Racial Profiling Research Paper

White Supremacy Ideals in Racial Profiling

Nazifa Rahman is a nineteen-year-old student from the Bronx. Born and raised in New York City, she attended American schools her entire life/////She was born and raised in the city of New York and attended American schools her entire life. She was in the top five percent of her graduating class and was a national qualifier for the debate team. : Unbeknowst to her, Nazifa’s actions were being tracked by the NYPD. As a result of being a target of investigation, Nazifa has become afraid to participate in extracurricular activities “Even my father told me to keep a low profile,” Nazifa says after she found out that an NYPD officer was closely monitoring the Columbia University Muslim Student
Minorities have been associated with violence and inherently impulsive racial traits since the conception of America. A government official, Judge Sheindlein noted the disparity: “once a stop is made, blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be subjected to the use of force than whites, despite the fact that whites are more likely to be found with weapons or contraband” (Allen). According to the NYPD, only Anglo Saxon individuals are honored as The Stop and Frisk program and the prevalence of racial profiling demonstrate that eugenic ideals are still present in American society and only Anglo- individuals are honored as truly “trustworthy” citizens in America.our nation – our nation switches to first person, and it goes a little far to say that, maybe you should say something like According to the NYPD, only blabla are honored, its too much of a sweeping statement to say it across the
America has an extensive history of segregation and subjugation of non-white populations that racial profiling must seem almost natural for police officers (I really wouldn’t argue that past practices make racial profiling seem natural for police officers). In 1896, Plessey v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of state laws that segregated blacks and whites (add something here about how these laws were made under the premis of treating black people as separate, but supposedly equal, because otherwise the next sentence doesn’t make sense bc it seems like segregation was upheld and then you say “however” black people weren’t equal, you should explain why the reader should expect that Plessy aimed to treat black people as equal) . However, black services were far from equal (what are black services?). This government policy perpetuated the oppression of African-Americans, ensuring that they would not be empowered enough through education or financial independence to be able to overthrow the racial hierarchy. “Black men who were equal to white passengers in education and attainment posed a threat, while the presence of black servants reassured white passengers about their respective places in society” (Who says this? Don’t