Instructions: Write your thesis/claim and list six pieces of evidence that prove your claim.

Include the source from where you obtained the information. You may only use two pieces of
evidence from our group document.

Thesis: Racial profiling has been the vocal point of the nearly every internal conflict in this
country and we as a country need to put a stop to racial profiling because it doesnt work and
affects innocent lives.

1. Evidence and Source

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/lawenforcementterrorism/tp/Against-Racial-Profiling.htm.

& According to the Public Health Service, approximately 70% of drug users
are white, 15% are black, and 8% are Latino. But the Department of Justice
reports that among those imprisoned on drug charges, 26% are white, 45% are
black, and 21% are Latino.
&

2. Evidence and Source

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/opinion/the-fallacy-of-racial-profiling.html

But the racial profiling studies uniformly show that this widely shared assumption is
false. Police stops yield no significant difference in so-called hit rates -- percentages of
searches that find evidence of lawbreaking -- for minorities and whites. If blacks are
carrying drugs more often than whites, police should find drugs on the blacks they stop
more often than on the whites they stop. But they don't.

3. Evidence and Source

http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/paying-price-human-cost-racial-profiling/racial-profiling-doesnt-work
However, there is strong evidence that racial profiling does not work. In fact, where racial profiling
has been studied in the context of law enforcement, such as in the United States, it has been found
by some scholars to be neither an efficient nor effective approach to fighting crime. [26] Studies in the
United States have consistently found that while minorities (African American and Latino persons)
were targeted more, the chance of finding contraband when their cars were searched was the same
or less than White persons. In several studies, minorities were found to be statistically significantly
less likely to have contraband found following a search. For example, a 2001 U.S. Department of

Justice report on 1,272,282 citizen-police contacts in 1999 found that, although African Americans
and Hispanics were much more likely than White persons to be stopped and searched, they were
about half as likely to be in possession of contraband.[27]

4. Evidence and Source

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/black-lives-matter-11-racist-police-killings-with-nojustice-served-20141204

Four NYPD officers notoriously rained 41 bullets down onto Diallo in the Bronx, killing
the unarmed Guinean immigrant as he tried to enter his apartment building. They later
claimed to have seen Diallo reaching for something that looked like a weapon; in fact, all
he had in his hand was a wallet. The incident sparked national headlines and civil rights
marches, as well as Bruce Springsteen's protest song "American Skin (41 Shots)" but
all four police officers were acquitted of all charges in the case. One of the killer cops,
Kenneth Boss, remained on the force and was allowed to carry an NYPD gun again in
2012.
5. Evidence and Source
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/01/us/cleveland-responds-lawsuit-police-shooting-tamir-rice/

In November, Cleveland Officer Timothy Loehmann fired the fatal shots at

Tamir within two seconds of arriving outside a recreation center where the
sixth-grader was playing with a pellet gun.
6. Evidence and Source
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/lapd-accused-shooting-man-special-complying-ordersarticle-1.1902035
A police officer shot and killed an unarmed, mentally challenged black man in
Los Angeles on Monday, his family said.
Family members identified Ezell Ford, 25, as the man the cop killed on the 200
block of West 65th St. about 8:20 p.m. And one eyewitness says the officer
yelled shoot him before killing the man in the street.