Dear future President,

Racial Profiling has become a big issue. It’s not just something that I want you to address, it’s something that I need you to lessen, or even fix if possible. What can do you to help the situation? You can create special community outreach programs for police officers to attend and to show that not everyone in a particular race should be viewed as “bad” or “dangerous”.

Racial Profiling is unjust and should not be practiced by police. This practice may be due to bad training and common assumption. They assume that because someone of a specific ethnicity commits a crime, then they must all be bad. This is the same with communities. An incident could occur within an urban community, and all of a sudden that community and the people within it are “bad” and “unsafe” or “dangerous”. According to Wikipedia, “Some believe that inner city residents of Hispanic communities are subjected to racial profiling because of theories such as the "gang suppression model." This is simply because of the assumptions made by police officers and citizens who probably never had a view on the neighborhood in the first place.

Not only that, racial profiling destroys the relationship between the police and the populace. According to The Boston Globe, “When minority groups feel that they’re under constant suspicion, they’re less likely to entrust police with information that can be vital to solving crimes.” For instance, a black male is suspected of murder with little evidence against him. When questioned, he says very little, worried authorities would come to some kind of assumption or conclusion based on race. How else would you expect him to respond, especially since they just assumed he was up to no good simply due to his ethnicity.

While some may argue that the main job of police officers is to keep communities safe, and that they should do anything to do their job. The Boston Globe states, “If police genuinely believe that the greatest threats come from one particular racial or ethnic group, they might heighten their scrutiny of that group.” However, there is no reason to simply assume that one ethnicity does wrong and decide that they should be stopped or harassed by authorities.

To the next president, please fix these issues. Create outreach programs for urban communities and police officers to bond. We need to end racial profiling; if we don’t stop or lessen this now, it will only get worse.

Sincerely,

Amaru 

Works Cited:

The Leadership Conference. “The Reality Of Racial Profiling.”

Civil Rights, http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/racial-profiling2011/the-reality-of-racial.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Wikipedia. “Racial Profiling”

WIki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_profiling#Urban_communities

Horowitz, Evan. “A look at racial profiling”

Boston Globe, https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/11/01/what-are-arguments-for-and-against-racial-profiling/F0DlnqVZk7aUXolRuHc0LJ/story.html