...V. 2. Part 1-Racial profiling: a brief history and background: Profiling began in the early 1970’s by the drug enforcement agency and it focused on certain behaviors. By the 1980’s when Reagan declared the war on drugs, skin color became a major profile component and enforcement of drug laws became to take on the street level rather than just in airports and the focus was increasingly on poor communities of color. By 1985, the DEA had trained thousands of police officers to employ the "pretextual traffic stop", a legal name for racial profiling, and refers to the practice of stopping drivers, particularly those of color, for minor traffic violations for the purpose of searching their cars for drugs, guns, or cash. In 1986, the DEA introduced...
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...Levin Introduction This proposal was selected to analyze profiling psychologically, geographically, and racially. Profiling has its benefits and problem just like any other perceptional judgment. Society tends to be inclined to profiling due to cognitive learning, but "profiling was originally intended to help drug couriers attempting to enter the country." (Schmalleger, 2004) U.S Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration developed personal indicators that perceived an increased likelihood of a violation of law. Then in the late 1900's racial profiling received national recognition. Racial profiling referred to "Driving While Black." (Schmalleger, 2004) Literature review Advantages and Disadvantages Psychological "We understand today that it is a cruel and ignorance practice to torture men and women whose mental disturbance expresses itself in the form of religious or other eccentricities, but we are still too deep in the darkness to realize that the same true of those whose quirks show themselves in criminality." (Howe, 2012) One form of profiling is the psychological process of criminals. Usually, if investigators think like criminals he or she will caught a law violator. Psychologically profiling suspected criminals is an effective benefit for criminologist; unfortunately, using psychological profiling can't provide solid evidence. During the 1950's psychological profiling was distinctly used as a method in America. Investigator discovered...
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...officer’s orders to the letter despite the fact that 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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...Yugraj Chauhan Mrs. Sandhu ERWC 27 April 2018 Is there is any way to stop Racial Profiling ? Racial profiling defined as a practice that target people based on their race ethnicity, religion, national origin or how they look like. If someone commits crime from community, it also create new picture or profile of whole community or society to which that person belongs for one person whole community got target. Then other community thinks that all people who belongs to this community they are same, then they start hating each other. Instead of hating each other we need to get together and help each other out because when we take birth no one know which community or religion they are born in when we start growing everyday we start hating each other....
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...Yuliana Magana Professor Warner English 112 23 November 2014 Racial Profiling and Stereotypes Issues In a city such as Los Angeles, racial profiling takes places constantly throughout the day. In this film, “Crash”, Paul Haggis follows the lives of over 10 people from different backgrounds, and how they are faced with racial profiling or stereotypes. This movie is not only thought provoking, it shows the reality of such a complex world. The director, Haggis, shows how each character is faced with racial profiling/stereotypes and how it creates a snowball effect in each of their lives, as well as affecting the lives of others. The film “Crash” assumes that profiling is a bad but that people do it anyways. Self-serving attributions, revenge, victimizing, scapegoat, etc., can motivate stereotypes. Haggis wants us to feel guilty by watching all the different stereotypes that exist in today’s world; he wants us to realize not to judge a person by their physical appearance and/or race. Even Haggis illustrates anger and sympathy towards people that use stereotypes on other people. Most will say that because we are human it allows us to be imperfect but it being human doesn’t allow us to discriminatory towards other imperfect human beings. Racial profiling is when a person is judged by their race or ethnicity. The movie allows it’s viewers to see how racial profiling is a moral issues. It is projected be people of all races and classes. We can still see in today’s world people are...
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...http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1996-04/arabs.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 4. 100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh 5. Why Hollywood Owes Me Money by Laila Lalami 6. Khalil, Ashraf (4 October 2007). "But can you play a terrorist?". http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/04/entertainment/et-arabactors4. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 7. The Portrayal of Arabs in American Media 8. Patrick Harrington interviews, Jack Shaheen, author of Reel Bad Arabs 9. Driving to Zigzigland – Official site. Retrieved Oct 2012. 10. War on terror drives Arab actor to "Zigzigland" Reuters, 14 Dec 2006. Retrieved 2 Oct 2012. 11. "Terror Probe Changes Face of Racial Profiling Debate". FOX News. 1 October 2001. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35521,00.html. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 12. "Official: 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi". USA Today. 6 February 2002. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/02/06/saudi.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 13. MacFarquhar, Neil (1 June 2006). "Terror Fears Hamper U.S. Muslims' Travel". The New York Times....
