Is racial profiling necessary to prevent crimes, or does it unfairly target a specific group of people based on their race and ethnic background? ... It is more likely for minorities and poor people to turn to crime for survival. ... Crimes are committed by all races despite the level of social class or construction. ... Law enforcement structures patrols based largely on high crime areas and it is usually that of minority and poorer communities that receive the most attention. ... The police have a job to do and they feel that even the smallest crime will need to have a harsh penalty in order...

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Instead criticism and analysis must be based upon what is best for the Black community in this country. From this perspective it becomes clear that although race-based jury nullification has many attractive features, it must be modified to be truly beneficial. ... In any policy discussion, formulation of a plausible and effective solution clearly must be based upon the nature of the problem. ... It also found that of all federal death row inmates, 67 percent are Black.11 Despite the fact that these statistics are startling and important, they are insufficient to justify race-based jury nullifi...

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Crime and imprisonment rates are higher in segregated black communities, which also exhibit higher levels of poverty (Burch, 2014). ... Lack of role models from the middle class due to limited interracial interaction has also been raised as an explanation for higher crime and imprisonment rates (Boustan, 2013). ... Boustan (2013) categorized policy solutions to racial residential segregation into people-based solutions, place-based solutions, and indirect solutions. People-based solutions focus on enabling blacks to access homes in the neighborhood of their choice. ... Place-based solutions ...

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Racial profiling roughly covers the grounds of an individual being searched, pulled over, arrested, or questioned by authorities based on race, sex, or even more so, ethnicity. It is a fact that African Americans are six to eight times more likely to be not just arrested, but convicted of a violent crime than a Caucasian. ... While almost everyone is capable of committing virtually any crime, certain ethnicities have tendencies to be responsible for certain crimes and offences than others, and police and any other authorities do keep this in mind while on duty, not because they are racists, ...

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The reasoning behind the statement is that within this justice system defendants would rather do a short term sentence for a crime they did not commit rather than take a risk resulting in a long term prison sentence of upwards of twenty five years for the same non committed crime. ... Sentencing Commission (2010) reports that in the federal system black offenders receive sentences that are 10% longer than white offenders for the same crimes. ... A poor, uneducated person from a high crime area maybe more easily manipulated and intimidated by the police than an educated white person with ques...

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Statistics confirm that African Americans-particularly young black men-commit a dramatically disproportionate share of street crime in the United State. ... In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. ... That is why, since the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, courts have typically ruled-based on the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause-that mere reasonableness is an insufficient justification for officials to discriminate on racial groun...

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Everyday in the U.S. there are numerous crimes being committed in which law enforcement must take action in order to protect innocent civilians against lawbreakers. ... And, How do you punish those law enforcement officers who commit the crime? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... The high rate of blacks being arrested and imprisoned gives the perception that African Americans are more likely to commit crimes than whites. ... In this bill, the findings that a large majority of individuals that are being s...

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Lastly and most importantly the racism in societal is the labels we put on people based on their skin color. ... Tatei Thomas says "Racism, especially in our society is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. ... The United States Sentencing Commissions released a report saying that African Americans sentences are 20% longer than white Americans even though they both were convicted with the same crime. ...

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Aside from biased views, there are also many flaws that exist in our justice system, such as the appearance of racial inequality in court, problems of the public defender system such that it is based mostly on the socioeconomic concept, and the involvement of police abuse and misconduct. ... Minorities, specifically blacks, are charged with more serious crimes, have less opportunity to plea-bargain, are convicted more frequently, and receive harsher sentences when compared to whites in similar situations. ... A study by the California Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic B...

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Race is a cultural category into which people are placed based upon apparent biological characteristics. ... Racism produces a fear-based society in which no one feels safe. ... White people are not usually in danger of individual acts of discrimination, hate crimes and police brutality at the hands of white people, as well as of institutional practices that kill people due to lack of heath care, lack of police protection and unequal legal prosecution. ... Multiculturalism has to base on inclusion. ...

