Racial Profiling: A Tool of Prejudice or Common Sense?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:07:56
In today's world, many conflicts about racism and prejudice are prevailing and nearly impossible to stop. Racial profiling is socially defined as the harassment and intimidation of innocent citizens because of their ethnicity. However, hard statistical evidence shows that young minorities are more prone to commit disproportionate numbers of crimes than that of the larger population. Therefore, it goes to show that racial profiling is nothing more than common sense used by police officers and
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that the officers were doing their jobs the way they were taught to do them, and they were trying to make their streets a safer place to live. We all have much to learn, so we must open our eyes, and open our minds and accept what is right in front of us.
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Cose, Ellis. "The Long Shadow of Amadou Diallo." Newsweek 13 Mar. 2000: 54
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