Declaration Of Independence: Equality In The United States

One of America’s earliest actions when declaring themselves to be “free and independent”, was writing the Declaration of Independence. Within these documents were the five ideals, which include equality, liberty, opportunity, rights, and democracy all which are fundamental and vital to the progress of this country. However, multiple occasions are seen throughout history in which the government has not complied with these ideals. All throughout America’s history, there has been a major amount of inequality. Even today there are issues concerning these ideals. Equality is far from being yet accomplished. Centuries have passed and racism still has not been abandoned. Not even by authority figures such as police officers who are often more likely to stop someone due to their race rather than because they have a reasonable cause behind their suspicion.

When this is enough of a motive there is a clear imbalance between the way people of color are treated versus how white people are treated.

It is apparent that this prejudice against people of color leads to harsher punishment as well as higher rates of incarceration for people of color. This is a large problem that affects everyone, even though evidently we can see that it is often overlooked since, it has continued going on for so long. When a police officer pulls over a person to search them it is seen as enough of a reason to do so because of their race this is clearly an unfair system. When someone is invaded and searched and made to feel violated due to these searches there has to more to it than just the color of their skin. If their entire life can be affected due to this system of “justice” it needs to be acknowledged as a very real and present

problem.
Advocаtes for rаcial profiling often argue that this technique grants police to the ability to easily find and target people who are more likely to be offenders. Supporters make claims of how the practice of racial profiling is beneficiаl to law enforcement in how it effectively uses the lаws of probаbility in order to ascertain a person’s criminаlity. They argue that racial profiling is simply a means used to make the process easier for officers to do their job. Stereotypes are commonly used by a lot of people whether they do it consciously or not may be debatable yet when it comes to racial profiling stereotypes are clearly being used. People are predisposed to think thаt stereotypes аre sincere reflections of what they see in the world. But instead, they often frame how people see the world and how they assemble the data put before them. So when these assumptions are proven right people are left with confirmation bias. When a person is selected to be searched and is indeed guilty this just ends in a situation where this maladjusted assumption is confirmed due to the probability that yes there are times when the person is actually guilty of what they have been suspected of. All that is really happening is that a person happens to be guilty and this further perpetuates to the antagonism that is often placed on people of a color. Whether it's because they are black, Latino, or Middle Eastern people start thinking it is ok to have stereotypes against them because they see it regularly displayed before them since when a person of color commits a crime their race is often put into focus yet when a white person commits a crime their race doesn't actually have a close focus to it. These stereotypes come with a risk since one can never know how accurate they truly are and this places those with stereotypes that antagonize them due to their skin color in uncomfortable situations where people already have negative beliefs against them that in turn end up affecting them in harmful ways. This is where the problems begin when using racial profiling. The extent to the problems are of course far wider than just some occasional inaccuracies.