According to a recent study 4% of the Asian population have admitted to experiencing racial profiling ("Racial Profiling: Definition"). These events lead to officer question Asian American can they speak English. Then there profiling issue against Native Americans such as, “Driving While Indian.” According to the, National American Indian Housing Council, there has been as many 2.4 million in the U.S. that where stop outside of reservation based on their tags, or their religious items found in or outside their cars ("Racial Profiling: Definition"). Arabic citizen is also subject to profiling. One of our political candidates for this year’s election has been on record profiling, Muslim. In an interview with Bill O’Reilly he states …show more content…
This was written in 2003 and now it 's 2016. There is evidence at the national level that “Black drivers (4.5%) were twice as likely as White drivers (2.1%) to be arrested during a traffic stop,” and, “while Hispanic drivers (65%) were more likely than White (56.2%) or Black (55.8%) drivers to receive a ticket." Also In addition, Whites (9.7%) were more likely than Hispanics (5.9%) to receive a written warning (Agencies). All these finding come from the U.S. Department of Labor 's Bureau of Justice Statistics. Those are just the national number the local number in some instance are far worse. It safe to say if you are a minority in the US you are more likely to be targeted by the local or state or federal law