Racial Profiling Research Paper

Drug dealers are mostly Black and Mexican, Muslims are terrorists, and Hispanics are all gang members. These are things you might hear people who use racial profiling say. Racial profiling is used by police and people of authority to narrow down and target specific groups of people. This basically means that if a person is black, they are automatically assumed to be at a higher risk of having drugs then a white person. A police officer would more likely arrest a Muslim than a white person for suspicious behavior. Basically, people are judged unfairly and rights are compromised when racial profiling is used. There is no place for racial profiling in America. Some of the main types of profiling include singling out a person of a certain
In a recent case, Wal-Mart was the perpetrator. According to the article "GAF (a roofing company) has been spending about $50,000 a year on gift cards for employees at the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 11110 Causeway Blvd. in Brandon. For years GAF sent a white, female administrator to buy them without incident. This time, when she was on vacation the day before Thanksgiving, Pitts ( A black employee of GAF) did the job. He phoned in the order for 520 cards, got the accounting department to issue Wal-Mart a $13,600 check and then encountered a royal hassle trying to exchange it for gift cards at the store." He was accused of writing forged check. The cops were even called. When the cops arrived, they were not very pleasant. They told Pitt that he was going to be charged with a fellony, and arrested. After they reviewed the check, they realized that he was in fact telling the truth. The only reason for the acquisition was the fact that he was black. "Our deputies didn't even see enough (of a case) to write a report," (St. Petersburg) said Lt. Carmen Rivas, the shift commander. "We responded only because Wal-Mart called in a bad check report." I can only assume that Pitt is not the first minority to receive this kind of unjust