Gillespie, Wayne. “Thirty-Five Years After Stonewall: An Exploratory Study of Satisfaction with Police Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Persons at the 34th Annual Atlanta Pride Festival.” Journal of Homosexuality. 55.29(2008)619-647. LGBT Life with Full Text. Web. 25 Mar 2016.

This article discusses the unique relationship the police have had with the LGBT community since 1969. This study explores and explain show the police have felt toward the LGBT community and how mind sets have started to change and how things over time become more acceptable. The article talks about the gay rights movement, which began in the summer of 1969 when gay men rioted against police for raiding a bar known as the Stonewall Inn. This source helps explain how community have interacted in the past and today. The article main just talks about how they have interacted and how things have changed. This source helps me better understand community’s relationship and how community get along as a whole. This helps with my gather of sources for communities and my gathering of sources on how to make society safer.

RUSHIN, STEPHEN. “USING DATA TO REDUCE POLICE VIOLENCE.” Boston College Law Review. 1.50(2016) 117-166. Assistant Professor, University of Alabama School of Law. Web. 25 Mar 2016.

This article talks about the reduction of police violence and how to do it. The article talks about many of the laws pasted that help prevent people from being beaten to death by the police, like Death in Custody Reporting Act in 2014, which was for people who died in police custody. This helps me better understand how we can help prevent unnecessary deaths that happen in today’s society in cities like Atlanta. The author talks about things that have been passed in the past to helps, and this source helps support my ideas on how to make things more safer in a community and how to stop crime. This source doesn’t exactly give a way to fix death done by police but gives a good idea about what is being done to help prevent it. This source relates to my study of communities, the crime that happens in areas, and how to make places safer for the betterment of society as a whole.

ENGLISH, CRYSTAL. “Three Beats, Two Crimes, One City: Place-Based Distribution of Property Offenses in Atlanta, Georgia.” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. 73.16(2011): 79-90. California State University, Northridge. Web. 25 Mar. 2016.

This source tells me about how much crime has happen in the years around 2011 and earlier. The highest spike in criminal activity being in the year of 2008, which was almost 25 percent higher than the previous year. This source studied which areas of Atlanta has the most crime, where, and maybe why can be draw from that. I picked this source because of how it talks about where crime is, what may have caused it, and how it compares to the years prior. The source is a bit dated due it the info being from 2011, 5 years ago, but it does show a good point of what and where crime may happen. It is a good example of how to stop crime. This source relates to all of my other, due to the content being about crime and safety. This source better helps me understand what crime is, where it is, and what could be done to make Atlanta a safer place to life.

Better Online Living through Content Moderation

The article starts off by talking about how some people might be ignore functions or warns, due to PTSD or other anxieties. Some people may not be affected by PTSD or have anxieties, but they know their limits and want to not see things that would add stress to them. There are many reasons somebody could not want to see something, and there is no bad reason for wanting something. Though the problem lies in how other people look at the people who need these things. The people who need this censorship are seen as weaker.

One of the major arguments against this censorship is that if you’re exposed to something then you’ll slowly grow resilient to it. This idea draws a parallel with Exposure Therapy. Exposure Therapy is being exposed slowly to the source of your anxieties, though without the exposure being controlled a person with PTSD is more likely to have an attack than anything else. Though in more recent years, younger generation seem to be more in tune with warnings about things that might be harmful to others.

Blacklist are a thing that have been emerging more. A blacklist allow a person to block things that they do not want to see. Though there are some who think of blacklists as bad, since they seem to silence others. The debate on if blacklists are bad or good is on going, but what people don’t seem to realize is how damaging harassment is. If somebody is stalking you, harassing you, and doing things to you that you don’t agree with, you should be able to get rid of them from your life by blacklisting them so that it will soften what they can do to you.

Telling a hate mod to attack someone, stalking, or even threatening them or their friends and family, these are all tactics use to silence somebody or doing even worse to them. This type of thing is common place on the internet today, though blacklisting and adding censor to there browser can help people who are dealing with threats. The ability to mute somebody or block them is not silencing them, it is just making it so that you don’t have to hear their words. People should be able to decide for themselves what their own boundaries are and how far and much they are willing to see and put up with.

Ultimately, content control is the best way to deal with things. Content controls gives a person to act on their own personal needs without other people harming them. Not everyone is able to just ignore the bad people and move on, since some of these people tend to keep on and sometimes have information that could be potentially damaging to one’s own reputation. Nobody has to take on the responsibility to whether the harassment. You should be able to go online or use things without having to deal with harassment, nobody should be force to deal with something that causes them great damage to their mental state.

Color Walking

The writers of the paper seem to have a show or pod cast call “Color”, which they use to talk about, as the name would hint, colors. In one of their pod cast this thing call “a color walk” comes up, and they decide to try it out for themselves. A color walk seems to be going on a walk without being distracted and following a color from thing to thing as you make your journey through where ever you are.

