Todd Brouse
4/9/14
Police and Society
Gutierrez
Since before the official establishment of the United States, discrimination and segregation among whites and other ethnicities had already been in practice among people all over the world, bringing us to a surging problem in today’s society of profiling in our criminal justice system. Many might question how a problem like racism and profiling can occur in a system of those who set and follow the standards of what is supposed to be right and what is wrong. Acts of racism might not seem possible in such a group especially after everything our nation has been through to prevent racism; a war, tiresome and sometimes violent pushes …show more content…
Police majority of the time are just doing their jobs in abiding the laws of the land. The real racism that is levied upon minorities takes place in the courtroom in such ways like, unequal selection of biased jury members in certain cases and the high percentage of white male judges who have the ability to interpret and carry out the law how they see …show more content…
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