The Role Of Racial Profiling In Urban Crimes

African Americans and Latino Americans have always been presumed as criminals or bad guys to police officers. This is due to how rap artists portray minorities in urban neighborhoods and how society itself looks at them. They are often suspects of racial profiling while shopping. For example, an African American college student was stopped in New York City by two white police officers after they suspected him from stealing from a Barneys store. Barneys is a well-known expensive department store. The police officer reportedly told the student that he didn't look like he could afford anything from Barney, so the police assumed he had stolen. The officers also reported that Barneys said that the student had maybe been a suspect of credit card fraud.
The charges were then dropped when all the information about him stealing turned out to be false (Winsor). However, not all racial profiling cases turn out like this, other cases sometimes end lethal. Due to racial profiling and police brutality by the police, there has been a negative impact on Latino and African Americans in urban neighborhoods. When growing up in an urban neighborhood, people are raised with the sense that police officers are bad guys and are often out to hurt or steal from them. No one really knows what started this stigma but it has remained throughout many years. Those people are often minorities and they strongly believe in