The Pros And Cons Of Racial Profiling

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Two men of different ethnic backgrounds board a plane, they wander to find their seat . They find it and realize that they are sitting next to each other. One of them gets uncomfortable and tells the other “ Please dont blow up this plane I have a family at home”. Racial Profiling can be defined as the utilization of race or ethnicity as reason for associating somebody with having conferred an offense.Minorities in America face racial profiling when they get pulled over, and when they enter the country.

No one can deny that man nor woman of ethnic background don’t get afraid when a cop pulls them over.” A study of State Police conduct in Arizona showed that the highway patrol was 3.5 times more likely to search a stopped Native American

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