Karla Nowicki Mr. Gleason ERWC 12 January 2016 Racial Profiling How would it feel to see someone beaten to the edge of death, just because they were black? How would feel to be that person, or have it be a family member? In the 21st century, many people are pulled over, accused, beaten, and discriminated simply based on the color of their skin. Racial profiling is treating another person differently or unequally based on their skin tone or race. This profiling not only has to stop in law enforcements but it needs to stop all around the world because we are all seen as equal to whatever higher power there may be, and that we all bleed the same color.
Some of the duties of law enforcement are to investigate law violations, gather evidence, make arrests, solve crimes, and then assist with the successful prosecution of suspects. Upon the law enforcement officer making an arrest the case is then presented to the court system. The district attorney office handles most cases of the criminal nature, besides some misdemeanor crimes such as minor traffic violations. Law enforcement usually develop a good working relationship with their local district attorney’s office which promotes quality officer related testimony and
This movie reveals a sign of regress of our society because, most lynching incidents in America which occurred in public spaces and were usually the result of rape allegations involving black male supposedly assailants and white women who were purportedly their victims has not been seeing as a pure act of cruelty and hated from white supremacist calling for “justice”. A proof of this is that today, the noose appears in secluded areas such as school grounds and workplaces (Hyde Turner tragedy at work Conrald, Texas) as a result of racial tension in the U.S. Years after the Civil Right Movement, the battle for respect among all people regardless of the color of their skins and the end of racist organization or movement is far from over. A change has been operated but it is not enough to prevent such actions in the first democratic country of the world. In my opinion, the fact CNN host Kyra Phillips emphasize the importance that “youth people understand the horrors of the noose.” shows that American youth today are more sensitive about racial violence than previous generations of Americans. The essential reasons is because these major racial acts of violence occurred in the past so we should now be able to look at it from a clear, reasonably coherent and tolerant point of view in order to make these events stop.
In New York City, an average of seven Latin Americans were killed a year between 1986 to 1989 but, in 1990, that number increased greatly. In that year, twenty three Latin Americans were killed by police gunfire. When asked how he felt about racism being involved in police brutality, Yussuf Naimkly of the University of Regina Commented: “Excessive police force against blacks has always been tolerated, because as a formally enslaved minority African Americans are trapped in a cultural context specifically designed to inhibit their development and thus minimize their threat to white hegemony”. Another shocking incident of police brutality occurred in Reynoldsberg Ohio. A group of offices named themselves “S.N.A.T” squad.
Deception Deception is used by law enforcement to help them gather facts or the truth about a crime committed. Deception is one of the most used tools in investigation, interrogative, and the testimonial process and some believe that telling a little “white lie” to catch a criminal is not a problem. Criminal activities are increasing at a fast rate in the United States and law enforcement needs some type of help in catching a criminal and sometimes saving a life. One of the questions posed by some not in law enforcement could be if it is ethical to lie to obtain the truth. This paper will discuss that topic along with if it is a conflict between the code of ethics and how law enforcement is conducted.
Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person’s race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. Racial profiling is a serious human rights problem affecting millions of people in the United States in even the most routine aspects of their daily lives. The debate over racial profiling has become a central element in a much larger history of adversarial relationships between the police and communities of color. Already-existing tensions between police and communities of color became heightened over the past two decades as allegations of racial profiling by law enforcement agents against people of color increased in number and frequency. A "profile" is a coherent set of facts - known conditions and observable behavior that indicate a particular individual may be engaged in criminal activity.
In my opinion racial profiling doesn’t serve any legitimate purpose in catching more criminals. “According to the Public Health Service, approximately 70% of drug users are white, 15% are black, and 8% are Latino. But the Department of Justice reports that among those imprisoned on drug charges, 26% are white, 45% are black, and 21% are Latino” (Head, 2011). Not only does racial profiling in fact not have any legitimate effect on catching more criminals, but it also has a negative effect. Racial profiling can divide a community, it can
Should the racial, ethnic, or gender makeup of a police force resemble the makeup of the community it serves? The shooting of an unarmed African-American man by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, Aug 2014 raises the issue of racial makeup of police forces in the discussion of the incident. In Ferguson, for example, in the population of 71 percent of African American while 83percent of sworn police officers are Caucasian. Will this overwhelming ratio really affect the effectiveness and fairness when the law enforcement carries out their duty? If we are asked “Should the racial, ethnic, or gender makeup of a police force resemble the makeup of the community it serves?” I would assume that it is still not assertive and arguable.
The Ku Klux Klan Imagine living in a society in which friends, family and neighbors are murdered simply because of the color of their skin. What did they do wrong? They existed. This is the life of an African-American living in the southern United States throughout much of America’s history. The formation of the Ku Klux Klan was one of the major contributing factors to the long bloody struggle that was racism in America.
Ahmed Ahmed 11/23/2012 Racial and Ethnic identity For centuries racism has been practiced by human beings since the beginning of time, and although it has dramatically decreased in this generation it still continues to be done by ignorant human beings. Racism back in the days was very harsh, it even reached the point were Africans were tied up and taken from their families and brought to America to become slaves and do work. All who tried to stop racism and slavery were either killed or tortured. Even the president of the United States Abraham