Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to make an analysis on police and racial profiling. Since the case Villanueva, racial profiling is found constantly in the news. Profiling is based on race and skin color, it raises the passions, both among defenders of rights and freedoms, but also among the strong supporters of law and order. Racial profiling is any action taken by a person or persons of authority in respect of a person or group of persons, for reasons of safety, security or public protection that relies on factors such as race, color, ethnic or national origin or religion, without factual grounds or reasonable suspicion, which has the effect of exposing the person to an examination or differential treatment (Calnon, 2002).

Thesis Statement

Racial profiling is one of the biggest issues faced by the law enforcement agencies in these days. The paper makes discussion on the racial profiling by police officers as a controversial issue.

Discussion

In recent months, the American police was dealing with a number of claims for compensation in relation to discrimination in the workplace based on race and ethnicity (Calnon, 2002). One police officer filed suit for 500 thousand pounds, because he believes he was discriminated against and denied promotion unfairly. He was preparing a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, Who was charged to press, Asian and black detectives. There is no limit to the amount of compensation that may be claimed in cases of racial discrimination, which usually leads to higher pay demands (Gabor, 2004). However, there really should be convincing proof that discrimination has not occurred for the case, to be successful. All the organizations face racism in the workplace. There are very negative consequences of such racism in workpalces. Courts are the palces that work to solve the problems. As compared to the normal cases, the cases of racism takes a long time to get solved by courts (Lange, 2005). For the cases of racism, it is very necessary that the proper evidences related to racism should be provided to courts. The evidence should show that this concern has been brought in company management's concentration, but could not be solved. It is necessary for the officers that they should show that they have followed the internal policies of iunstitution, which means that they have registered a proper complain against such racism. In case, the police officer is not properly satisfied with the results then it is legal that they can file the suit against the company to the court (Lever, 2005).

. Employment law works differently in the Criminal Law with nature, which is determined by the verdict. In criminal court, the evidence presented to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime was or was not committed. In labor law, the evidence weighed in accordance with the balance of probabilities. Research was done by the University of California and the University of Chicago and they found when a police officer was confronted with a potentially dangerous suspect they: fired ...