...sentenced, and what the consequences may entitle based on individuals of alternate ethnical upbringing. African Americans make up 13% of the general U.S. population, yet make up 40% of all incarcerated men. While whites make up 67% of U.S. population, yet they also only make up 40% of incarcerated men. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world compared to other nations ("Sentencing Project," 2013). There is clearly an abundance of African American men incarcerated in the justice system as compared to men of other ethnicity (Hartney & Vuong, 2009). “If current trends continue, one in every three African American males born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime…….,compared to one in every seventeen white males” ("Sentencing Project," 2013, p. 1) . As stated by Kirby, males of African American descent continue to be arrested, sentenced, and imprisoned at higher rates when compared to males of white descent (2012). These statistics bring to the table the continued issue involving racial disparities in the United States Justice System. A system that people of today’s society trust to abide by the laws and regulations set forth for racial equality. Statistics show that arrest...
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...the 1960’s, racial tension was extremely intense in the United States. Examples of these racial tensions can be seen all throughout the United States. The Church bombing of Birmingham and Bloody Tuesday are just a couple of the many hundred events during the 1960’s that were the consequences of racial tensions. The novel, “The Help”, by Kathryn Stockett, focuses on the social issue of segregation in the United States, specifically in the south. Stockett demonstrates the issue of racial segregation between blacks and whites in the 1960’s by applying allusions, imagery, and point of view. In “The Help”, Stockett utilizes allusions to focus on the social issue of racial segregation in the United States. Firstly, the setting of the book is an allusion, as it takes place in Mississippi, a place which in the sixties was notorious for being a state full of racism and pro segregation. Furthermore, the book alludes to a significant amount of civil rights movements and figures such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., The March on Washington, sit ins, and Medgar Evers. These allusions bring substantial meaning to the book’s purpose as the book is mainly about maids who are black, such as Aibileen and Minny, who help out ladies which are white, such as Hilly and...
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...In a country that was dealing with Civil Rights issues at home and was trying to protect the country’s current racial issues, the emergence of the Cold War only brought a host of new problems for the United States as propaganda warfare began with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union began to accentuate the racial issues occurring in the United States between white and African Americans, such as the case of 14-year-old Emmett Till who was brutally murder for flirting with a white woman in a store, emphasizing the negative aspects of having a democracy. During the heat of this crisis, the United States needed a solution to help extinguish the flames of the past, regarding the racial inequality that existed among blacks and whites, and to help ease...
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...[Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] [Name of the Subject] [Date] Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement Introduction Over the years racial profiling has become a significant topic especially among law enforcement agencies across the United States. Many cities and states have made a conscious effort to study racial profiling and ascertain how race and ethnicity play a significant role in stopping vehicles by law enforcement in their jurisdictions. Profiling refers to the practice of police that view certain characteristics as indicators of criminal behavior. It is the establishment of law enforcement practices that solves crime and develop prevention strategioes against crime. While, racial profiling is the new term for profiling. The change is partially because of the ambiguity that racial profiling has some confusions and controversories. The term racial profiling best decribes the situation where police arrests, questions or stops the person on the basis of race (Cleary 5). In regards to the racial profiling, the concern about it is erupting in the entire nation (Harcourt 18). Racial profiling is considered as the use of the individual’s ethnicity and race through the law enforcement personnel. In many of the jurisdiction, the practice of such acts is considered as illegal and controversial. United States have decided to work on the issues related to the racial profiling, that how the ethnicity and race play a part in order to stop the injustice through...
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...SOC-S 163 9/18/12 Group 6 crime paper 1 Crime For many years there has been a lot of attention on racial profiling, media and otherwise in the United States. Through the years there has been a history of issues that include racial bias regarding African Americans, Muslims, and middle-eastern people. This racial profiling intensified in the 1990’s. There have been a number of studies revealing evidence of racial profiling. The comedian Ron White said in a comedy act that he was once arrested because “the police were stopping ever car going down that particular sidewalk and that’s profiling, which is illegal.” He was making fun of this situation, but unfortunately it is something that happens every day in the United States. Many Americans of ethnic background face racial profiling. Racial profiling goes against what our constitution stands for, and violates the constitution’s promise that all people are equal and that people should be free from unreasonable searches and seizers. Racial profiling targets people of color and different ethnic backgrounds for investigation and police enforcement, but unfortunately this alienates communities from law enforcement and causes them to lose creditability and trust among the people they are supposed to protect. We expect the police to protect and be fair and just, but this horrible practice of racial profiling has led to people living in fear and makes communities feel that they are all suspects. Also troubling...
