What Is Wrong With Racial Profiling?

Question

Doesn`t racial profiling make sense ? Of course it does. While anything is possible, rational human beings know who is most likely to hijack a plane, blow something up, or shoot someone on a cold city street in the middle of the night. To oppose racial profiling is to appease criminals...for "PC"s sake... What do you think ?

So far, I`m seeing that liberals are doing just what I had expected, ignoring the facts for politically correct reasons. Hey, it`s the middle easterners that are attacking the west these days, for example. Don`t deny it. Terrorism is real and it *is* happening.

Answer 1

I can understand the distaste for racial profiling, however, in these days of rampant terrorism it just seems senseless to not do it. The ACLU is of no help to America as usual, doing all in their power to prevent it.
You know that the same people that are opposed to racial profiling would be the first ones crying out that not enough was done to protect our country and the victims should another attack occur.
We are, like it or not, engaged in a war on terrorism. We were attacked before GWB took office, and there will likely be attacks after he is gone
Lets use ALL of the tools available to us to protect our country and ourselves.

Answer 2

Depending on the issue i think racial profiling can make some sense. Pulling small children and 80 year old ladies out of line at the airport is just stupidity. The main reason we try to stay away from it with the terrorist issues is because if we did they would use it against us. If we keep it more random then it makes it harder to counter act. The second an enemy knows what you are looking for they are doing something totally different.

Answer 3

No I don't agree with racial profiling, although I do see why some people do because it's very easy to mix up racial profiling and profiling someone based on they're social status and % of that race in a specific area. It's not as simple as seeing a black person and thinking that they are more likely to rob a bank than the white guy next to him. You have to take into consideration that it's mostly poverty stricken areas of the US that have the highest crime rates. Mostly minorities live in those areas so they of coarse are more likely to commit a crime. I live in Utah and the crime rate is very high and it's about 75% white people that are abusing drugs (Utah aka: Meth capital of the world), raping, Molesting children, robbing, and murdering. Racial profiling is obsolete and has nothing to do with how a person will act in society. It has nothing to do with Race and a lot to do with how a persons raised, social class, and choice. So if your in lets say New Orleans you will most likely be murdered by a black person just because there are more black people there. If you come to utah though and you're really stupid you're gonna be watching out for black people cause they might kill you when really its the white people you should be looking for. It seems like racial profiling but really it just has to do with your location. You wouldn't be scared of a mexican killing you if you were in Africa, would you? Please take a statistics, sociology and psychology class, you'll be amazed with how much you learn.

You're a moron. Just because I dont agree with you that doesn't mean that I'm a liberal. I've spent 5 years in college studying sociology, and statistics. Race is a very minimal factor in why someone will commit a crime. I know this because it's my job. whereas you probably don't have any schooling on this subject and haven't seen the issue first hand. Go to school. I never said what I believed in, I only stated the facts.

Answer 4

I think the main problem with Racial profiling is that we have to do it at all. We run into a politically correct problem when we do something as rash as that, but I suppose the thing of it is, why does it have to be racial profiling. Obviously, a disgruntled 50 year old white guy who just lost his job, his wife, his only son in the war and is on meds for schisophrenia is just as dangerous as someone who plans the whole thing out. I mean, why not devise a system of likelihood of a threat. An 80 year old woman wearing shoes with arch support probably isn't going to run to the front of a plane screaming anarchy and trying to bring it down with her cane. Nor is the mother who is trying to bring baby formula on the plane but is told she can't because they just ran out of plastic baggies to carry it in. However, wouldn't it be more likely to investigate young men or women, the ones most likely to dissent than to limit it to a specific racial group. What about age, or demeanor or simply the fact that most serial killers are middle aged white guys. Who's to say that anyone is immune from being looked at crosseyed for a second as a threat. Bottom line: racial profiling is like going to the book store and picking up the one with the big shiney words on the front cover, and no substance... but it's supposed to be good. Whereas the good one is behind a shelf, under another copy of Nancy Drew looking innocuous and pissed off. That's all. This isn't rocket science. We've pissed off a whole world. Shouldn't we start assuming that the whole world might want us dead? Not just one color?
Racial profiling needs to end. We need to adapt to better methods of identifying threats, and heaven forbid, possibly diffusing them.

Answer 5

I know that most "serial killers" are white, middle class , between 25 & 40 years of age, males. Profiling in a case like that helps for a quicker response.

Answer 6

I agree to an extent. For example: a customs inspector should look very closely at flights from Columbia for cocaine but NOT just the Colombians on that flight. i.e. I wouldn't check a Swedish flight for coke-there isn't as many (if any) cocaine fields in Sweden.

Answer 7

Nothing is wrong with racial profiling as long as there continues to be statistical evidence
I support racial profiling

Answer 8

I completely agree with you! We all make judgment calls based on looks, socio-economics and even the way someone dresses. You can never stop racial profiling. It is something that is ALL of our minds and it doesn't necessary mean that a person has to be black.

Answer 9

You can't see into people's minds. You can only see their appearance---and what will that tell you? Nothing. And it's not who is most likely, it's what group of people are most likely...and that's why it's wrong. People can only represent themselves, not their country, not their race, not their income. I'm sure if you were a minority, you would realize that it sucks.

Answer 10

i think all racial profiling is wrong.It does'n matter what people say,people are still going to do it but it's wrong not every race does this or that everybody's different.