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Several communities are known for having residents from a specific ethnic group. Oscar Casares delves deeper behind this topic in his essay, “Crossing the Border without Losing your Past,” where he discusses how vital it is for an individual to hold onto the roots of their ancestors as well as practicing its rich culture and traditions. Due to prominent similarities in culture, language, life style, and cuisine, many individuals from a certain race live in a community with others of their kind, hence the gathering of neighborhoods in unison. Thus, Casares states, “In my hometown, Brownsville, Tex., almost everyone I know is Mexicano: neighbors, teachers, principals, … rich and poor, short and tall, fat and

This paper outlines the studies, incidents, facts and statistics that have found evidence of racial profiling which causes distrust in the law enforcements (police, government etc0. Studies of racial profiling shows that blacks, Hispanics, Middle Eastern and other racial minorities are more likely to be stopped than those who are white. They are more likely to be stopped and searches, traffic stops, license and registration checks. In addition they are more likely to be ticketed or arrested after being stopped and search. Some scholars and studies believes that minorities being that are frequently stopped and searched has nothing to do with them being racially profiled. According to Roh and Robinson,” studies raise the possibility that minorities may be more involved in criminality (Gaines, 2006), some drug crimes (Lichtenberg, 2006), and speeding offenses (Lange, Johnson, & Voas, 2005), thereby justifying higher stop and arrest rates by police of some groups.” (Roh, S., & Robinson, M.)

Hispanics, Mexicans, and Latin Americans do not only face discrimination on the roadways but also in areas of immigration law enforcement due to past incidents in America with people of their ethnicity. In 2010 an American citizen of Mexican descent and his family were coming back to America from a family trip to Mexico, when him and his family, including his eighteen month old son, were subjected to an additional screening and special search because of their origin. In New Jersey 2007 police referred around 10,000 individuals who they believed to be undocumented to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), and less than 1,500 of those referred to ICE had immigration offenses. Even though nearly ninety percent of those referred were legal residents or U.S citizens, they were all still jailed for a few days, resulting, once again in unjust treatment of American citizens because of the color of their skin (The Reality of Racial Profiling).

The Houston Area Survey shows how the city of Houston has progressed over the span of thirty-five years into an immensely diverse city that the rest of America will come to look like in the future. The city has grown from being predominately Anglo to having a nice population balance between Anglos, Latinos, African Americans, and Asians. In terms of Latinos in Houston, the study places emphasis on the differences between the first generation who are foreign-born, second generation who were born in the United States with immigrant parents, and third-generation Latinos who were born in America with American parents. The study explores the differences between the generations on their socioeconomic status including education levels and

In my research of Austin, Texas I found out several interesting facts regarding the demographic makeup of the city. For example, the racial breakdown by race is whites 68%, blacks 8%, Hispanic are at 35% and foreign-born 18% The makeup is obviously different when you compare Austin to the US as a whole, however, it is interesting to see the “total picture”. The following is the breakdown for the US whites 72%, black 12.6%, Hispanic 17%, and foreign-born 13%.

In Southwest Philly, the numbers of Whites has tripped while the number of African- Americans has decreased from 7,793 to 3,450, which is a 46%

Research focusing on the calculation of racial disparities in police outcomes has generally examined police traffic stops and the follow up police activities, such as, citations, search and warnings. Review of these studies suggests that calculation methods of racial disparity vary from one study to another; however, majority of those studies employed population as a baseline measure or benchmarking variable (Withrow, 2002; Smith & Petrocelli, 2001; Withrow & Williams, 2015). Early studies using population as a baseline measure to compare disproportionate traffic stop counts found substantial racial disparities (Lamberth, 1996; Verniero & Zoubek, 1999). Studies later have begun to discuss that

The minimum qualifications include various aspects. Minimum age level is one of the main qualifications. Each department have their own set of rules and regulations but for the most part all departments have a standard age requirement which is no younger than 21 and no older than 35. Experts were not sure if 21 was a good age requirement because they could not tell whether one at such a young age could handle the task and whether if they were mature enough to do the job effectively and efficiently. It is not today in which many department put a age maximum but there are still a few, such as the New York Police Department, they do not allow anyone over the age of 35, for retirement

To begin, when it comes to officers pulling over victims, they pull over more black and Hispanic Americans than they do Caucasians.

