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| Police discretion allow law enforcement to make judgment on how serious a crime is and who is considered a criminal and or suspect. |
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| Discretion exists when officers have the flexibility to choose an appropriate response to a situation; Police discretion characterizes a wide array of police action, including lethal force. |
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| Blacks are most frequently the targets of lethal force and lethal force incidents are most likely to transpire in communities with large Black populations |
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| Racial profiling is when law enforcement use race as a key factor in police discretion to stop and interrogate citizen. |
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| Racial profiling continues to be a public relations crisis for law enforcement and profiling tends to be used by law enforcement agents more frequently on African Americans and other minorities |
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| African Americans are disproportionately subjected to racial profiling, traffic stops leading to searches and seizures yielding minor offenses that lead to incarceration, rather than probation or rehabilitation. |
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| Minorities may be more likely to be arrested for certain behaviors than Whites, even though they commit crimes at similar rates. |
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| judges transfer discretion from themselves to prosecutors, who may be more susceptible to political pressures |
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| Courts and police officers apply a lower threshold to the issuance of search warrants when the targets are African Americans or when the target resides in a "high-crime" (non-white) area |
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| Whites are more successful then non whites at getting charges reduced to misdemeanors or infractions. |
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| “75% of blacks and 54% and Hispanics believe that police in their city treat blacks worse than whites, and nearly the same proportions also believe that Hispanics are treated worse than whites ( |
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| (75%-77%) of whites believe that police in their city treat whites and the two minority groups ‘equally |
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| 23% Hispanics and 37% blacks, but almost no whites (1%), report being "treated unfairly" by police in their city specifically because of their race |
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| police officers believe the concept of racial profiling is not meaningful when police officers are working in predominantly Latino or African American neighborhoods |
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| Minority officers, they argued, cannot be accused of profiling Additionally, they argued that working with minority officers makes racial bias by white officers unlikely. |
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The Racial Justice Act (racism in within the death penalty was passed to the House twice but was dropped both times whenever they meet with the Senate
The Traffic Stops Statistics Act require police to record their traffic stops and the race of the driver has not been enacted. |
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Give minimum sentencing for lesser non-violent crimes.
Provided African Americans and minorities with equal opportunity within the law in regards to jury selection and sentencing. |
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