African Americans are arrested for drug offenses at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites - according to a May 2009 report on disparity in drug arrests by Human Rights Watch. ... About 64% of those arrested for delivering drugs were black. ... The media usually depicts African Americans as typical drug users. This impacts the way Americans imagine a drug user. ... There should be a focus on balancing law enforcement strategies and demand reduction approaches emphasizing prevention and treatment. 2. ...

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Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. ... But the trooper set loose a drug-sniffing dog to comb the car's exterior, including the windshield, the hubcaps, and the taillights while Wilkins and his family stood in the rain. No drugs were found. ... The attitude of certain high-ranking law enforcement officials also helps to compound the problem. ... For example, public opinion surveys have established that blacks d...

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When patrolling the streets, the police stop cars for traffic violations, and sometimes engage in undercover operations if they think is suspicious of more serious crimes such as drug trafficking or prostitution. ...

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The Movement's crowning legislative achievement was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned discrimination in places of public accommodation, enforced the Constitutional right to vote, established a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and prevented discrimination in federally assisted programs. ... In American society, the word "ghetto" has come to symbolize predominantly poor, black neighborhoods rid with drugs and violence. Racial profiling has become common for most urban law enforcement, thus leading to more Blacks being imprisoned than any other race. ...

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In the very first paragraph of King's speech, he references to "five score years ago" which is when Abraham Lincoln enforced the Emancipation Proclamation that declared all people held as slaves, within the rebellious states, were free (King 1). ... Also, these young thugs succumb to selling drugs to make quick money and, with young men being arrested for doing exactly what white men expect of them, it creates a permanent image for all young, black men. ...

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Mack, Robinson's older brother, used sports to become popular not drugs or gangs (8). ... Robinson would often write letters to the president, whomever it was at the time, stating that the president should enforce civil rights laws to protect the blacks (Elderkin). ...

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The term "driving while black has been used to describe the practice of law enforcement officials to stop African-American drivers without probable cause" (Weatherspoon, 2004). ... Michelle Alexander stated, "The likelihood that a person of Mexican ancestry is an "alien" could not be significantly higher than the likelihood that any random black person is a drug criminal" (2010, pg.129). ...

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