Essay On Racial Profiling

Racial profiling has been a longstanding and deeply troubling problem throughout the nation. Racial profiling is something that everyone faces everyday no matter what your skin color is. Racial profiling is defined as the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. It’s basically similar to stereotyping because people do it every day without actually knowing anything about an individual. It is more common that racial profiling may be towards African Americans. It affects a wide array of communities of color. It is said that for more than 240 years of slavery and 90 years if legalized racial segregation have led to systematic profiling of blacks. However since September 11, 2001 Muslims, Arabs,

We go off of what the media portrays what may have happened in a situation but we don’t truly know what happened. For example with the Trayvon Martin case we only know that an African American teenager was shot and killed by a white man because he feared the teenager. Yes that is wrong but we never got to hear Trayvon Martin’s side of story. Practices and Policies are put into place when things begin getting out of control. When a community stands up for what they think is right and protests throughout their community, that’s when there’s some type of attention bought. After 3 or 4 killings of African American teenage males in the year of 2014 then law enforcement officials want to bring about the idea of having cameras worn on officers uniforms’ feel as though that should have been a factor way before things started getting out of control. There’s the End Racial Profiling Act which is defined by the NAACP as the “insidious practice of racial profiling by law enforcement on five levels: first, it clearly defines the racially discriminatory practice of racial profiling by law enforcement at all levels; second, it creates a federal prohibition against racial profiling; thirdly, it mandates data collection so we can fully assess the true extent of the problem; fourth, it provides funding for the retraining of law enforcement officials on how