Racial Profiling By The Police

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activities should be effectively taken care of. In order to gain more acceptances from the general public, police has started to develop a new concept of policing, which they named as community policing activities. Using this new approach, police is now trying to seek cooperation from the public in order to develop a partnership with them so that they can effectively combat crimes. However, in the current scenario, where the minority citizens accuse the Police of practicing racial profiling, the effectiveness of struggle against crime cannot be ensured.
Minority citizens in the United States are a substantial segment of US population and therefore it is necessary to create a sense of security and confidence among them, on the law enforcement system. Existence of racial profiling, if it really does exist, in the legal system is not acceptable because it is harmful for the long term interests of the society.
Racial profiling can best be understood by defining a typical incident ...

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root cause of this phenomenon. The main reason can be attributed to the war against drugs. The effort to control illegal drugs initiated at the local, state as well as the federal level, granted increasing power and authority to the police and other law enforcement agencies. This resulted in increasing searches and arrests by the police.
There is no single definition of racial profiling. The most commonly used term to define racial profiling is DWB (Driving while Black). In general racial profiling refers to the practice of police targeting African Americans or other members of minority groups for searching on highways because they believe that these minority citizens are engaged in any ...

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