...Racial profiling is a problem that has been going on in the United States for far too long. Everyday, people are being pulled over and searched just because of their race or because of their ethnic background. Police profiling is defined as being law enforcement officers targeting people based on a specific trait of theirs such as their race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, or gender. One branch of police profiling that has been in the news a lot lately although it has been a problem for many years is racial profiling. Many people automatically think of black people when they hear the words racial profiling, when in fact, it is a problem amongst other races as well such as Mexican, Asian, and Middle Eastern. Racial profiling has led to many lawsuits and deaths recently and is a growing problem in the United States, as it has led to riots and protests. One case of racial profiling is the Michael Brown case. Michael was a 17 year old teenager from Ferguson, MIssouri who was gunned down by a white police...
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...The Problem of Racial Profiling Racial profiling is a serious issue of social importance in the United States. Many believe it is wrong to judge someone by their color or race. Racial profiling is suspecting a person because of a race has committed an offense. We should care about this because some of the law enforcement are taking this too far, where they would pull over certain group of people just because of their ethnicity. Us citizens should consider this issue because stereotypes does not determines a person’s life. I believe this is wrong but it is part of our community that people are being judged too quickly. This would still be an issue and it would make many good police officers look bad. Racial profiling can be beneficial thing...
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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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...The act of judging someone based on the color of their skin may sound like a thing of the past, but many cases are being presented today where minorities find themselves as the victims of racial profiling by police and government officials. This leads many minorities to feel targeted by them, and even harbor mistrust and suspicion. The social problem that I’m focusing on is racial profiling and the effects that it has on communities and society overall. Racial profiling is a widespread problem in society that often makes communities have strained relationships and a mistrusting relationship, which leads to a greater chance of having conflict between the two. Racial profiling is defined as, “The discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime...
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...For my reflection letter I have chosen three essays; Racial Profiling Argumentative Paper, Bullying Research Paper, Brave New World Literary Analysis and three pieces of process work; annotated articles, peer editing, and evidence charts, as the basis for my personal evaluation. From this work, I will reflect on what I learned about create a claim or thesis, find evidence to support my claim, write topic sentences, write relevant commentary or analysis, create a first draft that I have developed, and my strengths; MLA, evidence. I will address my academic essays, create works cited skill that I have learned, grammar and commentary where I need to improve, and I want to improve on write a relevant commentary or analysis and integrate quotes...
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...History Repeats: Profiling Color and Violent Acts Racial profiling has been a reoccurring event for decades now. Some dispute their opinions on whether racial profiling is a violent act or a socially responsible law. Racial Profiling is an act, which has definitely evolved into a violent one overtime. This issue is known as a “recent phenomenon” (Eger, et.al). Before the year 1995, racial profiling was not a term, which was heard of often. Marshall Miller conducted research on whether the “recent phenomenon” was a pattern or a now repetitive practice. Both the authors of The Policy of Enforcement and Marshall Miller come to an agreement when regarding the treatment of different racial groups. Negative outcomes occur after studying the treatment...
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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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...Social Justice and Equality: Racial Profiling Galina Shlikht, Nicole Gordon and Becky Overstreet City University of Seattle Author’s Note Galina Shilkht, Student, City University Nicole Gordon, Student, City University Becky Overstreet, Student, City University Social Justice and Equality Team Outline (All) Conflict and Solutions 1. Faulty communication Sometimes criticism can be given inappropriately. This can result in hurting the feelings of group members leaving them feeling devalued. When this happens, we as a team believe the first thing that must be done is to be honest and let the group know how you feel. So we must acknowledge the conflict. The next appropriate step would be to discuss the conflict with all of the team members. After this, we should try and understand the situation and reach an agreement. One of the agreements could be that criticism be given appropriately and constructively. 2. Time management With work, kids, and living in different time zones it can be a challenge to find the time that works best for the three of us to discuss the details, questions, and/or concerns about our essay together. Our solution to this is to set up exact times and day, sort of like an online appointment, for when the three of us can be available via Facebook group message. 3. Personality clashes We all have our own way of doing things. Our styles of working might be different and sometimes this can cause a conflict with each other...
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...After the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, the American government began "clearing the nation of thousands of its Muslims" ("Arab"22). Fear of another deadly attack had crippled not only the Bush Administration, but also the entire nation. The Bush Administration implemented a new tactic of prevention: racial profiling. Racial profiling has caused millions of innocent “Arab-looking” people to lose their lives because of racial bigotry. "There is absolutely no evidence to support claims of superiority" (Swedlund 60); these claims of superiority are the government's inability to accurately profile terrorists and provide civilians with false protection. Racial profiling is an excuse for blatant racism of minority groups...
