Essay On Racial Profiling In America
Racial Profiling in America
CM107-32: College Composition I
Racial profiling (other than same sex relationship issues) seems to be the civil rights issue of our generation. While many brush it off, there are real live statistics suggesting that it is a very troubling societal issue. It doesn’t seem to be isolated in any one part of the country but some places are more notorious than others when it comes to racial profiling. There have also been high profile individuals like African American U.S. Danny Davis of Illinois who claims in 2007 was racially profiled after leaving a radio station in which he hosts a show.
The state of Missouri has very alarming statistics involving racial profiling. The attorney general, Chris Koster, put a graph on the web that outlines, by race, all stops, searches, arrests, search rate, contraband hit rate, and arrest rate. The average search rate for all stops in the state that year was 7.77%. The search rate for whites was 7.05%, versus blacks at 10.80% and Hispanic …show more content…
His license plates were a couple of weeks out of date, which is a definite reason to be pulled over. The officer was driving in the lane next to us but slightly behind. The county sheriff deputy police cruisers are equipped with cameras that read every license plate it sees so I’m sure the fact that they were expired flashed on his display. Instead of getting behind us and pulling us over, he accelerated past us, looked into our vehicle then slowed to get behind us and on came his lights. I truly believe if we were not two youngish black guys he would’ve keep going. During the traffic stop, the deputy asked me for my identification, which I feel is odd because most of the times I get pulled over, 3-6 times a year, my wife is with me and she has never been asked to furnish ID. His goal was to see if I had warrant(s) so he could get an
CM107-32: College Composition I
Racial profiling (other than same sex relationship issues) seems to be the civil rights issue of our generation. While many brush it off, there are real live statistics suggesting that it is a very troubling societal issue. It doesn’t seem to be isolated in any one part of the country but some places are more notorious than others when it comes to racial profiling. There have also been high profile individuals like African American U.S. Danny Davis of Illinois who claims in 2007 was racially profiled after leaving a radio station in which he hosts a show.
The state of Missouri has very alarming statistics involving racial profiling. The attorney general, Chris Koster, put a graph on the web that outlines, by race, all stops, searches, arrests, search rate, contraband hit rate, and arrest rate. The average search rate for all stops in the state that year was 7.77%. The search rate for whites was 7.05%, versus blacks at 10.80% and Hispanic …show more content…
His license plates were a couple of weeks out of date, which is a definite reason to be pulled over. The officer was driving in the lane next to us but slightly behind. The county sheriff deputy police cruisers are equipped with cameras that read every license plate it sees so I’m sure the fact that they were expired flashed on his display. Instead of getting behind us and pulling us over, he accelerated past us, looked into our vehicle then slowed to get behind us and on came his lights. I truly believe if we were not two youngish black guys he would’ve keep going. During the traffic stop, the deputy asked me for my identification, which I feel is odd because most of the times I get pulled over, 3-6 times a year, my wife is with me and she has never been asked to furnish ID. His goal was to see if I had warrant(s) so he could get an