Disparity and Discrimination Darion Clay CJS/221 July 12, 2015 Linda Fisher-Lewis In the criminal justice system both disparity and discrimination is used because I can't say that police officers do not focus more on the black community than the white because it is really happening right know I'm seeing it with my own eyes. I also see if you have money you can get away with anything, but if you are poor it is nothing they can do for you just like they look at the way you was raised and where you was raised at. Criminal justice is just like any other jobs you would get it's not about what you can do it's about who you know and the color of your skin and that is discrimination. These days they try not to discriminate because they want to seem like they still have racism, but you can't hide it at all. Criminal justice also has and shows the great differences, between people of all colors and that is disparity. It's when they see how you present yourself to them and what they can see and what you know. The different between disparity and discrimination is disparity is when something is not the same and unequal when discrimination is when someone shows prejudice against someone else that is the differences. The similarities between disparity and discrimination is because they both treat people unequal it's like they both show prejudice are not the same treatment. It's not treating people fairly. It's seems that the similarities and the differences are just alike I notice about the two why are they used in the criminal justice system. I can also understand disparity because you can't treat a murderer and a person that has a traffic violation the same because they are charge with two different things. One is serious and the other one is not,