The Argument Against Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling is the act of targeting a person specially based on their race. Racial profiling does not refer to the act of a law enforcement agent pursuing a suspect in which the specific description of the suspect includes race or ethnicity in combination with other identifying factors. One of the largest groups that are racially profiled are of the Arab heritage that live in the United States. This is because of the 2001 Terrorist Attack on the Twin towers in New York City on September 11.

The second largest group that is racially profiled are African American. Examples of this targeting are who authorities decide to pull over in traffic stops, this is referred to often as “driving while black or brown”. The theory of this states that if of African American decent you are more likely to be pulled over. Although "Driving While Black/Brown" traffic stops and searches are the form of racial profiling that has received the most media attention, profiling takes place off the roadways as well. Black and Latino pedestrians are regularly stopped and frisked without reasonable cause.
Even though the constitution has these safeguards in place Racial Profiling continues on because of loopholes and other ways that traffic officers are able to go around the topic. Only 29 of our 50 states have laws in legislation that abide by racial profiling. The Iron Triangle is a concept that declares that committees in the House and Senate, federal departments and agencies, and think tanks and interest groups all work together to develop and conserve their own power, and expand their political influence. This would mean that any race that is not at the forefront of this agency is