How Racial Profiling affects Law Enforcement Agencies or Public verus Private Law Enforcement

Running head : RACIAL PROFILING

How racial profiling affects law enforcement agencies

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The introduces by giving the definition and explanation of the term racial profiling in the context of law enforcement . Later in the some of the effects of racial profiling on the law enforcement agencies are discussed . Such effects which are discussed below are : the violation of the human rights by the law enforcement agencies development of mistrust between the police and the communities thus making the investigation work of

the police on the crime hard and thus reduction of its effectiveness , unsound policing by the law enforcement agencies and break up of the police and community relation ship Concluding the some possible solution to end the effect of the racial profiling are discussed . Unbiased data collection at the police stops has been found to be the only way out

Racial Profiling

The term racial profiling in our case means an action of law enforcement that is based on individual 's ethnicity , race , or national origin instead of the behavior of the person or a reliable source of information that shows the person is guilty of having engaged in a criminal activity . In other words we can say that , racial profiling will take place when the law enforcement agencies tend to depend on ethnicity , race , religion or national origin to make decisions onto whom the law should and should not to be applied to for criminal investigation . This kind of act...