Police in America has received quite a chunk of criticisms as relates to their differential treatment of suspects and convicts. The whole justice system has also received an equal share of the blame as being one that has bias. Treatment of persons varies depending on gender, race and status. The most pronounced is the treatment according to race and ethnic background. Racial and ethnic minorities are treated worse by the police than the dominant whites are. One of the authors that share this opinion is Bumgarner (2006). In his book Profiling and criminal justice in America, the author discusses profiling to be a law enforcement issue. The view is that profiling is not only limited to what the police are engaged in towards the blacks but that the whole prosecutorial system is compromised. The author though speaks of profiling by the police as having paid off in several circumstances. This he states that ha been common in the auto theft. The author categorizes profiling as reactive and non-reactive. The former is used by investigators and the latter is mostly used by patrol officers. Further emphasis on this thorny issue is given by Cole, G. & Smith, C. (2007) in his book The American System of Criminal Justice. This author poses a strong argument to suggest that discrimination by the police is evident. Police patrols and drug searches according to him, find their concentration and focus in non-white areas. Most of the people arrested for drug-related offenses will always be non-whites whether evidence links them or not. A survey done in Connecticut indicated that a black or Hispanic man had to pay bail twice the amount paid by whites for the same offenses. The author goes on and on to give other examples of cases where this discrimination is quite seen against non-whites. The book offers so far the strongest source for this topic and is in support of the thesis statement. According to Siegel, L. (2008) there is a differential treatment that is depicted by the police and especially in areas of crime. In this book, the author shares how in many cases people of color and Hispanics will always find themselves on the wrong side of the law in terms of police harassment and treatment. The book does not provide detailed information on profiling but gives sketchy yet second-hand information on the way persons of color and Hispanics find themselves mistreated by the police. Jaynes and Williams (1990) also pose a contribution to this topic. Accordingly, in their book a Common Destiny: Blacks and American society, they give further detailed information on how segregation is felt in terms of justice and law enforcement by the police. In this book, the author goes ahead to give statistics that indicate that police profiling is a nightmare that is with us. Further, this author does not only give emphasis to the profiling by the police but goes ahead to indicate that the blacks and Hispanics face challenges in terms of segregation all around in their lives. It is the frequent arrests that the blacks face that have made them have very low employment rates as compared to the whites. For example in 1985, 30% of blacks did not work as opposed to 22% of whites. As