Racial Profiling Pros And Cons

Imagine someone riding in a car, and suddenly they get pulled over for a traffic stop but they end up getting beat by several police officers while they are recording the whole thing happening. For example, Rodney King was a black man who was pulled off of his motorcycle and beaten brutally by several LAPD officers on March 3, 1992. The beating was caught on video and all the officers were put on trial but were finally acquitted after 3 months of trial. Since the beating of Rodney King in 1992, the police and minorities haven’t had a great relationship. Racial profiling by police has gotten worse since the nineties and doesn’t seem to be making any improvements either. Racial Profiling is a violation of American rights and those rights are …show more content…
Minorities feel as if they are personally targeted when they get pulled over by the police and they often refer this to as “Driving while Black”.Data has shown that African Americans and Hispanics have been big targets for racial profiling by police for stops and searches. “A 1999 report by the New Jersey attorney general found that 77 percent of those stopped and searched on New Jersey highways were African American or Hispanic, even though, according to one expert, only 13.5 percent of the drivers and 15 percent of the speeders on those highways are African American or Hispanic”(Kranzler and Korsmeyer).Research shows that minorities are more racially profiled than white people. Most of the time they get pulled over for no reason and leave without getting a ticket or citation. They just get pulled over due to the suspicion from the police.Not only people who are African American or Latino are racially profiled by law enforcement when they are in some type of transportation. People who are Muslim or Arab are racially profiled by the security when they are at the airport.In 2001, an extremist Muslim group attacked the World Trade center in New York by crashing a plane into each building causing them to collapse. Since then, people who are Muslim are seen as terrorist and a threat to American lives. “Two muslim people(Masudur Rahman;Mohamed …show more content…
“Criminologists generally agree that young (African American) men are more likely to commit crime than elderly (White) women’ “it is precisely because the use of race as a generalization is not irrational that racial profiling is such a widespread phenomenon”(Korsmeyer and Kranzler). Police officers give a reason for the motive behind they racially profile and give examples of situations. Research has shown that racial profiling isn’t really effective and isn’t a good strategy for the police to use.“Despite training to avoid discrimination, officers may still rely on cultural stereotypes and act on their perceptions of a person's characteristics (such as age, race or gender).” “Most importantly, racial profiling is unlikely to be an effective policing strategy as criminals can simply shift their activities outside the profile (e.g., if racial profiling begins with police stopping black males in their teens and twenties for being drug carriers, criminals may start using other demographic groups — such as Hispanics, children or the elderly — to move drugs)” (National Institute of Injustice). Law enforcement sees it’s a struggle to use racial profiling as a strategy

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Pros And Cons Of Racial Profiling

Pros And Cons Of Racial Profiling