over its practices in minority communities. Today, she works with the LAPD as a consultant. My favorite artifact that my group mate created was the mural. The mural is my favorite artifact because the drawings on the there were created by our imagination. I also really like this artifact the most because we spent more time on the mural than the other artifacts that we also created. An aspect that i learned for the social/culture part of this project was that in 1992 there was an incident were several white officers beat a black male taxi driver on the streets of L.A. Because of this incident and many others that happened in the past many rappers were inspired and created music about these incidents. Some of the rappers that created music about these incidents were King lil G and Tupac Shakur. I also learned that in the 1990’s there were a lot of Mexican immigrants that came to L.A at that time. In the 1990’s there were 5,785,200 illegal immigrants and 973,120 of them were Mexican american. As a group we all read a book called Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez and was published in 1993. The book that we read is an autobiography and biography it talks Luis when he was a kid/teen and when he was included with gang related activities. It also talks about how he got out of the gang by going to school and getting his life together. This books relates with our decade because at the time that book was written there were also a lot of gang violence, police brutality, and a lot of new Mexican immigrants coming to L.A. The decade that we decided to present on was L.A in the 1990’s. This book was also published a year after the Rodney King riots.
Twenty-five years later, expert observers say the LAPD is a department transformed -- and that the change was made possible, in large part, by a consent decree, a police agreement with the federal government. The future of similar agreements with 15 US cities -- including Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland and Baltimore -- was thrown into question this month when Attorney General Jeff Sessions placed all pending consent decrees under review."We're in a place I could have never imagined the LAPD 25 years ago," said Connie Rice, a civil rights attorney who used to regularly sue the department over its practices in minority communities. Today, she works with the LAPD as a consultant. My favorite artifact that my group mate created was the mural. The mural is my favorite artifact because the drawings on the there were created by our imagination. I also really like this artifact the most because we spent more time on the mural than the other artifacts that we also created. An aspect that i learned for the social/culture part of this project was that in 1992 there was an incident were several white officers beat a black male taxi driver on the streets of L.A. Because of this incident and many others that happened in the past many rappers were inspired and created music about these incidents. Some of the rappers that created music about these incidents were King lil G and Tupac Shakur. I also learned that in the 1990’s there were a lot of Mexican immigrants that came to L.A at that time. In the 1990’s there were 5,785,200 illegal immigrants and 973,120 of them were Mexican american. As a group we all read a book called Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez and was published in 1993. The book that we read is an autobiography and biography it talks Luis when he was a kid/teen and when he was included with gang related activities. It also talks about how he got out of the gang by going to school and getting his life together. This books relates with our decade because at the time that book was written there were also a lot of gang violence, police brutality, and a lot of new Mexican immigrants coming to L.A. The decade that we decided to present on was L.A in the 1990’s. This book was also published a year after the Rodney King riots.