Blurred Lines The Troubling History Of Mug Shots And Racial Profiling

— the article begins with an instructive typology offered as means to organize the rather robust racial and ethnic discrimination litigation history that is relevant to the racial profiling controversy.

— like the presidential portrait, the mug shot’s history begins as early as the 1840s, when prisoners in belgium were photographed so they could be identified if they committed crimes after their.

— the issue of racial and ethnic bias in policing has been the focus of legal and criminal justice scholarship, court action, and public debate in the u. s.

— against ‘racial profiling’s’ suggestion of incidental, improper police practice, this essay offers a history of the u. s.

It ends with ideas for sharpening efforts to bring profiling under control.

Police that shows their deep and abiding commitment to reproducing race and racism.

— secondly, the music video for “blurred lines” didn’t fare any better, with models strutting about in nude thongs and engaging in suggestive behavior while the male singers stayed fully clothed.

— as paper prints of photographs became cheaper to make, the use of mug shots expanded in the united states and europe.

— in the 1880s, alphonse bertillon, an anthropologist and chief of the judicial identification service of france, invented the mug shot, a doubled photographic portrait focused tightly on the head, with one view facing the camera and the other in profile.

— this article surveys the history of racial profiling and the various efforts to take it on, and the voluminous evidence that it fails to secure public safety even as it erodes public confidence in police.