Racial Profiling Plagues Our Society
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Racial profiling is the act to draw or shape one person's opinion about another race. The City Journal web site "The Myth of Racial Profiling" seemed to offer the most reliable information on my topic because racial profiling has been around for many years and still is a subject that doesn't lose it structure. Racial profiling should not be mixed in with Stereotyping, they are two different ideas. This type of profiling includes many areas that this can take place in, like our military service men and woman, schools, television, media, music and most of all our law enforcement nation wide.
Racial profiling does not just happen to black people actually being racially profiled can happen to anyone no matter what race or gender. Racial profiling has plagued this country for years. Since September 11th after the Twin towers were destroyed people of Arabic decent are also racially profiled everywhere they go. Race, ethnicity and religion are not grounds for law enforcement to suspect criminal activity and unfortunately this ignorance has gotten out of control.
There are two meanings of "racial profiling" intermingle what we may call "hard" profiling uses race as the only factor in assessing criminal suspiciousness: A law enforcement officer sees a black person and without more to go on pulls him over for a
pat-down search on the chance that he may be carrying illegal drugs or weapons. "Soft" racial profiling is using race as one factor among others in gauging criminal suspiciousness: A California Highway Patrol Officer for example has intelligence that a black man with a fondness for Nissan Pathfinders is transporting marijuana along the northwest border...