...Racial Profiling Racial profiling is a very controversial topic in today’s society. Racial profiling is the act of accusing, or targeting, a person based on their race. People can be targeted because of stereotypes about the race. Racial profiling is a common technique used by law enforcement to target potential criminals and suspects. Many people disagree with this technique because it cannot be defended. Other people agree with law enforcement using racial profiling because they believe that safety comes before liberty. No matter what people say, racial profiling is a problem in our society and in our government. Firstly, racial profiling is a problem is because it is ruining the relationship between the people and the law enforcement. Racial profiling is separating the community and the police force. The community is less likely to trust the police if they are being targeted because of their ethnicity. The affected communities would also be less active and would become less social due to the lack of feeling safe. Secondly, racial profiling is a problem is because of its effects on schools. Students of color can face harsher punishments than white students, which can cause higher numbers of incarcerated colored students. Many minority students fear the...
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...Racial Profiling” refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crimes based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin.Criminal profiling is generally viewed as a tactic used by police (any member of law enforcement, including, but not limited to, any local, state or federal individual), who is duly authorized to protect and serve the public. This also includes security guards, airport security, etc. This paper will examine some recent examples of profiling and will seek to determine whether law enforcement has acted out of fear, or racism in a post-racist America. Profiling for the purposes of this argument will be justified by the following principles:...
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...Racial profiling is when someone is falsely accused based on the individual’s race, ethnicity,religion , or national origin (ACLU, Paragraph 1). Yet being illegal it continues to occur all around the world,officials are more likely to pull over and frisk black or latinos than whites.For example,if you were to see a random person wondering around the streets with a old, raggedy look and get in a much nicer car anyone would assume its stolen. Racism in law enforcement can have disastrous effects on society as evidence of recent events. Despite racial profiling being wrong due to the injustice present ,it is used more often by authorities towards colored and brown complected people. This is something that affects forty-three percent of African Americans who are pulled over and searched compared to...
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...they were intruders in his own home. Instances similar to this are a prime example of how groups of people aren’t being represented and how they need to be protected. Racial profiling is happening everywhere today whether it be “random selection” at an airport, someone following you around a store, or even getting pulled over by a cop for no good reason. Reasoning behind this, is because if there was a scare about a group of people of certain race doing something...
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...Racial Profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Conflict between the black community and the authorities has decades of history. Even after slavery has been outlawed, many states continued to control African-Americans by using Jim Crow Laws. Now, Law Enforcement Agencies are striving to build better relationships with the community they are supposed to be protecting. Solutions to implement police reform to strengthen relations between police and the community have been palpable. Stereotypes against certain minority groups are the obstacles the authorities cannot seem to tackle. In South Central Los Angeles, 1992, brutal riots arose when 4 white LAPD officers are acquitted for beating Rodney King when the whole nation witnessed a video evidence of the...
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...people based on societal factors such as language, religions or their customary heritage. Racial profiling is arguably one of the most controversial issues affecting people based on race. To begin with, racial profiling refers to the process through which individuals are targeted by law enforcement agencies based...
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...Racial Profiling Does racial inequality still exist in this modern society? There has been a lot of improvements since black slavery began. The black race is in doubt progressing in different fields, a proof to that is a black president. However, racial equality does not exist in all aspects. An example of this aspect is Racial profiling. Racial profiling was constructed by police to for they believe certain groups are more likely to commit crimes. For this reason, the issue on equality open to question. Some people contest this idea, however, some support it. In this case, racial profiling is morally wrong and ineffective. Racial profiling lessens suspects getting caught. According to the article Why racial profiling is a bad idea, “When...
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...Racial Profiling Tristen Crain Three Rivers Community College Racial Profiling Have you ever been racially profiled due to ethnicity or religion? Many people today have been. Racial profiling is the practice of law enforcement of targeting people on suspicion of crime due to race, religion, national origin, and other demographics. Issues pressing racial profiling are fear and the influences of iron triangles. Although racial profiling is an ongoing issue it can be put to an end. Incidents like Shoshana Hebshi’s incident of being removed from an airplane are unnecessary examples of racial profiling. The practice of racial profiling is an unethical act of hate. A person looks or from where they descend from shouldn’t pertain...
