Racial Profiling In Schools Pros And Cons

When we are children we are taught not to judge a book by its cover, for most of us this is something we live by and practice. Recently, racial profiling has been a major topic in our national debates, and is affecting millions of people in the United States. Every day innocent people are being racially profiled by airport security and law enforcement by the color of their skin and nationality. Airport Security and Law Enforcement profile people based on their race, behavioral patterns and age. differ in profiling in who they target the most, the methods they use and the area when they profile. Airport Security and Law Enforcement are different when targeting a suspect. When a TSA officer, a person who works at the airport that inspect passengers and their luggage, mostly targets U.S citizens of foreign descent or foreigner from another country traveling. …show more content…
That being said, that 1% is usually caused by drug possession or undeclared items. It is also statistically shown that 80% of people pulled from security were minorities. Now, there are pro’s and con’s to racial profiling in airports but much more cons rather than pro’s. I could understand for security and reasonable reasons, but most of the time it’s racist, unethical, and overall there is no statistical proof of anyone committing a crime while going through security at an airport. According to Meher Ahmad, growing up as a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, she never found herself different from her friends or others, but she illustrates the impact 9/11 had on her life saying “I’ve now