Told That He Or She Has The Right To Remain Silent? “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney‚ one will be provided for you” (US Constitution Online. Steve Mount. May 10 2008). Do you recognize this as your Miranda Rights? These rights are based on the US Supreme Court’s historic Miranda vs. Arizona case and are your Constitutional rights as an accused person prior
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Landmark Racial Profiling Cases Erika J. Shorter University of Maryland University College CJMS 650 9040 Cole and Smith (2007) define racial profiling as‚ “the use of race and ethnicity as clues to criminality.” This term is commonly used to refer to police or other law enforcement officials singling out a person or group of people as “potential suspects” because of their race or ethnicity (p.98). Terry v. Ohio On October 31‚ 1963‚ while on a downtown beat which he had patrolled many times
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Racial Profiling or Military Necessity? “Yesterday‚ December 7th‚ 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan” -Franklin D Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation On December 7th‚ 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor‚ kicking off the fight for WWII. Yet while Military forces of Japan and the United States fought in the Pacific‚ there was a fight happening on the U.S. Pacific
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M‚ W‚ F 4 November 2012 Stereotyping using Racial Profiling As a society‚ people play into the looks‚ culture‚ and beliefs of a person and within minutes people make an assumption of who they are. Society takes one look at a person and based on their race‚ instantly draw a conclusion upon them without even asking them their name. Stereotyping has been around for centuries; the most commonly used stereotypes involve race. People use racial stereotyping based on what society deems that race
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that there’s a lot of racial profiling that happens in the police department but there’s even one criminal profiling. In my opinion I think they come hand-in-hand because when you look at somebody only are you touching them by their appearance you’re also taking them by the way they carry themselves. For example‚ if you grow up in a particular neighborhood where everyone’s always yelling and fighting then people are going to think you were like that as well. All because you grew up in that neighborhood
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Racial Profiling and Male African Americans Racial profiling has been and will continue to be a problem in the United States. Many believe that racial profiling is more prevalent in today’s society; however‚ this issue has been a part of our society since slavery. Moreover‚ African American males are mostly the targets of racial profiling‚ especially in larger cities like New York City and Los Angeles. Racial profiling is becoming a huge problem within the police departments. Police officers are
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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.
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the climax of the anger African-Americans have toward America and its law regarding the lives of young black men and women. If one thinks
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The topic that I chose to research and discuss was racial profiling. I felt that it was an appropriate topic because as an African American looking for a career in law enforcement I’m going to encounter these types of situations every day. In my in the following pages I hope to show you how law enforcement officer can either use this to as a positive tool or will it be a mean of abuse and racism. I will give you some history on where racial profiling was developed. Going through the “crack” era of New
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Name] [Professor ’s Name] [Subject Code and Title] [Date] Is Racial Profiling an Effective Counter Terrorism Measure? The September 11 terror attack on the American soil was followed by a successive wave of events that were aimed at countering terrorism. As the global engagement on terrorism intensified‚ racial profiling became more pronounced along the corridors of counter-terrorism. Conversely‚ the employment of racial profiling as an instrument for detecting terror suspects and countering terrorism
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