Racial Profiling This semester, we spent a great deal of time discussing issues of equality in law enforcement, but one of the main items of controversy was racial profiling. ... So the information that they had suggested that the drugs would be in cars driven by Hispanic or black people. ... "Under present laws and public attitudes drug control is a highly volatile issue, and the publics in most cities are split on the opinions of where, how, why, to whom, and when drug enforcement should take place- (Manning 273). ... "The overall objective of drug law enforcement from which particula...

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For my research paper I chose the topic of racial profiling and law enforcement. ... This article shows the one sidedness of reporting about racial profiling and its effect of law enforcement agencies. ... Law enforcement agencies have worked together in slowing the drug trade as shown in the article in the city journal. ... Youth drug use followed similar patterns. ... Overall through the research I gathered there is definitely racial profiling in law enforcement. ...

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The war on drugs has given police a license to target those people who they believe fit the "profile" of a drug dealer or a gang member. ... Statistics prove the use and selling of drugs are not limited to minorities in America; in fact, five times as many whites use drugs. From the outset of the "war on drugs," minorities have been targeted. ... But law enforcement tactics remain concentrated in the inner city, continuing to feed the perception that drug dealers and users are black. ... The practice of profiling has "helped breed a deep...

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Southern governors and law enforcement officials argued that these tactics were criminal and that the Civil Rights movement was a breakdown of law and order. ... The Justice Department shifted its attention to street crime, especially drug-law enforcement. In October 1982, Reagan announced the War on Drugs. ... According to The New Jim Crow, Portugal responded to drug addiction and abuse by decriminalizing the possession of all drugs and redirecting the money that would have gone to putting drug-users in cages into drug treatment and prevention. In ten years, rates of drug abuse, addiction and...

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Many police authorities use racial profiling as a tool to pick up anyone they suspect is carrying arms and/or drugs. Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. ... Increasingly the police are seen by...

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Unfortunately, the introduction of collaboration between local police and immigration law enforcement has not made communities as safe as intended. Tensions between police officers and community members increase, as does the distrust people feel towards law enforcement (Grigsby). Not only does this collaboration increase tensions and distrust but, as CounterPunch puts it, "It is easy to imagine the [collaboration between police and immigration law enforcement] will lead to more hit and runs, as undocumented migrants involved in car accidents will fear that any police encounter could lea...

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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 United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on ...

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Most of the reason for this is drug related. Yet whites and blacks engage in drug offences, possession and sales, at roughly comparable rates (Human Rights Watch 2008).While African Americans comprise 13% of the US population and 14% of monthly drug users they are 37% of the people arrested for drug offences ( Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.) African Americans are arrested for drug offences at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites. ... Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project reports African Americans are 21% more likely to receive mandatory minimum sentences than white defenda...

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The disparity among rates of incarceration and race exists because of unfair treatment by law enforcement. ... In which he explains: "Police drug law enforcement focused effort on inner-city, primarily minority, neighborhoods, where many black Americans live, and on crack cocaine, of which blacks are a large majority of arrested sellers. ...

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Wells also mentions an instance when a white man "outraged an Afro-American girl in a drug store". ... The white male who assaulted the woman did not face any serious punishment, while the woman raped often faced serious injuries, no support from local law enforcers, or even death- proving the evident double standard that existed for women of different color as victims of rape. ...

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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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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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The 13th amendment abolished servitude everywhere in the U.S. and declared that congress shall have power to enforce this outcome by appropriate legislation. ... In order to enforce these rights federal legislations were passed, public facilities such as transportation and waiting rooms were now desegregated and blacks finally gained back their access to the polling booth. ... He was a drug addict and also sold marijuana. ...

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Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with then are relegated to cages. ...

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1. INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. He then hires the white street lawyer Jake Brigance as his attorney, who also defended his brother in a different case. A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan ...

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