Opinion-Editorial Paper

Racial Profiling (Creating an Opinion Paper

Opinion:
Racial profiling while being a method of catching dangerous people, really alienates good citizens, creates fear, and targets people of color.

Brainstorming
Big ideas: Alienates good citizens Creates fear Targets people of color

Alienates good citizens

ACLU Violates Constitution Racial profiling ...alienating communities from law enforcement,...causing law enforcement to lose credibility and trust among the people they are sworn to protect and serve.

Alienates good citizens (cont.)

Teen Dancer Article Landry said she was very scared and said she definitely thinks race played a role in what happened.

Alienates good citizens

Chart out of 3,735 searches that were agreed to 43.7% were African American while only 26.6% of whites cooperated. Shows that the more cooperative racial extractions are people of color; the targets of racial profiling.

Creates fear
ACLU The despicable practice of racial profiling, however, has led countless people to live in fear and created a system of law enforcement that casts entire communities as suspect.

Creates fear
Teen Dancer "[The officer] puts the handcuffs on very, very tight [and] throws me in the back and does the same to Josiah," Hurd said. "All the while I'm looking at Landry. She's terrified.

Creates fear
Chart no data availble

Targets people of color

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