Racial Profiling
This semester, we spent a great deal of time discussing issues of equality in law enforcement, but one of the main items of controversy was racial profiling. How do we avoid it? Because this country has become so obsessed with political correctness and issues of equality, of course it was brought up that more minorities are pulled over than whites. Yes this is true, but it is also true that more minorities commit these crimes than whites do. I see the issue this way. Imagine you are a police officer and someone is robbed on the street and this person goes to the police station and gives a description of the perpetrator. So what do the police do? They go out and look for someone matching the description that was given by the victim. This is the same situation that police officers were in, in 1988, when they had to try to break up the drug pipe line that existed between Florida and New York. They knew that the drugs were coming from Colombian and Hispanic countries, being transported to Florida and then up to New York. So the information that they had suggested that the drugs would be in cars driven by Hispanic or black people. So one would think that they actually were not doing anything wrong, they w
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