The Roots of Racial Profiling / Gene Callahan and William Anderson.
by Callahan, Gene; Anderson, William; Cloud, John; Pritchard, Justin; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 35Human Relations. Publisher: Reason, 2001ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Criminal behavior -- Prediction of | Discrimination in law enforcement | Forfeiture | Police -- Attitudes | Narcotics -- Control of | Racial profiling | Searches and seizures | Cincinnati (Ohio)DDC classification: 050 Summary: THE ROOTS OF RACIAL PROFILING -- "The practice of racial profiling grows from a trio of very tangible sources, all attributable to the War on Drugs....The sources include the difficulty in policing victimless crimes in general and the resulting need for intrusive police techniques; the greater relevancy of this difficulty given the intensification of the drug war since the 1980s; and the additional incentive that asset forfeiture laws give police forces to seize money and property from suspects." (REASON) This article investigates the true root causes behind racial profiling.Summary: WHAT'S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT? -- "With a few notable exceptions--Los Angeles, for one--most departments are less corrupt and more accountable than ever. The debate over racial profiling may be giving that trend another shove. And it will yield mountains of data in the next few years as police departments begin to release figures on the people they stop. But the hard part will be to figure out why they stop them--and whether race should ever be part of the reason." (TIME) This article examines the dilemma faced when trying to understand and eliminate racial profiling while still maintaining an effective police department.Summary: RACIAL PROFILING EXISTS, BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN? -- "Even with all the number crunching, no one--not the courts, not police, not civil rights groups--knows precisely what the statistics show or what to do with them...All sides had hoped cold hard facts would settle anecdotal accusations of profiling. The truth is beyond black and white, however." (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL) This article illustrates the dilemma of how to analyze racial profiling statistics and put them to use productively.
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This MARC record contains three articles.
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: The Roots of Racial Profiling, Aug./Sept. 2001; pp. 36-43.
Originally Published: What's Race Got to Do with It?, July 30, 2001; pp. 42-47.
Originally Published: Racial Profiling Exists, but What does It Mean?, Jan. 14, 2001; pp. 34A+.
THE ROOTS OF RACIAL PROFILING -- "The practice of racial profiling grows from a trio of very tangible sources, all attributable to the War on Drugs....The sources include the difficulty in policing victimless crimes in general and the resulting need for intrusive police techniques; the greater relevancy of this difficulty given the intensification of the drug war since the 1980s; and the additional incentive that asset forfeiture laws give police forces to seize money and property from suspects." (REASON) This article investigates the true root causes behind racial profiling.
WHAT'S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT? -- "With a few notable exceptions--Los Angeles, for one--most departments are less corrupt and more accountable than ever. The debate over racial profiling may be giving that trend another shove. And it will yield mountains of data in the next few years as police departments begin to release figures on the people they stop. But the hard part will be to figure out why they stop them--and whether race should ever be part of the reason." (TIME) This article examines the dilemma faced when trying to understand and eliminate racial profiling while still maintaining an effective police department.
RACIAL PROFILING EXISTS, BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN? -- "Even with all the number crunching, no one--not the courts, not police, not civil rights groups--knows precisely what the statistics show or what to do with them...All sides had hoped cold hard facts would settle anecdotal accusations of profiling. The truth is beyond black and white, however." (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL) This article illustrates the dilemma of how to analyze racial profiling statistics and put them to use productively.
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