In addition to evidence concerning the ineffectiveness of racial profiling, it is also a practice that is logically flawed. Experts point out that even if certain crimes are mostly committed by members of a particular group, it does not mean that a particular person from that group is more likely to have committed a crime.
In any event, statistics suggesting that a particular group commits a disproportionate amount of crime can often be skewed because of racial profiling itself. If a particular group is stopped more often, even if they are committing less crime than the rest of the population, the fact that they are scrutinized more frequently will result in higher charge rates.
This then becomes the justification for profiling. Some scholars therefore argue that, at the end of the day, statistics do not tell the offending behaviour of different races, but rather they measure the actions of the entity engaging in profiling. Therefore, there is significant evidence that racial profiling is neither an efficient nor an effective practice.
And, the discussion that follows shows that racial profiling comes with a huge price tag to individuals, families and communities while negatively impacting the very institutions that practice it. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics which reviewed 1,, searches of citizens by police in , have revealed that the chances of finding contraband after searching minorities Black and Latino are the same or less than finding evidence of crime on White persons searched.
Similarly when the U. The report also recommends that Homeland Security scrap the g program and other programs that give local police license to interpret and enforce national immigration policy, such as the Secure Communities Initiative and Criminal Alien Program. The Department of Justice should reverse legislative precedents from the past ten years enabling racial profiling in border security. It could give the parts of the constitution that emphasize equality before the law some of their substance back.
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The Fourteenth Amendment states, very clearly, that no state may "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Blacks and Latinos are more likely to be searched by police and less likely to be treated as law-abiding citizens; whites are less likely to be searched by police and more likely to be treated as law-abiding citizens.
This is incompatible with the concept of equal protection. Racial profiling encourages police to use a lower standard of evidence for Blacks and Latinos than they would for whites -- and this lower standard of evidence can easily lead police, private security, and armed citizens to respond violently to Blacks and Latinos out of a perceived "self-defense" concern.
The case of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant who was killed in a hail of 41 bullets by the NYPD for attempting to show officers his driver's license, is only one case among many.
Reports of suspicious deaths involving unarmed Latino and Black suspects trickle out of our nation's major cities on a regular basis. Racial profiling is Jim Crow applied as a law enforcement policy. It promotes the internal segregation of suspects within the minds of police officers, and it creates a second-class citizenship for Black and Latino Americans.
If one has reason to know or believe that a specific suspect is of a certain racial or ethnic background, then it makes sense to include that information in the profile. But that isn't what people generally mean when they talk about racial profiling. They mean discrimination prior to the introduction of data -- the very definition of racial prejudice.
When we allow or encourage law enforcement agencies to practice racial profiling, we are ourselves practicing vicarious racial discrimination. That is unacceptable. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile.
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