Racial_Profiling

Racial Profiling Racial Profiling by Law Enforcement On June 17, 2003, President Bush fulfilled one of his campaign promises by banning racial and ethnic profiling in all 70 federal agencies with law enforcement powers under the direction of the Justice Department. This will affect roughly 120,000 U.S. law enforcement officers including those from the FBI, DEA, Homeland Security Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Coast Guard. The policy still allows for consideration of raceif information has been found that people of a certain race or ethnicity are involved in a specific crime or a criminal organization. Critics call this a loophole for government groups to use racial profiling whenever they deem necessary. Miriam Gohara, an attorney for the NAACP said, “It looks to me that it is more interested in carving out exceptions to racial profiling than it is in enforcing a ban.” Since the Sept. 11 attacks our nation suffered there has been increased scrutiny among people appearing to be from an Islamic, Arabic, or Middle Eastern countries, they are under greater surveillance from law enforcement and endure longer detention for immigration violations. However, the ban on racial profiling was not spurred racial, profiling, police, being, people, out, officers, car, stops, stopped, men, law, enforcement, traffic, smith, over, driving, because, two, real, pulled, problem, pretext, president, officer, american, agencies, years, while, violates, vehicle, stop, state, sgt, race