Essay On Racial Profiling
Racial Profiling Cause and Effect
Madeline Patterson
National American University
Abstract
Racial profiling is considered by many to be one of the largest problems in our community and one of the biggest civil rights issues to date. Racial profiling is commonly defined as; the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone to have or will commit an offense. Racial Profiling doesn’t only affect us living in the United States but also racism, racial profiling, stretches broadly over the entire nations. Black males have a higher probability of lifetime arrest compared to the low probability for white males. You might be lead to ponder, are black males doing more crimes, or if they are just targeted more? It may …show more content…
At some point in our lives we have been affected by racial profiling directly or indirectly. Racial profiling, discrimination and racism doesn’t only effect Blacks but effects all minority groups of people. (Bou-habib, 2011) Racial profiling might be more problematic when there is background injustice because it might cause harm by virtue of “expressing” that injustice (Bou-habib, 2011).
Literature Review
(Staff, P. 2015) gives a timeline of when Racism became a major issue throughout different countries. In America it started around the colonial times when the Spanish brought slaves with them to their colony in Florida (Staff, P. 2015). This timeline represents the past and present struggles of racial profiling of Blacks, Latinos, Native American and Jewish people. Racism happens to all races, not only those plastered all over the media.
(Weitzer, R. 2000) surveys 3 neighborhoods in the Washington DC area that are examined. A middle-class white community, a middle-class black community, and a lower-class black community (Weitzer, R. 2000). The results from these examinations will better give us and understanding of why certain communities are targeted by officer’s racial biases. People in lower-class communities perceive themselves as always the victims in racial profiling however; never the
Madeline Patterson
National American University
Abstract
Racial profiling is considered by many to be one of the largest problems in our community and one of the biggest civil rights issues to date. Racial profiling is commonly defined as; the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone to have or will commit an offense. Racial Profiling doesn’t only affect us living in the United States but also racism, racial profiling, stretches broadly over the entire nations. Black males have a higher probability of lifetime arrest compared to the low probability for white males. You might be lead to ponder, are black males doing more crimes, or if they are just targeted more? It may …show more content…
At some point in our lives we have been affected by racial profiling directly or indirectly. Racial profiling, discrimination and racism doesn’t only effect Blacks but effects all minority groups of people. (Bou-habib, 2011) Racial profiling might be more problematic when there is background injustice because it might cause harm by virtue of “expressing” that injustice (Bou-habib, 2011).
Literature Review
(Staff, P. 2015) gives a timeline of when Racism became a major issue throughout different countries. In America it started around the colonial times when the Spanish brought slaves with them to their colony in Florida (Staff, P. 2015). This timeline represents the past and present struggles of racial profiling of Blacks, Latinos, Native American and Jewish people. Racism happens to all races, not only those plastered all over the media.
(Weitzer, R. 2000) surveys 3 neighborhoods in the Washington DC area that are examined. A middle-class white community, a middle-class black community, and a lower-class black community (Weitzer, R. 2000). The results from these examinations will better give us and understanding of why certain communities are targeted by officer’s racial biases. People in lower-class communities perceive themselves as always the victims in racial profiling however; never the