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    Racial Profiling By Police In today’s society we still see racism is a big problem in America some people will deny that there isn’t a problem. Racial profiling occurs anywhere in work‚ schools‚ and also by police officers. Racism affects millions of innocent people in the United States that are being targeted by their skin color and assumptions they have on people by being killed and harassed . The Law enforcement detain individuals for suspicion of a crime based on their race‚ which profile them

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    According to the Fourth Amendment‚ The right of people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures shall no be violated and no warrants shall issue‚ but upon reasonable cause supported by Oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures requires police‚ if they have time to obtain a valid search warrant‚ issued by a magistrate after the

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    Racial Prejudice: The Fight America has yet to Overcome In the 1930s‚ racial prejudice took over the lives of most citizens. African Americans were treated poorly and considered less than white people‚ so when Atticus Finch was in charge of defending Tom Robinson‚ a black man‚ who was accused of rape‚ he needed to use every tactic and technique to prove his innocence. Harper Lee clearly develops Atticus’ argument during the trial to convince the jury to vote for Tom Robinson’s acquittal and to fight

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    “freezing Death” Case. Briefly‚ on a freezing night of January 20th‚ 2000‚ three aboriginal people were picked up by two police officers for no reason and left in a barren filed outside of the city‚ two of them‚ Rodney Naistus and Lawrence Wegner did not make it. ‚ As far as I am concerned‚ this case was an epitome of racial profiling against Aboriginal group in Canadian justice system. The racial profiling against aboriginal people existed in justice system for a long time and is hard to get rid of for many

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    The first law against hate crimes was passed in 1968 as a civil rights act; the law was aimed at protecting people against any attacks based on race‚ religion or origin. A crime motivated by gender‚ disability and sexual preference could not be prosecuted as a hate crime until 2009.The FBI says that a hate crime can target either a person or property and can be motivated in whole or in part by biases‚ meaning offenders can have other motives besides hate. To track attacks such as these‚ the FBI

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    national minority in Croatia is Serbian minority. Writing about this minority is very interesting for me because Croatian had lived with Serbians in one country‚ former Yugoslavia and we had big war which had separated two nations. Despite the war that we had and which has started 1991. and finished 1995.‚many people with Serbian nationality lives in Croatia. The protection of minority rights in Croatia is comprehensively assured by the Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities (CLNM)

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    and discuss was racial profiling. I felt that it was an appropriate topic because as an African American looking for a career in law enforcement I’m going to encounter these types of situations every day. In my in the following pages I hope to show you how law enforcement officer can either use this to as a positive tool or will it be a mean of abuse and racism. I will give you some history on where racial profiling was developed. Going through the “crack” era of New York City which was during the

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    a familiar term among most of American‚ which is an abbreviative form of “driving while black”. This phrase implies that a motorist might be pulled over by a police officer because that person is black‚ and he or she will be questioned or charged with a trivial offense. The place could be either on highway or white community. This term refers to racial profiling‚ which defined as the policy or practice using race or national origin to find suspicion by law enforcement officials (ACLU). For example

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    Mariamou SAMPI ENGL Professor Racial Discrimination from Police Racial discrimination in the United States is as old as America itself. The United States motto deduces that‚ although America is a single country‚ it is made up of people of all walks from all the corners of the world‚ but some as slaves‚ especially from Africa. The American population is diverse both culturally and racially thus the name ’Melting Point’. Racial discrimination is the act of subordinating an individual due

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    The Classical Argument Final Draft Breauna Nooks September17‚ 2012 Racial Profiling and the Arizona Immigration Law The Arizona Immigration Law is a form of racial profiling‚ and it is wrong for the following three reasons 1) it is racists‚ 2) it is unconstitutional‚ and 3) it is regressive in today’s modern society. Supporters have taken the position that the Arizona Immigration Law should be welcomed in our society since similar legislation has been accepted in Utah‚ Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Indiana

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