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    Racial Profiling Vs Criminal Profiling Camilo Paez Briarcliffe College Professor Keirnan 11/13/2016   Executive summary Racial Profiling is a big problem is society. Over time you become biased of certain groups which is good and bad. Criminal profiling helps keep the bad guys off the streets. This maybe be also linked with being racist according to the people stopped by police. As a police officer you never win because no one wants to go to jail. It is very hard to   Racial Profiling

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    Racial Profiling Have you ever wondered what goes on in other places, with other people, and with other races? Racial Profiling is a form of discrimination and should not be used against any person because it leads to racism, its infective and the freedom of people is more important than the National Security itself. Most racial profiling leads to racial profiling towards others. “Research psychologists have also examined the effects of racial profiling on broader society and have learned that

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    According to the poll, blacks rated among the highest of all groups that believed that racial profiling was widespread with the exception of one area that involved airport security. Yet, was the least likely all three categories to believe that the profiling was justified, with Hispanics the second highest. The chart was challenging for me to wrap my head around, because blacks ranked the highest that believed racial profiling was widespread, but the least likely to believe that it was justified. Ironically

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    practices is racial profiling. Racial profiling is when law enforcement uses race and ethnicity as grounds to determine if someone, typically of color, is guilty of doing something illegal. Racial profiling is a major problem in this country, this as well affects many citizens that are mainly of color because law enforcement usually sees them as targets, and it is important to improve and fixed this issue because there are many tragic incidents that have been caused of racial profiling. One major

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    understand racial profiling, it must first be correctly defined. Although different authors use different criteria for the term racial profiling, Merriam-Webster’s definition for the word racial is “of, relating to, or based on a race (Merriam-Webster, 2006; p.855).” The definition the dictionary puts forth for profiling is “the act of suspecting or targeting a person solely on the basis of observed characteristics or behavior (Merriam-Webster, 2006; p.830).” Based on these definitions, racial profiling

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    Racial profiling is targeting individuals based upon their particular characteristics (“What is Racial,” 2015). “Before September 11th, polls showed that Americans of all races and ethnicities believed racial profiling to be both widespread and unacceptable” (“Reports and Curricula,” 2015). However, after the September 11th terrorists’ attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon, this was no longer the case. Individuals as well as the federal government started to racially profile Arab

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    Racial profiling has been an issue in society for as long as America had a criminal justice system. "Racial profiling is a problem because it refers discriminatory practice bye-law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual 's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin." In 1868, the fourteenth amendment was ratified which states, " No state. Shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws," would have made racial

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    mistreatment originates in a justice system spoiled with racial profiling. Racial profiling can be defined as a “discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin” (ACLU, 2017). Law enforcement officials may include but are not limited to: police officers, security guards, TSA agents, and airline pilots. Racial profiling is evident in the heightened percentage of minorities that

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    Racial profiling involves using a person’s race in order to suspect them of doing something wrong or committing a crime. Racial profiling has been around for decades and has not went away. Law enforcement or people of authority use it in order to decide whether or not a person is suspicious. Racial profiling clearly goes against the fourth amendment right of no unreasonable search and seizure but has yet to be put to an end. There are many recent examples of racial profiling in the news and in the

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    When we talk about racial profiling would be referring to the practice that human beings in order to discriminate against certain individuals suspected of a violation based on race, religion, ethnicity or national origin practice. Profiles criminals, in general, such as police practiced, is the dependence of a set of characteristics that believe it is associated with the crime. Examples of racial profiling are the use of race for which drivers leave minor traffic violations, or the use of race for

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