Further along this trail of sorrow we can see how this affects people on a more local context. Police brutality can be seen as close to home as in Chicago. The Chicago police department has been involved in various legal problems due to the excessive force that they have used when trying to apprehend a suspect. Yes, even Chicagoans are affected by the brutal way that the police officers in this city are taking advantage of the fact that they can detain who ever they feel are suspect. The negative side to this is that most of the people who are targeted are people of color over caucasian. This can be seen or can be proved by the national numbers of prison inmates that are prosecuted and incarcerated. Even though we are looking at the problem in a more smaller context it is important how these statistics also affect more of the local prisons. This information is provided by “Prison Policy Initiative”. This shows how the ethnicity of people is a high influence on the way that people are chosen to be prosecuted.