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Racial profiling is a big issue its basically any police- initiated action that is only taken to place because of your ethnicity, race, gender, or religion rather than the action being required because of the behavior or someone or information that leads the police to engage in an arrest or any other stop (Schmalleger, 2017, p.196). In my opinion racial profiling is not a police problem only but a worldwide problem. I believe racial profiling happens everywhere such as the...
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America has been trying to achieve justice for everyone for many decades. One of America's first attempts at gaining equality was the introduction of Civil Rights. “Civil Rights are the rights of citizens all citizens to political and social freedom and equality”. Some examples of civil rights include the right to vote or to be treated fairly by the legal system. The Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 60s was a long time when civil rights, particularly for African...
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A general and overall answer towards the first sub question, are there psychological effects that are projected because of police brutality? Is yes. From analysing 4 different sources and 4 annotations I can understand that there are indeed psychological effects that can be conducted from police brutality. Not in every case are the psychological effects towards the victims of police brutality but to their peers, friends, family and loved ones. There are many different reports and cases of Americans feeling...
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What is racial profiling? Why is it involved? Why does it typically occur with police officers? Why it must end? “Racial profiling” has become a big issue for many years in the united states, and still occurs today. In fact, it refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. In other words, it observes or assumed characteristics of suspicious behavior. Usually, when...
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On October 2019, an African American was shot at his own apartment by a police officer because she thought that he was an intruder. She was charged with murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. For the past century, there has been a lot of cases in which police officers have acted out of instinct rather than analyzing the situation. Nowadays, we are experiencing a higher level of violent action by police officers that are seemingly not trained....
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