Racial Profiling
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In contemporary law enforcement in order to effectively and efficiently allocate resources, racial profiling is used as a management tool. Law enforcement officials argue that young to middle-aged minority males statistically commit the most crimes. Because of this, they argue that allocating scarce resources by focusing on other segments of the population would be an inefficient use of taxpayer dollars and do little to reduce or deter crime. As one police Chief intones “It is common sense” (Derbyshire 38).Despite this logical argument, often the perception is more important than the reality and many think it is racism not common sense. Racial profiling has become a hotbed issue, as controversial as gun control or abortion. This is mainly because of the numerous cases of police misconduct directed at minorities, misconduct that is often attributed to law enforcement officials with a racial profiling mentality who perceive crime as color-specific. Many argue that solely because of
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Approximate Word count = 704
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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