Racial Profiling vs. Reasonable Discretion

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This report looks at racial profiling as a common problem in society today, and specifically in New Jersey. Unlike many presentations, however, this report is about finding solutions, rather than endlessly pointing out problems. The writer advocates a mixture of training, fairness and discretion workshops, and officer surveillance, as possible solutions to help to solve the problem of racial profiling as it exists in New Jersey.

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Problem
Literature review
Current practice in NJ
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Discussion

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"Acculturation involves inculcation into Americans' common conceptions of foreigners as being holistic representatives of a confusing blend of cultural positivity and negativity, stagnation and newness. Culture and its characteristics cannot be adequately defined. Cultural pluralism refers to what could be simply described as the opposite of the melting pot theory. Racial profiling is the systematic over-surveillance of minorities based on superficial characteristics. When police use tactics of racial profiling, they are abusing their power, because they are turning their backs on the training that stipulates they are to use reasonable discretion in apprehending subjects. Racial profiling is not reasonable discretion."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anechiarico and Jacobs (1996). The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity. New York: Thompson.
• Chambliss, William H. Power, Politics, and Crime. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999.
• Harris, David A. (1999). Driving While Black: Racial Profiling on our Nation's Highways. ACLU Freedom Network. http://archive.aclu.org/profiling/report/index.html.
• Fischer, R and G Green (2004). Introduction to Security. New York: Elsevier.
• Steele, N (1999). Thin Ice: 'Stereotype Threat' and Black College Students. Atlantic Monthly. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99aug/9908stereotype.htm.

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