The Conservative Case Against Racial Profiling

Many People think of racial profiling as relatively recent phenomena that manifested in the 1980s, as the news of Blacks being pulled over for “driving while black” began making national headlines. Racial Profiling is a new term for actions against black people that, dates back 300 years and is a not a recent manifestation of discriminatory conduct by police and the criminal justice system but dates back to the 1700s in the United States for people of African descent.

In his essay “Arrested Development: The Conservative Case Against Racial Profiling” published in the New Republic on September 10, 2001, professor James Forman Jr. illustrates his disagreement with racial profiling. Forman Jr. is a professor at Yale Law School. He teaches Constitutional Law and seminars on race and the criminal justice system. In his piece, Forman primary goal is to create understanding about the effectiveness of racial profiling and how this affects the black community especially youths. Forman achieves this by appealing to a liberal audience. Moreover, Forman’s essay was published in a newspaper which targeted audience are individuals open to new ideas and opinions, and individuals advocating for social reform. Also, another important aspect is that during his essay, Forman attacks the conservative party which also gives a clear idea of his intended audience. By establishing his credibility

Racial profiling can occur when law officials use race to as a basis to suspicion in non-specific investigations. Creating a profile about the different kinds of minorities who commit certain types of crimes may lead officers to focus more on a particular group and act according to the general stereotype rather than particular behavior. An example of racial profiling could be the use of race to regulate which pedestrians to search for illegal goods or the use of race to regulate which drivers to stop for traffic violations, stopping mostly black or brown colored minorities. Stopping black drivers, just to see what law enforcement might discover, has become so frequent in some places that it has it’s own name: driving while black. A year-long study conducted by the Domestic Human Rights Program of Amnesty International USA found that the unlawful use of race in police, immigration, and airport security procedures has expanded since the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. The study further found that state laws provide insufficient and inconsistent protection against

Thesis Statement: Because of recent events in America including September 11th attacks, the influx of immigration, and recent racial tension with African Americans and police officers, there has been an increase in racial profiling. Racial profiling is a degrading practice that is a violation against human rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution, thus why the United states government should create effective guidelines restricting law enforcement officers from practicing racial profiling.

Racial profiling can have very extreme effects. The American Psychological Association found that the effects of racial profiling caused post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological disorders, which can lead to drug abuse, depression, and even suicide. (Racial Profiling) The effects remind me of the effects of bullying. Some may not understand until it happens to them. Racial profiling can cause feelings of humiliation and worthlessness and lead to self-esteem problems. (Racial Profiling) Something that may not seem as a big deal to some may be it for others. Nobody deserves to have to be humiliated by something they couldn 't

Will there ever be a world without racism? Why do people choose to group people together because of a race and not look at everyone as individuals? Can people ever be separate and equal? People are the same in many ways through culture and background, but this crosses racial lines and doesn’t define one particular race. The word Racism is an ugly word and immediatlely we think of someone who hates people based on skin color. While Racism has been around for years; there isn’t one place on earth that doesn’t contain racism. Over the years, however racism has changed.

Policies for specific states can vary. Kentucky has a policy against Racial Profiling. Their policy states that no state law enforcement agency or official shall stop, detain, or search any person when such action is solely motivated by consideration of race, color, or ethnicity, and the action would constitute a violation of the civil rights of the person (Kentucky General Assembly, 2010). They also gave the local law enforcement agencies a chance to modify the policy and get it approved.

One case that relates to this flaw in the criminal justice system would be the Floyd v. City of New York. The date that this case was filed was on January 31, 2008 by David Floyd, David Ourlicht, Lalit Clarkson and Deon Dennis. This case challenged the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) practices of racial profiling and seeing whether or not the stop and frisk policy is unconstitutional. The clients represents thousands of black and Hispanic New Yorkers who have been stopped for no reason (according to the clients).

Weitzer and Tuch article focuses on the importance of racial profiling and how it has become a big issue in the police force. In the article, the main topic is about racial profiling and how the and how it has controversially affected the policing system in the United States of America. In the article, they talk about how former President Clinton has taken action on this matter and by asking for more information on racial profiling from police forces in America. A majority claims it is not a problem while a selective few believed it to be a minor problem. The race that’s gets racially profiled the most by police officers is African Americans and Hispanics. Steven and Weitzer and Tuch bring up the points of different reasons on why these races

To summarize the article “Racial Profiling is Morally Wrong and Based on False Assumptions”, by James A. Kowalski, he argues that racial profiling is by no means effective, or good. It solves no problems, and causes people to fear law enforcement. Racial profiling is when an individual is suspected of a crime by law enforcement because of their race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. For example, “all blacks are gang members”. In addition to Kowalski’s arguments, he references the Zimmerman case from 2012 as an example of racial profiling gone wrong. Equally important, he references the “9-11” Terrorist attack on the twin towers as a motivation of fear. Kowalski quotes many major people for support and to prove his points. In those

Racial profiling is problematic for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it is a direct

Racial profiling has become a big issue in the U.S. I believe racial profiling is discriminatory. Racial profiling is defined by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights as “targeting of particular individuals by law enforcement authorities based not on their behavior, but rather their personal characteristics.” Certain nationalities are targeted for a police have profiled Muslim, Arab, Hispanic, Black, and South Asian communities. The Bureau of Justice Statistics show variety

I hate when people complain about racial profiling in the police force. African Americans are not the only race that has conflict with the police. I know because I have been in a situation where I could have been easily racial profiled but I was not. About four weeks ago I was in a store and I heard the manager complaining to a white policeman that a man in a red hoodie was stealing. I had on a red hoodie and a white man had on a red hoodie. The police officer walked pass me and checked the white man’s pockets to see if he was stealing. The officer found the stolen merchandise and escorted the thief outside of the store.

This easy talk about how racial profiling has always been around and how it have effect peoples’ life. Today we live in a society that should be moving forward from the pass but we have some much people that still cannot let go of the pass, which cause problem today. Judging someone base on how they look was something that was practice a lot back in the early 1900 and in today society, we still see the same practice.

“The land of the free and the home of the brave” (Morley, 2013). Americans always talk about how lucky they are to be living in a free country, but how free are they actually are? They would always talk about the first amendment and how it is so great because they would hate it if their given freedom was taken away from them, but how much freedom do the people who fit under non-white ethnicities actually get? The first amendment would never divide people’s freedom by their races. Determining who someone is just by the color of their skin or the way they dress is nothing less than ignorant. The person you judge can only be judged by their inner characteristics so they are supposed to know that person first. Racial profiling happens when a person uses religion, origin, race or ethnicity to assume something about someone without having any real evidence. Racial profiling would mostly be used by the police, judicial system and the media, making it an unfair, freedom abolishing and mental breaking world to live in for the non-white ethnicities.