Racial Profiling
Introduction
Have you ever been racially profiled? Do you even understand why officers tend to racial profile certain individual (e.g.; African American, and Mexicans)? Well, if you have never been racially profile you are lucky or just a Caucasian. To this learner, she has been racial profile the majority of her life, but one thing I was fortunate to learn is that it is not this learner who is the problem, but the color of her skin and the system that allows it to continue to happen in regards to racial profiling. Within this discussion this learner will address racial profiling and if it still exists, public policy implications of racial profiling, constitutional issues surrounding racial profiling, and what can police agencies …show more content…
Supreme Court., which essentially and collectively stated that an LEO has the “right to make a temporary detention based on reasonable suspicion or a traffic stop even if that stop was primarily for the basis of checking out possible criminal behavior for which the officer lacked reasonable suspicion or probable cause” (“Racial Profiling as”, n.d., para. 2). One of the cases that pulled us into the reasonable suspicion was the Terry v. Ohio case that leaded to the probable cause standard of our Fourth Amendment. Another case is the Whren v. U.S., where the judge replied to claims of a possible traffic stop by District of Columbia LEO in a neighborhood high drug activity …show more content…
If the community does not trust LEOs they will disobey the law especially the younger generation. Therefore, we need to take racial profiling very seriously, because it is not going away. The Directors, Mayors, and other city official need to get with the leaders of the community and find out what can be done to make sure that all individuals, no matter what their skin color is, are treated fairly, because at the end of the day if you cut us do we not all bleed the color of blood “RED” so why not treat each other as the same color? He Forth amendment does its best to stand up against racial profiling, but what good is it if the system that is supposed to honor these amendments just turn a blind eye to it? We need to respect each other as well as protect our individuals’ rights, but like most things, change cannot come unless we make a stand and demand it. LEO needs to respect the law and the Constitution that are in place, because if they are able to circumvent the laws as they see fit, why do we even have
Introduction
Have you ever been racially profiled? Do you even understand why officers tend to racial profile certain individual (e.g.; African American, and Mexicans)? Well, if you have never been racially profile you are lucky or just a Caucasian. To this learner, she has been racial profile the majority of her life, but one thing I was fortunate to learn is that it is not this learner who is the problem, but the color of her skin and the system that allows it to continue to happen in regards to racial profiling. Within this discussion this learner will address racial profiling and if it still exists, public policy implications of racial profiling, constitutional issues surrounding racial profiling, and what can police agencies …show more content…
Supreme Court., which essentially and collectively stated that an LEO has the “right to make a temporary detention based on reasonable suspicion or a traffic stop even if that stop was primarily for the basis of checking out possible criminal behavior for which the officer lacked reasonable suspicion or probable cause” (“Racial Profiling as”, n.d., para. 2). One of the cases that pulled us into the reasonable suspicion was the Terry v. Ohio case that leaded to the probable cause standard of our Fourth Amendment. Another case is the Whren v. U.S., where the judge replied to claims of a possible traffic stop by District of Columbia LEO in a neighborhood high drug activity …show more content…
If the community does not trust LEOs they will disobey the law especially the younger generation. Therefore, we need to take racial profiling very seriously, because it is not going away. The Directors, Mayors, and other city official need to get with the leaders of the community and find out what can be done to make sure that all individuals, no matter what their skin color is, are treated fairly, because at the end of the day if you cut us do we not all bleed the color of blood “RED” so why not treat each other as the same color? He Forth amendment does its best to stand up against racial profiling, but what good is it if the system that is supposed to honor these amendments just turn a blind eye to it? We need to respect each other as well as protect our individuals’ rights, but like most things, change cannot come unless we make a stand and demand it. LEO needs to respect the law and the Constitution that are in place, because if they are able to circumvent the laws as they see fit, why do we even have