Racial
profiling is the practice of subjecting citizens to increased
surveillance or scrutiny based on racial or ethnic factors rather than
"reasonable suspicion." It is clear that, given the power
and discretion available to police, the experience of being subject
to racial profiling can lead both to a feeling of being harassed and
to a sense of alienation from the legal system and the wider society.
Over a long period of time, negative experience such as racial
profiling can lead to specific ethnic groups' losing confidence in
the police. Majority of black people have been treated unequal by the
police, according to the story of Eric Garner and the series of other
death of unarmed black men, it is clear that there are two issues
that needs to be highly addressed: racial profiling and police use of
excessive force. In the case of Eric, police targeted him for a crime
of selling loose cigarettes, which is the types of crimes in which
black people are usually targeted for at a higher rates, therefore,
the police attempted to arrest him with a chokehold, however he was
unable to breath due to the pressure that was put into his body, in
less than a few minutes he was announced dead. Racial profiling has
become one of the most dangerous act of the police, it has become
normalized to profile an individual based on religion, ethnicity and
national origin, rather than treating everyone as equal under the
law. Hispanics and african americans are the most targeted and are
more likely to be stopped and searched by police, even though they
are less likely to be found committing a criminal act. The fear of
driving while black has become one of the most well known tragedy in
within the black community, profiling has undermined public safety
and destroyed the trust between the police and the community, when
law enforcement officers target residents based on race, one's skin
color, rather than behaviour, crime fighting is less effective and
community distrust of police is likely to increase. Police
constantly single out black commuters and residents twice and
sometimes three times more likely than their white neighbours. Once
pulled over or stopped by the police, black residents are typically
searched without warrants, fined, or arrested. In my opinion i
believe police do such things to show how much authority they got,
simply because there are no other explanation for killing Innocent,
unarmed individuals.The current situations recalls the concept of Alexander,
as she argues that the criminal equity framework, in the same way as
all other open projects, is introduced as one in view of
correspondence, everybody is equal in the eyes of the law. Yet,
alexander exhibits how the law really attempts to target racialized
individuals, and especially African-American, through many ways of
operation or systems. The
"war on drugs" its not a war on drugs, i firmly accept that
its rather a war on blacks, it began as a war on blacks and its
currently spread the hispanics, and it was intended to take the
vitality that was originating from the common right developments and
annihilate it. It is stunning to find that culture and one's skin
color have such an effect on an association, such as the police that
should be responsible, trusting and straightforward. Not at all like
what is going on , police are more worst and against the actual law.
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