On Friday May 6, 2016 from 4:00pm to 12:00 am, I experienced a ride along with Placer County Sheriff deputy Nate Ferguson. Deputy Ferguson has been with the Placer County Sheriff’s department for 1 ½ years. Prior to that, he served as a police officer for 9 years with Citrus Heights Police Department. Deputy Ferguson’s beat for the night was basically The Greens and the surrounding area of Auburn from Dry Creek to Atwood on Hwy 49. The Greens is composed of low income housing, where drugs, exgang members and domestic violence is ramped. Auburn is also home to many transients and those on probation or parole. When AB101 became effective, Placer County probation became inundated with inmates from all over, even as far as Soledad State Prison. For example, last night as we were driving around scanning the surrounding area on Hwy 49 and Bell road, we both noticed a guy walking, wearing a trench coat and looked suspicious, so we stopped, and as deputy Ferguson got out of the vehicle to approach him, the guy kept on walking, in which he was about 50 feet ahead of him. Ferguson then ran, yelling for him to stop, but when he finally caught up to the guy, he was wearing headphones and didn’t hear him yell stop. Deputy Ferguson ran his ID and it came back that the guy was on parole for being a sex offender and was just released from Soledad. I watched Deputy Ferguson search this guy, he went through all of his pockets and up and down his legs

In New York City’s police department report in December 1999, the stop and frisk practices showed to be greatly based on race. In NYC, blacks make up 25.6% of the city’s population, Hispanics 23.7% and whites are 43.4% of NYC population. However, according to the report, 50.6% of all persons stopped were black, 33% were Hispanic, and only 12.9% were white. As you can see, more than half of the individuals who were stopped were black, 62.7% to be exact (ACLU, 2013). In Orange County, California Latinos, Asians and African Americans were more than 90% of the 20,221 men and women in the Gang Reporting Evaluation and Tracking System (ACLU, 2013). Clearly this database record shows racial profiling occurred when the total population in the database made up less than half of Orange County’s population. This is when the California Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the ACLU stepped in. One other instance of racial profiling I’d like to discuss occurred in Maricopa County, Arizona. A court ruled in May 2013 that “sheriff Joe Arpaio’s routine handling of people of Latino descent amounted to racial and ethnic profiling”; according to CNN, the sheriff’s office had a history of targeting vehicles with those having darker skin, examining them more strictly and taking them into custody more often than others (CNN, 2014). Judge Murray Snow ordered a monitor to oversee retraining in this

The number of Hispanics has quickly surpassed that of African-Americans as the new, largest minority in the United States. The African-American population of the United States was approximately 34.7 million, or 12.3 percent of the total population. The Hispanic population has shown an increase of 57.9 percent from the Census of 1990. Due to the overwhelming increase in the Hispanic population and the diversity that has accompanied this increase, Census 2000 introduced for the first time an option for a Hispanic person to identify themselves as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Hispanic that could be written in an additional space. In the past, the option of writing in a description for "other Hispanic" was not available. This stands as an example of how diverse and rich the Hispanic culture is in itself. Out of the 35.3 million Hispanics identified, 58.5 percent were Mexican, followed by 28.4 percent other Hispanic (Spaniard, South American, Central American, Dominican, and all other), 9.6 percent Puerto Rican, and 3.5 percent Cuban. Of the statistics presented in Census 2000, the most astonishing and meaningful to education are those of population age. Census 2000 found that 35 percent of Hispanics were less than the age of 18 with an average age of about 26; 12 million of this number being school age Hispanics. Only 25.7 percent of the entire U.S.

The prevalence of the races in Dakota County follow close to the United States data in relation to the most dominant and least dominant races found. The only discrepancy that stands out, is the difference between the percentages of Caucasians in Dakota County and in the nation. This notable difference is due to the lack of Latinos/Hispanics and African Americans in Dakota County which is described by the table. With a less culturally diverse population, which appears to be filled with cultural capital, the digital divide may not be heavily influenced by the racial composition in Dakota

However, the events of the last few weeks paint a different story. In our society, it is common practice to profile, stop and frisk drivers and randomly (Epp & Maynard-Moody, 2013). For the good of the country, there is a greater opportunity to find guns, stolen merchandise, drugs, etc. when these stops occur. This appears to be great because everyone wants to themselves and their loved ones to be safe. Consequently, in the wage against drugs, racial minorities are stopped all over the country more than whites. For investigatory stops, people are normally stopped because of how they drive and if they are black. A “black man, who is age twenty-five or younger, has a 28 percent chance of being stopped for an investigatory reason over the course of a year; a similar young white man has a 12.5 percent chance, and a similar young white woman has only a 7 percent chance” (Epp and Maynard-Moody, 2013). The focus is on younger African-American males; because they are three to five times more subject to investigatory

Despite the media reports of racism in mostly white areas of Louisiana, Freudenburg et al. (2009) notes that hundreds of white