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Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling. Those profiled the most Hispanics African Americans Those of Jewish decent Indians (India). Examples of Racial Profiling. A study conducted in Arizona shows that African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be pulled over by the police than Whites.

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Racial Profiling

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  1. Racial Profiling • Those profiled the most • Hispanics • African Americans • Those of Jewish decent • Indians (India)

  2. Examples of Racial Profiling • A study conducted in Arizona shows that African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be pulled over by the police than Whites. • A group of black teenagers are pulled over because of the kind of car they are driving. • Any person of color stopped for minor traffic violations and then questioned about where there are going, or if they have illegal drugs or weapons in their possession.

  3. Racial Profiling in America • 1642: The Trials of John Elkin • A man confessed to the murder of an American Indian leader but other colonists refused to punish a white man for killing an American Indian • Later found guilty, but his punishment was not bad • 1704: To Catch a Slave • The South Carolina slave patrols goal was to find and capture fugitive slaves. • They sometimes arrested free African Americans as "fugitive slaves"

  4. Racial Profiling in America con. • 1831: The Other Nat Turner Massacre • Following Nat Turner's rebellion 250 black slaves were rounded up and killed • 1944: Racial Profiling Receives the Supreme Court's Endorsement • U.S. Supreme Court held that ethnic profiling is not unconstitutional and may be practiced in times of national emergency. • Defended the involuntary internment of an estimated 110,000 Japanese Americans on the reason that they were Japanese during World War II

  5. Racial Profiling in America con. • 2001: War and Terror • After, September 11th, the Bush administration rounded up an unknown number of Middle Eastern women and men on suspicion of being associated with terrorist groups. • They were either deported, released and some imprisoned

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