This document discusses how police efforts to curb drug trafficking have propagated racism despite the noble goal of reducing crime. Records show that police stop more black drivers compared to other races. When questioned, police claim stops are based on vehicle characteristics like a dirty license, but they see the driver's race before noticing the license. This controversial practice goes against expected police training. Instead, stops should be based on neutral factors like paying with cash or traveling from drug hotspots, regardless of race. Laws have established that stopping a vehicle requires reasonable suspicion, but including race in suspicion draws criticism about unfairly targeting minorities and requires amendments to remove bias.

1. Running head: LAW 1
Noble- Cause Turned into Racism
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2. LAW 2
Noble- Cause Turned into Racism
It is thought that police have been propagating racism in their course of duty. This is
despite their major objective which is indeed a noble course of elimination of crime and in this
case drug trafficking. This could be proved by visiting the available records to see the trend of
who are stopped in terms or race. The police boss on the other hand becomes defensive by
mentioning the characteristic of the vehicles which are stopped. A major reason given is a
situation where the license is dirty with spots of mud whereas the car is smart and expensive
looking. This story fails to be convincing on the ground that before realizing the condition of the
license, the cop had seen that the driver is black-skinned. This is totally controversial to the kind
of training which is expected to be offered to such an officer. Instead, he/she should base a
suspicion on other neutral grounds as it was applied in the airports in the 1970s. The search could
be insisted on those passengers with characteristics such as: paying for tickets in cash,
nervousness, making a journey to or arrival from a place popular with such drugs like marijuana,
heroin or even cocaine among others. This is despite whether a person is white or black skinned.
In the development of the drug profiling on roads since 1985 in New York, a number of
laws have been put in place. This includes the Fourth Amendment of Constitution which implies
that it is a seizure to stop a vehicle on a highway. The officers are therefore supposed to establish
the cause of suspicion. This is based on the training that they received. But by including race as
part of suspicion brings criticism on whether the war is against drugs or against a minority group.
This calls for future amendments to remove this biasness.