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A 4 page overview of the common misperception that racial profiling accounts for the disproportionate representation that some minorities have in our criminal justice system. Noting that this fallacy is often stretched to imply concern over implications in the post-September 11 environment, the author emphasizes that the fact is that a particular culture’s propensity for crime, not their race is what lands them in our nation’s prisons. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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hard to shake from our societal consciousness. Some contend that these events have made us more deeply aware of the racial and cultural differences which characterize our country than
we have been at any point in the past. These same observers contend that we are engaging in a greater degree of racial profiling, profiling in which individuals which
fit certain racial and cultural images are unfairly centered out from a law enforcement standpoint. Others contend, however, that racial profiling has been a component of American society for
many generations preceding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Indeed, when one looks at the statistics of who it is that is incarcerated in our nations prisons it
is clear that there is a greater relative percentage of African Americans and certain other minorities than there is whites. One is immediately inspired to ask, in fact, does
this disproportionate representation of minorities in our criminal justice system point to an inherent unfairness in that system? The answer is a definitive no. Blacks and other minorities
are not being singled out on the basis of their color but rather on the basis of the fact that the commit a disproportionate percentage of the crimes.
While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the disproportionate representation of certain minorities in our criminal
justice system, a rational analysis of the facts does not support this conclusion. The Human Rights Watch (2000) reports, in fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of
our national population they represent some thirty percent of those arrested: "41 percent of people
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