DID YOU KNOW?

• Approximately 32 million people have already been victims of racial profiling in America including all races
• Many people think racial profiling can help stop "The War On Drugs"
• Police stoping and searching cars is the number one way that can lead to racial profiling
• Hispanics and African Americans are the most being victimized
• Not only adults but Young Teenagers are victims of this
• Racial Profiling Makes officers get confuse and think wrong about terrorist attacks for example, The oklahoma city bombing. The victims were actually 2 white males when police thought it was "Araban Terrorist"
• Raced Based policies does not make our community any safer. Things eventually get more challenging
• Racial Profiling makes countrys around look bad in ways of thinking that we do not like people of different races
• According to human rights organizations racial profiling has actually increased ever since the attack on September 11
• After September 11 president Bush wanted racial profiling to stop however, he made immigration and law enforcements policies tougher by coming up with the "National Security Entry/Exit Registration System" which requires male visitors in the US over the age 16 to resubmit applications.
• Racial Profiling can create xenophobia or hate crime against minorities

Photo Collage

The photo collage I believe is a good and createive way to show what our topic of our projects is. Some of the pictures show strong actions and show specifically what your trying to represent. The Image with all the eyes symbolize all different types of diversity which conbines it with some of the races that are sometime discriminated. Other images symbolize people fighting for equality and a stop to racial discrimination.

Introduction of Webliography

Today the teacher presented to the class how to use the website eazybib to create cited websites in a fast way that can help student cite the websites that we use for our research in our projects. Later in the week we would have to cite atleast 10 websites from out research.

Thinking !! of Questions

Today iam thinking of what questions can help me lead to answer my main question in other words my "foundation questions"

these are some of the questions i have in mind so far

1. What is Racial Profiling ?
2. Who is Racial Profiling going towards to?
3. What are some cases of Racial Profling
4. Does it exist?
5. How does it affect people?
6. what are the bad and good things about it?
7. How can we prevent Racial Profiling?

Reading Time

Today i read an article that explained 3 different ways of how people can confuse "Racial Profiling" with. It is a very difficult subject that many people think different about it. Some people even ask "Does it exist?." The article also talked about 3 different cases relating to 3 people of different race being pulled over by the police. By readin this article i think i gor some ideas of what questions i should add to answer my main question. I would keep more articles for more explanation.

After thinking about what i anted to do, i chose racial profiling as my main topic to do reasearch on. I believe its an interesting topic that many people are against for many things. I came up with my essential question being, Why does racial profiling occur and how does it affect a community?. i have looked at few number of websites that have important infomation and cases that deal with racial profiling below is a list of 5 different sites that give out information.

Reason Online http://reason.com/news/show/28138.html

Ethnic Majority http://www.ethnicmajority.com/racial_profiling.htm

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_profiling

Amnesty International USA http://www.amnestyusa.org/us-human-rights/racial-
profiling/page.do?id=1106650

Article http://www.elfrank.net/gov/studentwork01/racial_profiling/

The case of Moats the footbal player http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/032609dnmetcopstop.3e9c080.html

I met with the immigration attorney and we discussed the different things i can come up with to work on my projects. The main thing on mind right now is researching about police racial profiling. She gave me information about it and we talked about different places where i can go such as the community justice center where i can get information and look through data of racial profiling cases. Also, she said i can look over her data and compare with others.

Last week i called my mentors from my internship at JBM immigration group, so that i can meet up with them sometimes this week to discuss about different options of how should i start my project relating to Law. I would meet Immigration attorney Jaqueline Martinez today at 12 pm