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.

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Profiling should be used to a certain extent. Often it is enforced too harshly, resulting in violence. Even further to death or serious injury. As seen in the south in times of the past.

"Driving While Black" is a common phrase used by police while pulling over or stopping cars. June 2000, seventy-five percent of Americans believed "Racial profiling" is a problem. Fifty-nine percent believe it is a widespread practice used by police ("racial profiling, overcoming...1). If this is so, profiling is obviously being pushed too far and needs to have boundaries to its usage.

Legislators threaten to pass laws ending this iniquity. During the presidential campaigning of 2000, Al Gore and George W. Bush ensured that they would take steps to end profiling in today's society if they were elected to office. New Jersey police will face limits on their ability to randomly search vehicles (expert says sting...3). California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island enacted statutes that prohibit police from engaging in racial profiling. What about the rest of the states in the United States or even the world? What is being done to rid the country of this practice? As of now nothing, the courts seem to put it off. "Not only have the courts failed to recognize that racial profiling is unconstitutional, but they have effectively insulated it from legal challenge (Cole, David and John Copeland 1). Lawsuits have challenged profiling and have succeeded, making it only a political pressure. "In 1996 the Court upheld the practice of 'perpetual traffic stops,' in which police officers use the excuse of a traffic violation to stop motorists when they are investigating some other crime. The same year, the Court allowed police to use...profiling to stop whoever they wanted too to obtain consent to search. The Court requires proof that individual officers acted out of racist motives in each case (Cole, David and John Copeland 2)."

o look at the profiling of their applicants. Certain jobs may be handed out to those on the basis of a personal characteristic. Profiling of people does not necessarily insure that the most qualified person will be hired. This is an example of profiling being a help or disadvantage to society. If a person qualifies for a job then they should get that job, they shouldn't be held back from that job due to

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