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...|Cultural Diversity | Copyright © 2010, 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course is designed to educate students about issues of race and ethnicity by presenting historical and modern perspectives on diversity in the United States, and by providing tools necessary to promote a respectful and inclusive society. Students will complete several activities that allow them to examine their own values in relation to the values of various other racial and ethnic communities. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Schaefer, R, T. (2006). Racial and ethnic groups (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. Axia College’s Writing...
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...Studies AIU Online Instructor: Tony Gaskew Jacqueline Hunter IP# 4 The definition of domestic terrorism in the United States has changed over the years. It is believed that the act of domestic terrorism occurred long before any legal definition came into play. The FBI Terrorist Research defined domestic terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence committed by a group of two or more individuals, also against a person or property to intimidate or coerce a government. Under current Law in the United States the act of terrorism are those which involve human lives that are a violation of the criminal law of the United States or of any State, this was set forth by the USA Patriot Act. Terrorism has abruptly has moved to the center of the public and has become a household subject matter and also many levels of politics, law and criminal justice. The September 11, attack change the way law enforcement respond to the threat and reality of terrorism. The World Trade Center attack had a ripple affect that could be felt across the world and this led to major reorganization of counter- terrorism policing. The United States the most striking change in policing has been a sudden expansion of police powers, justified by the tragedy and devastation of the attack. This expansion brought about a new refocusing of resource and the restructure of the federal, state, and local police agencies. There was more focus put on terrorism, for instant the FBI assigned 4,000 of it 27,000 agents...
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...1, 2015 Male African Americans & Racial Profiling in American INTRODUCTION Considering our time and age racial profiling one of the most untouched subjects in history, especially in the law-enforcement community. Most people get it confused with criminal profiling which is not the same. Racial profiling is any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being or having been, engaged in criminal activity. Criminal profiling is any police- initiated action that used the compilation of the background, physical, behavioral, and motivational characteristics for a type of perpetrator that lead the police. Now imagine driving to the store on a cold winter day, dressed in a hoodie to keep warm. You simply pull into the parking lot in hopes of getting something nice for your daughter for the holidays. Driving the posted speed limit, you pull slowly into a parking space in the back of the store. All of a sudden, a car pulls up behind you, blocking you in. You look in your rearview mirror only to find the community crime watch officer staring you down. The officer immediately treats you like a suspect, smothering you with questions concerning what you’re doing, where you’re going; yet never really had any reasoning behind the questions. The major reason to oppose racial profiling is that it simply doesn’t work...
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...The Problem of Racial Profiling Racial profiling is a serious issue of social importance in the United States. Many believe it is wrong to judge someone by their color or race. Racial profiling is suspecting a person because of a race has committed an offense. We should care about this because some of the law enforcement are taking this too far, where they would pull over certain group of people just because of their ethnicity. Us citizens should consider this issue because stereotypes does not determines a person’s life. I believe this is wrong but it is part of our community that people are being judged too quickly. This would still be an issue and it would make many good police officers look bad. Racial profiling can be beneficial thing...
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...Ever since the United States’ conception, racism has been a very sensitive topic due to people feeling threatened by other “lesser” ethnicities. As antiquated as the concept may be, it still tends to find its way into the conscious and even subconscious of the American people. In the LA Time’s Scholar Won’t Face Charges, the author writes of Henry Louis Gates Jr. who was racially profiled for presumably breaking into a home. This home happened to be Gate’s but the police arrested him anyways. The author writes, “The city of Cambridge called the arrest ‘regrettable and unfortunate.’” (LA Times). Gates was arrested because he was a black man breaking into a home and officers presumed the worst, a subconscious decision. Although racism does indeed...
