Negative Aspects Of Racial Profiling

In the Justice System there are a lot of flaws that affect many people of color, and from past history, it has shown how these practices can lead to very unfortunate events, one of these practices is racial profiling. Racial profiling is when law enforcement uses race and ethnicity as grounds to determine if someone, typically of color, is guilty of doing something illegal. Racial profiling is a major problem in this country, this as well affects many citizens that are mainly of color because law enforcement usually sees them as targets, and it is important to improve and fixed this issue because there are many tragic incidents that have been caused of racial profiling.

Have you ever been racially profiled while driving, shopping or while just walking in a particular neighborhood? Personally I have never been a victim of racial profiling, but I will be 16-years old this summer and able to drive to school, to a friends house or to shop at the mall. I realize that it is a possibility that I could be racially profiled at some point. There have been recent incidents that made racial profiling a very controversial issue. On February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, 17-year old African-American high school student walked through a gated community and was fatally shot after an altercation. Trayvon Martin’s parents strongly believed he was racially profiled, as stated in a news article

“In 2005, a study analyzing data accumulated statewide in Texas reveals disproportionate traffic ceases and searches of African Americans and Hispanics, even though law enforcement authorities were more liable to find contraband on Whites.” (The Reality of Racial Profiling) The utilization of personal characteristics or comportment patterns to make generalizations about a person is called racial profiling. Throughout time, the utilization of race by law enforcement agencies in their policing activities has received considerable attention across the nation. The 4th amendment right that one has as an American, which is protecting against unreasonable search and seizure, is becoming contravened; one reason for the way one looks. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that racial profiling violates the constitutional requirement that all persons be accorded equal protection of the law, but it is still occurring in our society. Racial Profiling has caused the violation of our rights whether it maybe from a terry stop that was originated for the case Terry vs. Ohio, stop and frisk, racial vehicle stops, and the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act also known as Arizona SB 1070.

An article written by the Toronto Star outlined the statistics behind just how common racial profiling is. The article was very alarming, especially because Toronto is an acclaimed to be on of the most multicultural cities in North America. According to the article, “blacks…are stopped and documented 2.5 times more than white males the same age [in Toronto].” This statistic alone is enough proof to state that racial profiling is still a very common practice amongst law enforcement today. The article later went on to talk about how this practice is slowly destroying a part of society. “The collateral damage [as a result of racial profiling] is law-abiding civilians who feel they are being treated unfairly because they are black [who feel they

My major is criminal justice with a minor in business management. As we see every single day, we have a problem in our justice system with racial profiling. Racial profiling is defined as targeting or stopping an individual based on his or her race without suspicion of a crime. On one hand, we have people who are completely against racial profiling. On the other hand, some believe that there is no problem with racial profiling. I am very interested in finding out both sides of this argument. What are the rights and wrongs of racial profiling? I chose Jeffrey Toobin’s (2013) blog post "Rights and Wrongs” from Conde Nast Publications, a magazine article, and compared it to Patricia Y. Warren and Amy Farrell’s (2009) article “The Context of Racial Profiling”. Warren and Farrell’s article was published in the peer-reviewed journal: The

Over the past three years there has been cases of unarmed people in the United States being killed by police. Cases have been reported from Ohio and Missouri. These cases all seem to stem from police harming or even killing unarmed citizens of African descent. Marches, memorials, rallies and protests resulted after these incidents. Racial profiling is not what police officers are trained to do. They are citizens of the community that are trained to protect the community and not to stereotype individuals due to the color of skin and nationality.

Racial profiling has gotten worse over the last decade. The issue of racial profiling has been one of the most important, if not the most important issue for a number of years throughout the U.S. Racial profiling has spread throughout the U.S. fast and it is still spreading as we speak. Evidence shows that African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be stopped and searched by police, even though they are less likely to be found possessing contraband or committing a criminal act(Natarajan). The police’s use of excessive force is a national and systematic problem. They need to put all of the officers into a class which shows them that racial profiling is bad, considering how often it happens and how worse its getting. Racial profiling

Data collected In our society states racial profiling has been a social issue and the legal question at matter since the dawn of time. The existence and pre- existence of racial profiling dates back to the times of slavery . In 1693, the main state of law was Philadelphia. Philadelphia’s main and important people of the town where the court officials back then. They came to a conclusion; and agreed upon giving police legal authority to stop and detain any Negro (freed or enslaved) seen wandering in and around on the streets. This discriminatory, unlawful, and downright wrong practice continued through the Jim Crow era and has now taken an effect in the twenty-first century. That from the viewpoint of the pro side that they can still do this

Some say that racial profiling is a tactic that is very much needed to help officers with investigations. Racial profiling is actually unconstitutional because the fourth amendment prohibits unreasonable searches. The fourth amendment also sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause. The court case United States v. Brignoni-Ponce confronted the issue of race as being a factor to the suspicion of criminal activity. The officer that stopped the respondent's car said it was “ the apparent Mexican ancestry of the occupants.” This belief that the occupants were illegal immigrants did not satisfy the court and they ruled the case as violating the fourth amendment.

Racial profiling is the most arrogant thing you can ever do as a man. Normally the individuals who are influenced by racial profiling are minorities, but any individual can be a victim of racial profiling. Some may feel that racial profiling is non-existent; however, it is still in presence and has been seen in the past and now in the present year. Although more than fifty percent of the time racial profiling is led against a man or a woman of color; an African-American to be specific. There are examples where a white individual can be a casualty also. Trying to say that there isn't any individual out there that is excluded from racial profiling, because there isn't an individual who is simply free from this cruel strategy for choice making.

The purpose of the paper is to identify, how racial profiling is not a legitimate tool for law enforcement agencies. The definition of the racial profiling is the consideration of race, ethnicity, or national origin by an officer of the law in deciding when and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity (Racial Profiling, 2008). The practice of racial profiling is illegal. Racial profiling violates the fourth and fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The fourth amendment indicates [it goes against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched,

“Every minority male in this country who drives a vehicle, or has traveled by bus or plane, either knowingly or unknowingly has been the victim of racial profiling by law enforcement officials” (Wheatherspoon 1). In this case, an African Americans or Hispanics freedom, safety, and possibly even life are on the line because some cop thinks because of the color of that person’s skin they are a criminal. In addition, the fact that hundreds, thousands millions of innocent African-American or Hispanic are stopped, frisked, punished or even killed because of their skin is the most utterly disturbing thought that should be going through anybodies head. Likewise, racial profiling is thought to be

I hope these words and this moment of truth can serve as some extra motivation to you… That is a quote(tweet) by Kanye West. That tweet serves for what I mean I hope these truths I serve as motivation for this issue to be resolved and that issue is racial profiling and how it shouldn’t be implied in law enforcement or security.

In America we are very diverse nation but some still have problems with other races. In the 2010 Census it stated we have seventy-two percent of America is white alone and three percent of America considered themselves white and a different race. (Census, 2010) That means that twenty-five percent of America is another race besides white. When the English came over to America they believed that they were the superior people and those other races besides white were under them. Overtime we have changed our views of race but there are still people that are stuck in their ways. Some people may not say they are racist but may see another race and act differently. In policing we call it racial profiling. Racial profiling

The article is about a Honduran girl named Aleichia Williams, and she talks about having a “race crisis” when she had moved from New York City to North Carolina. (Huffington Post, Aleichia Williams) While she was in middle school, she was made aware for the first time of racial profiling based on first impressions. With racial profiling, people can also make stereotypical inferences of what a specific race likes when it comes to food, music, etc. Since people can occasionally label someone from first glance of what race they think certain people are; it can be seen as labeling someone based on the color of their skin.