Racial Profiling

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Racial Profiling

• What is it?

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What is it?

• Race is used by law enforcement as a basis for
  criminal suspicion
• Rests on the assumption that any particular
  individual of one race or ethnic group is more
  likely to commit crimes than other races or
  ethnicities

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The 14th Amendment

• Guarantees Equal Protection protection under
  the law.
• What does that mean to you?

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• Historically racial profiling has affected
  African-Americans, Native Americans, and
  Hispanics/Latino communities. However, since
  9/11 more wide-spread racial profiling exists,
  affecting Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, South
  Asian American communities, as well as other
  communities perceived to originate from the
  Middle East.

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• Studies have shown that African Americans are
  more likely to be stopped and searched. Are
  African Americans really committing more crimes
  or are they just caught more often because the
  police target them?
• Blacks make up less than 15 of the total
  population

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• Police are required to collect data on every stop
• Race, gender, age
• Warning or citation
• Search or no search, etc.

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Discussion Questions
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• How should police officers be punished if found
  guilty of racial profiling?

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• Do you think personal experience may lead to
  broad generalizations?
• How do you solve that?

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• Do you think managers at major businesses not
  hire due to the fact of peoples race, religion,
  etc.?

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• Do you think racial profiling would go down if
  there were more persons of color on the police
  force?

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• Put yourself in the shoes of a racial
  minority.would you still support racial
  profiling?

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• Why do you think more people of color are
  searched, arrested, etc. more often than whites?

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• Should racial profiling be treated like the
  Exclusionary Rule?

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• How do you feel about the level of
  racism/discrimination among police and all
  citizens in general in America?

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