Racial profiling is a discrimination towards people, based on their race, ethnicity, religion, and national origin. Judging a person before getting to know them. Racial profiling is never acceptable. Racial profiling is a very ugly thing loathsome thing. In “ Hounding the Innocent “ by Bod Herbert it shows a normal causal man being terrorize police officer. In the summer of 1998 stat police in Oklahoma spent over two hours humiliating
Rossano Gerald, a thirty seven year old army sergeant and his twelve year old son Greg. They pulled over Geral, violated his writes and completely humiliated him. “ They ask permission to search the car and when he refused they searched it anyways. They separated Greg from his father and locked him in
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They are harassed, fisked in what they say “ breathtaking numbers .” More than 45,000 people were stopped and harassed by member’s of the street crime unit in 1997 throughout 1998. Over more then ten thousand people were arrested due to specious acts. Bob Herbert introduces Mayor Giuliani from New York, and how he states that “ The stop are driven by the descriptions of the person who committed the crime.” (Giuliani 1) But as Herbert says “ Spare me. The vast majority of these stop are in no way connected to the commission to specific crime, and the mayor knows it. They are arbitrary and unconscionable on the right of New Yorkers who are supposed to be protected, not humiliated, by the polices.” ( Herbert 2) This just shows how members of the public officials do not want to admit that what their polices men are doing isn’t right. Even someone as a high authority the New York City may Rudolph Giuliani, knows is wrong, yet isn’t doing one thing about it. He would rather have police making multiple mistaken identity pull them over have them do whatever they want to do, then rather saying that what is going on with his polices men are wrong. What they’re going about, needs to be stopped and fixed. Having this type of problem would make many people aggravated and rebel against them. Police brutality would be a very big problem in there city. The people will over rule against them. The people will out number the