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    to racial profiling‚ which defined as the policy or practice using race or national origin to find suspicion by law enforcement officials (ACLU). For example‚ African Americans are easily pulled over on highway because they are judged by hiding drugs in the car potentially‚ even though they are asked for consent to search the vehicle. Racial profiling occurs at US port entry commonly and especially targeted on Arab ancestry because they fit the profile of a terrorist. Racial profiling is any use

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    Professor Kerley Govt. 2305 23 November 2013 Racial Profiling In the United States‚ ‘The land of the Free’‚ racial profiling of minority groups seems all too common. Many Americans believe that law enforcement as well as many other people often discriminates on minority groups simply because of their color of their skin. Civil rights activist and many leaders of minority groups are pressuring Enforcement agencies to eliminate racial and ethnic profiling during traffic stops and supposed random pedestrian

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    everyday and is an example of racial profiling. Racial profiling is defined as the targeting of particular individuals by law enforcement based on personal characteristics‚ like race‚ religion‚ or ethnicity (“Reality of Racial

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    Smuggling is defined as a verb‚ “to import or export (goods) secretly‚ in violation of the law‚ especially without payment of legal duty.” (2015). Smuggling is any item that a person could think of to include animals‚ plants‚ humans‚ and illegal contraband. Smuggling could also include legal items‚ but when the items are smuggled‚ the smuggler will not have to pay the importation taxes on the items. This is why some things could be smuggled or because the items are illegal‚ like drugs or weapons

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    Police now a day are always trying to use more authority than they actually think they have because most people don’t know their rights. Cops will try to use what they can to arrest you for lying to them‚ and will threaten you. Being under arrest and being detained are two different things when being stopped. If you know your rights‚ just cooperate with the police officer‚ and if you’re not in any wrongdoing there should be no problems with you leaving the scene in no harm or handcuffs. At what

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    Racial profiling is the inclusion of racial or ethnic characteristics in determining whether a person is considered likely to commit a particular type of crime or an illegal act. There used to be a time when color did matter‚ it was the way people of the time identified each other. Abraham Lincoln sought out to change everyone’s perception; giving the blacks the same freedom as his white brother in. little did people realize that the progressive society would retain some of the old mental shackles

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    two police officers for no reason and left in a barren filed outside of the city‚ two of them‚ Rodney Naistus and Lawrence Wegner did not make it. ‚ As far as I am concerned‚ this case was an epitome of racial profiling against Aboriginal group in Canadian justice system. The racial profiling against aboriginal people existed in justice system for a long time and is hard to get rid of for many reasons. For the historical reason‚ First nation people seldom get involved in the white-dominated

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    ABSTRACT Through the years‚ the term web-based recordkeeping has blown up to encompass many aspect of recording the file of every resident‚ thus‚ the term become more recognizable. A general term that describes recordkeeping system is that collects‚ organizes‚ and categorizes records‚ facilitating their preservation‚ retrieval‚ use‚ and disposition. Software is developed to reduce the time consumed in a particular task to be accomplished with a high standard and accurate output or results. Web

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    Racial Profiling is Morally wrong Some people are not aware of the racial profiling that still exists in America‚ and if they are they make no effort of talking about it. Police prejudice and racial profiling is responsible for many false arrests‚ convictions and deaths of African Americans. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone to have committed an offense. This has been an ongoing problem that African Americans have been dealing with for more than

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    Criminal Procedure Policy Savannah Slorp CJA/353 August 23‚ 2010 Mr. Krauser Abstract Criminal procedures are safeguards against the indiscriminate application of criminal laws and the wanton treatment of suspected criminals. Specifically‚ they are designed to enforce the constitutional rights of criminal suspects and defendants‚ beginning with initial police contact and continuing through arrest‚ investigation‚ trial‚ sentencing‚ and appeals. The main constitutional provisions regarding

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