Racial Profiling Research Paper
Racial Profiling is an issue in not just the United States, but all over the world. People are being discriminated for their race, religion, ethnicity, and many more. This is very prominent when it comes to the police and security. The police are using these reasons to harm people of race and there is no reason why the security force should use racial profiling as a way to crack down on crimes and terrorism. It is a violation of civil rights and liberties. The statistics say it all. According to the USA Today the arrests of black people are three times as many as any other color or race. This means that black people are being convicted of things like speeding on the intersection and getting arrested or shot for it. A case of racial
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The first and probably most significant death is the death of Freddie Gray. Freddie was pulled over for presumably possessing an illegal switchblade under the Seattle law. After this he was loaded into a police van with his hands bound behind his back and not secured with a seatbelt. During the ride to the police station Gray, unable to control where he was going hit his head on the metal wall of the police van. From that hit he slipped into a coma. Once at the station he died of his injuries. Another incident of racial profiling leading to death is the case of Michael Brown. Mr. Brown was stopped by a police officer for walking in the middle of the street. His punishment according to The Huffington Post was, “6 to 8 times in the head and chest and died of his wounds on that Ferguson street,” Michael Brown of course, was unarmed. These deaths -just to name a few- are prime examples of how racial profiling is impacting the United States.
Racial profiling is destroying the U.S. because in every single one of the cases about this profiling no justice is served; none. After both of the unarmed men were shot or brutalized, Freddie Gray and Michael Brown, none of the police officers were convicted of murder. The six officers in the case of Freddie Gray were either acquitted or not guilty. The officer in the case of Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, was found not guilty. The continuous theme of officers killing unarmed black men and pleading not guilty is a process that needs to be stopped
The first and probably most significant death is the death of Freddie Gray. Freddie was pulled over for presumably possessing an illegal switchblade under the Seattle law. After this he was loaded into a police van with his hands bound behind his back and not secured with a seatbelt. During the ride to the police station Gray, unable to control where he was going hit his head on the metal wall of the police van. From that hit he slipped into a coma. Once at the station he died of his injuries. Another incident of racial profiling leading to death is the case of Michael Brown. Mr. Brown was stopped by a police officer for walking in the middle of the street. His punishment according to The Huffington Post was, “6 to 8 times in the head and chest and died of his wounds on that Ferguson street,” Michael Brown of course, was unarmed. These deaths -just to name a few- are prime examples of how racial profiling is impacting the United States.
Racial profiling is destroying the U.S. because in every single one of the cases about this profiling no justice is served; none. After both of the unarmed men were shot or brutalized, Freddie Gray and Michael Brown, none of the police officers were convicted of murder. The six officers in the case of Freddie Gray were either acquitted or not guilty. The officer in the case of Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, was found not guilty. The continuous theme of officers killing unarmed black men and pleading not guilty is a process that needs to be stopped