RACIAL PROFILING AND POLICE BRUTALITY

DEFINITION

• Racial Profiling is the use of race, ethnicity, gender,religion, or national origin by law enforcement agents as a factor in deciding whom to investigate, arrest or detain
• Key Info: Without evidence of a specific crime or criminal behavior

DEEP ROOTS

• Discriminatory conduct by law enforcement and the criminal justice system that dates back to at least the 1700s in the United States for people of African descent.
• In 1704, South Carolina founded the first slave patrol in which white men policed black slaves on plantations and hunted for escaped slaves

WATTS RIOTS

• August 11 to 17, 1965
• The five days of violence left 34 dead, 1,032 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested, and $40 million worth of property destroyed.
• This riot was the worst urban riot in 20 years and was just the beginning to upcoming events

Trayvon Martin, Charleston, and Ferguson,

WHY IS IT HELPFUL?

• Security: Racial profiling can help law enforcement find a possible suspect based on racial cues
• Reasonable: Racial profiling can be reasonable when it is common that a certain group of people are more likely to have the same values
• Costly: Profiling can save money when law enforcement is looking for a specific criminal.

WHY IS IT INSULTING?

• Racist: The biggest complaint is that racial profiling is racist.
• Unethical: This method is unethical and morally wrong
• Racial tensions in the certain area
• Statistically it is not proven to be an ideal method

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CALIFORNIA POPULATION

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CHURCH VIEW

• Catholic Church is against police brutality
• The church believes that everyone is equal and no one should be treated differently

BLACK BOYS MATTER

• Many African American males in our country are inappropriately targeted, stopped, and searched by law enforcement officials based on race and gender
• African-American males are not only singled out while driving, but also in the workplace, running for political office, or even walking down the street

BIASED JUSTICE SYSTEM

• Noticed that there were a lot of angry black people yet most of the people getting arrested were whites and Latinos
• Justice system sees blacks as criminals right away and not American citizens

BEING BLACK IS A CRIME

• Doug Glanville, a retired Major League Baseball player explained how he was stopped and nearly arrested in his own driveway.
• Post racial society” is just a fancy way to say hope for justice, but don’t expect it

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A time I was racially profiled ....

The policing of black bodies: Racial profiling for profit and the killing of Ferguson’s Mike Brown

by Orlando de Guzman and Tim Pool

Face the Truth: Racial Profiling across America

by Dr. Ben Carson

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THANK YOU