So there I am sitting in the library for at least 45 minutes racking my brain and going through about ten books trying to decide what the heck I’m going to write this paper on. There are so many sub-categories on the topics of race and gender issues that it made my decision very difficult. As I sat there wondering where I was going to get 10 pages of material for a paper I thought about myself and my own views on racial profiling. I guess I never really categorized myself as a racist but the more I think about it the more I realize that I make assumptions based on race and the situation described above happens to me on a weekly basis. Am I a closet racist? Are there different degrees of being a racist? Is it just a case of social conditioning? In this paper I am going attempt to expose racial profiling for

#8221; against minority drivers on the road all the time. This practice is so common that the minority community has given it the derisive term, “Driving While Black or Brown” – a play on the real offense of “driving while intoxicated”. Although many law enforcement officers defend themselves by saying they are fighting against the “War on Drugs” by arresting these law offenders, recent trials and reports show that no basis of arrest have been found against these minorities. Official skin-color prejudice is still reflected throughout the criminal justice system. Today, skin-color makes you a suspect in America. It makes you more likely to be stopped by a law enforcement officer, more likely to be searched, and more likely to be arrested and imprisoned. Tens of thousands of innocent motorists on highways across the country are victims of racial profiling, and these discriminatory police stops have reached epidemic proportions in recent !

rime of racial profiling. Although there have been many ideas brought up to solve racial profiling in American, there still isn’t one dynamic and problem solving solution. Many bills have been passed to help and protect minorities, who can bring their cases all the way to court, however, sometimes the officers being accused are not found. All though my proposed solution is not the most money conserving idea, it will cover almost all the faulty lines, the bills and the policies have forgotten to mention. A committee should be established within the United States Government in which the committee shall oversee each county and district and department for any racial profiling. These members should be made up of civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and the ACLU. Also, there should be advising law enforcement officers and people appointed from each civil rights division in the government. Within districts, officials shall be appointed to oversee the actions of the depa!

omes from the individual law enforcer, or the department itself. Many policies have been suggested to either report these discriminatory acts, or to record the ethnicity, race, or gender of the person being stopped. However, without the correct supervision of these officers, we can not truthfully tell whether these policies will be followed. There have been bills proposed to even make the slightest positive effect on racial profiling, yet many have been overlooked. Former California Governor Pete Wilson served as best he could to fight key civil rights issues such as affirmative action and immigrant rights, however Governor Gray Davis has had a disappointing civil rights record. Although he has helped establish new civil rights gains for the lesbian and gay communities, he has also vetoed a number of bills aimed at reducing discrimination against communities of color and immigrants. SB 44, a bill sponsored by Senator Richard Polanco, encourages state and local governments to c!

years. Fueled by the “War on Drugs”, this fight has given police a pretext to target people who they think fit a “drug courier” or “gang member” profile. At many times, these minorities have b

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