What is racial profiling? According the Office of the Arizona Attorney General it is defined as the "Use by law enforcement personnel of an individual's race or ethnicity as a factor in articulating reasonable suspicion to stop, question or arrest an individual, unless race or ethnicity is part of an identifying description of a specific suspect for a specific crime."
Some people claim that racial profiling is something that will always happen. Some people in the realm of law enforcement argue that the practice is necessary and effective. They believe that due to demographic and socio-economic factors and their relation to crime, those in a large minority population have a higher risk of participating in criminal activities. They argue that ignoring the facts due to moral integrity is professionally and morally wrong. If law enforcement officers are to identify and take action against violators, any information to assist them in being more effective is crucial. Critics of racial profiling argue that individual rights are violated when this practice is utilized. Civil liberties organizations intimate that this type of profiling is in fact a form of discrimination and undermines basic human rights and freedoms. Researchers are interested in collecting data and analyzing trends to see how this information corresponds to perceptions of racial profiling and the effects it has on ethnic groups.
However racial profiling is ILLEGAL....
In 2001, former President George W. Bush addressed a Joint Session of Congress and declared that racial profiling was wrong and that America was going to end it. He went on to comment that the nation's police officers need the support of the American people, and due to the abuses of a few, they were hindered in doing their jobs properly. Rather than being racially profiled, law enforcement was being pigeon holed, although it could be said they were experiencing a similar situation to that of those individuals who were racially profiled. A year later, Attorney General John Ashcroft shared President Bush's sentiment and stated that using race as an indicator of potential criminal behavior was unconstitutional and undermined the criminal justice system. A former policy regarding racial profiling was issued by the Department of Justice in June of 2003 that forbade the practice by federal law enforcement officials.
In New York they conduct Stop-and Frisks and claim that it helps lower the violent crime by targeting the public for minor violations. The police force was supposed to stop and every dynamic equally and yet it was found that they targeted more Hispanics and Blacks than White people. On top of that they discovered that used force on a higher percentage of the H and B communities than on the W community. The real kicker is though, that we found out that it did NOT lower crime rates in NYC. In 2002 the murder rate for New York was 587 and in 2011 it was 532. That hardly signifies that stop and frisk practice which is using RACIAL PROFILING to conduct said procedure is useful at all.
http://racerelations.about.com/od/thelegalsystem/a/Do-Stop-And-Frisks-In-New-York-City-Amount-To-Racial-Profiling.htm
What is your story? Have you been a victim or do you support racial profiling? Please share and discuss.
Some people claim that racial profiling is something that will always happen. Some people in the realm of law enforcement argue that the practice is necessary and effective. They believe that due to demographic and socio-economic factors and their relation to crime, those in a large minority population have a higher risk of participating in criminal activities. They argue that ignoring the facts due to moral integrity is professionally and morally wrong. If law enforcement officers are to identify and take action against violators, any information to assist them in being more effective is crucial. Critics of racial profiling argue that individual rights are violated when this practice is utilized. Civil liberties organizations intimate that this type of profiling is in fact a form of discrimination and undermines basic human rights and freedoms. Researchers are interested in collecting data and analyzing trends to see how this information corresponds to perceptions of racial profiling and the effects it has on ethnic groups.
However racial profiling is ILLEGAL....
In 2001, former President George W. Bush addressed a Joint Session of Congress and declared that racial profiling was wrong and that America was going to end it. He went on to comment that the nation's police officers need the support of the American people, and due to the abuses of a few, they were hindered in doing their jobs properly. Rather than being racially profiled, law enforcement was being pigeon holed, although it could be said they were experiencing a similar situation to that of those individuals who were racially profiled. A year later, Attorney General John Ashcroft shared President Bush's sentiment and stated that using race as an indicator of potential criminal behavior was unconstitutional and undermined the criminal justice system. A former policy regarding racial profiling was issued by the Department of Justice in June of 2003 that forbade the practice by federal law enforcement officials.
In New York they conduct Stop-and Frisks and claim that it helps lower the violent crime by targeting the public for minor violations. The police force was supposed to stop and every dynamic equally and yet it was found that they targeted more Hispanics and Blacks than White people. On top of that they discovered that used force on a higher percentage of the H and B communities than on the W community. The real kicker is though, that we found out that it did NOT lower crime rates in NYC. In 2002 the murder rate for New York was 587 and in 2011 it was 532. That hardly signifies that stop and frisk practice which is using RACIAL PROFILING to conduct said procedure is useful at all.
http://racerelations.about.com/od/thelegalsystem/a/Do-Stop-And-Frisks-In-New-York-City-Amount-To-Racial-Profiling.htm
What is your story? Have you been a victim or do you support racial profiling? Please share and discuss.
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