Racial Profiling
“Despite the civil rights victories of thirty years ago, racial prejudice is reflected throughout the criminal justice system. For people of color in cities large and small across the nation, north and south, east and west, Jim Crow ‘Justice’ is alive and well.” (“Is Jim Crow…1”). Racial profiling was and is a practice in traffic stops and searches. Racial profiling is alive and well in today’s society, which it should be, in some very finely studied instances to keep this world clear of violence, terrorism, and drugs.Profiling is seen in everyday life. Today the color of a person’s skin makes that person a suspect in America. Statistics show that on a fifty mile stretch of road in Maryland, seventy-six percent of motorists stopped were black (“Expert says sting…2). Nationally, black and Hispanics are two times more likely to get their vehicles searched as whites. People are judged by the color of their skin, when it should be the content of their character, unless reasons show otherwise obvious factors of breaking laws or creating violence. Why not use characteristics to profile a person if in fact they are doing something wrong. Businesses who adopt the policy of affirmative action in their hiring do have to lo
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Approximate Word count = 1589
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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