In California, two young black men were pulled over by Santa Monica police officers in the garage of the hotel they were staying in. They were pulled from their car, cuffed, and separated into two patrol cars while their vehicle was searched. After a couple of hours they were let go with an explanation from police that they fit the description of some robbery suspects. In Florida, a black man was pulled over by 2 Orange County deputies. He was pulled from his car, thrown to the ground, pepper sprayed and arrested. He had been pulled over for an illegal lane change and illegible license plates. He was an off duty Miami-Dade police officer. “One of the most famous recent cases of DWB (driving while black) involves Johnny Gammage, the first cousin of professional football player Ray Seals of the Pittsburgh Steelers” (Burris,96). Seven minutes after being pulled over in his cousin’s new Jaguar, he was dead. Suffocated by 5 Pittsburgh police evidently because he was black. These incidents are considered forms of Racial Profiling, which is defined as the systematic traffic stopping and interrogating of suspects based solely on their skin color. Racial profili

based on color. Racial profiling has been responsible for the detention and harassment of thousands of truly innocent black and Hispanic people.

The history behind what is known as racial profiling started back in the mid to early 1980’s as a tool to fight drug trafficking. Florida State Trooper Bob Vogel, a patrol officer and later a county Sheriff in Volusia County Florida, made mental notations on the people he pulled over. As he patrolled a section of I-95 between Daytona and Port Orange Florida, he chronicled certain characteristics of people, both physical and psychological, that made him suspicious. Items such as nervousness, out of state plates, rental cars, inability to make eye contact, lack of drivers license or insurance information, fast food wrappers, plates from key border states like Arizona and New Mexico, conflicting answers to questions involving origin and destination and maps. Bob Vogel began accumulating tremendous arrest statistics and earned the attention of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The DEA was so impressed with Mr. Vogel’s profiling techniques and methodology that they initiated a program nationwide known as Operation Pipeline.

Racial profiling negatively impacts values in society. As African-Americans

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