Racial Profiling in Police Work

Racial profiling in police work

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August 21 , 2010

Racial profiling in police work

Introduction

`The U .S government 's use of discriminatory profiling in the name of national security violates human rights and has a profound and wide reaching impact on South Asian , Arab , Eastern and Muslim community members ' These are words from a documentary that was released on April 28th , 2010 by the center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ ) at New York University 's School of Law in regards

to racial profiling in police work (Center for Human Rights and Global Justice 2010 . The term `racial profiling ' has no definition that is universally accepted but it can be used to refer to the action of stopping people and inspecting those who may be passing or driving through public places , highways airports or other urban areas using a statistical race and ethnic profile (Callahan and Anderson , 2001 . This issue of racial profiling has become a controversial topic in the U .S . for some time now and thus this essay seeks to find out the practice 's pros and cons

In the year 2002 , an attempt was made to define the practice one more time , this being done by Peter Siggins who was at that time the chief deputy attorney general in California . While giving a speech at the school of Law at Santa Clara , he stated that racial profiling is a government practice directed to individuals or groups that may be suspects...