Racial Profiling In The Criminal Justice System

In American life race has played and will continue to be an important role in the criminal justice system. For several years the criminal system has failed to maintain “justice” and will conclude to an answer depending on the victim’s profile. Many cases are taken to court but surprisingly lots of them don’t win or aren’t able to achieve justice for the reason that everything falls in the same category which is depending on the victims profile. Statistics have shown that the number of African Americans in prison is higher than Whites meaning that eventually race can determine who goes to jail. Most cases aren’t resolved with an actual justification which leads to incarcerate the wrong victim who then has his live ruined because an unfair move …show more content…
Attempts to indicate that if a person of color was involved in a crime then that victim is most likely to be the killer and would be charged because of who they are without any questions asked. “Racial profiling is by far one of the racist movement the police department could us to determine the criminal” (Brown). African Americans felt discriminated by the stereotypes these people believe which allowed racial profiling to target them as victims depending on the dicrption given to the law enforcements. Incarcerating innocent victims because of racial stereotypes is what racial profiling conducts are doing with African Americans because to the law they are the criminals. “Several times when pulled over whites were searched at a rate much lower than African Americans. Police tried harder to find drugs or any reason to arrest African Americans and other minorities” (Falk). Implying that law enforcement believe in the racial stereotypes and would do anything possible to prove that African Americans are all committing crimes. The stereotypes led to many more African Americans being arrested for drug possession compared to whites. “What is ironic is that whites were more likely to be carrying drugs” (Brown). Moreover African Americans were not the only ones committing crime but were more likely to be …show more content…
“African American males are twenty two times more likely to be shot by a police officer than their white counterparts. The Oscar Grant case shows this corruption by law enforcement” (Neubauer). This controversial case has been an issue with law enforcements “protecting” our communities when in reality they’re just killing and accusing innocent people because they have the power to. This white officer shot an African American male Oscar Grant, with his gun. According to the officer “he was reaching for his gun but accidentally pulled out his Taser”. The footage that was obtained showed that Grant was already on the ground restrained and did not seem like a threat before he was shot. Many more cases like this one have also shown the same problem, police overusing their power but only when they deal with a colored person. Innocent people have died in the hands of the police and not one single case has been justified in court and it’s all because they’re “black”. The court doesn’t justify or fight for the victims’ rights all they do is protect the law enforcements and say that the victim’s actions seemed like a threat. Black lives matter because we are all equal under the law and if the court doesn’t resolve these issues many more will continue to die in the hands of what we call “safety and security”