Racial Profiling: For or Against?

Question

I am doing a report for class on racial profiling in post 9/11 American, and I need to take a poll to see how many people are for or against it. If you can post if you think it’s a good idea or not, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!

Answer 1

All for it.

Answer 2

100% against. Once people figure out that your profilling them, it generally tends to put them on edge. Like black people who are on edge about the police; just becuase a good amount of drug dealers might happen to be black or white or whatever. That should not give the police or authority the right to completely mean mug and harass that group of people. Most the time, probly 98 or 99% of the time the people their harassing are completly innocent. Unless there is a very very very good reason for the wand police to harass people at the airport; like noticins something unatral bulging through the persons clothing,or the detector machines find something that should not be, or the person is just acting plain weird; then no, no not the regular police,the airport wand police or any authority should be racialy profilling anybody. The only thing they should be using is the machines, common sense, and that thing in the skull that God gave them called a brain.

Answer 3

Generally, against. Looking at everyone of a certain color, religion or nationality as being suspicious is not effective law enforcement, and includes far too many incorrect "hits". This creates a lot of work for law enforcement for too little return.

An intelligent use of race as part of a profile, however, is probably logical.

Note that Jose Padilla is hispanic, and if you were looking only for Arab Muslims, you never would have found him. Nor would racial profiling have identified the Oklahoma City bombers. They were caught through good old fashioned law enforcement. If they were looking only for people who fit the profile, those guys would still be running around.

Answer 4

A lot of it is bs. A lot of states cut back on taxes and so they raise money by tickets. So lots of people of all races are getting pulled over. Most cops that get killed were doing a traffic stop at the time of their death,young males usually were the killers if they do the same to a Euro American male it's ok but a minority it's wrong? Certain groups of people the way they dress etc depicts an image. I mean a white guy in biker gear draws the same attention as a black guy dressed un like a gang banger on is ok and one is wrong. It is not the what but the who!

Answer 5

Against it.....they use it when they want to......9/11 was horrible and so was the OKC bombing....but after the OKC they didn't do a background check on every white male 18-55 who rented a U-Haul truck. Why not? I think if you endorse racial profiling you are saying that you believe that based on persons race you can determine their level of threat and that is ignorant and impossible.

Answer 6

Watch an airport security guy pat down a 90 year old woman in a wheelchair, while 6 young muslim men walk through, and you will see while racial profiling is correct.

Answer 7

All for it. Have you seen ever seen an elderly, Caucasian, African, Asian, Hispanic person hijack anything? Yet I see these people getting double and triple screened by TSA when someone who resembles the terrorist profile goes right through because we don't want to offend anyone. Stupid. Do police who have a sketch of a white man who raped a woman not question white men because they may be offended? I don't think so. Is that not profiling?

Answer 8

Interesting .......I'm sure if I were of Arab decent or perhaps a Black American I would say no . I'm not sure as a white woman I can answer that .I know black people have had to deal with it a whole lot longer than Arabs or others targeted.....its a sad commentary on our society. If I have to make a choice then I am against it...

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Let's see: 9/11 hijackers were all of middle eastern descent (Saudi) and we check all others of the same heritage..

I don't call that racial profiling, I call that minimally observant!!!!!!

Answer 11

It only makes sense. If the suspect in a robbery is a short, red-haired male, why would you pull over a tall, black grandmother to see if she had the loot?