Stereotypes Of Common Person And Criminal Profiling In Law Enforcement

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.

Stereotyping is when a judgement is made on a group of people because of the actions of a few. Stereotyping happens because of misinformation and other people’s opinions.

Racial Profiling is a big problem is society. Over time you become biased of certain groups which is good and bad. Criminal profiling helps keep the bad guys off the streets. This maybe be also linked with being racist according to the people stopped by police. As a police officer you never win because no one wants to go to jail. It is very hard to

Elephants are gray, but not all gray things are elephants. Racial profiling would say that all Muslims are Al-Qaeda, because Al-Qaeda members are Muslim. This is a clear example of stereotyping. When assumptions are based upon stereotypes they run a large risk of being entirely wrong, and racial profiling relies on stereotypes.

Criminal profiling has been around since the 1880’s, and up to this day, that method still has not had a great success rate. Also, racial profiling has not had a great success rate either through the years. At times, innocent people get detained and charged with crimes that they never committed due to matching the characteristics of other suspects. In other words, creating assumptions that will narrow down a suspect is just not the best method to utilize, especially when an innocent individual might be at risk of being incarcerated.

Racial profiling is a popular method used by law officers in order to hypothetically enhance crime prevention by targeting minorities, because they are more likely to commit a crime. According to Wikipedia, racial profiling is defined as: the inclusion of race in the profile of a person considered likely to commit a particular crime or type of crime. In other words, it is targeting specific ethnic groups because they are more likely to commit certain crimes. Racial profiling is a flagrant form of racism. According to Dictionary.com, racism is defined as hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be confused with stereotyping, because they are two different things even if racial profiling is heavily

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.

For decades, Americans have been associating young black men with stereotypes that affiliate them with violence. These stereotypes, which are based purely off of appearances, have caused many young black males to face violent, unnecessary, as well as unjust encounters with white police officers. As the number of deaths among young black men increase because of police brutality, society should change how they perceive these men in order to prevent inflicting more harm to them. Specific cases, such as the cases of Freddie Gray, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, and several others, will be presented in order to display how the distortion of the stereotypes can cause incredible harm to young black men due to police violence in addition to how stereotypes affect society’s perception of all young black men.

Racial profiling is when a law enforcement official believes someone committed an offense based that person’s ethnicity or race; this is usually common with racial minorities, particularly with the African American communities throughout America.

UNITED STATES --- Being lucky enough to have many friends and family living in different cities around the United States, I had the chance to travel to these many cities for long periods at a time. As I grew older, I began to notice a correlation between all these different cities, from Los Angeles to Dallas to Chicago.

Many People presume racial profiling is a recent phenomenon that occurred in the 80s as the news about African Americans being pulled over for “driving while black” made national headlines. “Racial Profiling,” however, has endured in various forms for decades in black communities from the slave trade, Jim Crow laws and in its most recent form as discriminatory conduct from Police Department personnel to the Criminal Justice System. Three Hundred years of unfair racialized practices that date back to the 1700s in the United States for people of African descent (1).

In any cases the police were not the only section of the law that showed discriminatory actions, America’s court of law also tends to show acts of racial profiling, past and present. A study about the American court showed that for the same crime black defendants are given longer sentences than whites(Staples n.pag.). Explaining further the court of law assumes that black men will be more dangerous but also that a race is more likely to revert back to their old ways. A black man with the last name of foster was sentenced to court where the jury was all white. The Supreme Court later discovered that the prosecutors had kept black jurors from being in the jury meaning that Foster was given an unfair trial due to his race by the American court

Many People assume Racial Profiling started in the 1980s, as the news of Blacks being pulled over for “driving while black” was broadcast on televisions airways nationwide. Racial profiling is an new term based on very old forms of racialized actions against Blacks, as profiling can be traced back some 300 years. Racial Profiling is not premised on recent but decades old practices of discriminatory conduct by common citizen’s, police and the criminal justice system that dates back to the 1700s in the United States for African Americans.

On December 1, 1955 a black seamstress, after a long and exhausting day at work, got onto a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama and sat in the back where the blacks were portioned off. A few stops following, a flock of white people boarded. They seized all the remaining seats in the front, except for one white man who was forced to stand as the seats were filled up. The bus driver ordered the four black people in the rear end of the bus to give up their seats to the white man.Three of the four stood up hesitantly. Rosa Parks, the work-weary black seamstress did not. She was arrested later that evening. She was angry at the hate and disrespect towards blacks and minorities. She had enough of the way the world has treated them and she knew that

The role that social stigma plays on police ethics is it hold law enforcement to a standard that is expected of them by society. For example, society expects that law enforcement will enforce law equally and fairly across the board without any bias or discrimination. With these expectation the departments set rule and regulation requiring the men and women to not only know these rules, but to also live by them. The social stigma during the civil rights movement displayed a variety of situations where law enforcement constantly violated the rights of civil rights activist. For example, on March 7, 1965 a day known as bloody Sunday, then sheriff Jim Clark Selma, Alabama ordered his officers to prevent the civil rights activist from crossing the