The lives of the minority especially the Hispanics, African Americans, Asians, etc. “Donald Trump argued Tuesday that the controversial stop-and-frisk policing tactic once employed in New York City is constitutional, adding that it would "overwhelmingly" save African-American and Hispanic lives. The practice, however, has been criticized as racial profiling that unfairly targeted those very minority groups. “Diamond, Jeremy. (2016) "Trump: Stop-and-frisk would 'overwhelmingly' save Black and Hispanic Lives." CNN. Cable News Network.
Hence as a result of the statement made above by Donald Trump, I decided to write on the problem stop and frisk
What are Stop and Frisk?
How has it been accepted into society according to the constitution?
What are the steps used to exercise the enactment?
The existence of stop and frisk became problematic as a result of class, state, race, and ethnicity The structure of every legal order directly influence the distribution of power or otherwise within communities. In general, we understand that “Power” can be defined as control of material resources and accumulated wealth, control of wealth and the institution, and once social …show more content…
Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on his or her (perceived) membership in a certain group or category and it involves actual action taken towards that individual. In the process of excusing the power given to the police by the government they began to conflict themselves by being discriminate which resulted in being bias instead of the police limiting themselves to what has been assigned to them they took the law into their hands and did whatever they thought was good for them by being selective in their Stop and Frisk, they actually concentrated on African American, Hispanic, Asians etc. and allowed the whites to go without stopping