Many will argue that racial profiling is just a way to catch criminals and it isn’t harmful, it only hurts those that break the law. However, not a lot of people think of the psychological and social damage and often will ignore it. When it comes to profiling, many women and men will experience verbal assaults and insults, even physical threats and attacks (Kwate and Goodman 401). As well as denied job positions and even at current jobs that one would hold, they would often find themselves passed over for promotions, no matter how good they were at jobs. Many will receive poor service and might be harassed for asking for better service and even receive abusive comments toward them (Kwate and Goodman 402). A lot of people that experience this
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However, that doesn’t make sense, there could be white high-crime neighborhoods but law enforcement might not stationed there as much as they would be in a predominantly black, Spanish or even Asian Community. Supporters claim that it reduces crime significantly while protecting society at the same time. It doesn’t make as sense why law officials would target only one neighborhood, it can’t be just random, it has to be racially …show more content…
People rely on media and will sometimes believe and follow what the media presents to them. It has been an issue with how White Americans are portrayed differently from people of color. You will see a white person sometimes displayed as a “troubled” or “mentally disturbed victim” while an African American might be portrayed as a “thug” or a Hispanic might have something said about their immigration status. They make profiling easy for officers making that easy decision to search a person of color’s car due to the criminal stereotypes the media influences on citizens (Higgins 343).
However, not all media is bad when it comes to exposing racial profiling, social media has done a good job over the last year especially with the Black Lives Matter movement. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook will launch campaigns and petition against the act of profiling and the lives lost due to the practice. Sometimes social media would expose the dirty ways of how mass media portrays certain races and might influence
However, that doesn’t make sense, there could be white high-crime neighborhoods but law enforcement might not stationed there as much as they would be in a predominantly black, Spanish or even Asian Community. Supporters claim that it reduces crime significantly while protecting society at the same time. It doesn’t make as sense why law officials would target only one neighborhood, it can’t be just random, it has to be racially …show more content…
People rely on media and will sometimes believe and follow what the media presents to them. It has been an issue with how White Americans are portrayed differently from people of color. You will see a white person sometimes displayed as a “troubled” or “mentally disturbed victim” while an African American might be portrayed as a “thug” or a Hispanic might have something said about their immigration status. They make profiling easy for officers making that easy decision to search a person of color’s car due to the criminal stereotypes the media influences on citizens (Higgins 343).
However, not all media is bad when it comes to exposing racial profiling, social media has done a good job over the last year especially with the Black Lives Matter movement. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook will launch campaigns and petition against the act of profiling and the lives lost due to the practice. Sometimes social media would expose the dirty ways of how mass media portrays certain races and might influence