Racial Profiling

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Racial profiling occurs when a police officer selectively focuses on a person's race and subsequently follows, harasses, detains or arrests the individual. This paper examines three different approaches to dealing with racial profiling, discussing each one individually. The approaches discussed are: 'Use it', 'Limit it' and 'Abandon it'.

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"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit also seemed to propose that the best thing to do with racial profiling is to abandon it entirely. That Court declared that large groups of U.S. citizens should not be thought of by law enforcement officers as criminal automatically just because of their race (Kennedy 1999). It also noted, however, that facts should not be ignored, even though those facts might be distressing to some (Kennedy 1999). This seemed to open the door to limited use of racial profiling, the middle ground in the debate."

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