Argumentative Essay: Racial Profiling In The United States

There is a truth that nobody can deny: The United States of America is built by immigrants, and without immigrants, our nation would cease to exist. Our people come from all different continents: Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and America. We come together to build this fabulous country as the land of hope, liberty and equality. All of those values are stated in our Declaration of Independence, “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. In contrast, our government use racial profiling on us.

On the contrary, it is a waste of time. The law enforcements are more likely to miss the offenders, if they are focus on investigating suspects based on race. The reason is that the probability of committing crime of the whites is not lower than the minorities. As Herbert pointed out, “the practice of pulling over and harassing perfectly innocent black and Hispanic motorists on streets and highways in many parts of the country”, and, “two things characterize the New York City stops: ''Virtually everybody is innocent, and virtually everybody is not white.''”. If everybody that the police stop is innocent, then why do
If the police stop the ethnic minorities constantly, they will feel like they are being treated unfairly and harassed. As a result, police officers will have a hard time to work with minority communities because the residents have no trust in the police. This tend to create the misunderstanding between the minority and the police which will lead to many problematic issues. For example, the law-enforcement officers respond more violently toward blacks and Hispanic because those people are considered dangerous. For the past few years, there were myriad cases in which the police gun down unarmed suspects that were Hispanics or African