Differences Between Racial Profiling And Police Harassment

This is a very personal issue for him and he hopes his background will offer enough credibility for those who are skeptical that minorities are routinely harassed by law enforcement in poor communities. He said that his caseload contained “maybe one or two or three cases a week or a month (that) were really important.” Whereas, most of the rest were cases against minorities for the same kinds of petty crimes that police generally overlook in middle and upper class suburban areas. As a white youth from the suburbs, Constantino and his friends had always thought of the “police and the criminal justice system as their allies and friends. (The police) always gave us the benefit of the doubt. They always treated us

I think that police brutality and racial profiling do go hand and hand because some officers tend to abuse their power. A study shows that 15% of cops will do the right thing every time, 15% will abuse their power, 70% of them it depends on the person and the crime committed. I also feel that their was a decrease in police brutality when obama was president and you never really heard about it on the new but every since trump has been elected racial profiling has spiked and so has police brutality you hear about it almost everyday on social media and the news.

The history of minorities being targeted dates back to the LAPD and their tie ins with the Mexican population. Back in those days law enforcement officers were convinced that Latinos were capable of committing crime more often than your average white citizen. They held a position on the increase of criminal activity that was reasoned as being the effect of the increase in the Mexican population. Since they are more criminally inclined and more of them have been moving into the area their logic dictated that a rise in the criminal activity was not only inevitable but the end of the neighborhood as they knew it.

Racial Profiling has been used by law enforcement officials from early 60’s during the civil rights movement. The term “racial profiling” which was introduced to criticize abusive police practices against people of different race, ethnicity or national origin. One must assess how to understand the practice, and how to keep it distinct from other issues. Racial profiling is defined as “any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin, rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being, or having been, engaged in criminal activity.” (Ramirez 5).

Most recently, the 2003 Justice Department guidelines regarding the use of race state that linking racial characteristic “misconduct” is “erroneous,” “ineffective,” and “harmful” to society. However, the guideline go on to state that law-enforcement “may not consider race or ethnicity except the extent permitted by the constitution and the laws of the United States.” This is the equivalent of saying profiling is not authorized unless it is authorized, allowing the continual existence of institutionalized racism. (Hahn 46)

As much as we don’t want to admit it, racial profiling from police has been going on in America ever since the early political policing era in the mid 1800’s. With racial disparity within the criminal justice system, I would be approaching how blacks and Latinos are targeted and approached in a more aggressive manner than that of a white American. I would also be approaching how Latinos and blacks are more likely to be frisk and stopped by police for no valid reason, besides racial profiling. Also those police not having probable cause and physically harms individuals. Blacks and Latinos are more likely to be stopped and frisk at a higher rate than other races. Latinos and blacks are approached while walking in their own neighborhoods, also

In our community that is predominantly Hispanic, police officers display racial profiling when they encounter a low rider vehicle or a young driver driving an expensive vehicle. Police departments train their officers to prevent racial profiling; yet, departments still find themselves facing expensive litigation over civil rights concerns.

Living in the information age, the prevalence and awareness towards social problems are able to receive more access than ever before. We always hear the term Social Problems being thrown around habitually in the 21st century, but the term Social problem is defined as “A general cause that motivates activists and social movement organizations to address a particular troubling condition”. (CITE). The current world has too many social problems to name off in under 5 pages so for this paper I would like to focus on perhaps the most prevalent one that we are seeing way too often these days. Police Brutality and racial profiling. As a white male, someone who is a criminal justice major in hopes of eventually becoming some type of law enforcement for my career later in life, you may ask why I even care about this issue since it isn’t necessarily affecting my life directly. My response is simple, I am tired of seeing the hashtags behind these deaths and one death from police brutality is already too many.

Latino discrimination and how it relates to deportation and border that want to be built.

There are many types of racism in America that cause people to make accusations against law enforcement for discrimination. One type of racism is racial profiling. It is a strategy that encourages police officers to stop and question minorities only because of their race. It takes place in a variety of routine police encounters. Unmotivated searches occur everyday among the minority groups. Could you imagine waking up and being scared to walk outside your house because of the color of your skin? This is a fear of almost everyone belonging to a minority group. This continues to be a widespread problem throughout the country.

Numerous Puerto Rican, Dominican, Salvadorans and other Latino residents have reported illegal searches, harassment by building inspectors, and their homes are inspected for housing-code violations far more frequently than those of whites. They also report racial profiling and police harassment. Many local whites seem

Recently there have been many issues concerning wrongful searches and police brutality in the criminal justice system. Cries for racial equality and social justice have been heard from across the nation. Profiling and stereotyping are generally seen as almost the same concept, but this is not the case. Specifically, criminal profiling is defined as “the act or process of extrapolating information about a person based on known traits or tendencies,” according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary. In contrast, stereotyping is defined as “an idea that is used to describe a particular type of person or thing, or a person or thing thought to represent such an idea,” by Cambridge English Dictionary. The term “racial profiling” has grown recently

Racial profiling is a discriminatory practice where individuals are being targeted by law enforcement based on their race or ethnic background instead of crime suspicion. Racial profiling dates back to the 1700s -- the slavery era. African Americans who were free had to prove it with documents and papers called “freedom papers”; whether they were free did not matter, as they were continually subject to racial profiling. Specifically in South Carolina, there were slave patrols who hunted for slaves and labeled them as being “runaways” simply because of their skin color -- these groups tortured and abused any slaves who attempted to escape. The extreme levels of racial profiling has changed over the years, but it is still significantly

As i was walking with my friends Joc, Brian, Javion, and my brother Isaac from the basketball court up the street from where I live. A police officer comes and steps up to us while we are walking home and without asking any type of questions, He tries to arrest my friend Brian. Brian was not told his rights before being arrested or told why he was being arrested all he knew it was happening. None of us knew what was going none of us could wrap our heads around the situation as it seemed very unrealistic . The worst thing about it was that his 3 year old cousin had to see it all happen and we could not give him a explanation for this happening because we was just as lost as he was. We had to

In New York City’s police department report in December 1999, the stop and frisk practices showed to be greatly based on race. In NYC, blacks make up 25.6% of the city’s population, Hispanics 23.7% and whites are 43.4% of NYC population. However, according to the report, 50.6% of all persons stopped were black, 33% were Hispanic, and only 12.9% were white. As you can see, more than half of the individuals who were stopped were black, 62.7% to be exact (ACLU, 2013). In Orange County, California Latinos, Asians and African Americans were more than 90% of the 20,221 men and women in the Gang Reporting Evaluation and Tracking System (ACLU, 2013). Clearly this database record shows racial profiling occurred when the total population in the database made up less than half of Orange County’s population. This is when the California Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the ACLU stepped in. One other instance of racial profiling I’d like to discuss occurred in Maricopa County, Arizona. A court ruled in May 2013 that “sheriff Joe Arpaio’s routine handling of people of Latino descent amounted to racial and ethnic profiling”; according to CNN, the sheriff’s office had a history of targeting vehicles with those having darker skin, examining them more strictly and taking them into custody more often than others (CNN, 2014). Judge Murray Snow ordered a monitor to oversee retraining in this