This specific news item about a veteran New Jersey police chief getting demoted because of racial profiling is clear evidence of the prevalence of this derogatory act among police personnel in the U.S.
Conducting a racial profile of any person is essentially an act of discrimination that only law enforcement officials can commit.
After all, it involves targeting specific people for suspicion of being criminals based solely on their race, belief, or nationality.
Any act of discrimination is against the Constitution.
In this case, it’s concerned with the requirement that all individuals should be given fair protection of the law. Benjamin Fox violated this by sending out emails ordering officers under his command to start conducting racial profiles of black people in Wyckoff.
The fact that such a law still applies to a police officer with a considerably high rank and lengthy years of service goes to show that the justice system in the U.S. is still highly commendable.
How quickly the authorities meted out punishment to the discriminatory act is equally praiseworthy as well.
Nonetheless, the fact that not everyone agrees with the demotion is also a good sign that there is a great divide among the American public when it comes to the subject of racial profiling.
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