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...http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1996-04/arabs.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 4. 100 Years of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh 5. Why Hollywood Owes Me Money by Laila Lalami 6. Khalil, Ashraf (4 October 2007). "But can you play a terrorist?". http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/04/entertainment/et-arabactors4. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 7. The Portrayal of Arabs in American Media 8. Patrick Harrington interviews, Jack Shaheen, author of Reel Bad Arabs 9. Driving to Zigzigland – Official site. Retrieved Oct 2012. 10. War on terror drives Arab actor to "Zigzigland" Reuters, 14 Dec 2006. Retrieved 2 Oct 2012. 11. "Terror Probe Changes Face of Racial Profiling Debate". FOX News. 1 October 2001. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35521,00.html. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 12. "Official: 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi". USA Today. 6 February 2002. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/02/06/saudi.htm. Retrieved 17 May 2012. 13. MacFarquhar, Neil (1 June 2006). "Terror Fears Hamper U.S. Muslims' Travel". The New York Times....
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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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...Forensic psychology, specifically, offender or criminal profiling has exponentially increased in popularity since its inception. It has spread though out the United States and internationally and this popularity is due mainly to massive media frenzies that focused on high-profile cases as well as the fictional movies. Another reason for the wide interest in profiling is that people have a need to know who and why and additionally, have a fascination with the morbid. It even goes further than that, it is a complete case of related to hate crimes. Many indulge themselves in the insane act of idolizing murders, serial killers, and morbid killings by gangs and other groups that have to perform a killing to be initiated into a gang. The flood of popular attention to criminal profiling created several public misconceptions. I will, therefore, generally define criminal profiling, dispelling myths and then will focus on the origins, history and current applications of criminal profiling. Criminal or offender profiling is a tool used by criminalist, behavioral scientists, forensic psychiatrists and psychologists, investigators, the FBI, the CIA, the CBC, and international law enforcement agencies. However, the practice of criminal profiling is concentrated within the FBI. The mission of offender profiling is to focus a criminal investigation onto more likely suspects (DeNevi & Campbell, 2004; Hicks, & Sales, 2006; Kocsis, 2003; Petherick, 2005). This narrowing serves to better utilize...
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...accepted in today’s society and also has many flaws to it. Those flaws are mainly due to the overgeneralization of the idea that Muslims are terrorists, which is what the American society considers the majority of them to be. This is one of the many ways Arabs and Muslims were negatively portrayed in the Western American society and continue to be portrayed and as mentioned is not seen as out of the ordinary. In addition, these views have also contributed to the creation of negative stigmatization of Arab and Muslim Americans post 9/11. Another aspect of this society that has been affected by this event is connected to the negative stigmatization that surrounds this group which has led to an increase of unfavorable views and an increase in hate crimes towards them. According to an article published by IZA, an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics, the stigmatization occurred in federal public policies, social interactions across the country, and labor market treatment (6). This could be seen when the United States was attempting to combat Al Qaeda attacks they began to specifically target Arabs and Muslims with government policies. Policies, similar to those were implemented after the attacks on the World trade center, which were not as harsh or selective, but at the time the public did not consider Arabs or their religion as a threat. Back in October 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, ABC News asked people whether they had a favorable or unfavorable...
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...world we live in a very media driven manner. The media can sway people’s attitudes towards a certain direction depending on the circumstances. Racial Profiling is a very sensitive topic every individual can relate to. It is known as the inclusion of racial or ethnic characteristics in determining whether an individual is considered likely to commit a particular type of crime or illegal act. For example, the media has “essentialized” the meaning of terrorism destroying the sweet religion of Islam. The word essentializing means to combine complex terms into a single thought or image making it simpler. Due to racial profiling we regard terrorists as any type of brown male. It is the society we live in and hence we have no choice to deal with it. What exactly does the term racial profiling meaning? One could say that it is the consideration of race in criminal investigations. “For example, the popular term “DWB”, means that black people are more scrutinized and thought of when driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs (Geek). It is also a state of imagery that comes to mind when thinking of a crime; one tends to think of African Americans as the cause of most crimes. It is very unfair for them but that is the society we live in. Even though many “Black People” do live in the ghettos, it is unjust to tie them with most crimes such as gang wars, drive by shootings and thefts. The media contributes to 90 percent of these stereotypes (Geek). Like in the inner city African Americans...
