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In the United States, racial profiling is mainly used when referring to the disproportionate searching of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, Native Americans, and Pacific Islander Americans along with other visible minorities.
Professor Harris traces the history of racial profiling, the ways police have used it, its ineffectiveness as a crime-fighting tool, and the damage it does to communities of color and to policing itself. He also makes suggestions for curbing the practice.
Racial profiling by law enforcement at the local, state, and federal levels, leads to discrimination against people in the African American, Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latino, Arab, and Muslim communities of the United States.
Racial profiling is patently illegal, violating the U.S. Constitution’s core promises of equal protection under the law to all and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. Just as importantly, racial profiling is ineffective.
This is everyday racial profiling – and it doesn’t just hurt the victims. It has an insidious ripple effect on the rest of society – in business, health and public safety.
I. Why Racial Profiling Matters. Though racial profiling is far from the only flaw in American law enforcement, it is nonetheless widespread. A 2019 Pew Research Center poll found that 59% of...
Racial Profiling: Definition. "Racial Profiling" refers to the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.
To gain a more comprehensive understanding of the risk of discriminatory profiling, agencies implementing the guidance should aim to review a range of representative programs.
To determine whether a police department engages in illicit racial profiling, courts look at metrics such as how often people of color are subjected to stops and searches relative to their portion of the population; whether searches frequently turn up contraband; and how often stops lead to an arrest or charges.
Racial Profiling Is Discrimination, and It Taints the Entire Criminal Justice System. Racial profiling rests on the erroneous assumption that any particular individual of one race or ethnicity is more likely to engage in misconduct than any particular individual of other races or ethnicities.