Racial Profiling in the United States The United States is not a healthy democracy The United States is not a healthy democracy. A fundamental requirement for any healthy democracy is to be founded on the fundamental principle that all men are created equal. This means that man is judged on the basis of the fact that he is man, and for that alone. There are no other means or factors taken into consideration. This is not how men are judged in the United States. In the United States, racial and ethnic generalizations often influence judicial enforcement. The New Jersey attorney general's office itself released a 112-page preliminary report concluding that many officers may be inadvertently discriminating against minorities in their zeal to stop drug traffickers. This report was based on the findings of an investigation into the tactics of the New Jersey Highway Patrol and the criteria they use to identify suspicious drivers. Among their findings was that in a four-year period, eight out of ten cars stopped on a southern stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike belonged to minorities, and forty percent of all traffic stops in a twenty-month period it concerned minorities. Furthermore, the police themselves admit that race is a determining factor in deciding who to stop and search. But the problem is not limited to police officers and their behavior; escalates into a federal court matter where profiling is deemed constitutional. In the case against Weaver, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the actions of the officer who used race as a factor (among others) in his decision to stop a potential drug trafficker. Other courts have agreed with the Eighth Circuit that the Constitution does not prohibit using race as a factor when deciding who is a suspect, if doing so is for law enforcement and crime prevention purposes. Furthermore, there is no visible end to this injustice in the foreseeable future as state police leadership has encouraged this racial profiling by awarding "officer of the year" awards to those who make large drug arrests and then not monitoring whether officers they are disproportionately arresting minorities. . To the police's credit, their actions, however questionable, were simply dealt with