The Role Of Racial Profiling In Today's Society

in todays society, an often recurring topic of racial profiling seems to plague the world through many political aspects. Racial profiling is one of the biggest injustices that individuals face in the world mainly because racism has always been something that plagued this world. Even though racial profiling is something that’s plaguing the world in today’s society, part of the biggest reason why this is such a problem is because of our worlds history. In many years past, different races use to do certain things that would often cause others to commit racial profiling. For example, since muslims were the cause of the devastation of 9/11, people will automatically have a natural reaction of fear when they are on an airplane. Racial profiling

In an article titled “General Progress,” written by Grayden Goyette, the author describes that nearly 32 million people reported that they were unfairly singled out by law enforcements only because of their ethnicity. But why does this kind of thing always happen though? Continuing to reflect on the article, Goyette goes on to say that most states in the U.S simply do not have a policy against racial profiling and in doing so, law enforcements fail to get rid of this lack of justice. In the article it writes

“Most states do not have laws that prohibit racial profiling by law enforcement. Only 29 states even mention racial profiling in their legislation. Of the 29, only 19 states require their law enforcement agencies to collect data on the traffic stops they conduct, and these reporting requirements vary wildly from state to state. Further, five of the states that prohibit racial profiling only ban the use of race as the sole factor for initiating a stop, rather than banning its use as any factor in determining whom to

Even though racism is and always be something the society will never get rid of completely, I do believe there are many ways where we as people can make a difference in at least trying to keep it from plaguing our world any more than it already has. One major way I think society can help stop the injustice act of racial profiling is by first, fully addressing and comprehending exactly what the problem is to begin with. Often time individuals will automatically play the blame game and point figures without even addressing the problem. The problem will try to be solved quickly as possible by simply blaming the issue based on ethnicity. Even though this is the first thing that happens in racial profiling, I think it is absolutely imperative to address the problem in its entirety rather than being bias and see one perspective. In other words, In order for this to work there must be a balance in the problem where both sides of the story is heard. In an article on the NAACP, it talks about how congress man John Conyers Jr wants to pass a law known as “The End Racial Profiling Act” (which have five different parts). He seeks to pass this law in the U.S senate and House of Representatives which would state the same case of fully addressing a problem in its entirety before making a decision. We see this statement