Racial Profiling

Racial profiling has been an issue in American society for decades. For, example 1704 the Carolinas created a slave patrol that policed Black people so runaway slaves would be returned to plantation owners. All black people

Racial Profiling is unconstitutional and illegal, yet it’s still used in law enforcement. The practice of racial profiling, as defined by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), refers to the “discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin”(ACLU 2005). Racial profiling causes more harm than good, it can cause emotional, mental and more often physical harm to the person being subjected to the practice. According to the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments, racial profiling is unconstitutional. It causes distrust in law enforcement because ethnic

Racial profiling is a discriminatory practice where individuals are being targeted by law enforcement based on their race or ethnic background instead of crime suspicion. Racial profiling dates back to the 1700s -- the slavery era. African Americans who were free had to prove it with documents and papers called “freedom papers”; whether they were free did not matter, as they were continually subject to racial profiling. Specifically, in South Carolina, there were slave patrols who hunted for slaves and labeled them as being “runaways” simply because of their skin color -- these groups tortured and abused any slaves who attempted to escape. The extreme levels of racial profiling has changed over the years, but it is still significantly apparent in today’s society. African Americans are being pulled over and stopped since the color of their skin is yet being associated with criminality and wrongdoing. African Americans aren’t the only victims of racial profiling; Muslims are being labeled as terrorists and Latinos as illegal immigrants. Although some may argue that racial profiling helps law enforcement by narrowing their search for criminals on a particular group, it should not be accepted as a law enforcement practice because it is a violation of both the 4th amendment and the equal protection clause under the 14th amendment, making it completely illegal.

Racial profiling is out of control in the United States! Laws have been passed to ensure the equality of everyone in this country, but yet we are still seeing discrimination and racial profiling. Racial profiling is where government officials make decisions basked on your ethnicity and not your action. Legislation, Bureaucracy and Interest groups make up the Iron triangle; witch makes laws to protect the people from things such as racial profiling.

Racial Profiling compromises the very fabric that America is built on. With Constitutional laws that protect us as American citizens from any mistreatment or discrimination, Racial Profiling is still being practiced , and it violates our human rights, and causes distrust in the very police officers that are in charge of keeping our communities safe, and disbelief in the Constitution that should afford all American citizens equal rights.

Racial profiling is a huge problem in America today, but in the past it was worse and the internment camps prove so. We have experienced many incidents where someone has been falsely accused of accusations based on race and the outcome was not pleasant. The fact of the matter is that racial profiling is a form of racial prejudice and leads to racially charged hate crimes.The prime example of racial profiling is like the article on the Muslim-American doctor who was picked out of an airplane based on suspicions from other individuals despite the fact that he was as westernized as possible by speaking English and

Since the birth of our nation, racial profiling has been an issue longstanding and troubling among minority groups and still continues to exhibit severe consequences in communities.

As stated above racial profiling has been around for quite some time. One example of racial profiling from history is one by the Spaniards. King Charles I came to the new land recently conquered by the Spain. He and his ambassadors wrote a Requirement that all Native Americans must submit to spanish authority and have to either convert to Roman Catholic Church or be persecuted. The document written by the Spaniards showed that even if you weren’t a native american or even looked like one of them, look alikes could face the same charges and consequences as the native americans. Not only did profiling happen back then but also recently. A modern day example of racial

Everywhere people go whether they know it or not, racial profiling is a part of everyone's lives. Everyday someone somewhere is being a victim to racial profiling. Racial profiling is seen as negative by many, but not in every situation it is bad, but racial profiling is acceptable and useful. When police get radioed in about a crime scene most of the time or all the time the eyewitnesses and the first-hand victims are using race, or ethnic profiling, and other distinctive features to describe the people we are trying to find. When police and the authority are using racial profiling they are doing their job and can save multiple lives.

Racial profiling still exists in America. "Racial profiling" refers to law enforcement strategies and practices that single out individuals as objects of suspicion solely on the basis of mainly their race. Prejudice and racial profiling of law enforcement is responsible for many false arrests, convictions, and countless deaths of blacks in the United States. This is one of the main difficulties of life and obstacles minorities have to face in their life because for one they are a minority and two because of their skin color. Police racial profiling is an ongoing problem that blacks in America have been facing with for over thousands of years dating back to before Blacks got their freedom. With the recent acts that are happenings in Ferguson and Eric Garner, to what happened to Rodney King, I believe it is only right to discuss the history of prejudice and racial profiling and how it relates to the discriminatory acts of police and judicial system towards blacks in the United States. Most importantly, I will discuss how America can help make a change of action to put an end to the Police racial profiling and brutality that still exists in this nation.

Does racial profiling exist here in the United States? The answer to that question is yes. First of all what is racial profiling? Racial profiling is an illegal method the police you to top a person or person on the bases of their race. Racial profiling happen to blacks and Hispanics more then it does to the Caucasians.

Racism exists in our American justice system… many years later. Many assume that racial profiling is a problem that just arose recently, due to multiple infamous incidents where “justice” was served to innocent victims. Most people have this assumption because the extremes of racial profiling has been making national headlines. When in fact racial profiling has been around and in use since the 1700s. By definition racial profiling is the use of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or national origin by law enforcement agents as a factor in deciding whom to investigate, arrest or detain absent evidence of a specific crime or criminal behavior. In other terms it is using racism and stereotypes to assume the worst of people. Racial profiling is executed by law enforcements by multiple tactics, such as a stop and frisk , vehicle or bag search search, a pat down, etc based on the police having a reasonable suspicion that the individual is going to commit or has already committed a crime whether it is a felony or misdemeanor. Racial profiling has destroyed our trust in police officers due to the fact that the law enforcements can use this to their advantage by using discrimination to interrogate citizens or immigrants, whom are by a large percentage African American or a minority. According to the U.S Bureau of Justice Statistics, African American males have a one-in-three chance of going to jail in their lifetime, a rate more than six times higher than whites (Knafo,2013). This statistic however is not based on crime rates yet based on illegal drug offenses. Although most african americans are incarcerated due to drug crimes it is a proven statistic that African Americans are ten times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than the rate of white men.

Racial profiling has been in the news a lot lately with the deaths of black people such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner, both of whose deaths lead to public outroar, protests, and violent riots. Because of these and other deaths, people are beginning to open their eyes on the long standing issue. One of the first times that racial profiling was recognized as a problem was in the 1990’s with the beating of Rodney King. People were so upset when the officers were acquitted of their heinous crime that they started the most expensive riot in U.S. history, totaling over one billion dollars in damages.

Racial discrimination as gone on for decades in many diverse ways. One sole practice is through racial profiling. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. And law enforcement has been using it consciously and unconsciously for several years. Racial profiling is untrustworthy because it discriminates people of the minority, especially African Americans.

Racial profiling has become a severe obstacle in the U.S. today though most Americans know very little of this vital issue. Every day, people are being pulled over, harassed, and even killed for being of a certain race. There are new laws that politicians are trying to pass that promote racial discrimination. Racial profiling is immoral and does not increase public safety.