What would you do if you saw a colored man or woman being physically and/or verbally attacked by police officers? There has always been a lot of racial profiling all around the world.
There are many videos around the INTERNET and on the news that shows police brutality against colored people. Many people have been shot and died right on the spot. Many innocent lives have been lost along the way. Racial profiling is a serious matter happening all around. Even though police officers feel the right to profile people, it is wrong because the police stop people for their race, ethnicity, and religion, targets groups based on past incidents, and it has killed many innocent people when they are not armed. Racial profiling is the act of suspecting …show more content…
George W. Bush stated,”Racial Profiling is wrong, and we will end it in America.” According to The New York Times on Racial Discrimination in Stop-and-Frisk, Judge Shira Scheindlin has been fighting to change the discriminatory in stop and frisks over in New York which has been violating the rights of the people. There are statistics showing that the city conducted 4.4 million stops between January 2004 and June 2012 in which only 6% were arrested and 6% in summonses, while the other 88% resulted in nothing. There was evidence showing that the majority who were stopped were African Americans and Hispanic residents. There are laws such as the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment that protects the people from being searched without a reasonable reason and that they must be treated equally under the law. The California Governor had signed an anti-racial profiling bill. There are states who prohibit profiling people completely and 20 other states who still allow it. Some states that allow racial profiling to be used are New Jersey, New York, and Arizona among others. There has been a program called …show more content…
The people who seem to be from a certain religion who cover their heads with turbans are much more profiled when they go to certain places or enter the country. Such story of Amardeep Singh states that he was stopped at an airport and was subjected to extra screening along with his 18 month-old son. The boy was patted down and his belongings were searched including his Elmo book. Muslims, Sikh, and any who may look like them are stopped and questioned for extra screening. In the Reality of Racial Profiling, there are many stories of different people who are being stopped and treated differently. Not only because someone from the same racecommitted a crime doesn’t mean that everyone in the same race are the same. In the Police Should Use Racial Profiling to Tackle Problems of Illegal Immigration, states that racial profiling couldn’t have prevented 9/11. Dozens of Muslim men were detained by federal agents even though they had no ties to terrorism. After the incident, Arab and Muslim men had to register with the authorities due to their nationalities. American citizens are also getting angry that immigrants are taking over the jobs but the article mentions that without immigrants, the jobs wouldn’t get done. Many of the migratory arrests in several countries were due to traffics stops, not criminal acts. In April 2010, Arizona enabled SB 1070 which required law enforcement
There are many videos around the INTERNET and on the news that shows police brutality against colored people. Many people have been shot and died right on the spot. Many innocent lives have been lost along the way. Racial profiling is a serious matter happening all around. Even though police officers feel the right to profile people, it is wrong because the police stop people for their race, ethnicity, and religion, targets groups based on past incidents, and it has killed many innocent people when they are not armed. Racial profiling is the act of suspecting …show more content…
George W. Bush stated,”Racial Profiling is wrong, and we will end it in America.” According to The New York Times on Racial Discrimination in Stop-and-Frisk, Judge Shira Scheindlin has been fighting to change the discriminatory in stop and frisks over in New York which has been violating the rights of the people. There are statistics showing that the city conducted 4.4 million stops between January 2004 and June 2012 in which only 6% were arrested and 6% in summonses, while the other 88% resulted in nothing. There was evidence showing that the majority who were stopped were African Americans and Hispanic residents. There are laws such as the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment that protects the people from being searched without a reasonable reason and that they must be treated equally under the law. The California Governor had signed an anti-racial profiling bill. There are states who prohibit profiling people completely and 20 other states who still allow it. Some states that allow racial profiling to be used are New Jersey, New York, and Arizona among others. There has been a program called …show more content…
The people who seem to be from a certain religion who cover their heads with turbans are much more profiled when they go to certain places or enter the country. Such story of Amardeep Singh states that he was stopped at an airport and was subjected to extra screening along with his 18 month-old son. The boy was patted down and his belongings were searched including his Elmo book. Muslims, Sikh, and any who may look like them are stopped and questioned for extra screening. In the Reality of Racial Profiling, there are many stories of different people who are being stopped and treated differently. Not only because someone from the same racecommitted a crime doesn’t mean that everyone in the same race are the same. In the Police Should Use Racial Profiling to Tackle Problems of Illegal Immigration, states that racial profiling couldn’t have prevented 9/11. Dozens of Muslim men were detained by federal agents even though they had no ties to terrorism. After the incident, Arab and Muslim men had to register with the authorities due to their nationalities. American citizens are also getting angry that immigrants are taking over the jobs but the article mentions that without immigrants, the jobs wouldn’t get done. Many of the migratory arrests in several countries were due to traffics stops, not criminal acts. In April 2010, Arizona enabled SB 1070 which required law enforcement