Argument Against Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling can be described as an individual being suspected of a crime solely on the grounds of their race or ethnicity. Racial Profiling goes against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, and takes away an individual rights. Racial profiling is wrong and ineffective. It affects both the community and it misshapes the democracy of our country. Racial profiling is caused by stereotyping certain minority groups. Racial profiling targets innocent people who are wrongfully accused because of stereotyping, while those who have commited the crime may face no consequnces because of inadequate searches. Victims who sufer from racial profiling have their rights stripped, causing them to question their freedom in a democratic country. Racial profiling has affected many people of colour in Canada. Rangings from African Americans to muslims and people of Arab decent and even Canada’s very own aboriginal people. Racial profiling in its lowest form tends to cause overpolicing or under policing of certain communities. Racial Profiling has been a serious issue in Canada for years. Racial profiling not only lead to imprisonment, it can sometimes even lead to death all because of stereotyping. This paper will discuss, what are the effects of racial profiling within minorities? How this leads to crime?

Recently, there has been an epidemic in which minorities are being racially profiled on a daily basis. Individuals are being arrested, pulled over, and gunned down, simply because of the color of their skin. People cannot even walk down the street without someone thinking that they look suspicious. Whether the person is African American, Hispanic, Indian, or Muslim, racial profiling is wrong. With all of the recent controversy surrounding the problem, one would think that it would occur much less but that is not the case. Racial profiling has caused a recent uproar in America, and it has become the reason why many people have turned their backs on law enforcement for good.

Racial profiling is when an officer of law targets an individual not on their behavior, but rather their personal characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, national origin and religion. Racial profiling has been an issue that dates back earlier than the 1700's. Then when the fourth and fourteenth amendments were created, some thought racial profiling would simmer down. The fourth amendment states that the government is prohibited from any unreasonable seizes or searches; while the fourteenth amendment states that all men are presented with equal protection of the law. Unfortunately, even with the bill of rights, racial profiling still remained an issue. Recently, Arizona passed a law known as the show me your papers law, allowing officers

When people act on their stereotypical views, that is when stereotyping becomes a big concern and can affect others.Stereotyping is the main cause that leads to profiling. Anyone of any race can experience profiling, and racial profiling discriminates and victimizes people who may not necessarily be committing a crime.

Have you ever been pulled over by a police officer? It is a nerve-wracking incident where you question what you were doing. Why were you pulled over? Was it due to speeding, or failing to obey basic laws of the road? Or, is it something else, like your race, appearance, or other reasons that should not result in a traffic stop? On average, an individual of color is thirty-one percent more likely to be pulled over by a police officer compared to a white individual. Black individuals are also about twenty-three percent more likely to pulled over than a Hispanic individual (Ingraham). By these statistics from 2011, it is reasonable not only to conclude but also infer that police specifically target black individuals. Think about it, many police-related incidents broadcasted on a news channel involves a police officer pulling over a black individual for a traffic violation, and the incident escalating from there. Even though different people drive differently, police target black individuals when it comes to traffic violations. Police are more likely to pull over a black individual and search their vehicle than any other race. Racial profiling being performed by police is an easy subject to have a viewpoint on but is not discussed enough.

People in law enforcement use race, ethnicity, religion or nationality as a factor in determining if an individual has committed a crime, this is called racial profiling. Many in law enforcement believe that racial profiling is an efficient way of screening someone who is suspected of a crime. They fail to see the problems with profiling someone based on how they look or their backgrounds. Racial profiling is wrong in any circumstance because crime comes from all different types of people, it causes distrust between law enforcement and the people of that community, and it violates citizens constitutional rights.

In the past couple years, racial profiling has made many people fear the thought of getting pulled over, especially people of color. Law enforcement is supposed to make society feel safer when they are around them but they changed that thought real quick. Racial profiling has also led to the hate of law enforcement which caused people to say “f*** the police”, or even resulted in certain individuals attacking law enforcement officers out of anger. It has also led to the beginning of protests in certain cities for the young blacks that have died and some of the protests turned awry when police arrived and shut everything down. In one article concerning racial profiling, it says “Contreras said LULAC has received a complaint alleging a St. John police officer was racial-profiling Latinos. She cited a town police messenger log in which the officer allegedly said he was conducting a "Mexican hunt"(Carlson). This evidence proves that certain officers if not all have horrible mind sets for their specific job. And if they do have a bad mindset for their specific job, then they need to find a new profession so they do not end up injuring or even killing someone. Another way racial profiling is showed in an article is when the article says “On February 18th, a black Elizabethtown police officer has filed a lawsuit that accuses the Fayetteville Police Department of racially profiling and

