racial profiling
... cross-culture can be viewed as unnecessary to many officers, as if once it is covered you don’t need a refresher course. Just like departments review areas in self-defense and tactics the area of prejudice should also be review with the same importance. Racial profiling still makes the headlines, which tells the public that it exists in the local police departments. Police chiefs cannot obligate their officers to banish their prejudicial thoughts, but the officers should be able to draw the line between prejudice and discrimination. Issues dealing with prejudice in law enforcement need to be dealt with immediately before they turn into issues of racism and discrimination. Prejudice people feel that they have the right to express their views by relating it to personal experiences in their life and they share their perception with others. In the case of an officer they need to think before they act upon their biases. Police prejudice received a great deal of attention in the late 1990s that it was a topic in the President’s Initiative on Race. Racial disparities and prejudice affect the way minorities are treated in the criminal system, which included higher arrest, convictions and sentencing between whites and minorities and people of color. As we moved into the 21st century officers have learned that unaddressed issues of prejudice can result in humiliation, lawsuits, loss of jobs and furthermore long-term damage to police community relations. Training can be successful in changing behavior and possibly attitudes, especially if it comes from detectives above them their attitudes may not change, but they are willing to listen. There are some officers within a department t...