The Ineffectiveness Of Racial Profiling

Over the previous years, the adoption of race by law enforcement agencies in their policing activities has received considerable attention worldwide. I believe that racial profiling is an ineffective law technique that generally leads to unfair treatments and incoherent decision. For more than a century Black men and women traveling through predominantly white neighborhoods were stopped and questioned for no reasons simply because police officers felt they didn't belong there .
On February 2009 study of traffic stops and searches in West Virginia showed a pattern of racial profiling and revealed that African-American motorists were 1.64 times, Hispanics 1.48 times likely to be stopped than White drivers. After the traffic stop, non-Whites were …show more content…
This problem often takes shape in the form of being many are singled for extensive searches when boarding a plane. For example a 36 year old woman who is half Jewish and half-Arab was yanked off an airplane at Metro Airport in Detroit on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks , She was then placed in a cell where she was ordered to strip naked and forced to squat, and cough while an officer looked at her . This is an act of dehumanization because you’re stripping a U.S citizen of their rights due to their skin color which shouldn’t play a role on whether or not one is a criminal.
Racial profiling is not only a violation of personal rights, it is a violation of one’s constitutional rights. I do agree that profiling should be used to be on guard, when racial profiling is needed to identify a suspect in a precise crime and when differentiating features are essential. Otherwise, it is an unnecessary Law enforcement should stop using racial profiling altogether, for it typically wastes time and money. Using race-neutral methods, such as neutrality behavior, is beneficial to our society, while racial profiling is not