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Racial Profiling


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Racial Profiling
A look at the use of ethnicity as the foundation for decision making by law enforcement in America.
2,986 words (approx. 11.9 pages) | 16 sources | MLA | 2002 United States


Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how the essence of racial profiling is the undesirable use of race as a decisive factor in carrying out halts, probes, and further investigative procedures for the enforcement of law. It examines how enforcement of law that includes racial suppositions brings about pessimistic racial typecasts that are damaging to our wide-ranging democracy, which is diverse in culture, and significantly weakens work to preserve a good and equitable society. It attempts to prove that racial profiling goes against the principles of the Constitution by showing how it bypasses essential principles of the U.S. justice system.

From the Paper:

"The police frequently use traffic breach, as an alleged reason to halt a vehicle to examine other likely crimes such as violations relating to drug trafficking or trafficking of weapons is the long assertion of several people belonging to the ethnic communities throughout the country. According to one of the initial academic articles on the matter, for instance, experimental proof supports allegations of the presence of considerable racial profiling in quite a few fresh occurrences, and to verify these allegations, statistics are on hand at least in some jurisdictions. Black and Hispanic motorists made up to 13.5% of the drivers on the state's main roads, and they corresponded to 73.2% of those clogged and investigated by the New Jersey State Patrol, as per a New Jersey report."

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APA Citation:

Racial Profiling (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Racial-Profiling/46097

MLA Citation:

"Racial Profiling" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Racial-Profiling/46097>




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