Social Concerns Term Paper

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Social Concern

In complex societies such as the United States, few things happen in isolation. When the country sets national policies into effect, those policies ripple throughout the population and affect other features of the society in dynamic ways. One such public policy is the "war on drugs." The war on drugs has rippled through society and affected other policies, such as racial profiling. Those two policies have become tied to urban poverty, tying all three together.

Profiling, or determining a set of characteristics a group of criminals are likely to share, has been justified by police forces as a way to fight the war on drugs. However, all too often the profiles are not terribly accurate and applied unfairly to one group over another. A detailed study in New Jersey done in 2001 showed that state troopers were pulling over more Blacks than whites or Hispanics, and then asking the driver to let them do a "consent" search of the car. Statistics on this practice showed that 81% of the cars pulled over were driven by blacks or Hispanics, even though the state police knew that whites were statistically more likely to be transporting drugs.
In fact in this study, 25% of whites had drugs in the car while only 13% of blacks and 5% of Hispanics did (Snow, 2001).

Possession of drugs is one of the most common reasons for a person to be sent to jail because of the war on drugs. North Carolina, for instance has found that although its black population has remained stable for the last 35 years, today there are three times as many blacks in jail as there were 35 years ago. The reasons are not entirely clear, but racial profiling is one reason believed to contribute to those numbers (Muschick, 2001).

Any time a person is jailed, it immediately causes financial hardship for that person and family, particularly if the person was the breadwinner of the family. Once that person is released, it is….....

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