A while back ago, a man named William Burroughs came up with the idea of Color Walks to inspire his students. A Color Walk is a very simple thing, but it brings out the beauty and the colors of everything around you. Basically, to start a Color walk you must pick a color or let your eyes pick or you, which the writer of this page recommends letting your eye pick the color, then you walk around look from thing to thing to find that color.

If you were to pick the color red you might start at a red sign, then a red fire truck, but get lost at a red house. The people who came of with this idea talks about if you get lost you should then pick another color and keep going till you get even further lost. The people who wrote this decided to try this out for themselves, but gave themselves the option to freely change from color to color, “a woman’s lavender handbag might draw us to the right; a yellow cab could pull us down a side street; a green pistachio ice cream cone could shove us into the park.” They started their walk at WNYC, in lower Manhattan, on a Sunday afternoon. During their walk they take pictures of everything they see that led them to different places. They started with a blue scarf, then to blue chipping nails, then a blue sign, then to watching blue in basket ball, but after that they switch to purple with purple in nooks and crannys, then to purple leopard leggings, to purple and pink, which led to the final thing in pink.

After their afternoon of search color to color they talk about how the vivid colors of their time spent was stuck in their heads. Things that you’d normally only glaces at and pay no mind to, but when your eyes are truly open show you a world of explosively bright passion. After that they think that you should try this Color Walking for yourself. They give some tips on how to get the most out of doing it, which are to give yourself an hour of uninterrupted time with no commutes, no errands, and only just eye time. They then tell you to pick a color,  let your eyes pick, or let a color pick you. Then there final step is to follow the one that makes your heart go beat as if it was your love. They then tell you “If you get lost, pick another color. If you get really lost, you’re on the right track”, though I can’t recommend getting lost.

The opening into the Marta station from the outside. It was not really used as a way in as much as it was used as a way out. The sun and outside lighting were hopelessly incandescent causing the picture to be silhouetted and somber, but the inside was really bright and well lit.

This was the impregnable gate, the source of profound dismay to those poor crestfallen souls who entered without a card or money to pass, and the over dramatized way down the Marta subway cars. The gate is easy to pass if you just scan a valid card to ride the subway.

Ihlanfeldt, Keith R. “Rail Transit and Neighborhood Crime: The Case of Atlanta, Georgia”. Southern Economic Journal 70.2(2003)273-294.JSTOR Journals. Web. 24 Feb, 2016.

This article talks about how the addition of new rail rod stations causes an influx of crime and violence on surrounding  neighborhoods.  The Railroads are used as easy transit to a new area where they commit crime, though this displacement caused by this also decreases the crime in the areas where these people were originally from. This article give incite on other’s points of view, and also explains how some people who used to live in crime free areas are now being plunged into a world of crime by urbanization. The weakest point of this whole paper is the fact that you never know if the research they did was skewed by some other means such as just random coincidence. This paper related to all the other reach I’ve done about safety and building of communities. One of the parts that brings up community is how the communities will band together and object to a new rail way being put in.

Reitzes, Donald C., Crimmins, Timothy J., Yarbrough, Johanna, Parker, Josie. “Social support and social network ties among the homeless in a downtown Atlanta park.” Journal of Community Psychology. 39.3(2011)274-291. Wiley. Web. 24 Feb, 2016.

This article talks about the problems the homeless face, how they find help, and how they find support and a sense of community. The article explain how homelessness effects other races and gender now more than ever, and how the homeless come together from support. They make there homeless brothers and sisters into their families, and they help each other with normal task or just giving them a normal conversation. This article hits on the same topic of homelessness, though this article talks more about their realities and how they help each other rather than where they live and what a person could consider a home. The only weaknesses that existed throughout this paper was the feeling it wasn’t talking all the bad sides of the homeless. I picked this source because it deals with the sense of community that I’m trying to research, and it also kind of hit on the topic of safety.

Inwood, Joshua F.J. “CONSTRUCTING AFRICAN AMERICAN URBAN SPACE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA.” Wiley Blackwell. 101.2(2011):147-163. Environment Complete. Web. 24 Feb, 2016.

The paper is talks about an urban redevelopment scheme by Big Bethel ame Church. Their plan was the turn the adjacent city block into a more diverse grouping of races. The adjacent city block, Auburn Avenue, is a very historically significant African American business area in the United States. I choose this source to gain a better idea of how areas are raced, and to be able to see things through a different persons eyes who had a different background. The only sort of flaw I found was the paper was wrote in a semi-biased. The paper is wrote from the point of view of one of the people from Big Bethel ame Church, though this does not take away from my research due to it being a gathering of other’s views. This source over all help with my research of safety and the idea of bringing people together for the betterment of a community.