Racial ProfilingRacial ProfilingOutlineI. Racial profiling, What is it?A. Racial profiling has been debated and over the last decade.1. Before September 11th the majority of Americans felt that racial profiling problem, and it must be rooted out.2. Laws were passed before September 11th, banning racial profiling by police officers. S.989 the End Racial Profiling act of 2001, which uses data collection as tool to gather information as to who is being targeted and to hold police officers and agencies accountable.
3. New Jersey police officers targeting black men, puling them over and searching there cars looking for drugs. From this the term “driving while black” was coined.
B. Arab-Americans experienced forms for racial profiling before September 11th1.In the 1970’s the view of Arabs as terrorists became prevalent, and again during the Gulf War.II. Following the attacks of September 11th the racial profiling of Arab Americans has become much more prevalent.A. In the days after 9/11 the majority of Americans reacted to Arab’s with fear and anger.1. Between September 11th and November 9th the American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee confirmed violent acts at Arab’s.2. Some have said the treatment of Arab’s is similar to the treatment of the Japanese during WW2.B. The government has had a conflicting outlook on racial profiling since September 11th.1. President Bush has condemned the practice of profiling Arab’s and has urged all of the American people not to profile..2. USA Patriot Act gives the government powers to detain, search, watch, anyone based on suspicion. The government has also decided to try non-citizens in military tribunals instead of civilian courts.
A. In 1991, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that the government was making all attempts to arrest, charge or record anyone based on profiling. A similar policy was outlined in 1991-2 and was applied to Arabs by the FBI in early 1994.[7] 2. There is a growing interest in “black guilt,” a category of guilt known as “innocence.” It is believed that people convicted of crimes involving human trafficking will be more likely to face criminal court conditions that make it hard to return to family due to a lack of justice. Some of these are seen as non-existent even before the government became aware of the issue.2. This is something of a black-or-white issue. The U.S.A. and other international powers have taken up the practice of racial profiling. There was a significant increase in the number of American Indians arrested in 2000 (22 in 2000; 24 in 2000). There was also a notable increase in the number of people taken into custody for criminal and non-criminal immigration violations. At the same time, there has been a recent rise in the frequency and the duration of arrests for non-criminal violations by American citizens, including those from Iraqi-Americans.3. The rate of arrests per 100,000 people from 1990 onward, an area where racial profiling continues to grow as more US citizens have become involved in the criminal justice system, is increasing. While the percentage of Americans arrested per 100,000 persons in 2005 stood at 41 percent, it now stood at 40 percent.[7] In 2011, there had been about one black child arrested per 100,000 inhabitants and that number doubled to 22,942.[7] 4. The current number of people removed from their countries of origin is almost double that per 100,000 persons. American law enforcement has been able to track approximately 3.4 million Black citizens within the United States in 2012, more than double the 2.1 million apprehended for terrorism, which is the largest number of arrestees for terrorism. American law enforcement has also done extremely well in protecting their citizenship. Police departments and other federal agencies reported in late December that they found that there were about 1.5 million U.S. children under the age of 5 who have been at risk due to U.S. national security or are suspected of terrorist activities based solely on their race or nationality.[7] 5. The current number of Americans being held in various detention centers has increased more than tenfold in the past five years. In 2008 the Bush administration announced plans to open 18 facilities in facilities belonging to local law enforcement and DHS in the Southern District of New York and increase the number of facilities to 45 by the end of the year.[11] 11. At a time when the military has a need to keep Iraqi-Americans safely out of detention, the US military has used the use of federal-contract detainees as a means of tracking the whereabouts of non-citizens to facilitate the collection of intelligence. In June 2005 the US House of Representatives passed the Congressional Research Service Act that made civilian detainment a lawful action. In addition to the military, law enforcement agencies are also conducting security assessments to identify potential terrorists and the threat to society under a variety of surveillance methods.This legislation allows for federal-contract detainees to remain indefinitely in their detention facilities until a judge orders that they return to the country they were held in. It also allows for the return of those detainees by DHS, as well as by other federal agencies, to a country of residence. A recent analysis found that the program includes over 6,000 former detainees who have been held as part of the Government Assessment Program. The program also includes the use of detention facilities and detention operations across the country, as well as national security agencies. It is currently illegal for foreign governments to detain any American citizen who came to the United States in violation of federal law, whether because of an act, a violation of human rights, a conflict, an
III. While the reaction from the Arab community to the racial profiling has been understandable offended ,there is also understanding.A. The Arab community is trying thorough the media, and through their own community to improve their image. They would like show that they are Americans, and that they are just as outraged about