A Comparison of Racial Profiling To protect and serve; any American familiar with the police knows this pledge. Yet each of these individuals who have heard this has in the last ten years been exposed to several other things: the Rodney King beating, the Mumia Abu-Jamal case, and countless other incidents of police brutality towards minorities. These events are evidence of the fact that some police officers are more likely to discriminate against blacks than …showed first 75 words of 679 total…

…showed last 75 words of 679 total…of many contrasting cultures. To use our differences as the basis for discrimination against minorities like blacks or hispanics, especially when the police force is used as a vehicle to that end, is an unfortunate, present crime that hurts everyone. Works Cited Davis, Danny. “Racial Profiling editorial.” July, 2000. Internet. 12 Oct. 2000. Available http://www.politicomagazine.com/dannydavis071200.html. “Hispanic New Yorkers on Nueva York.” Second Annual Survey - Report 2: Police and Quality of Life. 1999, pp. 1-5.