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Racial Profiling Traffic Stops
777 wordsWe must ensure that stereotypes and prejudice, whether consciously or unconsciously, do not creep into the work we do - Attorney General Janet Reno What is race? In the colonial era, Western ideologies helped to build a dominant European society. The rise of the West had a dramatic effect on the rest of the world. A new Capitalist economy was adopted. It operated on the basis of oppression. Prior to this time, races did not exist. Yet, as the white man came into power, his superiority was enforc...
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Equal Protection Clause Los Angeles Police
4,653 wordsI. INTRODUCTION Let me make this very clear. The Maryland State police has not, does not, nor will it ever condone the use of race-based profiling in determining which cars to stop on the highway. 1 Chief State Trooper Colonel David Mitchell issued this statement in response to a lawsuit filed against the Maryland State Troopers. The suit was filed on behalf of African-American motorists who alleged that these officers had engaged in a practice of targeting black motorists for traffic stops alon...
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Law Enforcement Officials Driving While Black
1,630 wordsRahsaan De Lain Senior Paper Mrs. Carlo The issue of racial profiling in America is one of great importance to the future of American society. This issue fairly new, in terms of being recognized is old in its ways. Racism and stereotyping are issues that date back to many years ago. Racial profiling in America is on that needs to be addressed by the government and society if we ever want America to truly be, ? The Land of The Free. ? One of the main examples of racial profiling is called DWB (Dr...
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Driving While Black Law Enforcement Officials
2,272 wordsRacial Profiling: Its Racial Profiling 1 Racial Profiling: Its Time to Put an End to this Unjust Practice It has happened to actors such as Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, Blair Underwood and LeVar Burton. It has happened to football player Marcus Allen, Olympic athletes Al Joyner and Edwin Moses, and it has happened to attorney Johnnie Cochran. Police officers stop, question and even search black drivers who have committed no crime, based on the excuse that a traffic offense has occurred. The term b...
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Law Enforcement Agencies Racial Profiling
241 wordsClifton 2 Racial Profiling Racial profiling is prevalent with the law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. Racial profiling is not new to law enforcement and certainly not new to the citizens that are victims from it. Profiling is a serious injustice to humanity, is an act of racism and discrimination, and is condoned by law enforcement agencies. Profiling has been enforced since the invention of law enforcement. However, it is a crime that needs to cease. Officers should not condu...
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Driving While Black Criminal Justice System
3,718 wordsThe interviews excerpted here show that racially biased pre textual traffic stops have a strong and immediate impact on the individual African-American drivers involved. These stops are not the minor inconveniences they might seem to those who are not subjected to them. Rather, they are experiences that can wound the soul and cause psychological scar tissue to form. And the statistics show that these experiences are not simply disconnected anecdotes or exaggerated versions of personal experience...
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