Racial Profiling

Racial Profiling

The problem of racial profiling is that law enforcement people such as cops can profile certain people because of their race. All races are being effected by this but the main ones are Hispanics, African Americans and Middle Easterners. The cause of this problem is crime rate rising and racism. Law enforcement tries to control and prevent this from happening but is hard to narrow it down. The reason it hasn’t be completely avoided is because its hard to tell if an officer stopped a person because of their race or ethnicity.  If this problem doesn’t get fixed, we as people will soon segregate and a nation that is know as the mixing pot due to all the races and ethnicity, will no longer be known for that.

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Racial Profiling: A Survey of African American Police Officers

            In this article, author David E. Barlow speaks about how racial profiling is a problem in law enforcement. He states “In certain patrol areas around Milwaukie blacks were overrepresented then other racial and ethnic groups.” Barlow also speaks about how it is so hard to prevent this kind of stuff from happening. Even if someone feels like they have been pulled over or whatever the case may be due to racial profiling, there is no exact way to prove it. The author also states “Findings imply racial disparity at the level of individual stops may be substantially explained by different policing strategies.” There for it usually goes un-dealt with or is not able to be proven.

Precis

In the article "A Survey of African American Profiling" The author explains an effort to provide data on racial profiling that are not as easily dismissed as anecdotal accounts of individual motorists. The authors conducted a survey of African American police officers in the Milwaukee Police Department in Wisconsin regarding their personal experiences of having been racially profiled, defining racial profiling as any situation in which race is used by a police officer or agency to determine the potential criminality of an individual. This study was not an investigation of the Milwaukee Police Department or of racial profiling within the department but rather of the extent to which Black police officers perceive they have been subjected to racial profiling by any police officer or agency. Police officers understand the intricacies, strategies, and techniques of law enforcement. Therefore, the observations of Black police officers on the reasonableness of situations in which they have been stopped by police have exceptional validity.

Outline

Outline

Introduction:

            Audience Attention: With out women the reproduction of the world would stop. The human race would cease to exist, but what happens if the women were to scared to go out and possibly find their soul mate?  With the uprising of date rape drugs we are heading that way.

Ethos: With thousands of women being sexually assaulted a year and not even knowing what’s going on at the time. Date rape drugs are effecting our society and with them so easily being smuggled into the U.S it causes such a problem when the assaulted can’t even remember who did it.

Thesis: Instead of going out on dates and getting to know someone, some men just want to go out take what they think is theirs without the concern of the psychological and physical damages it can do to a women. Hundreds of perpetrators that use date rape drugs often get away with it. How could this be? Later on in the paper I will discuss how, why and how to prevent this kind of stuff from happening to you, your daughter or a loved one.

Defenition:

-          For this paper I will speak about date rape drugs. I mean how they work the side effects of these kind of drugs and how to prevent this from happening.

-          Review of Literature

o   Fact about Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol,Rufies)

§  It’s a sleep medication that is known for its rapid and long sleeping effects.

§  It became big in the U.S in the 90’s and became one of the top “Date Rape Drugs” out there.

§  http://www.erowid.org/pharms/flunitrazepam/flunitrazepam.shtml

o   Facts about Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB)

§  It is also another sleep aid but is also a recreational intoxicant.

§  It is known for the short coma like sleep that can put the person into a sleep for several hours without being able to be woken up.

§  If mixed with alcohol it could be deadly.

§  http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ghb/ghb.shtml

o   http://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0601/p2619.html

§  Where exactly these drugs are being abused and distributed to young females and males.

o   http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/37/5/321.extract

§  The Effects of Rohpypnol.

§  The Cost of the drug

o   http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410558

§  The effects of GHB.

§  Suggestions on preventions

o   http://www.springerlink.com/content/x4045lh725214533/

o   What brings attention to the preditors

o   The cause of Date rape

o   Most common places of date rapes

-          Argument/Analysis:

80% you say, 20% they say

-          Conclusion

Working Thesis #2

With thousands of women being sexually assulted a year and not even  knowing whats going on at the time. Date rape drugs are effecting our society and with them so easily being smuggled into the U.S it causes such a problem when the assuslted cant even remeber who did it.

5 questions about my topic

The problem with date rape drugs is that there are tons of  people mostly women who are sexually assulted by offenders. Women of all ages are effected by this problem im sure some men are but women are mainly targeted. The causes of this problem is a few things 1. even though it is illegal in the U.S, it is legal in 60 other countries. 2. the country closest to the U.S that it is legal in is Mexico, and with drugs being so easily smuggled across the boarder Rohypnol would be one of the easier drugs to smuggle. ihave not yet found anyone who has tried to prevent the smuggling problem, but there are tons of adds that say dont leave your drinks unattended, watch people make your drink and never go to a bar alone. The future if this problem is not solved could be bad. thousands of women being sexually assulted a year and if they perepatrators are not caught they will keep sricking and getting away with it. I would also say that women would be more scared to go out and have a good time because they would be worried if they were to get druged up they would have an unwanted pregnancy and that would lead to the whole for/against aboprtion, which that is another topic for another time.

Rhetorical Precis-Paper # 2

Int he article Date Rape Drugs by John DePresca he speaks about the drug Rohypnol and exactly how it works. He states the side effects and how fast they take place. DePresca compairs Rohypnol to other date rape drugs such as valium and halcion. He also informs the readers that Rohypnol is the most common date rape drug and the cheapest to buy.