Profiling is to catch criminals not to oppress minorities agree or disagree?

Question

Most law abading citizens in black and hispanic neighborhoods actually want more police present at all hours to catch criminals and to profile all they want

so what is it,,,,most ghettos have very little policing

you profile to catch the criminal

Answer 1

Profiling is intended to come up with a likelihood profile for someone who has committed a crime, based upon the crime itself and the statistical likelihood that a particular type of individual would commit the crime. It is a highly respected science and is not done lightly. It is not intended to oppress minorities, but is often seen that way because if a minority race is the race accused of the crime, then it would appear that the minority is being falsely accused or oppressed. I think it's important that those involved in doing the profiling, as well as those who hear about it, need to remember to be purely objective and to keep all personal bias out of it.

Certainly there is a lot of unfair assumptions against minorities, teenagers, skateboarders, surfers, etc by police officers when they are patrolling the streets, and a lot of people are harrassed or falsely accused based upon that. Still, these police officers are only doing their job - a dangerous job - and they are tempted to be biased based on their own personal experiences on the job. It isn't right to lose objectivity in that line of work. It actually adds to the problem when police officers do that. When investigative profilers are doing their job however, and are attempting to assist in catching someone who has committed a crime or is likely to commit a potential crime, I do believe that they make every attempt to be objective and to leave race for the sake of race, out of their investigative process.

Answer 2

Unfortunately - even minorities have criminals among them. Racial profiling from the LEGAL sector is not intended for racist purposes. Its a necessary tool to establish whether a crime was committed by a white, black, Hispanic or other persons based on certain habits and so forth, to narrow down the suspect list. It should only be used in conjunction with forensic evidence and never exclusively for race profiling alone.

HOWEVER - if a Business uses racial profiling for its hiring processes or to refuse a loan and things like that THEN it becomes wrong and should be deemed a criminal act against society.

Answer 3

Police actually avoid many areas because they are dangerous. Profiling is only wrong when it assumes guilt based on physical features, such as hair color and skin color. The are also however, general descriptive bits of information that can help police that are trying to track a suspect. It is a very fine line. It is not really profiling if someone is stopped or detained because they fit a description.

Answer 4

Yes. But, the way we live our lives, there many areas where the local communities are mainly made up of one colour group. Therefore, the majority of the local criminals are from the same grouping.
With this in mind Profiling should be used to isolate the criminals from society and not the law enforcement isolating themselves, by not using it.

Answer 5

When you are the majority and never have to be the victim of profiling, it is very easy to say "sure, we have to put up with some inconveniences in the name of safety". If this was a perfect world with no prejudices, then yes I would agree that profiling should be used. But, because I am perfectly aware of just how fallible humans can be, I am more inclined to say that racial and ethnic profiling should be guarded against at all costs.

Answer 6

Well, ok, here's the thing. When the description is a black male is it cause enough to stop every black male in the greater Boston area?

Is it keeping us safe to follow black women around department stores or pulling over black men in fancy cars?????

Is it keeping us safe to allow the police to harrass and belittle out already messed up teenage boys just to show them whos boss???

Police presence is fine, but when you are in a small community you need to respect its members I don't care how bad the 'hood is. Treating them badly makes it harder for them to trust you or repespect what you do.

I am not a criminal (well, I smoked pot in HighSchool) but if the police flashed behind me on the highway I'm leading them on a slow speed chase to the nearest gas station...I do not trust the police. I have been pulled over too many times in my nice car that was once reported stolen (I don't recall reporting my car that I was driving in a stolen but...)

There needs to be BALANCE...and don't assume the police are always good or peace keepers.

Answer 7

maximum profiling is unquestionably directed in the direction of minorities yet are you able to blame police for that? Black men are purely 6.5% of the inhabitants yet make up the familiar public of violent crime. So it fairly is purely organic for police to be extra skeptical of them than others.

Answer 8

Agree

If we truly want a safe society, we have to put up with the occasional incovenience.
If we want a truly free society, we have to put up with the risk of crime

Answer 9

without abuse, yes, the world however is not ideal.

police tend to not want to be injured

Answer 10

I agree!!!