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...The first section of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteen Amendment states that no State may “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Racial profiling, on the other hand, is often defined as law enforcement activities that are operated solely on the basis of race. The unethical and unlawful practice of racial profiling, results in police officers unjustly using an individual’s race or ethnicity as a reason to excessively stop minorities. In a traffic report conducted on the national level for the year 2005, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reveals that “Black drivers (4.5%) were twice as likely as White drivers (2.1%) to be arrested during a traffic stop, while Hispanic drivers (65%) were more likely than White (56.2%) to receive a ticket” (Channin par. 6). The statistics provided by the BJS demonstrate that police actions during street stops were not uniform across racial and ethnic groups. African-American and Hispanic drivers seemed to have a higher likelihood of being pulled over than that of the Whites at the national level. Another article that shows how people of color are the target of racial profiling is “Police Deny Accusations of Racial Profiling with White Teen, Black Dancers” by Ruth Manuel-Logan. In this column, Manuel-Logan describes a recent incident when Houston police stopped and handcuffed...
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...On September 16th at 11:17pm a 911 call was made that a student at Georgia Tech was standing outside a parking garage with a knife. The school identified the victim as Scout Schultz, 21 who refused to listen to the campus police as they yelled for him to put the knife down. Schultz continued to walk around and not listen to the police and yell “shoot me!” to the police who were telling him that they didn't want to hurt him and to just put the knife down. Schultz did not listen and it ended with him being shot and taken to the hospital where he died the next day. Why I chose this story was because CNN and NBC reported on the same story but in two slightly different ways. CNN titled the article “Georgia Tech police fatally shoot student after...
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...why the alleged suspects could have turned to such violence and no one else has offered any evidence based explanation for it. If this is the case, then why is Obama now labeling them as being terrorists when he himself warned against the judging too quick? The only explanation for this situation can lead one to think of is the suspects’ identification as being ethnic Chechens and Muslims. There is no evidence that they acted in relation to the events that happened in their ancestral background. Obama appears to be going on a prejudiced assumption that is very common on television. These are unfair assumptions and they close the possibility of full understanding the cause. By bringing up these popular stereotypes, they give a new push to the...
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...Does not everyone deserve to be treated the equally, no matter their sex, religion, or race? Then why the instances of racial profiling in the news lately, with some cases leading to excessive force by law enforcement. In a Washington Post analysis of 990 fatal police shootings in 2015 the research "suggests that police exhibit shooter bias by falsely perceiving blacks to be a greater threat than non-blacks to their safety." and "seven times as likely as unarmed white men to die from police gunfire" (Lowery 2016). Not only law enforcement but also fellow American's is displaying racial profiling against minorities. Instead of looking at each person as an individual, some Americans categorize people, according to a group, such as black American's...
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...Research on racial profiling suggests that minorities are disproportionately the subject of routine for traffic stops (Feder, 2012 pg. 1). Some will argue that racial profiling is a rational method of investigating and potentially stopping crime before it is committed. Others argue that it is not a legitimate security measure. Racial profiling has been reviewed on several accounts as to whether or not such profiling constitutes as a violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures. In the case of Terry v. Ohio the Supreme Court ruled that reasonable suspicion is sufficient enough for a police officer to briefly stop and question an individual for weapons....
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...Racial Profiling Targets Muslims in Airports The Constitution declares, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated” (Madison n.p). As a result of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, Muslim Americans have become frequent victims of racial profiling in airports through means of prejudicial views and invasion of privacy. In return, this violates their civil liberties of protection from unjustifiable searches and seizures. Racial profiling in airport security serves as a gateway for prejudice views. Airport security claims they are allowed to search an individual if they are suspected of committing an offense. Azeem Khan, a victim...
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...to completely eliminate racism. Whilst there are regulations prohibiting racial profiling, they have not stopped this issue from recurring. Racial profiling continues to be prevalent; the laws in place have recently rendered it prohibited to be carried out in court. In spite of this, racial profiling standards continue to be violated by numerous people. Despite that, people still commit acts against the laws of racial profiling. Therefore,...
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