Racial_Profiling

Racial Profiling Racial Profiling: Are we Fighting it the Right Way' I would like to talk about an issue that is plaguing our community today and making the job of a Police Officer even more difficult than it already is. All for one reason, statistics!! Racial profiling to me is a lot like any other problem in our society today. Many have different opinions on why it happens, and what we should do about it if it does happen. The problem is nobody can come to a consensus on how to solve this problem. It seems to me that racism is still part of our society, and sadly, I think it always will be. We all have prejudices of some sort towards others. It may be because of race, sex, sexual preference, rich, poor, ugly, or pretty. I am not saying that this is right, but we as a society need to realize that this problem will never completely go away. We need to adapt to it, work around it, or through it. Recently, at the end of 2000, many states including Missouri addressed this problem of Racial Profiling. They decided that statistics needed to be obtained, by having each police officer fill in police, profiling, car, racial, problem, officers, officer, traffic, statistics, each, stop, brown, whites, stops, search, population, out, minority, driving, drivers, disparity, county, blacks, black, work, while, state, st, reported, rate, need, missouri, louis, index, data