Racial Profiling: Useful or Harmful? When enforcers of the law go about their jobs they use many techniques to decrease their suspect pools‚ one of the most controversial techniques officers use is racial profiling. People believe racial profiling causes police distrust and at the same time encourages “fishing expeditions”. When should officers be allowed to use racial profiling‚ and when shouldn’t they? The most common use of racial profiling is in traffic stops‚ but this is one area racial profiling
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Racial profiling continues despite the fact that the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the people from unreasonable searches and seizures. The fourth amendment states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ shall not be violated‚ and no warrants shall issue‚ but upon probable cause‚ supported by oath and affirmation‚ and particularly describing the place to be searched‚ and the persons
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remember‚ racial profiling has been considers a major issue between enforcement and citizens in general. Racial profiling is the act of suspecting or targeting a person on the basis of an individual’s race‚ ethnicity‚ religion or national origin. Most often when people think about racial profiling‚ they think of police brutality‚ which is wrong. The idea of racial profiling should be acceptable as long as no one is being harmed and there is no racism involved. People are convinced that racial profiling
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problem manifests itself is the practice of racial profiling‚ which is “any arbitrary police-initiated action based on race‚ ethnicity‚ or natural origin rather than a person’s behavior.”1 In an attempt to fight the war on drugs‚ or‚ more recently‚ on terrorism‚ federal and local governments are searching for more effective policies‚ which can have unintended racial consequences. Racial profiling happens to be one of them. More specifically‚
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Stereotyping and discrimination based simply on a difference in race are two things that are continually discouraged yet continue even today in the most recent of times. Since the wake of September 11‚ racial profiling in airports has been heavily enforced in order to ensure the safety of Americans. In several instances‚ the stopping of virtually all Arab or "suspicious" peoples has proved to be advantageous in that those incriminated intended on causing harm to others. Furthermore‚ airport security
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Junyong Kim Professor Natalie Oliveri ENG 112 10/13/2010 Racial profiling Final draft “Should the U.S government use racial profiling in the war against terrorism?” In today’s society‚ the issue of terrorism is not just a concern for some countries such as America or some Arabic countries but for all countries‚ and it is becoming more important that protecting own country from terrorism. Everyone probably remember the September 11 terror‚ which is one of the biggest attacks in recent few
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Angela Feria Mrs. Wright English 10 29 April 2014 Racial Profiling Racial profiling is a law enforcement and security agency practice that encourages officers to stop‚ search and investigate based on race‚ ethnicity‚ nationality or religion. It is also a very harsh thing that people do daily even after all the turmoil caused by it. Racial profiling is a worsening cause that some people oppose and support effecting people mentally and emotionally. Everyone in the world judges people because of
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Racial Profiling In America Research Paper Benita F. Gooseberry Class: Economics & Social change Due date: December 13‚ 2014 Instructor: Dr. Alice Belcher‚ DD‚ MS‚ BS Racial Profiling In America Racial Profiling in America Today‚ the majority of the world’s population still leaves on less than 2 dollars a day despite the adoption of capitalism. The most critical issues that still exist are racism‚ unemployment‚ and poverty. According to Dowd (2000)‚ economics is not value-free. While capitalism
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Racial Profiling Literature Review Racial profiling occurs when race is used by law enforcement or private security officials‚ to any degree‚ as a basis for criminal suspicion in non-suspect specific investigations according to Goldberg (1999). With that said‚ discrimination based on race‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ nationality or on any other particular identity undermines the basic human rights and freedoms to which every person is entitled. Although there is no single‚ universally accepted definition
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afternoon Mr.Teo and judges. Today‚ i would like to talk about why racial profiling should be used by submitting a statistical case to prove that it should not be too quickly dismissed. Allow me to start with a question: “If a witness to a crime gave a policeman a description of a robber‚ the policeman would be doing a good job if he looked for suspects that matched the description. Why does the same not apply to other instances?” Racial profiling is based on reasoned assumptions that it is a certain
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