Saturday, September 6, 2008

Note card 3

Racial profiling

Work cited
http://www.sirs.com/ 2008 september 28 racial profiling

  • Racial profiling is the belief that one race or ethnicity is more inclined to be involved in misconduct or criminal activity then another.
  • After the september 11 attacks, airports began to check arabs more intensively then any other ethnicity, which is an example of racial profiling.
  • There are many examples of racial profiling, such as whites believing that blacks commit more crimes or when whites harass blacks.

Quote

On May 14, 2001, three young African-American males were pulled over by the Indianapolis, Indiana, Police Department. According to one of the passenger's stepfather, the stop was a blatant example of racial profiling.1 According to the officers on the scene, it was a legitimate traffic stop for failure to signal a turn.

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