`` Fruitvale Station `` The Modern Homeland Security...

Fruitvale Station provides insights into the modern homeland security policy because towards the resolution of the film there is racial profiling. Also, in regards to the homeland security policy, race-based criminal profiling had become a denounced law enforcement practice (Newman). â€Å"In 1999, a Gallup poll revealed that more than 80% of Americans disapproved of the practice of racial profiling by law enforcement authorities on any level† (Newman). In Fruitvale Station there is a detachment between the community and the law enforcement because the community is aware of the racial profiling that the law enforcement uses in order to obtain suspects. As a result, Oscar Grant and his associates were not cooperative with the law enforcement on New Year’s Day in 2009 because of this detachment the community has with the law enforcement. In order to secure the relationship between the community and the law enforcement there needs to be more effective community policing in a homeland security policy. The principles of community policing is the dimensions of proactive policing, problem-solving, and community partnerships or cooperation (Criminal Justice and Criminology Faculty). Ultimately, to secure the relationship between the two, the community must trust the law enforcement because this trust creates legitimacy. â€Å"While, having lack of trust undermines the legitimacy of law enforcement and creates an unequal society in which some feel comforted by law enforcement while others