Racial_Profiling

Racial Profiling What is Racial Profiling' Racial Profiling--the routine of pulling over Black and Hispanic drivers based solely on race first became publicized a few years ago. For Black and Hispanic drivers, a decade ago the New Jersey Turnpike came to be known as the “White Man’s Pass.” Many suspected that minorities were indeed being pulled over and searched by the state police far more than whites (Kit 2001). When the term originated it added to an infamous history of being a through way for drugs and contraband to the criminal marts in the northeast (Derbyshire 2001). The Purpose of this report is to inform the reader about racial profiling in New Jersey, cases involving it, the D.E.A.’s involvement and current governmental efforts to end this practice. “White Man’s Pass” The career for the term seems to have started in 1994, but sparked in 1998 when two white New Jersey Troopers pulled over a van for speeding near Trenton, New Jersey. Inside were four occupants who were all black or Hispanic heading toward a basketball tryout at a North Carolina college in aspiration of obtaining a scholarship. When the van unexpectedly reversed toward them, officers fired eleven shots wounding police, racial, profiling, new, jersey, 2001, 2000, justice, department, black, kocieniewski, dea, white, state, percent, over, john, federal, drivers, been, work, term, stating, officials, officers, never, minorities, years, turnpike, troopers, times, three, statistics, started, senator