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Racial Profiling: Racism in Disguise
Some say racial profiling is a helpful tool police use to identify people that might have committed a crime. ... Racial profiling is just a motivator for police. ... There have been too many cases where police have used racial profiling to try and catch criminals and failed. ... Or they say that if traffic cops pull over and search the vehicles of African Americans disproportionately, then such ‘racial profiling’ is an unfortunate but necessary component of modern crime fight.
While incidents of racial profiling are widely spread today, there is little said about the actual root cause of the problem. “The standard explanation for racial profiling focus on racism, but that idea runs contrary to the change in social attitudes that have taken place over the last four decades” (1 Anderson). The practice of racial profiling grows from a trio of very tangible sources, all attributed to the War on
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Drugs, that $37 billion annual effort on the part of local, state, and federal lawmakers and cops to stop the sale and use of "illicit" substances. ... Since the notion of scaling back, or stopping, the drug war is too controversial for most politicians to handle; its hardly surprising that its role in racial profiling should go largely unacknowledged.
Approximate Word count = 1026
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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