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Racial profiling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Racial profiling is inclusion of race in the profile of a persons considered likely to commit a particular crime or type of crime (see Offender Profiling). Racially biased policing includes other practices such as discriminatory treatment of racial and ethnic minorities not based on profiling, and differential police practices in neighborhoods populated by minorities compared to neighborhoods populated by whites (Weitzer and Tuch 2006). In a 2002 poll, for instance, 73 percent of whites, 77 percent of Hispanics, and 91 percent of African Americans disapproved of racial profiling by the police (Weitzer and Tuch 2006). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Racial_profiling   (1735 words)

Does Racial Profiling Exist?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Racial profiling allegations have been fraught with such fallacious logic since the issue gained national attention in 1998. Unfortunately, merely the allegation of racial profiling is sufficient for the media and politicians to pronounce it fact. As is the case with the NJ study this one is antithetical to the claim of racial profiling. www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=8644   (758 words)

Racial Profiling Legislation - IRP Minnesota Racial profiling has been monitored in a number of jurisdictions, and in nearly all of these jurisdictions it was found to be a significant problem. Racial profiling not only subordinates the civil rights of entire communities to the goals of criminal justice, but it is an ineffective crime prevention tool that ultimately victimizes the very people that its supposed to protect (the non-criminal public). The first step toward addressing racial profiling is for law enforcement agencies to collect data on the race of all the drivers they stop, as well as related data about the character of the stops. www1.umn.edu /irp/publications/racialprofiling.html   (2678 words)

Racial Profiling Racial profiling is a serious human rights problem affecting millions of people in the United States in even the most routine aspects of their daily lives. Racial profiling happens to both women and men, affects all age groups, is used against people from all socio-economic backgrounds, and occurs in rural, suburban, and urban areas. Racial profiling of citizens and visitors of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent, and others who appear to be from these areas or members of the Muslim and Sikh faiths, has substantially increased since September 11, 2001. www.amnestyusa.org /racial_profiling/report   (1311 words)

Racial Profiling: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns Racial profiling occurs when race is used by law enforcement or private security officials, to any degree, as a basis for criminal suspicion in non-suspect specific investigations. Racial profiling is not only a violation of the basic tenets of the U.S. Constitution and international human rights law and treaties, it has also proven to be an ineffective method of law enforcement. Institute programs to eliminate racial profiling in local, state and federal law enforcement by general prohibition, monitoring tactics, establishing procedures for receiving, investigating and responding to complaints and create procedures to discipline agents who engage in racial profiling. www.amnestyusa.org /racial_profiling/index.do   (593 words)

Racial Profiling Vice President Al Gore promised the NAACP that should he become president eliminating the practice of racial profiling by the nation's police departments would be a top priority. In the most general terms, racial profiling is a process whereby people employ a cheap-to-observe physical characteristic, such as race, sex, height, weight and accent, as a proxy for a more costly-to-observe characteristic. Racial profiling is practiced by fl policemen as well as white policemen. www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/wew/articles/fee/profiliing.html   (1550 words)

The Concept of Racial Profiling Examples of profiling are the use of race to determine which drivers to stop for minor traffic violations ("driving while fl") and the use of race to determine which motorists or pedestrians to search for contraband. Hence, if an ethnic, racial, or gender description is sufficiently narrowing in a particular circumstance, it ought to be allowed as evidence for probable cause, or as justification, to initiate police activity in regard to a particular individual or group of individuals. Clearly if racial profiling would be ineffective, there is no point in using it, but it is far from clear that it is any less effective in catching or deterring (potential) criminals than would be any non-racial, non-ethnic description, trait, or action which narrows the probability of detecting the actual perpetrator by the same degree. www.garlikov.com /philosophy/profiling.htm   (2706 words)

American Civil Liberties Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Racial Profiling is any police or private security practice in which a person is treated as a suspect because of his or her race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. Racial profiling can also involve pedestrian stops, "gang" databases, bicycle stops, use of police attack dogs, suspicion at stores and malls, immigration worksite raids, and in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, harassment on the way to polls, "voting while fl or brown". Racial profiling is a new term for an old practice known by other names: institutional racism and discrimination and owes its existence to prejudice that has existed in this country since slavery. www.aclu.org /profiling   (1128 words)

Media Blackface Racial profiling--the discriminatory practice by police of treating flness (or brownness) as an indication of possible criminality--has lately been the focus of frequent legal or legislative action, resulting in a significant amount of coverage in the mainstream news media (e.g. The brilliance of racial profiling as an instrument of modern, deniable racism is that the issue--be it crime, welfare, drug abuse or what have you--is seen by many as a real issue that is only coincidentally about race. Given the prevalence of racial profiling documented here and elsewhere, it only makes sense that a recent survey of young people found that they not only recognized that racial stereotyping was rampant on television, but that TV news was a worse perpetrator of racial stereotyping than TV's entertainment programming. www.fair.org /index.php?page=1431   (1881 words)

