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Reflection Questions Cartelland

There were two specific scenes that triggered me the most because to me family is everything and I feel as if family is one thing no one messes with. Now, the first scene that triggered me was when the Auto Defensas group were patrolling the streets of the town Nueva Italia, and as they were riding around town they were being shot at. As they moved into the location where they presumably thought the cartel members were shooting from they received a call saying they were in a white Volkswagen Jetta and in a white truck. When they received the description of the vehicles, the Auto Defensas saw a similar make and model and approached it and made the people get out at gun point. As they pointed the guns and the people in the vehicle got out it was two females and male and a little girl. The male was the father along with the wife and mom of the father and the little girl. The little girl was hysterically crying saying that she was going to kill herself if anything happen...

2 men suing Chicago Police Detectives over wrongful conviction

http://wgntv.com/2018/04/02/2-men-suing-chicago-police-detectives-over-wrongful-convictions/ Talking a lot about wrongful convictions in class. coercion by higher authority, I found this article that talked about how a Chicago Police Detective for many years would target latino men from the Humboldt Park area and  would frame these innocent men for murders they did not commit. One of the men was in prison for 25 years and the other was in prison for 27. In my opinion, spending almost a fourth of your life in prison for a crime you did not commit is absolutely absurd. These two men are now suing the department. In the article they mentioned that the detective would manipulate witness and would psychologically, and physically coerce these men into confessing. This reminds me of the Reid Technique, but in a more realistic way because this detective made these men get potential death penalties, if they would've stayed in prison.