Racial profiling is what police officers use to target people such as the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Crime rates are racially disproportionate. Young African American males are often more likely than other age and racial groups to commit drug related crimes. Hispanics are more likely than other ethnic groups to have violated immigration laws (1). Racial profiling sometimes can seem to work. Since the New York Police Department (NYPD) implemented its Stop, Question, and Frisk policy over a decade ago, the city has experienced a “historic” crime decline, and police officers have confiscated thousands of firearms (2). At the same time, the murder rate in Philadelphia jumped by 10 percent in the first year after the city regulated in its own aggressive stop and frisk policy (3). Racial profiling can be necessary to protect against terrorist acts, which, at present, have mostly been committed by men of Middle Eastern background. “We’re at war with a terrorist network; says one commenter. “Are we really supposed to ignore the one identifiable fact that we know about them?” (4)
On the other hand, Racial profiling is indistinguishable from racism and humiliates thousands and thousands of innocent people. If members of minority groups are more …show more content…
When police act unprofessionally, or are perceived to have done so, then their relationship with the community will inevitably SUFFER. Although a few would believe that some individual offivers may be influenced by prejudice, the greater police presence and arrest rates in minority neighborhoods should not be accepted as automatic evidence of law enforcement discrimination. Many African American believes, especially me, that they are often targeted for a particular offense which is Driving While Black
On the other hand, Racial profiling is indistinguishable from racism and humiliates thousands and thousands of innocent people. If members of minority groups are more …show more content…
When police act unprofessionally, or are perceived to have done so, then their relationship with the community will inevitably SUFFER. Although a few would believe that some individual offivers may be influenced by prejudice, the greater police presence and arrest rates in minority neighborhoods should not be accepted as automatic evidence of law enforcement discrimination. Many African American believes, especially me, that they are often targeted for a particular offense which is Driving While Black