Criminal Law is a branch of specialization under the head of the Law school or university that deals with crimes and proscribes in the defense of whatever that is threatening, harmful or is a danger to the society in matters of yielding damage to property, jeopardize health and security and tampers the moral and ethical well-being of the people (Norman, 78). The criminal behavior is enthusiastically dealt with by the Public international law.
The conducts may be in such a way that they extremely disturb the ways of living of the human. People may consider this as shallow, but this is a very fascinating occupation to be in, and that is the main reason why students choose this task as their profession. In this paper, I will deliberate on how I would join in the conversation with the authors attached, addressing the five components of a Rhetorical Situation. This paper will concentrate on racial profiling in criminal justice.
Context
There are different viewpoints on the racial profiling topic in the US criminal justice system. The views are illustrated through the three journal articles that are mandated by three categories of diverse scholars. Criminal justice entails the systems that the law enforcement agencies and officers apply in managing crime in the society. The legal system experiences the challenge of ethnic profiling, in the course of crime prevention and remedies. Racial profiling stereotypes a certain segment of the American society with criminal practices.
The stereotyped group is more often than not the minorities; for instance, African Americans, Arab Americans, Latinos, or illegal immigrants. In the article “Racial profiling” , the authors show that racial profiling involves the use of ethnicity and race by the law enforcers in implementing stop and search as well as arrest. The writer also explains that ethnic outlining is very contentious and unlawful in the US and the international community. Ethnic profiling improves the discriminatory performance in the law enforcement. Reyberg points out that the core argument that backs up the exercising of racial profiling is that is used in helping the police to arrest most of the criminals.
Audience
The audience in this case is the people who are against racial profiling. It also targets persons who are keen in knowing what racial outline really means from a philosophical angle. The viewers are neither the enthusiasts nor opponents of the profiling, but people who simply want to comprehend the idea of racial outlining. It also delivers its message to the black community and anyone who wishes to know the racial stereotypes in racial profiling. The position on the issue is clear: That racial profiling has created stereotypes that associate the blacks, especially the young men from the Black American community, with crime.
Purpose
The purpose is to prove that racial profiling has created typecasts that characterize the Black people as criminals. Various authors argue that because of racial outlining, the American society has established a culture that has typecasts about certain races relative to crime, especially the African American people. Welch explains that in the American society, there is the insight that the Black men are predominant committers of criminality. Racial profiling must end, because all Americans, regardless of status in the society, should view law implementation officers as protectors of their constitutional rights. Despite the strong reproach of racial profiling by the top management of United States, racial profiling is still a mutual issue especially in the law implementation sector. The “stop and frisk” rule in for instance New York City, still profiles the young African Americans.
Persona
As the persona, I act as a scholar who tries to talk to the community about the essence of racial profiling. I will talk about the stereotypes of racial profiling, stating that the stereotype of associating the Blacks with crime has served erroneously as an unofficial policy of stopping, searching, and arresting the people illegally.
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Various studies present the statistical findings of the participation of the Blacks in wrongdoing, as per the past studies. The evidence shows that in the past, the African American have done more wrongdoings than the whites, and that their occurrence rates are high in the class of several crimes like robbery and homicide. The website, Civilrights.org, uses statistical proof from various police departments to prove that racial profiling is the realism on the increase. The figures from the New York Police Department show that in 2005 made less than 400,000 stops and searches yet in 2008, the stops were more than 500,000.
Racial profiling is on the rise, but various governmental agencies deny the fact that they are targeting the minorities. Through the years, the political headship of America has unceasingly condemned the injustices generated through ethnic profiling in the criminal justice classification. Presidents Bush and Obama illustrated that the biased action should end. John Ashcroft, Former United States Attorney General, illustrates that racial profiling must end.
I have learned that ethnic outlining is bad because it abridged the rights to all Americans as showed in the Fourth Amendment. The future of the discussion will focus on legislative discouragement to ethnic reporting conducted by the law prosecution officers. The next conversation of ethnic profiling in America will focus on the responsibilities of law enforcement agencies in ending the negative practice in the criminal system.
Works Cited
Carbado Devon, W., Harris, Cheryl, I., & Crenshaw Kimberle, W. “Racial
Profiling Lives on,” The New York Times. August 14, 2013. Web. October 15,
2014
Civilrights.org. “The Reality of Racial Profiling,” The Leadership Conference: The Nation’s Premier Civil & Human Rights Coalition. 2011. Web. September 28, 2014.
Golgowski, Nina. “Florida Police Accused of Racial Profiling after Stopping
Man 258 Times, Charging him with Trespassing at Work,” New York Daily
News. November 22, 2013. Web. October 15, 2014.
Risse, Mathias & Zeckhauser, Richard. “Racial Profiling.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 32(2): 131–170. 2004. Print
Ryberg, Jesper. “Racial Profiling and Criminal Justice,” Journal of Ethics, 2011.
Vol. 15, pp.79-88. Print
Welch, Kelly. “Black Criminal Stereotypes and Racial Profiling,” Journal of
Contemporary Criminal Justice. Vol. 23(3), p.276-290. 2007. Print