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...ABSTRACT Over the years racial profiling has become a significant topic especially among law enforcement agencies across the United States. Many cities and states have made a conscious effort to study racial profiling and ascertain how race and ethnicity plays a significant role in stopping vehicles by law enforcement in their jurisdictions (Cleary, 2000). This literature review will examine the argument of whether racial profiling is practiced significantly by police agencies nationwide, and whether such practices are beneficial or not? The determination of whether race is a significant factor in the likelihood of being stopped by law enforcement is the purpose of this research. Are African Americans Targeted by Police Because of Their Race? A Review of the Literature Examining whether or not African Americans are targeted by police because of their race is an effective topic because African Americans experience it every day and the experience is not a new concept. The argument over racial profiling is based on two questions. Does racial profiling actually occur and if so, is it being used as a legitimate tool by law enforcement? The extent of racial profiling by the public is unknown; however, research reveals that “both race and personal experience with racial profiling are strong predictors in the attitudes toward profiling and that, among blacks, social class affects views of the prevalence and acceptability of the practice” (Weitzer and Tuch, 2002) thus furthering...
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...the United States of America. Both Brazil and the United States of America are the largest multiracial societies in the Americas, as well they both share a history of slavery, and plantation slavery at that, and finally both societies have confronted the legacy of slavery in the form of deeply entrenched racial inequality(Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States, page 229). With all these similarities you would imagine that they both would be making strides toward a more equal society. It is safe to safe that the United States of America is at a state of more equality than any time in the history of this country, but where does that put Brazil? Are they making the same strides as the United States of America? Brazil is most definitely a Multiracial population, which would lead you to believe that it is a multiracial democracy, but that assumption would be far from the truth based on all the research that I have done and based on the articles that I have read. In the year 1991 51.6% of Brazil’s population was white, while 42.6% of the population was brown, and 4%was black (Demographic Censuses). When you look at that compared to the United States of America in 1980 when 83% of the population was white, while only 11.7% of the population was black and 5% of the population had some other orientation (1980 Census of Population). When you look at Trivett 2 those numbers you would instantly assume that Brazil has more of a multiracial democracy than even the United States...
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...whites sharing the same racial views as southerners; and in the years following 1948, the issue of race would realign politics forever. The election of 1948 was considered to be the greatest election upset in America’s political history. Harry Truman represented the Democratic Party, Thomas Dewey represented the Republican Party, and Strom Thurmond represented a Segregated Party commonly known as the Dixiecrats. Each of the three men running for presidency had strong political views with a main focus on their ideals about racial discrimination. “In the biggest surprise in American presidential history,” Harry Truman ended up winning the election marking the start of America’s fight to end the racial problem in the United States. Immediately after President Truman took office, he made it clear that his main goal was to end racial segregation, especially in the southern states. He focused on the main issues including ending segregation in public...
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...When I was younger, I didn’t notice the racism as much as I do now. Body Paragraph 2 a. Source I i. Why Conservatives should oppose Racial Profiling ii. Racial profiling oppresses the African American population iii. The justice system is tailored for white men, the minorities just have to assimilate Body Paragraph 3 a. Source 2 I. Maryland Restricts Racial Profiling in New Guidelines for Law Enforcement II. Maryland law requires law enforcement agencies to have policies prohibiting racial and ethnic profiling during traffic stops III. There are people with different viewpoints on if racial profiling still exists IV. ''Racial profiling continues despite the fact that it is against the law of the United States; it's against Maryland law,'' Body Paragraph 4 b. Source 3 V. Why Racism Still Flourishes VI. “our faltering efforts to deal with race in this country, a great deal of time is devoted to responding to symptoms rather than root causes. That may help explain why racism keeps repeating itself.” VII. Examples are pointed out; in colleges racism has occurred. VIII. “The United States has been treating evidence of racism, and not the causes, since the Civil War.” Body Paragraph 5, 6, 7, etc Conclusion * Clarify what you now think of your issue. * Did you find a satisfactory answer to your question? Yes, no, maybe. Clarify your answer. * “Wrap up your intellectual journey...
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...Appendix E Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Racial formation |Is to look at race as a socially constructed identity, where social, economic, and political forces| | |determine the content and importance of racial categories. | |Segregation |Segregation is the separation of people or things from a main group. It is the action or state of | | |setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart from others. | |De jure segregation |Law in which a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups imposes it. It | | |is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life. | |Pluralism |A condition in which numerous distinct ethnic, religious, or cultural groups are present and | | |tolerated within a society. Is the theory that a multitude of groups, not the people as a whole, | | |governs the United States. | |Assimilation |Assimilation is a term referring to another part of the adaptation process. Through...
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