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Racial Profiling - Research Paper

Racial Profiling

Zakur Amun-El
Ms. Nestuk
English
May 8, 2015

Racial Profiling

Young black men probably know more about racial profiling by the police than any other racial group because they experience it almost every day. In her book, The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander states, “It is not uncommon for a young black teenager living in a ghetto community to be stopped, interrogated and frisked numerous times in the course of a month or every single week, often by paramilitary units.”(p. 124-125). But racial profiling is nothing new, a close look at history reveals how it has been practiced in the United States for hundreds of years. The practice ...

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because of their race…”(qtd. in Nittle). It’s easy to see how this practice of targeting people because of their race started during slavery. White plantation owners needed a way to control their slaves and keep them from escaping to freedom. Since slaves often outnumbered white people in the south, the best way to control such a large number of black slaves was through fear and intimidation. This was done through slave patrollers that could stop any black person and ask them for papers to show they had permission where they to go somewhere or prove that they were free. This often times created fear in slaves and prevented them from escaping to freedom because they might be captured and killed. According to Civil Liberties Expert, Tom Head, the first police force to be created in North America was the South Carolina slave patrol.(1704:To Catch a Slave) This law enforcement group was established to find and capture fugitive slaves. “There is abundant evidence to suggest that ...

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Added: 6/3/2015 09:06:09 PM
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