Economic inequality describes the gap between the rich and the poor. Individuals are assigned a socioeconomic status based on their social class. Jacob and O'Brien (1998) concluded that police killings are more associated with economic gaps between Whites and Blacks. As a result, cities with more African Americans are often targets of police violence due to poor urban conditions and economic inequality (Jacob and O'Brien 1998). These urban conditions include poor lifestyle, low income, low employment, unsanitary environment, and dangerous habits linked to crime. As a result, disadvantaged minority communities are perceived as extremely dangerous and unsafe, as people who live there often associate with gangs (Jacob & O'Brien, 1998). These gangs and young offenders commit illegal activities for a variety of reasons. Lack of money and support from family members are the main causes of crimes. It is common for poor families to lack resources essential to their survival due to the concept of low economic inequality among minorities (Jacob and O'Brien 1998). Additionally, unlike the upper social class, poor communities have many unresolved problems such as gangs, prostitution, and theft that need to be addressed in order to ensure more safety in the community (Harris 1999). Unresolved issues within the minority community cause police officers to act differently based on their assumptions and natural instincts (Smith and Holmes 2003). In general, ethnic minorities are at the bottom of the economic ladder. According to Smith and Holmes (2003), police overreact toward minorities because they naturally assume that the minority community...... middle of paper ...... filled in by police officers resides in lower economic communities (Jacob and O'Brien 1998). Furthermore, law enforcement would naturally use excessive force to search or arrest a profiled suspect, based on the stereotypes attributed to the given ethnicity (Risse and Zeckhauser 2004). This concept contributes to higher rates of police brutality among minorities. Additionally, research compiled by the US Human Rights Network presented a pattern of innocent black people being unreasonably killed by a police officer. Of the thirty black people killed by police between January 1 and March 31, 2012, twenty were not armed with any dangerous weapons, twelve were innocent, and eight were emotionally unstable (Dave 2012). The astonishing results were against black racial groups, based on racial profiling, which ultimately led to the idea of ​​racial discrimination..