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
The next step is to have the guidelines that the police are told to follow published. “Vice and traffic policies tend to be unexplained publicly” (Manning 273). Because the public is unaware of what the police are looking for, they tend to come up with their own analysis of the situation. This is how the some small instances get misconstrued into big problems. This does not mean that all of the instances are miniscule, just that some of them are. “Under present laws and public attitudes drug control is a highly volatile issue, and the publics in most cities are split on the opinions of where, how, why, to whom, and when drug enforcement should take place” (Manning 273). Then public meetings could be held to explain the laws. Such community awareness programs could be held at the beginning of each month to inform the public on the policies of the police. This would ensure citizens that if they were not doing anything wrong then they have nothing to worry about. Part of the united task forces instructions could entitle going under cover and driving unmarked cars in order to stop the influx of drugs. It would be established that police officers do not pull people over just because; they pull people over because of an initial infraction. The people themselves call attention to themselves because they act conspicuous, and therefore lead the police officer to believe that they are doing something wrong. “The overall objective of drug law
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