On April 23, 2010 Governor Jan Brewer signed into law SB 1070 (Arizona Immigration Law). The day the whole state of Arizona went into immediate fear of law enforcement. This law gives officers the right to stop anyone and determine if a person is here illegally. This means if they are pulled over on a lawful stop they have the right to ask to show proof of legal documentation and if they do not comply then they can be detained and possibly later deported. This law should be abolished because it is against civil rights, it gives law enforcement too much power and the ones who truly suffer from all of this are the children.
Law SB 1070 is against a person’s constitutional right. For example, immigrants will now fear they will be targets for hate crimes because of the color of their skin. Immigrants are now going to be more reluctant to report any crimes they witness or are a victim too. For that reason they will fear the officer responding to the emergency is going to enforce law SB 1070 and could possibly deport them instead of protecting them. Legal immigrants are suffering as well from this law, because of the color of their skin they will feel discriminated against no matter where they go. For example, this past September I had a layover flight at the Phoenix International Airport. The whole time is I was frightened someone was going to ask me to show proof of citizenship. Being raised in Florida I have never had that issue before, therefore I had no idea how I would prove it. Does my drivers license count? Or does law enforcement want a full on birth certificate and social security card? To answer my questions the proper documentations are previously issued undamaged passport, certified birth certificate, naturalization certif...
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...ch authority when it comes to a person’s constitutional rights. Law SB 1070 is just another way to harass anyone with a different skin color. In the end this law should not be in effect, simply because it is unconstitutional, cops have too much power and the children are the ones who are suffering from this terrible law.
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While making any program in the criminal justice system “color-blind” is not an easy concept, many regulations can be enacted to help ensure equality when finding a precinct and performing a stop and frisk among NYC civilians. The new policy can include regulations that make it necessary to use a higher form of discretion when stoping a person. Such as attempting to overlook the persons race and focus more on where they are coming from, how they are acting, and/or who they are surrounding themselves with.
One of the biggest reason stop-and-frisk should be abolished is in hopes to decrease such blatant racial profiling that has been going on under the name of “stop-and-frisk”. In 2007, 55% of the people stopped in New York were blacks and 30% were Hispanic (“Update: Crime and Race”). When checked again in 2011 a total of 685,000 people were stopped by the police of that 685,000, 52.9% were African Americans, 33.7% were Latino, and 9.3% were white (“Racial Profiling”). There is a story of an innocent victim of the stop-and-frisk policy, a man by the name of Robert Taylor. Police in Torrance stopped the elderly man and claimed he fit the description of a suspect that was linked to a robbery. But there was one simple problem; Taylor is a light complexioned, tall, 60 year-old man and the suspect was believed to be a short, dark complexioned, stocky man in his thirties; nothing like Taylor at all (Hutchinson). His shows that the police do not always stop people based on the right reasons, they tend to stop people based on the color of thei...
... to occur in predominated areas. People might say they’re being racially profiled, but if it’s in an area where mostly Hispanics, or African Americans live, then it’s not. Whatever the situation is, an officer must articulate the facts and see if there is reasonable suspicion to stop someone.
"The Supreme Court and Racial Profiling." National Motorists Association, n. d. Web. 4 Mar. 2014. .
Voter ID laws in the United States have begun to create controversy since the beginning of its adaptations in the early 2000’s. Voter ID laws in the United States is a law that requires U.S. citizens to have a special form of identification in order to vote in an election. The idea with Voter ID laws is that the state must make sure that the laws do not pose any sort of burden on the voters. These laws have been proposed in order to stop voting fraud. However, the institution of Voter ID laws have made trouble in states, including Texas, regarding to the various amount of identification requirements needed.
Overall, racial profiling is bad for the economy, unconstitutional, and sets borderlines for different races. Bad economic results can occur when racial profiling is accepted and urged to be used. Matthew Rothschild states, “Better to take nonviolent action and press our case with boycott”(3). Rothschild is referring to Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law that allows local law enforcement the power to ask any suspect for proof of citizenship. This law outraged many people and the city also took offense to this new law.
...abriel Medina. "Some Mexican immigrants experience discrimination at the hands of their fellow citizens." Nebraska mosaic. Nebraska School of Journalism, 15 Nov. 2011. Web. 21 Nov. 2013.
Anti-defamation League. “Arizona: The Key Players in the Anti-immigrant Movement.” Adi.org. 2013. Web. 19 Oct 2013.
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Law Enforcement policy is designed to help law enforcement agencies cut down on the amount of crime in communities and give structure to the agency. It also helps lessen the number of certain cases in certain areas, as well as from a certain group of people. There are several policies that I disagree with, but there is one policy I will be discussing. Law enforcement officers sometimes stop and frisk people based on gender, race, financial status, and social ranking. It is a very controversial issue because anything dealing with race and ethnicity can cause a lot of disagreement and discord. According to a New York judge on dealing with the stop and frisk laws, "If you got proof of inappropriate racial profiling in a good constitutional case, why don't you bring a lawsuit? You can certainly mark it as related . . . . I am sure I am going to get in trouble for saying it, for $65 you can bring that lawsuit" (Carter, 2013, pp.4). The stop and frisk law is one reason I do not believe in law enforcement profiling. Even though some law enforcement officers allow personal feelings and power to allow them to not follow policy, some policies are not followed morally because I do not feel that officers should be allowed to frisk someone who is innocent and has not committed a crime because it takes the focus off real criminals and onto innocent people; it causes emotional stress. I know because I have been through this several times.
Erika, Lee. "U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues." Journal of American Ethnic History. Vol. 20. Issue 2 (2001): n. page. Web. 18 Apr. 2013.
Odegaard, Gregory A. "A Yes Or No Answer: A Plea To End The Oversimplification Of The Debate On Licensing Aliens." Journal Of Law & Politics 24.4 (2008): 435-473. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.
In April of 2010 former governor of Arizona Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. After reading and reviewing this bill, I found out that its design is to target any brown skinned person, who either doesn’t speak English. They are also going to target people that speak English, but with an accent, its pure racial profiling towards people with a Hispanic origin. Laws like this make our state dishonorable, in the eyes of our founding fathers.
Haines, David W and Rosenblum, Karen E.: Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference Handbook. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. 1999. EBook. , Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).