racial profiling
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Racial profiling is a detrimental tactic that pollutes the efforts of our law enforcement's efforts of reducing crime. It alienates the people that should be cooperating with the law to prevent future acts of terrorism against our country (Berry). Also, racial profiling causes the efforts of U.S. security to be less affective because it forces agents to disregard the most influential characteristic of a criminal, their behavior, in focusing on a less plausible feature, perceived race. Before September 11th, 2001, more than sixty percent of Americans believed that racial profiling was an illegal and immoral procedure for apprehending potential criminals (Berry). Ira Glasser, head of the American Civil Liberties Union, however, said that " skin color has become a substitute for evidence in a way that really resemble Jim Crow justice on the nations highway (qtd in ACLU). The U.S. has evolved as a nation past the time when such acts were acceptable and they should not be tolerated any longer...