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    case about profiling (Whren & Brown) and its effectiveness to reduce crime or not to reduce crime. b. Secondary Sentence i. Brief background into profiling and how it connects to the previously mentioned case, leading into the thesis. c. Thesis Statement i. Profiling is something that every person has or will do at some point in their life; some may even profile without even realizing it. There are various forms of profiling which will be discussed, along with the history behind profiling and how

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    Return To Violent Times

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    Christmas eve of 2014. This article is written in first person but no identification on where this it’s by a male or female. The article contains information about two subjects that I plan to incorporate in my paper to answer my research question and thesis. The two subjects are Eric Garner and Michael Brown/Ferguson. These two African-Americans were mentioned in the article because they are claimed to be “metaphors” ("A Return to Violent Times?"). The “Hands Up Don’t Shoot!” and “I can’t breathe” are

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    I must first give insight as to why I have chosen it. Racial profiling is an serious issue especially in the educational world. We see unlawful acts of blaming a certain particular race for assumed crimes. Or, in relation to the educational scene, prejudgments on academics ability in which the outcome is of teachers not putting forth the best of their abilities to teach. The rationale behind my chosen topic is to shed light on racial profiling and its disadvantage to certain races, to show the world

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    Criminal Profiling

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    Abstract This thesis will cover background information on criminal profiling. Some psychiatrists, criminologists, and psychologists believe there are specific traits, psychological factors that will separate a person from the rest of society. This thesis will explain that criminal profiling will help narrow the list of suspects from rape and homicide by formulating the type of person whom the investigators should be looking for. How long does he or she think criminal profiling has been

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    way the founding fathers fought for their own freedom against Britain? Is it instead the racial history behind this nation? America, since its origins has been a country of immigrants and for immigrants, yet since its origins, there has been discriminatory laws against blacks, Latinos, Asians, and every other race that is not considered white or Caucasian. Has this country that has been based upon racial profiling, that has fought wars as one nation (and even against themselves at one point), and has

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    Politically, in the article “The Racial Reality of Policing,” Conlon who served in the New York Police Department explains why the right wing politics insists that the police should not be blamed for the practice of racial profiling for crimes because it is in line with the higher crime rates and not the leading cause of death among the black men. Conlon believes that even though “police bias and misconduct are serious problems,” the public ignore one thing that the death among young black men in

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    system treats many Americans. For example “African Americans are arrested for drug offenses at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites” according to a 2009 report on disparity in drug arrests by Human Rights Watch. This semester I want to further examine how all races, White,”(A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa)”Black or African American, “(A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa)”American Indian

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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

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    Ariel Abreu 11th - English Thesis Class Racial Profiling Introduction: Racial profiling is the use of an individual's race or ethnicity as a key factor in deciding if the person should enforce such things on the other person. The act of racial profiling is a type of discrimination. “Discrimination is an act of injustice and prejudicial treatment of different types of people, depending on their age, sex, race or religion” Racial discrimination occurs every day in the United States, in cities and towns

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    can teach us about profiling”. He comments on society’s habit to veer into the territory of generalizations and stereotypes. Utilizing examples such as pit bulls, Muslims as terrorists, and the New York Police Department, to convey his point. He first structures his essay by agreeing with the judgment of banning pit bulls. Unexpectedly, he takes a turn and declares that it is not the pit bulls that are the problem, but societies assumptions about the breed. His central thesis revolves around the

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