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Essay: "Racial Profiling"

by Marion K. Boatman
Racial (Social) Profiling

Racial Profiling is portrayed to victimize the black and Hispanic races but it's much broader than that. A car of young white men are just as likely to be stopped in a black neighborhood known as a drug laden area as black or Hispanics in an affluent white neighborhood because they don't fit in with their surroundings because they most likely have no reason other than criminal to be there. In most cases that's true with all of the above mentioned but also in that same sense, there are some innocents caught in the racial profiling dragnet and that reason alone is reason enough for it to be illegal and a violation of civil rights by countless law enforcement agencies throughout the country. It has become more like "status" profiling in the recent years. If you're poor and don't belong in the area you've ventured based on "social status" then the law should step in to rid the area of social misfits, etc. The future groundwork is being laid, brace yourself.