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In contrast, the Daily Illini cites that racial profiling is generally thought of as the targeting of blacks more than whites in traffic stops or accusing blacks of crimes on the basis of race alone. ... As a witness, "I believe based on my research, that racial profiling may happen to every color of skin, but the main focus and stand by go predominately to those of African American and Mexican youth. Although many say that race has nothing to do when a police officer comes in contact with a person, at the end it all boils down that in their mind there is some stereotype that they place on ...

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While Paul Haggis created the film on an attempt to minimize racial prejudice, the film revealed how the world can be extremely judgmental based on the ethnicity of a person, although discrimination has been a problem for all of the United States. ... Acting on ones hatred can lead to a behavior known as "hate crime". ... This feeling prompts the owner to produce a negative attitude based on the assimilation and stereotypes within the Muslim race. ...

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The high rate of dependence on charity, disease, lack of personal hygiene and crime were the main characteristics of the immigrants. ... After the abolition of slavery, the South America was poorer than the rest of the country, because their economy was based on slaves work on plantations. ...

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America alleges they are a religious based country and their faith resides in God. ... Slavery was a crime against humanity and it still in existence in many ways and forms. ... The government of the United States of America has been instrumental in having pressured the German and Japanese governments into the payments of reparations to the people who suffered and survived the crimes and legacy of slavery endured during World War II. ...

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Smith and Levinson suggest that these disparities could be explained by an implicit racial bias that effects us all, that is, "despite even the best intentions, people automatically classify information in racially based ways" (Smith and Levinson 2012:797). ... These questions include: Should the person be charged with a crime? ... Because poor black Americans tend to live in racially and economically segregated areas, the bias that is putting more people of color behind bars for drug crimes is in turn seriously harming minority communities. ...

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In Bob Herbert's article, "hounding the innocent" (1999), he asserts that the authority (justice system) in the United States enforces law based on ethnic profiling. Herbert concedes that raced-based profiling affect its victim to a great extent. ... In the discussion about the extent of racial profiling, "most Americans have no idea of the extent of the raced-based profiling that is carried out by the law-enforcement officials and the demoralizing effect it has on its own victims"(Herbert 30). ... According to Bird, most of the crimes sometimes committed by people are...

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Approximately one million enslaved African Americans were forced from the upper South to the newly conquered territories of the lower South during the first seventy years of America's existence. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, inside homes, in the fields, and in ma...

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Huck Finn, therefore, serves as a spectator, judging them based on realistic observations. ... Although he still considers rescuing Jim as "stealing"" him, the fact that he would commit such a crime just for a slave still establishes great significance in the purpose of reversing the black-white paradigm. ...

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Paine described where, "the poor are not oppressed, [and] the rich are not privileged," today's society is based upon privilege which is obtained from money. ... Both of these wrongful deaths of African American citizens in America caused riots and protests in the street, overall causing pandemonium over what were believed to be racist hate crimes against the black community of the U.S. ...

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Although a diverse student body may produce some positive qualities around a college campus, it should not be considered a compelling reason to accept certain students over others based on their appearance. ... "By the time these minority students reach college-age, it is already too late for many of them; crime-ridden neighborhoods, poverty and failing K through 12 public schools are a brutal winnowing process"(Cose) Although these issues are very real, they must not be handled in a manner which places certain individuals above others. ...

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In the last decades of the 20th century, in the U.S. and in most nations, the legal system prohibited ethnic-based discrimination. ... This success is typically measured in income, education and related factors such as low crime rate and high family stability. ... (Pence) These privileges are unearned and are distributed based on values of the dominant group. ...

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In order to avoid being persecuted for crimes he was innocent of committing, Staples describes his efforts to make himself appear less threatening. ... By using more technical speech and citing other author's works, Staples creates a more intellectual tone in his story which gets his point across, and has a fairly strong emotional base. ...

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Highly esteemed scientists not only helped phrenology to sound factual based, but each added their own input as to why ethnic peoples differed so greatly in the hierarchal chain compared to the so-called superior Caucasian race. ... A belief, though, had given them a sense of obligation to their heinous crimes. ...

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Animals are a vital part of advertising. Businesses in every market utilize animals in their advertisements to help promote their goods, service, or reputation. According to Forbes, in the 2011 Super Bowl, when compared to advertisements with animals, the average non animal Super Bowl ad was 14% les...

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