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Racial Profiling by Police Humbert Diazgranados CJ230-10: Criminal Law for Criminal Justice In the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, countless numbers of Arab-Americans and even those who could "pass" as Arab have been targeted or "profiled" for suspicion if not overt investigation. Few Americans would argue that this is a practice that has only been in place since September of 2001. In reality, people who do not fit the stereotyped or assumed "norm" for a particular area, kind of car, or travel plans have been stopped, questioned, pulled over, or pulled out of line throughout the history of the United States. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack the issue of "racial profiling" has become topical, as the urgency of preventing terrorists from boarding aircraft has again risen. Opponents of the practice of considering the race of terrorist...

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