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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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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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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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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