My peer and I chose police brutality as our main topic, and I chose to do my podcast about briberies in and out of prison. I chose this topic because it connects with our main topic, and I find this very interesting. I do not like or agree with the idea of bribery, but I can understand why people do it. It is not the right thing to do to get out of serving time or reducing one’s sentence, but there are many people who choose to make this choice. It is not just done by the criminal; it can also be done by family members. Family members bribe different people to try to get a family member out of serving time, or sometimes they do it to try to reduce their sentence. I understand they want to get someone out of spending time in jail, but that is not something right to do. Besides of it not being the right thing to do, that person is obviously getting sentenced for a reason. That person needs to pay for whatever crime they have committed, but all a family member cares about is that person not serving any time. This topic really interested me, and I think it is something interesting to talk about.
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~ Fridkin, Kim, et al. “Race and Police Brutality: The Importance of Media Framing.” International Journal of Communication, 2017, ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6950.
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