Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling

Racial profiling may be defined as a detection of several determined racial factors that lead to unequal treatment in regards to certain groups of society . The mentioned racial factors can include such as the following : gender , skin color , accent , facial structure , physical attire , spoken language , religion , etc . A person can racially profile in various ways , and the procedure of racial profiling has been used for many years already . Its roots may lie in segregation that took place in 1900 's in America , involving cases as Major Aaron Campbell against

Florida . However , racial profiling has not been diligently investigated and is being deliberately overlooked . There are a lot of debate in regard to racial profiling , resulting in different opinions . Some say that it is a good offensive tactics by law enforcement . Others say that racial profiling is an obvious violation of the law , their civil rights and it contradicts the fourth amendment

The police are pulling over a disproportionate number of minority drivers for traffic offenses in order to look for drugs . The driver may have been speeding , but the reason why he pulled over that car , and not the car next to him , might have to do with the color of his skin Highway stops should almost always be color blind , unless the officer has clues to go on to make the stop . The DEA taught state troopers come common identifying signs of drugs carriers . Nervousness was the number one trait seen , with other signs like no luggage for a long trip , lots of cash , lack of a driver 's license or insurance , the spare tire in the back seat , and license plates from big time drug states . Racial profiling can be used as a easy way out for violators . There are such cases that when a person of a different race besides white , often say the only reason they were pulled over was because they are of a different ethnicity . Black motorists today routinely claim that the only reason that they were pulled over on highway stops was because of their race . Once they are pulled over they claim that the officer 's subject them to harassment and time consuming searches . Most of these stories are not true , and when they are taken to court , most of the charges brought against the officer are dropped and said to be lies

One of the significant cases that turned society 's attention to the issue of racial profiling was the case of Amadou Diallo shooting . A Guinean living in New York , he was shot by four white police officers in the New York City Police Department 's Street Crime Unit , at 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of the Bronx . At the time he was walking near his building , police officers Sean Carroll , Edward McMellon Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy , in plainclothes but wearing their NYPD shields , approached him for questioning . The officers claim to have identified themselves--loudly--as NYPD officers , after noting that Diallo fit the description of...