Reason magazine -- August-September 2001, The Roots of Racial Profiling by Gene Callahan and William Anderson The standard explanations for racial profiling focus on institutional racism, but that idea runs contrary to the sea change in social attitudes that has taken place over the last four decades. On the contrary, the practice of racial profiling grows from a trio of very tangible sources, all attributable to the War on Drugs, that $37 billion annual effort on the part of local, state, and federal lawmakers and cops to stop the sale and use of "illicit" substances. But when we turn our attention to the type of racial profiling that occurred on the highways of Maryland and New Jersey, or that is described in the Forest Service memo, we find a very different phenomenon, one where investigations proceeded on the basis of class probability. www.reason.com /0108/fe.gc.the.shtml   (3871 words)

An Evaluation of Racial Profiling Data Collection and Training In moving to define and outlaw racial profiling practices, state legislatures have needed to consider whether they intend to (1) specifically ban police behavior which is already unconstitutional under federal law or (2) provide additional protections which go beyond existing federal law. As with prior reports on racial profiling, the evidence presented in the four cities' reports that we reviewed was not conclusive regarding the incidence of racial profiling in traffic stops. Ideally, an evaluation of the racial profiling training course would examine law enforcement attitudes about racial profiling before and after taking the course and, to the extent possible, the degree to which participation in the course influences law enforcement decisions with regard to traffic stops or other public contacts. www.lao.ca.gov /2002/racial_profiling/8-02_racial_profiling.html   (6719 words)

Americans For a Fair Chance - Racial Profiling Before and After September 11, 2001 A new national commitment must be devoted to combating and banning both traditional racial profiling and post September 11 profiling, according to a new report issued today by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF). Racial profiling occurs when law enforcement agents impermissibly use race, religion, ethnicity, or national origin in deciding who to investigate. Traditional profiling is fueled by the assumption that minorities commit more of the types of crimes profiling is used to detect, e.g., drug crimes. fairchance.civilrights.org /search/details.cfm?id=11408   (380 words)

CBC News Indepth: Racial profiling Racial profiling is usually defined in a law enforcement context. Racial profiling is based on the assumption that members of certain ethnic groups are disproportionately more likely to be involved in certain criminal activities. Since anecdotal evidence appears to not be taken that seriously, the search for more concrete evidence of racial profiling inevitably leads to statistics compiled by police forces themselves. www.cbc.ca /news/background/racial_profiling   (1449 words)

Racial Profiling It surely would be racial profiling - using race as an indicator of a higher probability of some other characteristic. You might say that's different but using racial profiling as a proxy for potential criminal behavior is indeed racist. By the way, attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/wew/articles/04/profiling.html   (625 words)

USATODAY.com - Justice Dept. issues first federal guidelines banning racial profiling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) Although reliance on racial and ethnic stereotypes is broadly forbidden, the guidelines say that authorities can subject certain ethnic or racial groups to greater scrutiny if there is specific information that such people are preparing to mount a terrorist attack. Racial profiling by police gained national attention in 1998 when two New Jersey state troopers admitted shooting at a van occupied by four minority men in an incident that state officials later acknowledged as racial profiling. In addition, 25 civil lawsuits were filed against federal agencies alleging racial profiling in those two years; all but seven remained pending in the courts. www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2003-06-17-racial-profiling_x.htm   (682 words)

The Myth of Racial Profiling by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Spring 2001 Too bad no one asked President Bush: "What exactly do you mean by 'racial profiling,' and what evidence do you have that it exists?" For the anti-profiling crusaders have created a headlong movement without defining their central term and without providing a shred of credible evidence that "racial profiling" is a widespread police practice. The ultimate question in the profiling controversy is whether the disproportionate involvement of fls and Hispanics with law enforcement reflects police racism or the consequences of disproportionate minority crime. Their alleged evidence for racial profiling comes in two varieties: anecdotal, which is of limited value, and statistical, which on examination proves entirely worthless. www.city-journal.org /html/11_2_the_myth.html   (6021 words)

IMPACT Press: Article: "What Next, Concentration Camps? ..." -- Feb.-March '03 Racial profiling kicked in almost immediately after 9/11, first in the unofficial realm of discrimination, verbal insults and threats and hate crimes, then in official government policy. This despite the fact he was advised against racial profiling by a panel of law enforcement specialists, as revealed in the internal memo "Assessing Behaviors" published in The Boston Globe ("Memo warns against use of profiling as defense," 10/12/2001). Racial profiling by citizens and the government in the war on terror has already had countless troubling outcomes, such as the arrest of three medical students on their way to school in Florida after a waitress reported they were planning a terrorist attack. www.impactpress.com /articles/febmar03/racialpro2303.html   (2674 words)

