Ang V. Engligence Case Digest

Racial profiling is a very prevalent issue within the criminal justice system that is quite controversial, but there is a significant number of evidence that shows that racial profiling has been present since the 1600’s and continues to be a significant issue. Racial profiling is evident in the criminal justice system in various ways such as in interrogations, jury selection, misleading statistics, stops, and immigration laws. Racial profiling within interrogations and jury selection can be seen with the Brandley v. Keeshan case. Racial profiling within statistics can be seen in instances where the numbers focus on arrests and incarcerations that do not necessarily mean a crime was committed. Stops are seen as evidence showing racial profiling with a personal experience, and lastly, immigration laws are seen as showing racial profiling by the encounter of a Mexican American women had with an officer in Arizona.

Racial profiling is simply, “the unlawful police practice of using race, color, or ethnic background, as the reason for conducting a traffic stop on an individual.” (Michigan Civil Rights Commission) This definition can be extended to any kind of discrimination mainly based on myths and stereotypes towards a certain race or ethnicity. However, the term racial profiling is commonly used when a police officer or any other law enforcer stops, questions, searches or arrests an individual purely on the basis of their race. African Americans or simply blacks have been the major racial group that has suffered much of racial profiling. Much of this is based on the stereotypes against the blacks are perceived as more likely to engage in criminal activities. For instance, in a 2013 Racial Profiling Data from Ferguson Police Department, out of 5384 police stops, 4632 were against blacks. (Ferguson Police Dept. 1) Despite the low population of blacks in U.S. compared to other races, the former continues being subjected to more racial profiling. Racial profiling against African Americans continues to expose the blacks to humiliation and racial injustices, as this paper will expose, thereby calling for the responsible authorities to address and find solutions for the problem.

Racial profiling is still an ongoing issue that occurs and such an issue has led to many problems for the minority groups of this country. Whether it be African Americans, Indians, Asians, Mexicans, or Muslims, all have faced profiling at some point in time. The problems caused by this controversial subject include the impending distrust between black communities and law enforcement, unfair treatment towards all minorities by law enforcement, verbal and physical abuse of minorities by police officers which can sometimes lead to death, emotional unstableness of the victims whom have faced such a terrible judgement, and the negative impact it has on children of the minority groups.

In the case between R. v Maracle, it was about a 14 year old Brantford female was kidnapped at gunpoint by David Maracle on May 26, 1997 and brutally and repeatedly raped. This event had accused on 1997, and then was farther investigated and made its way to court. On November 8, 2000, the trial judge found the appellant to be a dangerous offender and ordered him detained for an indeterminate period. The appellant appeals conviction and sentence. The case was later appealed in 2006. This case took place in superior court of justice. This case took place because the appellant’s conviction and sentence. In this case it shows the dangers so sex offenders and how hard they try to get away with crime that they have committed, even though they left all the proof / evidence behind at the location which was all leading up to them, being the one to frame. (http://www.thespec.com)

In today’s world we deal with multiple cases of racial profiling seemingly on a daily basis. Turn on the television, check the internet, or simply have a discussion with someone and you’ll hear about it. "Racial Profiling" describes discriminatory practices by law enforcement officials who target people for suspicion of crime based on their ethnicity, race, origin, or religion. The term first came about during the War on Drugs in the 1970’s and 1980’s when law enforcement were accused of pulling over motorists simply because of their race, then unlawfully searching their vehicles for illegal substances. There are varying opinions about this topic and as the year’s progress, it seems acts of racism, labeling, and profiling increase. Many of the instances of racial profiling that occur today involve criminal justice.

The NYPD’s stop and frisk practices raise serious concerns over racial profiling, illegal stops and privacy rights. The Departments own reports on its stop and frisk activity confirm what many people in

The people has made it clear that the concern on racial profiling is wrong with our core values and principles of fairness and justice. The use of race as the basis for law enforcement decision making clearly has a terrible cost, both to the individual who suffer invidious discrimination and to the nation, whose goal “liberty and justice for all” recedes with every act of such discrimination. For this reason many cases impose more

When one thinks of police misconduct many not too distant stories might go through our heads. Most adults will remember how they felt when they saw the brutal beating of Rodney King on their local news station; or the outrage they experienced when they heard that the evidence in the OJ Simpson trial had been tampered with. But thanks to new guidelines, procedures and even civilian groups who now “police” the police, instances of police misconduct may soon start seeing a decline.

Send a strong message to the community that the department is against racial profiling and that racial profiling is inconsistent with effective policing and equal protection

The NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices raise serious concerns over racial profiling, illegal stops and privacy rights. The Department’s own reports on its stop and frisk activity confirm what many people in communities of color across the city have long known: The police are stopping hundreds of thousands of law abiding New Yorkers every year, and the vast majority are black and Latino. In 2011, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 685,724 times. 605,328 were totally innocent (88 percent). 350,743 were black (53 percent). 223,740

1. What is racial profiling? Provide examples of how law enforcement, government officials and/or ordinary citizens use racial profiling (ie: post 9/11, Arizona cases, arrest records, etc.). How might we remedy profiling?

Racism is the discrimination against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. It has been an ongoing problem throughout time and has resulted in many instances of violence. To this day, racism is still prevalent, and has not been resolved. From racism emerges a multitude of ways it is used. Like, for example, racial profiling. Racial profiling is mostly used by officers, and is the use of race or ethnicity as the grounds for suspecting someone of committing an offense. It exists solely because of racism and, lately, white police officers have been racially profiling citizens and abusing their power. While racial profiling is justified by using the ensurement public safety as an excuse, it is wrong because it creates prejudice against many ethnic minorities; therefore we, as a society, must create a change in the government policies and the police department’s views.

P alleges excessive force and false arrest. P alleges it was West Indian Day Parade weekend and large group of individuals were on the streets. P alleges there was individual who was speaking against police brutality. P alleges she was walking away from him when MOS threw her against the wall and handcuffed her. P alleges the MOS denied her medical attention and transported her to the precinct. P alleges that she was taken to the hospital from the precinct. MOS Raymond Weng states that MOS were directing the gather which had gather to disperse. There was a male who refused to leave the location. When MOS went to arrest him and he resisted, then P began pushing MOS away from the male. MOS Weng states that P attempt to strike his supervising

In reading an article upon the idealism of “stop and frisk” it said that “An analysis by the NYCLU revealed that innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogations more than 4 million times since 2002, and that black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics.” Showing how not only is it a waste of time but it brings fear upon people. I am here writing this letter to inform you upon your actions of ‘Stop and Frisk’ which gives the right to police officers to stop someone who they feel like is suspicious or looks suspicious. Which I think is just absurd, New York Polices forces should discard the injustice and distrust objective of “stop and frisk” to end the inflicting of people’s

Assembly bill 1953 Peace officers: civilian complaints. Law requires every department/agency that uses police officer to have a system in order to investigate the complaints that civilians file towards the peace officers. So basically be able to create a technique where it facilitates the civilians to file a complaint and after for the department to do a full investigation toward the allegation from the civilian. An existing law makes it a crime for civilian to file a complaint that is false. Moreover, it is required that the law agency enforcement where civilians go to file their complaint make sure that the civilian reads and sign that he/she acknowledge that the allegation is true and understands the consequences of the law if further investigation