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    Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Response Throughout policing history women and minorities have gone through so many changes as they tried to become law enforcers. In the beginning‚ when women and minorities were allowed to become police officers they would be hired but given lighter duties or assigned to lower crime areas. They weren’t given much opportunity to go out and experience first hand how everything was on the streets since the majority of law enforcers back then were males. They

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    stories of how young black guys were shot and killed‚ but yet all tie up into one big thing. They  were treated unfairly and racial profiling was probably used.  Racial profiling is a main problem in Minnesota because it contravenes the 14th  amendment‚ distracts law enforcement‚ and it prevents communities from working with the law  enforcement. This problem could be resolved if the police force can recruit better police officers  who are well taught about racial identity.   Ali 2  My first reason on why racial profiling is a main problem in Minnesota is that it 

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    Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement Response Student: Course: Fundamentals of Policing The role of women and minority throughout policing history: Throughout policing history women and minorities have played roles in the equality opportunities in the workplace legislation. During the Nixon Administration the federal government began to push employers on obtaining a good faith effort to employ women and minorities and track to their progress. In 1969

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    Racial Profiling in U.S. History Since the start of our great nation‚ a person’s ethnicity has had an influence on how they were treated and our government behaves in terms of government action and legislation. Some may believe that racial profiling is a problem that has only arisen in the past decade with the recent shootings of Michael Brown and other suspected hate crime killings. However‚ racial profiling has long before manifested with the effects being apparent from the law and

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    Racial Profiling Against Hispanics Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Racial profiling against Hispanics includes people from North American‚ South American and Central Americans. An example of racial profiling against Hispanics is by the color of our skin‚ which the majority skin tone (Color) is brown but not all of them‚ some may be a different color and are Hispanics. Sadly‚ our identity is defined by the color of

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    I’m going against racial profiling meaning that I’m going to talk about it in a CON perspective. To me racial profiling can cause a lot problems‚ and the reason for that is because when the police are racial profiling they could be going for the wrong person because of the color of their skin‚ the person that the police stopped could be innocent and while the police is there trying to see what that person has done wrong the police could be missing out on catching a real criminal. Racial profiling

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    Racial Profiling is the act of targeting a person specially based on their race. Racial profiling does not refer to the act of a law enforcement agent pursuing a suspect in which the specific description of the suspect includes race or ethnicity in combination with other identifying factors. One of the largest groups that are racially profiled are of the Arab heritage that live in the United States. This is because of the 2001 Terrorist Attack on the Twin towers in New York City on September 11.

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    Employment Law: Workplace Racial Discrimination October 3‚ 2011 Employment Law: Workplace Racial Discrimination A number of federal and state laws prohibit racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is the practice of letting a person ’s race or skin color unfairly become a factor when deciding who receives a job‚ promotion‚ or other employment benefit. It most often affects minority individuals who feel they have been unfairly discriminated against in favor of a Caucasian (or white)

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    Racial profiling has been around all around the world and is used by many people to provide safety to other people. Racial profiling is practiced by many police officers or law enforcers to provide safety to the community but they sometimes get carried away and abuse others instead. Racial profiling should be used for the safety of others but it should never be abused. It makes sense to use racial profiling when a crime has taken place because they might be a suspect. According to Linda Chavez

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    way to departments with large numbers of female and minority officers. Openly gay and lesbian officers‚ too‚ are increasingly commonplace. (Sklansky‚ p. 1210)” This essay focuses on the demographics of the police department‚ who the police are‚ the struggles minorities encounter as police officers‚ and how society perceives police departments. The responsibility of Law Enforcement Officers is to protect citizen’s constitutional rights‚ enforce laws‚ and provide service. Sir Robert Peel also known as

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