RACIAL CRIMES

The topic that I chose to research and discuss was racial profiling. I felt that it was an appropriate topic because as an African American looking for a career in law enforcement I’m going to encounter these types of situations every day. In my in the following pages I hope to show you how law enforcement officer can either use this to as a positive tool or will it be a mean of abuse and racism. I will give you some history on where racial profiling was developed. Going through the “crack” era of New York City which was during the mid-1980s.

At this time as we know there was a lot of drug activity which caused a major spike in the city’s violent crime rate. Assaults, robberies, and murders were at an all-time high due to turfs wars and fights over drugs and money. This left the police on end so racial profiling bound to occur. I will also discuss the situation that occurred with Rodney King which led to the famous LA riots. It is my attempt to the