Racial profiling primarily affects African-Americans and Hispanics. ... Bob Vogel began accumulating tremendous arrest statistics and earned the attention of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). ... Statistically speaking, blacks create a disproportionate amount of the crime in America. According to the Wall Street Journal, March 11th, 1999, blacks are only 12% of the American population. ... The statistics overwhelmingly support tough laws to fight drugs. ...

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Native Americans, as a race, have suffered from the very beginning of contact with the English colonists. They once constituted 100 percent of the population in North America, whereas today they represent 2 percent of the population. ... Disease accounted for most of the deaths of the Native Americans. ... The Pequot name was later removed from all of New England's maps so that there was no recollection of their existence Statistics largely support the case of genocide against the Natives. ... To conclude, I firmly believe, based on statistical proof and actions by the colonists, t...

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African-Americans and Hispanics make up most of the prison population in America. ... This could be the cause of why the American prison population is so populated with minority prisoners. ... In figure 1, it shows the statistics of race that is imprisoned per 100,000 people in the United States in 2010. ... African Americans make up most of the population in the jails today. ... Population (Hartman, "End Racial Discrimination"). ...

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But, what happens when the law enforcer turns out to be the lawbreaker by targeting African Americans for traffic stops? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... According to the Bureau of Justice Standards (2001), among licensed drivers 12% of the black population and 10% of the white population was pulled over, (keeping in mind there are only 35 million blacks in the U.S. compared to 210 million whites). ... According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the prison population in the past decade has s...

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African Americans, Hispanics, Caucasians, and Asian Americans are all primary examples of racial groups. Some of these groups are in the majority, mainly meaning the whites, while others are in the definite minority in the United States, such as African Americans. Statistics show drastic differences concerning population percentage between these particular groups. For example, in terms of percentage of total population, in 1990, whites made up 80.3% of the population, while African Americans made up only a mere 12.1%.... With an average salary of under $7,500 a year, high ma...

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The startling statistics behind the death penalty and death row inmates is a large factor in their argument. ... It will not only focus on the statistics amongst the races but also will discuss the average age, social status, and educational achievement of the people sentenced to die, the difference in the crimes that got them sentenced, and the small amount of women who have been faced with this court decision. ... According to www.coadp.org, an African American is four times more likely to be sentenced to die than a white man. ... The race of the defendants executed since 1973, the race of...

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