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...Stop and Frisk Policy: Racial profiling or keeping the streets safe? Matdirch matkhafch dirha zina tal9aha zina; this isn’t a typo or my eyes crossed and I couldn’t see the keyboard properly. It is an old saying my parents had passed on down to me from their parents back home in Morocco. It means if you don’t do anything bad, you have nothing to be afraid of, and if you do good things then good things will come to you. It is the simplest way to explain why the stop and frisk policy shouldn’t be an issue. Unless of course you bring up the subject of race, which can heat up and ignite a fire of emotions on both ends of the spectrum. Unless your apart of the minorities that make up New York City, there is with little doubt you haven’t had to deal with prejudice and racial profiling. According to The New York Daily News, the black and Hispanic communities make up only 4.7% of the city’s population, yet in the year 2011 they made up 42% of the frisk stops. Even though you might not have enjoyed math or understood it, anyone could look at these numbers and become confused. Mayor Bloomberg also graciously added that 90% of the victims in the city were blacks and Hispanic (Cohen, Richard 1). Why he felt it was important to insinuate that although minorities make up the largest number for stops, they also are the largest portion of victims. Hmm, so that would be to assume that the minorities are just a problem in general with minority on minority crime? It is a highly debatable subject...
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...when in fact they have different characteristics. By researching more into Arabs and Muslims it is known that Arabs are an ethnic or cultural group and Muslims are a religious group. Both the Arabs and Muslims come from the Middle East and are subject to hate crimes and disapproving actions especially due to the events on 9/11. These people are subject to harassing atmospheres and discrimination. These people are discriminated in the working environment, airlines, and in publics’ eye. An example of this discrimination is the Patriotic Act our Government put in place. The measures created a fear that gripped the Muslim community I California and elsewhere following federal sweeps, round-ups, detentions of innocent Muslims, who had neither terrorist intentions nor any connection to terrorist organizations, said the report, drawn up at the request of Senator Liz Figeuroa (U.S. muslims took brunt of patriot act – senate report, n.d). The characteristics of Orientalism such as racial profiling and stereotyping can lead to hate crimes. Orientalism is defined as the simplistic view of the people and history of the Orient with no recognition of change over time or the diversity within its many cultures (Schafer, 2006). Hate crimes toward these people are very common because due to ignorance and lack of education it is thought that all Arabs and Muslims are terrorists or are related to terrorist activities. To promote tolerance and reduce prejudice in their home towns and cities the...
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...I. Introduction a. Audience Hook: “Immigration law and policy cannot be divorced from issues of race, national origin, ethnicity and color” (Dobkin, 2009). b. Thesis Statement: Research will show that immigration policies are ineffective because of stereotyping, social profiling, and area economics. c. Preview of Main points: i. Stereotypes and racial profiling has shaped immigration policies in America. ii. The perception of immigration can vary from area to area based on the economic status of the populace and because of this it can influence the content of immigration policies. II. Stereotypes and racial profiling has shaped immigration policies in America. Show visual aid (Martinez Jr., 2010) a. Arizona has placed the power of checking individuals for immigration status in the hands of police, which has allowed for racial profiling and oppression of not only U.S. citizens but also those that are new immigrants to America (Campbell, 2011). b. Some of the common misconceptions about immigrants are the threat that they pose to U.S. jobs, when it comes to U.S. citizens. i. Immigrant workers do pose a threat to U.S. jobs in the sense that they are much more mobile. 1. Hanson shows that low skilled immigrant workers are willing to go where the work is, whereas the U.S. native low skilled workers are less likely to pick up and move (Hanson, 2012). c. Molina points out, that a stereotype that exist about Mexicans, are that they are disease carriers...
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...officers. This issues continues to happen in our state, county, and local law enforcement agencies. These issues need to be address and our society are looking for answers. Law enforcement officers and security duties are to service and protect the citizens. Although, they have power and authority, it is unethical to abuse that power and authority with illegal use of force. Hates crimes and racial profiling are examples of use of force issues citizens’ face in our society. It can sometimes be violent acts intended to harm, hurt, or intimidate someone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. Here are some use of force issues, hate crimes, deadly force, racial profiling, hot pursuit, and corrupt police. These are very important and major issues the citizens within a society face daily. Many law enforcement officers are changing from good to bad and becoming corrupted. Accepting bribes from big time drug dealers and then taking the law into their own hands with excessive use of force and ending with deadly use of force. Law enforcement are racially profiling people with the traits and behavior of a certain race. The officer then use it to decide if the person or group of people is guilty or not guilty. Once the decision is made about their suspicion, then the officer will, stop, search, or arrest the person. These are the issues that will continue in America if changes are not made in the Criminal justice system. Law enforcement...
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