[No title] Racial profiles build and reinforce popular stereotypes about the propensity for criminality among racial minorities. Racial profiling unfortunately remains a daily fact of life for many African Americans and Latina/os across the United States. However, few would disagree that racial profiling in its crudest form is an evil that must be curtailed. academic.udayton.edu /race/06hrights/WaronTerrorism/racial06.htm   (2342 words)

05/10/01 - Diversity vs. Freedom (contd.): Crime will Explode If Racial Profiling Ends That, he continued, is why “racial profiling is an area of special concern to me. It is totally unacceptable and un-American to think that there would be a problem of ‘driving while Hispanic’ or ‘driving while African-American’ in America. “Racial profiling”—the use of known correlations between race and criminal behavior for the purposes of police investigation of crimes—is not only not “unacceptable” but virtually essential for the effective performance of police work. That too is significant, since it suggests that arrests are not the product of police racial bias and indeed that the police are less racially biased in their work than some people would like us to think. www.vdare.com /francis/profiling.htm   (835 words)

Ineffective to Solutions to Racial Profiling Although solutions to racial profiling are slowly emerging, they lack the necessary range to adequately address racial disparity in prisons. However, legislation creating programs such as diversionary drug treatment programs must be enacted as a remedy at the back end of racial profiling, after the victims' arrests, in order to address the vicious cycle of incarceration that results from living in a community constantly targeted by the police. [ Racial Profiling in the Aftermath of Sept 11 ] academic.udayton.edu /race/03justice/profiling02.htm   (2936 words)

Racial Profiling Putting aside the obvious racial hostility that forms the core of many if not all of these statements, racial profiling cannot be justified on the basis of general crime rate data showing that fls commit a disproportionate amount of certain crimes, relative to their numbers in the population. The second and more common form of racial profiling is the disproportionate stopping, searching, frisking, and harassment of people of color in the hopes of uncovering a crime, even when there is no crime already in evidence for which a particular description might be available. The bottom line is that racial profiling doesn’t happen because data justifies the practice, but rather because those with power are able to get away with it, and find it functional to do so as a mechanism of social control over those who are less powerful. www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/march02wise.htm   (2356 words)

Racial Profiling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) The principle behind racial profiling is that people with certain characteristics statistically are more likely to be guilty of crime and being more intensive in investigating them is more likely to prevent criminals from remaining at large. Wouldn't that be a form of profiling, to first determine the percentage of races guilty of a particular crime before deciding to crack down on it. Profiling at our airports and borders and in seaports can lessen that threat, and if that’s what it takes to protect us, I will be first in line to be profiled, too. unicorn.phoenixrising-web.net /shelp/musprofiling.htm   (3901 words)

RIGHTS-U.S.: Racial Profiling Much Worse Since 9/11, Amnesty Says Heralding a public campaign against profiling, the 50-page report, 'Threat and Humiliation,' charges that the practice has actually grown since the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon despite a pledge by Pres. Amnesty is urging Congress to enact the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004 that has been endorsed by a bipartisan group of 140 lawmakers. In addition to humiliating and embarrassing the victims of profiling, such practices also generate fear and reluctance to call law enforcement agencies even in the case of genuine emergencies, according to the report. www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=25450   (974 words)

Center for Policy Alternatives: RacialProfiling.xml Racial profiling of African Americans and Latinos is widespread. States must end racial profiling to build trust between law enforcement agencies and communities of color. New Jersey makes racial profiling illegal and collects data on traffic stops by state troopers, but not other law enforcement agencies. www.cfpa.org /issues/issue.cfm/issue/RacialProfiling.xml   (766 words)

CNN.com - New federal guidelines ban racial profiling - Jun. 17, 2003 The Justice Department issued guidelines Tuesday designed to end racial profiling by federal agents in routine police work but allow the use of race and ethnicity to identify terrorism suspects. Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said most complaints of racial profiling come from state and local police agencies, and that congressional action is needed to end the practice. Officials said the study of racial profiling began before the September 11 attacks, when the issue was most closely associated with efforts to combat drug trafficking. www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/06/17/doj.racial.profiling   (756 words)

Racial Profiling in an Age of Terrorism Although the Supreme Court's holding in Korematsu, that the Government in time of war had justified racial discrimination in the name of national security is still the law of the land, many lower courts have recognized the injustice wrought by the Japanese internment and we should not forget it. So, racial profiling as the term has been employed in recent public debate, refers to government activity directed at a suspect or group of suspects because of their race, whether intentional or because of the disproportionate numbers of contacts based upon other pre-textual reasons. If ethnic profiling of middle eastern men is enough to warrant disparate treatment, we accept that all or most middle eastern men have a proclivity for terrorism, just as during World War II all resident Japanese had a proclivity for espionage. www.scu.edu /ethics/publications/ethicalperspectives/profiling.html   (2223 words)

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