There are major suspicions that minority groups of people are being treated unfairly by law enforcement, through a concept called racial profiling. Racial profiling is focusing blame for a crime onto a group of people based solely on race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. This is only a suspicion in the U.S., but in other countries, this is blatantly going on now in 2017. The reason law enforcement officials tend to racially profile is because there is a common belief among many that certain people commit certain crimes more often, therefore it is a way to (in theory) catch more terrorists, drug dealers, etc. It occurs when officials such as the police will take someone into suspect just because of race, ethnicity, religion or national

Police officers get credit for doing racial profiling which is consider “lazy” work when there are other officers out doing actual police work. It also is an abusive practice that only targets people for how they look. The majority of law enforcement officers are ethical and professional, however, there are those officers that abuse their power to target individuals of certain ethnic groups for unequal application of the law. Also it derails the trust in the community between police and civilians such as when some of the “good” officers come into the community looking answers/clues to find a real criminal they will be denied anything from mostly everyone in the community because of what those “bad” officers had done. Racial profiling isn’t just traffic stops

Racial profiling has been a very monumental issue from the past few years. Race and orientation are the dominant characteristics the authorities look when captivating in this category of profiling. The incontrovertible pattern of race-based on the stops from the police is a problem that millions of African-American and Latino-American motorist encounter regularly on this nation's highway. This play on words DWI (Driving while Intoxicated) refers to the employed police practice of using an traffic violations as a pretext to stop black or Hispanic. The police assume that they are involved in a criminal activity unrelated to the driving. These policemen have no right or legal cause to carry stops besides the enforcing a traffic bylaw.

This event occurs every day in cities and cities throughout the country when law enforcement and private security allow colored individuals to be humiliated and often scared of arresting, interrogating and searching without evidence of criminal activity based on race, ethnicity, or religion of privatization Racism is considerably illegal, and violations of the main promise of the United States Constitution against the law of equal rights for all and freedom from inappropriate searches and seizures. I believe racial profiling should not be of one specific race and people, it should not be harmful to the innocent people. Racial profiling is the harmful issue for innocent people. And law enforcement should not use racial profiling.

If we like it or not we all racially profile everyday without even thinking about it. We based our judgement of one's skin color to the type of unlawful or opulence the person has enacted. We make this judgement with the conclusion of the stereotypical news feed we receive from the media. “Today people of color continue to be disproportionately incarcerated, policed, and sentenced to death at significantly higher rates than their white counterparts.” (Sophia Kerby, 2012). Today people of color start unlawful acts more than the caucasian race itself, setting up cliches ideas for their people to be pronounced by. They ruin their own ethnic groups rights and create a wider spread of segregation amongst races in trepidation of

Studies have shown that police are more likely to pull over blacks or Latinos than whites. New York City ran a trial for their stop and frisk law where 80% of the stops they made were blacks and Latinos, and 85% of those people were frisked, compared to the 8% of white people stopped. This is racial profiling.  The United States Department of Justice release a recent survey that stated that 84% of cops have seen fellow police officers use more force than was necessary. It hit me again! Where is the police training? Police officers are the women and men we have to trust wholeheartedly with our lives. Law enforcement has to work out new methods of training. The police department has to establish a zero- tolerance policy for racism. We cannot

People are being detained for random searches and when the officer was asked why they were being searched they told them “For suspicious activity.” The Law enforcement has been losing the trust of the public for a while ex:Police brutality,Unwarranted searches,and unrealistic accusation of illegal activities.Racial profiling has been here since 1541, with being able to kill slaves if you are their master,The rounding up of blacks/Slaves, and in 1944 where the supreme court said that racial profiling was not unconstitutional and may be practiced in case of a national emergencies .Even though statistics show different ethnicities are prove to be involved in more crimes or illegal activities, this is morally wrong to do because it would cause

Just recently we have had another video released on racial profiling and excessive force on African American gentlemen. He was stopped for running a stop sign so the officers said, within the next few minutes the man is beaten and put into the back of the car. You're absolutely right; with situations that keep coming up like this how are we as a society regardless of our skin color going to be able to establish a solid proper rapport with our fellow officers. Officers misinterpret a lot of information, maybe we should teach our officers to be able to interpret and convey the correct message? For each officer situations like this make it tough to be an officer of the law now, because we as a society turn the other way and want little to nothing