Paper Topic:

Racial Profiling

RACIAL PROFILING IS WRONG BECAUSE

it violates the human rights of its targets , it is not their liability why they were born of that race AND it infringe their right to live a normal life

Racial Profiling is any police or private security practice in which a person is treated as a suspect because of his or her race , ethnicity nationality or religion . This occurs when police investigate , stop frisk , search or use force against a person based on such characteristics instead of evidence of a person 's criminal behavior Discrimination

based on race , ethnicity , religion , nationality or on any other particular identity undermines the basic human rights and freedoms to which every person is entitled . In 1999 , the Oxford American Dictionary (OAD ) provided a definition of racial profiling for the first time . Racial profiling : an alleged police policy of stopping and searching vehicles driven by people from particular racial groups ' To have a definition in a prestigious publication such as the OAD is a good thing . But the definition is closer to a definition for driving while Black or Brown ' than for racial profiling

Racial profiling is broader than just driving . Other examples : flying while black or brown , walking while black or brown (i .e , Why are you in this neighborhood ? You couldn 't possibly afford to live here shopping while black or brown (being followed in a store or ignored altogether , hailing a cab while black or brown , dining while black or brown (tip automatically added to the bill of a black patron , under the theory that blacks are poor tippers , riding (as in a bike , in a particular neighborhood ) while black or brown , running (as in jogging and exercising ) while black or brown . Indeed , the phenomenon of racial profiling is so broad-based and pervasive that another phrase has been coined : breathing while black or brown

Other commentators have offered a definition for racial profiling , too For example , Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School has described it as using race as a factor in deciding whom to place under suspicion and /or surveillance . Racial profiling occurs whenever police routinely use race as a negative signal that , along with an accumulation of other signals , causes an officer to react with suspicion . A young black man selected for questioning by police while getting out of an airplane or driving a car is being made to pay a type of racial tax for the war against drugs that whites and other groups escape ' Let me quote a statement I read from Reginald Shufford of American Civil Liberties Union

In 1999 , 81 of the American public believed that racial profiling was wrong . In the context of the war on terror , 67 now believe that racial profiling is legitimate in the wake of 9 /11

Perhaps racial profiling may be useful to determine possible law violators but still this is a point of discrimination . It is not their fault that they were born Black , Brown , Asian or Muslims . How do you think would...

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