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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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...Cole Ryan Debra Booth 1301 378 19 February 2016 Essay 1 On April 28, 2010, the political cartoon titled “Anglozona Illegal Tan Block” was published by the St. Luis Dispatch. Pictured in the political cartoon is an orange bottle of sunscreen, patterned just like the state flag of Arizona. With a completely white background surrounding this bottle of sunscreen, it’s hard not to focus directly on the bottle and analyze every detail of it. Also shown on the bottle of sunscreen is a picture of a cactus that seems to be dressed to look like the Statue of Liberty. The cactus holds a tablet in one hand with the words “Show I.D.” inscribed, and a torch in the other. The sunscreen’s impossibly high SPF of 12,000 is printed in bold white letters across the bottle to show that there is absolutely no way that your skin will get any more tan than it already is. Under the bold letters, the sunscreen claims that it “protects against police harassment.” Why would a sunscreen need SPF 12,000 protection as well as protection against police harassment? All of these factors come into play with the circumstances that were in play back in 2010. The Arizona Senate Bill 1070 was a legislative act that was passed in 2010. The SB 1070 act stated that U.S federal law requires all aliens over 14 years of age who have stayed in the United States longer than 30 days to register with the U.S government and keep their registration documents with them at all times. Violation of this law was considered...
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...Race in the criminal justice In today’s day of age people are always blaming some race on crimes, but is that racist are is it profiling? I will first start by talking about what is profiling. Profiling is used by cities and towns all over the U.S. Profiling has been a problem because people don’t look at the facts but the color of their skin, religion, and national origin of the person (ACLU , 2017). Profiling was used a lot after September 11, 2001 with Muslim, Arab at the airlines, federal law and local police. In an Article published in 2015 named Muslims in prison? I found out that 60% of Muslims were even though Muslims make up about 8% of the population in 2010 (Markind, 2015). Now I will talk about the statics on hate crimes in the...
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...Jalen Lewis English 111-04 Reflective Essay 10/13/14 Gentle Giants For as long as I can remember I was always given the harsher discipline after a conflict between me and another person. And for a long time I could never figure out why. Was it because I started it? No, it would usually start because of them picking with me. Was it because of the color of my skin? Again. No, because it was usually between me and another person of my color. Another question popped into my head. Was it because I was taller and bigger than the other person? That’s when it hit me. When I think back, I mostly remember the conflicts being with a person smaller than me. That had to be the reason. I found this to be true when one of my teachers apologized to me for thinking that I was bullying another student. Of course, I am not the only one to be labeled as a bully because of my size. It happens all over the world. Not only in real life but, also on TV shows, cartoons, in movies, and even in books. Even though it is not as serious, it is just like racial profiling, except with size instead of the color of one’s skin. It seems like most of the places I go people are afraid of me because of my size. Much like people being afraid of persons of certain races. The difference is that it is not a certain race that is afraid me. It is people of all different races. Seeing people flee in my presence can be quite upsetting. There’s also the staring and commenting, which drives me crazy. It’s almost as...
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...reason the officer wants to search your car. After much hassle you are finally free to go, yet still have no explanation as to why you were pulled over to begin with. Now imagine you are black and the officer is white. You have probably just experienced racial profiling. Racial profiling is a problem which is gaining widespread notoriety in the United States. It may be the most important homeland issue we face today. Racial profiling is a clear violation of the civil rights of United States citizens. Not only does racial profiling affect civilians, but it actually makes law enforcement ineffective. Most efforts to investigate and eradicate racial profiling have failed due to unclear findings and a lack of accountability on the part of law enforcement. New measures must be taken in conjunction with current measures to curb racial profiling. A stringent federal program to monitor and survey our nation’s police officers is needed. The public also needs to become more involved in efforts to stop racial profiling. Until these measures are taken, racial profiling will continue to eat away at the heart of our nation. Racial profiling is one of the most important civil rights issues facing our country today. Not only does racial profiling affect the direct victims, it negatively affects all people of color, in all generations, of all levels of economic standing. The integrity and accountability of...
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...Racial Profiling Still Active Today Research Methodology in Public Safety Racial Profiling “It is said that Milwaukee Police Departments are said to be “racial profiling” due to their Police Chief implementing a “traffic stop initiative” only in African American Communities. The Police Chief tried to say it that it wasn’t “racial profiling” but rather “targeting the high crime areas of Milwaukee (White, 2010).” Racial profiling occurs when police routinely use races as a factor that causes an officer to react with suspicion to take action. Though the Police Chief feels he is doing the right thing by supposedly protecting “black victims,” the community feels that the police department is “racially profiling.” Racial profiling in my opinions an ineffective strategy. It says that you don’t want to learn about your community person’s behavior and you’re just ready to judge the person by the color of the skin. It cannot be disputed that the perception of racial profiling by police department still exist within minority communities and societies at large. This is a recurrent topic of debate and divisive issue in many communities. This was clearly seen and addressed when I saw the problem first hand when I worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Questions: Some questions to be asked are: 1. Should police do more to control excessive force? 2. Should...
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