Article Analysis
The article analyses racial profiling; evaluate the position of the court on the subject by reviewing related literature materials and then compare the information to the data obtained from Nebraska’s law enforcement agency from 2002 to 2007. It then generates a suitable assumption in an attempt to offer policy recommendations. It tests the hypothesis that the race was a determiner of who gets harassed, searched, arrested, or prosecuted by the police. A number of related literature reviewed showed racial bias by the police in the U.S, especially on the African Americans. Kumalu deducted that the higher occurrences of minority arrests in comparison to the majority in Nebraska were compelled by besieged racial profiling instigated by the Drug Enforcement Agency in its crackdown which is majorly aimed at the minority community because of racial stereotype that the minority are more drug-driven that the whites. The author references a landmark case in 1996 Whren V. U.S.A that saw the U.S. Supreme Court upholding this stereotypical method of fighting crime. According to Kumalu, this case expanded the police pretext and latitude, and selective enforcement of the law. Recommendations for reform include community policing, public education, sensitivity training, race-based diversity hiring, and promoting police-community relations.