Racial Profiling Within Law Enforcement Term Paper

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The problem is endemic and deeply rooted, but it is also one that cannot be openly discussed with social stigma.

Racial profiling as a theoretical practice is not wholly unfair, it is the rational use of discrimination to pre-empt crime. However, since racial profiling is often combined with racial discrimination, the inevitable result is that both such practices are institutionally rebuked. Law enforcement will continue to use race as a causal factor for stopping citizens, however, due to the severe social stigma of voicing such opinions, it is an issue that no one will want or need to confront.

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Driving While Black: Racial Profiling on Our Nations Highways by David a. Harris, University of Toledo College of Law. An American Civil Liberties Union Special Report, June 1999:

R. Richard Banks, Racial Profiling and Antiterrorism Efforts, 89 Cornell Law Review 1201-1217 (2004).

From Racial to Religious Profiling, in Free Inquiry. By Guy Harrison. 2 pages

Policing Space, Policing Race: Social Control Imperatives and Police Discretionary Decisions Journal article by Sandra Bass; Social Justice, Vol. 28, 2001

The Truth about Racial Profiling, in the American….....

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