Although racial profiling is used to detect terrorism and reduce crime, this process tampers with an individual’s civil rights. Racial profiling is slowly destroying the way we see our fellow brethren. Racial profiling is the act of degrading another individual based on the fear of the unknown. If people continue to discriminate based on fear and suspicion, eventually it will turn into hate crimes. Profiling is unethical, causes racial tension, and is downright racism in the shadows. Racial profiling destroys relations between police and community they serve. When law enforcement start preying on people based on ethnicity, the community becomes suspicious. Racial profiling distances communities from law enforcement, hinders community policing efforts, and causes enforcement to lose credibility and faith among the people they oath to serve (ACLU). Different perceptions of the law enforcement start to rise, and cause people to live in fear based on what they look like. People believe that policemen/ women act based on their personal bias, and prejudice towards an …show more content…
If they truly believe that one minority group poses a threat then they increase their standards of procedure for caution sake. This term “extra caution” as they call it is the reason that normal routine traffic stops end in almost 6.66% of African Americans being murdered by police brutality. New York Times writers Shannon LaFraniere and Andrew W. Lehren show disturbing research: “Officers were more likely to stop black drivers for no discernible reason. And they were more likely to use force if the driver was black, even if they did not encounter physical resistance.” This issue sparked the well-known movement “Blacks Lives Matter" because African Americans wanted to be heard concerning racial profiling and the deaths of African Americans caused by police brutality. Routine traffic stops should not end up in arrests, searches, murders, brutality, or the use of weapons