The great era of civil rights began in the 1960s, with Martin Luther King, Jr’s stirring "I have a Dream" at The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28th August, 1963. At the same time Birmingham Police Commissioner "Bull" Connor used powerful fire hoses and vicious police attack dogs against nonviolent black civil rights activists. Why? You may ask, because they where black would be the answer not many people would like to believe (Spartacus, 2003).
However even with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act being passed in the U.S; racism still exists in the present day. Racial profiling has become one of biggest civil rights issues of modern law enforcement (History learning site, 2002).
What is racial profiling? The most common example of police racial profiling is "DWB", otherwise known as "driving while black"– a play on words, of the real offense of "Driving While Intoxicated". This refers to the practice of police targeting African Americans for traffic stops because they believe that African Americans are more likely to be engaged in criminal activity. Unfortunately skin-color has become all of the evidence a lot of police, particularly traffic police need to stop people going
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Another fault of the bill is that it just focused on traffic stops, and not other forms of racial profiling (Lipper, 2001). You don't want to have a confrontation that could escalate it, but at the same time there is a high level of frustration, guilt and resentment. Professional police traffic stops: strategies to address racial profiling. On April 15th, 1999 Conyers introduced house bill 1443, The Traffic Stops Study Act. So this leads most people to pursue their case in civil court under a violation of there 14th amendment rights. These white cops supposedly practicing racial profiling may also be upset by the fact that of the 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence involving black and white people, 90% of these crimes are committed against whites by blacks (Taylor, 1999).
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