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Essay on Against Racial Profiling

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Racial profiling is the enforcement of laws against a particular ethnicity, nationality, race or religion(Ullmann & Zott). When the public was asked about racial profiling around the 1940’s where racism was common, probably they would be thinking about the discrimination of those who followed Judaism, or after Pearl Harbor when Japanese Americans had to leave their homes to go to the internment camps, but racial profiling sadly is still very much alive and not very effective. It has caused political problems such as President McKinley’s death(Nelson), social problems as alienation of the people (Orr) and economic problems as depriving people from equal opportunities (Orr), and for these unjustified acts racial profiling should be …show more content…

Sadly, people never learn anything from history repeating itself, September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme has attempted to assassin president Gerald Ford, a few weeks later Sara Jane Monroe tried her own attempt of assassinating President Ford, at those times women were not considered potential presidential assassins, and neither of these women were considered a threat, because women were not stereotypically fit to description of a presidential assassin, in till they pulled the gun out.
Other than presidential assassins there is the beltway sniper, in 2002 the beltway sniper killed about a dozen of people in Washington D.C area, the police were given the description of the assassin that fit the stereotypical description of a lone white man, but they were actually two African American men, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo that were able to escape the crime scene and police car road- block with the murder weapons in hand.(nelson)
All though there are many examples that people racial profiling they never relies that they are racial profiling, they implanted cartain ideas in their heads not railes that it is wrong, well answer my question what is a bad side of town in your opinion? some would say "a place where most theft acres" or probable "it is a poor part of town", and when I ask which group of people would

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