Racial Profiling Is Unnecessary in Law Enforcement

DWB is a familiar term among most of American, which is an abbreviative form of “driving while black”. This phrase implies that a motorist might be pulled over by a police officer because that person is black, and he or she will be questioned or charged with a trivial offense. The place could be either on highway or white community. This term refers to racial profiling, which defined as the policy or practice using race or national origin to find suspicion by law enforcement officials (ACLU). For example, African Americans are easily pulled over on highway because they are judged by hiding drugs in the car potentially, even though they are asked for consent to search the vehicle. Racial profiling occurs at US port entry commonly and especially targeted on Arab ancestry because they fit the profile of a terrorist. Racial profiling is any use of race, skin color by law enforcement agents as a guideline to search suspects in order to protect nation safety. However, in use of racial profiling in law enforcement is unfair and disrespectful to minorities, ineffective to search criminals, and waste police sources increasing social cost.
Racial profiling practice affected thousand of minorities in many situation, and this practice was seen as demolish to civil liberty and discriminate to minorities. Meanwhile, it brought lots of negative impact to victims. “With supporters of racial profiling asserting the rights of community over those of individual (Kennedy)”, which means that sacrificing minorities rights by implement of racial profiling is worth to protect national security. By contrast, the United States as a country who is parading democracy, freedom, and equality, but the minorities who suffer inequality treat by racial profiling didn’t get equal protection. According to AIUSA (Amnesty International USA), lots of victims have long-lasting impact of excessive force incidents of racial profiling, so the victims and the people involved in this incident usually have

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