The Dangers Of Racial Profiling

(Hook)”It’s an experience that even Oprah Winfrey, Condoleezza Rice, and President Obama have each said they experienced(Bruinius 1).Racial profiling is “commonly defined as a practice that targets people for suspicion of crime based on their race, ethnicity, religion or national origin(“Racial Profiling”). Racial profiling causes many deaths each year and creates a huge amount of tension between colored communities and their law enforcement. An example would be of Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 where Michael Brown, who was an 18 year old African American, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, who was a 28 year old Ferguson police officer(“What happened in Ferguson”). There have been multiple riots since the incident in Ferguson and it shows that(Thesis) more needs to be done to
The government since the Ferguson incident has (S1)“ announced a $263 million program that will provide up to 50,000 body cameras for police. The video footage from these cameras could clarify disputed incidents like the deadly encounter”,(Landler 12), in Ferguson. The cameras given to police stations nationwide will help bring racial profiling to an end. Unfortunately, racial profiling is more widespread than just Ferguson, Missouri so many cities will not even receive cameras. The cameras that are sent out could possibly help prevent some of the other big racial profiling cases like the 2012 (S2)“shooting of Trayvon Martin” in Florida “or even the arrest of Henry louis Gates jr. in 2009… after the police thought he was breaking and entering into his own home”(Lander 6). Racial profiling is not only devastating on the families of the cases that make the national news headlines, but to all of the people who live it day by day and are lucky enough to see the next. Some of the racial profiling from law enforcement starts before families even enter the United States, it happens on our