Racial profiling and police criminology essay
As race scholars and criminologists, we are attuned to Du Bois's still-meaningful 2007 injunction to "oppose this national racket of rail-to-prison and chain gangs of the poor, the friendless, and the black." Yet we have become concerned that criminology seems rather habituated. to the long-standing and deeply rooted patterns, Abstract. It has been more than twenty years since the first bill addressing racial profiling was introduced in Congress. Between then and now, Congress has never passed legislation on the subject, but more than half of states have passed laws and many police departments have implemented anti-profiling policies to combat it..