Racial Profiling In California
Press Release
Adam Yassa
CJA 304
Oct 29, 2013
Dr SAMARA
Press Release
Racial Profiling
In California, the criminal justice system is experiencing problems that appear overwhelming when it comes to racial profiling .Racial profiling not only respects individuals Legal rights, but it is considered ineffective policing. On Monday, the ACLU of Southern California released a report investigating more than 700,000 cases in which Los Angeles Police Department officers stopped pedestrians and/or drivers of motor vehicles between July 2003 and June 2004. Not simply whether Latinos, Middle Eastern and African Americans are stopped and searched by the LAPD more often than whites. It’s very clear that they are, but the most difficult question of whether …show more content…
Crime rates and property crime rates in specific neighborhoods, Stopped blacks are 76% more likely to be searched, and stopped Latinos are 16% more likely to be searched than stopped whites. Stopped blacks are 29% more likely to be arrested, and stopped Latinos are 32% more likely to be arrested than stopped whites. Now consider this: Although stopped blacks were 127% more likely to be frisked than stopped whites, they were 42.3% less likely to be found with a weapon after they were frisked, 25% less likely to be found with drugs and 33% less likely to be found with other contraband. We found similar patterns for Latinos. People of color were arrested at a higher rate than their representation in the …show more content…
African Americans feel that they are being misjudged because of the way that they dress, act, and the neighborhood they live in. California has received several complaints that deal with racial profiling. Police Chief William J. Bratton quickly rejected these results, primarily because the study used documents that were more than 4 years old. The department has not released the more recent stop data that it has been saving, nor has it investigated the more recent data to test for racial disparities. If Bratton is truthfully confident that unjustified racial disparities are a thing of the past, he should be able to show the change in the current documents. Bratton also asserted that the report was not good enough because. On this point, Bratton is simply wrong about how to conduct a statistical analysis. When testing for unfound racial disparities in who is stopped by the police in cars and on the street, it 's inappropriate to control. The possibility of being stopped, frisked or arrested shouldn 't turn on whether a black, Latino or white officer was involved.
Racial profiling can be clear as by officials of the law that targets individuals based upon their race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. Through the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, agencies are required to hire officers of all races because “hiring officers that will represent the whole communities they serve is considered a strategy that
Adam Yassa
CJA 304
Oct 29, 2013
Dr SAMARA
Press Release
Racial Profiling
In California, the criminal justice system is experiencing problems that appear overwhelming when it comes to racial profiling .Racial profiling not only respects individuals Legal rights, but it is considered ineffective policing. On Monday, the ACLU of Southern California released a report investigating more than 700,000 cases in which Los Angeles Police Department officers stopped pedestrians and/or drivers of motor vehicles between July 2003 and June 2004. Not simply whether Latinos, Middle Eastern and African Americans are stopped and searched by the LAPD more often than whites. It’s very clear that they are, but the most difficult question of whether …show more content…
Crime rates and property crime rates in specific neighborhoods, Stopped blacks are 76% more likely to be searched, and stopped Latinos are 16% more likely to be searched than stopped whites. Stopped blacks are 29% more likely to be arrested, and stopped Latinos are 32% more likely to be arrested than stopped whites. Now consider this: Although stopped blacks were 127% more likely to be frisked than stopped whites, they were 42.3% less likely to be found with a weapon after they were frisked, 25% less likely to be found with drugs and 33% less likely to be found with other contraband. We found similar patterns for Latinos. People of color were arrested at a higher rate than their representation in the …show more content…
African Americans feel that they are being misjudged because of the way that they dress, act, and the neighborhood they live in. California has received several complaints that deal with racial profiling. Police Chief William J. Bratton quickly rejected these results, primarily because the study used documents that were more than 4 years old. The department has not released the more recent stop data that it has been saving, nor has it investigated the more recent data to test for racial disparities. If Bratton is truthfully confident that unjustified racial disparities are a thing of the past, he should be able to show the change in the current documents. Bratton also asserted that the report was not good enough because. On this point, Bratton is simply wrong about how to conduct a statistical analysis. When testing for unfound racial disparities in who is stopped by the police in cars and on the street, it 's inappropriate to control. The possibility of being stopped, frisked or arrested shouldn 't turn on whether a black, Latino or white officer was involved.
Racial profiling can be clear as by officials of the law that targets individuals based upon their race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. Through the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, agencies are required to hire officers of all races because “hiring officers that will represent the whole communities they serve is considered a strategy that