Racial Profiling
Mrs. Kirkland
Racial Profiling
Racial profiling is defined as any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being, or having been, engaged in criminal activity. The issue of racial profiling is one of the most important issues facing law enforcement today. Racism has always played a big role of the decision of convicted minority offenders and has always prevented fair judgment in trails, juries, laws, cops, and incrassation. I have always wondered why young minority males are targeted when they drive, walk down the ...
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grew up in and take roles and responsibilities that the other officers don’t abide by? Moreover, how did minorities become added into a constitution that originally was not meant for them for example 3/5th compromise, 21st amendment, Jim Crow laws, Brown vs. the Board of Education, and last but not least affirmative action required upon agencies to fill the spots with people of ethnicity to qualify for the quota.
Introduction
To begin with, In order to receive an accurate answer I had to first not be bias and conduct a non- judgmental research. My main source of information is the internet, Law enforcement books taken from New England, Maryland, New Jersey etc, a few from local newspapers, as well as the school library, previous cases that were judge purely on disillusion and not set laws, and last but not least the words from actual law enforcement officers. The meaning of this paper is to shed light upon the situation of minority and state, minority and minority, ...
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in the effective backing of the local community police, agency accreditations, and failure to promote and hire locally.
Stated by the Queensland Consolidated Acts these acts give the officer the right to the following; Entry, inquiries and inspection, Searching vehicles without warrant, Use of drug detection dogs without warrant, Searching public places without warrant, Power to require name, address or age. Now if you classify how the officers detect deviant behavior you must look further into the sociology in our times book and see how each individual is somewhat ignorant to cultures and may see different actions deviant rather than the norm. That’s where I would like to bring in ...
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