Essays on Racial Profiling

Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the act of suspecting, targeting or discriminating against a person on the basis of their ethnicity, religion or nationality, rather than on individual suspicion or available evidence.

Racial profiling can involve disproportionate stop searches, traffic stops, and the use of surveillance technology for facial identification.

Racial profiling involves discrimination against minority populations and often builds on negative stereotypes of the targeted demographic.

In New York City, 88% of police stops in 2018 involved Black and Latinx people, while 10% involved white people.
Black Americans and white Americans use drugs at similar rates, but Black Americans are 6 times more likely to be arrested for it.
In the US, Black individuals are twice as likely to be unemployed than white individuals.