Shoshanna Hebshi's Argument Against Racial Profiling

Racial profiling is an issue that still threatens American society today. Assuming a person’s involvement in illegal activities based off of their ethnic background is unconstitutional according to the 14th amendment. That didn’t prevent the assault against Shoshanna Hebshi on September 11, 2011. Certain racism-related interest groups have the power to propose rules or solutions to prevent racial profiling. The system of the iron triangle can potentially have a significant effect on racial profiling by acknowledging the issue, proposing a solution and carrying it out. Shoshanna Hebshi was a victim of racial profiling. Hebshi is a half-Arab and half-Jewish woman. She was seated on a plane next to two Indian-American men on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack, setting her up as perfect target for racial profiling (Warikoo, N. 2013). She was handcuffed, put into a jail cell and strip searched when there was neither a warrant nor reasonable suspicion (Warikoo, N. 2013). Racial profiling is undeniably unconstitutional, yet incidents like this still occur in the U.S. I believe this is due to the suspicion and fear that people have when dealing with people of different race. I think it is easy for people to make assumptions based off of racial appearance …show more content…
Interest groups have the ability to directly influence the public as well as provide the other iron triangle group with insight on certain policy ideas(C. 2015, December 19). The bureaucracy is a group of non-elected officials that hold significant influence in the iron triangle in the way they are able to conduct businesses. Congressional committees are able to pass laws to improve issues in society (2017, April 30). All together these three groups are able to shape and affect how the administrative system in