Discrimination And Profling: An Examples Of Racial Profiling In Canada

Imagine that you are out at night driving a nice convertible and your feeling great because you have such a nice car. Then all the sudden you hear sirens and see flashing lights and it’s a police car right behind you. You then pull over because you know speeding off on the road would just make things worse. So after pulling over to the side of the road the police officer approaches you and start asking questions, for example, “where did you get this car”. Right then and there you know you didn’t do anything wrong and that this cop stopped you because of your race. This one example of discrimination is referred to as racial profiling and there are many others cases such as this one example. Racial profiling first originated from “criminal profiling” and “investigation profiling” and it can be defined as profiling based on race or ethnicity, (Tunstall). It is also referred to as racial stereotyping and as a result of high profiled incidents this has been a hot topic of concern for minority communities throughout Canada. In particular, the Aboriginal, African Canadian, Asian Canadian, and Arab-Canadian communities …show more content…
However, suspecting that minorities of wrongdoing based just only on racially biased stereotypes that are discriminate and prejudice is ineffective to law enforcement that drifts attention away from individuals of non-racialized groups who are committing illegal activities which in fact endangers Canadian society. In addition, this form profiling interferes and violates the Charter Rights and Freedoms of targeted groups and in which is capable of causing physical and psychological harm to them. This all affected the reputation of Canada being a multicultural nation and also causes a depletion of confidence in Canada’s criminal justice system. Racial profiling has to be acknowledged as a severe issue that must be dealt with