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    Racial Profiling is one of the many areas covered in racial discrimination. It refers to the discriminatory practice‚ especially by law enforcement officials which targets individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race‚ ethnicity‚ religion or national origin. Racial profiling has been and is still an issue today in almost every part of the United States. It is seen in different situations whereby people are treated very unfairly or branded criminals and suspects without

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    Racial profiling is a controversial issue that still occurs in today’s society. For some time‚ policemen have used racial profiling to determine those at fault during criminal activity. However‚ racial profiling must be stopped because it shows ineffectiveness and is embarrassing for the victims. Law enforcement should not be allowed to be discriminative towards a race solely because of their appearance and instincts. Minorities must be protected at all costs in order to have all the American values

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    discouraged and condemned throughout our legal system‚ yet are promoted by even the Supreme Court when used by law enforcement in the practice of racial profiling. Police officers nationwide badger pedestrians‚ make traffic stops‚ and unjustly search citizens daily sometimes with their only reason being the color of the person ’s skin. It is this practice‚ racial profiling‚ which encourages law enforcement officials to discriminate against the very citizens they are hired to protect and to be suspicious of

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    Racial Profiling is the act to draw or shape or bring outside its original or aphis. Racial Profiling has been around for years and still is a subject that doesn’t lose it structure. It should not be mixed in with Stereotyping‚ because they are two different things. This type of profiling includes many different areas where it can take place in. Thus as in the military‚ school‚ television‚ media‚ music and last of not least law enforcement. Racial Profiling does not just happen to black people

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    Junyong Kim Professor Natalie Oliveri ENG 112 10/13/2010 Racial profiling Final draft “Should the U.S government use racial profiling in the war against terrorism?” In today’s society‚ the issue of terrorism is not just a concern for some countries such as America or some Arabic countries but for all countries‚ and it is becoming more important that protecting own country from terrorism. Everyone probably remember the September 11 terror‚ which is one of the biggest attacks in recent few

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    “racial profiling” was given popularity within the U.S as it became an often

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    Criminal profiling‚ a practice initiated by the FBI‚ began in the 1970’s (James et al.‚ 2014; 542). Profiling is used by law enforcement officials for all types of crime‚ including serial killings‚ “to supply offender characteristics to help investigators narrow the field of suspects based on the characteristics of the crime scene and initial investigative information” (James et al.‚ 2014; 542). It is used to aide investigators in catching the killer or to link a person in custody to a crime‚ but

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    The definition of the term‚ ‘Genetic Profiling’ refers to the procedure of analysing the DNA in samples of a person’s body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification. DNA is the 0.1% of the DNA that differentiates each person from another‚ to identify individuals. In criminal cases‚ DNA profiling is used to analyse small traces of DNA at a crime scene to bring the perpetrator to justice. This technology allows for the analysis of DNA left at a crime scene by the perpetrator allowing

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    Racial profiling is a huge problem today in society. The biggest question society has today is: is racial profiling useful or harmful? Many people would argue that question. When police officers go about their jobs‚ they will do whatever it takes to make it easier to find the person who committed a crime‚ whether they are racially profiling or not. The most common use of racial profiling is traffic stops. This is one purpose I definitely don’t believe racial profiling should be used. This makes

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    comes to obtaining DNA‚ is that for it to be obtained‚ it does not require a procedure to be invasive. The main utility of DNA‚ regarding criminal investigation‚ is DNA profiling. The profiling of DNA does involve the use of specific sections of the DNA to be able to identify a specific individual. It should be noted that DNA profiling does not make use of the whole DNA‚ this because 99.9% of human DNA is the same. The difference is in the non-coding DNA that makes up the remaining 0.1% (James‚ N. 2011)

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