Essay On Racial Profiling Is Morally Wrong
Racial Profiling is Morally wrong
Some people are not aware of the racial profiling that still exists in America, and if they are they make no effort of talking about it. Police prejudice and racial profiling is responsible for many false arrests, convictions and deaths of African Americans. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone to have committed an offense. This has been an ongoing problem that African Americans have been dealing with for more than 500 years. Racial profiling of African Americans is morally wrong and is based on false assumptions.
Racial profiling is a violation of human rights for African Americans. It violates the 4th Amendment, which states; “The constitution, through the 4th …show more content…
“New York City Police Dept. A federal judge found that the departments infamous “Stop-and-Frisk” program constitutes discriminatory and constitutional racial profiling. The NYPD offered a second rationale for the disparity: that black youth are simply more likely to engage in “suspicious behavior” than whites. Judge Scheindlin found that the NYPD’s defense was actually no defense at all. She wrote that the NYPD’s logic was “effectively an admission” that racial bias was the only explanation for the NYPD’s disproportionate stopping of blacks (Price 2).” This shows that blacks and other ethnical groups are being strippen of their rights and being humiliated by police agencies that claim to have racial profiling as a working method to decrease crime. Statistics clearly show the bias that's behind African Americans and law enforcements. In Ferguson for an example, “African American drivers there represented 86 percent of all traffic stops despite making up only 67 percent of the city’s population; white drivers by contrast, account for only 13 percent of the traffic stops in Ferguson despite only making up 29 percent of its population (Zengerle 2).” This shows that they are being targeted, because the majority of their population has high arrests percentage. “African American drivers accounted for nearly 93 percent of arrests and whites only 7 percent (Zengerle 2).” What does this tell you? More blacks are arrested than whites in Ferguson even though they only make up 67 percent of the population. This is a clear understanding of how racial profiling of blacks does not
Some people are not aware of the racial profiling that still exists in America, and if they are they make no effort of talking about it. Police prejudice and racial profiling is responsible for many false arrests, convictions and deaths of African Americans. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone to have committed an offense. This has been an ongoing problem that African Americans have been dealing with for more than 500 years. Racial profiling of African Americans is morally wrong and is based on false assumptions.
Racial profiling is a violation of human rights for African Americans. It violates the 4th Amendment, which states; “The constitution, through the 4th …show more content…
“New York City Police Dept. A federal judge found that the departments infamous “Stop-and-Frisk” program constitutes discriminatory and constitutional racial profiling. The NYPD offered a second rationale for the disparity: that black youth are simply more likely to engage in “suspicious behavior” than whites. Judge Scheindlin found that the NYPD’s defense was actually no defense at all. She wrote that the NYPD’s logic was “effectively an admission” that racial bias was the only explanation for the NYPD’s disproportionate stopping of blacks (Price 2).” This shows that blacks and other ethnical groups are being strippen of their rights and being humiliated by police agencies that claim to have racial profiling as a working method to decrease crime. Statistics clearly show the bias that's behind African Americans and law enforcements. In Ferguson for an example, “African American drivers there represented 86 percent of all traffic stops despite making up only 67 percent of the city’s population; white drivers by contrast, account for only 13 percent of the traffic stops in Ferguson despite only making up 29 percent of its population (Zengerle 2).” This shows that they are being targeted, because the majority of their population has high arrests percentage. “African American drivers accounted for nearly 93 percent of arrests and whites only 7 percent (Zengerle 2).” What does this tell you? More blacks are arrested than whites in Ferguson even though they only make up 67 percent of the population. This is a clear understanding of how racial profiling of blacks does not