Profiling is the act of recording and investigating a person’s behaviour with intentions of predicting one’s capabilities and capabilities of similar individuals. Racial profiling is mostly targeted towards those of colour, in this case black people, and has been very common nowadays leading to many tragedies in the past and will likely be the reason for many future incidents. Racial profiling is negatively affecting the lives of black people and degrading the black race as a whole. Black people have been receiving a lot of racial profiling recently Due to that, there have been many easily preventable mishaps and leaving many African Americans to believe that their lives are at risk from the police all the time. It seems nowadays that blacks
…show more content…
Studies done on the highway patrol of Arizona in 2006 and 2007 showed that they were 2.5 times more likely to stop an African American driver than a white. That’s almost 3 African Americans being stopped for every 1 white person (The Reality of Racial Profiling). 2009 studies taken in West Virginia showed that highway patrol were 1.64 times more likely to stop African American motorists than a white motorist, this means that the chances of an African American being stopped during checkups were substantially higher than a white (The Reality of Racial Profiling). In both scenarios, in different time periods and different parts of the country, African Americans were always more likely to be stopped than a caucasian, all due to there being racial profiling.
With racial profiling being so common, ultimately there has been many problems that have arisen, many of which were completely avoidable. Racial profiling is racism, it might not always be as clear all the time but sometimes it is. Take Trayvon Martin for example, he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman after Zimmerman followed Martin for looking “suspicious”, even though …show more content…
Racial profiling has been a huge impact on the lives of many black people and have been taking a toll on their lives as of recently. Racial profiling against blacks is a recurring issue and is only getting worse as time goes on. Although easily avoidable, it is still very constant and still causes a bad effect on the world today. Racial profiling does not need to exist, all lives matter and everyone is equal in every way. No one group should be categorized in the way it has by racial
Studies done on the highway patrol of Arizona in 2006 and 2007 showed that they were 2.5 times more likely to stop an African American driver than a white. That’s almost 3 African Americans being stopped for every 1 white person (The Reality of Racial Profiling). 2009 studies taken in West Virginia showed that highway patrol were 1.64 times more likely to stop African American motorists than a white motorist, this means that the chances of an African American being stopped during checkups were substantially higher than a white (The Reality of Racial Profiling). In both scenarios, in different time periods and different parts of the country, African Americans were always more likely to be stopped than a caucasian, all due to there being racial profiling.
With racial profiling being so common, ultimately there has been many problems that have arisen, many of which were completely avoidable. Racial profiling is racism, it might not always be as clear all the time but sometimes it is. Take Trayvon Martin for example, he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman after Zimmerman followed Martin for looking “suspicious”, even though …show more content…
Racial profiling has been a huge impact on the lives of many black people and have been taking a toll on their lives as of recently. Racial profiling against blacks is a recurring issue and is only getting worse as time goes on. Although easily avoidable, it is still very constant and still causes a bad effect on the world today. Racial profiling does not need to exist, all lives matter and everyone is equal in every way. No one group should be categorized in the way it has by racial