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Racial profiling controversy (view source)
Revision as of 23:33, July 11, 2010
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'''Racial profiling''' in a general sense is the use of race to construct a [[profile]] (or list of detectable characteristics) of a criminal or a suspect. When asking for a description of an assailant or thief, police nearly always ask about skin color, along with height, weight, clothing, scars and tattoos because this helps them identify and apprehend them. Problems have arisen, however, when generalizations about race are abused to harass innocent people (see [[racial discrimination]]). In reaction to discriminatory abuse of racial profiling, some states and federal agencies have refused to consider race at all when constructing offender profiles, sometimes with absurd or tragic consequences.
'''Racial profiling''' in a general sense is the use of race to construct a [[profile]] (or list of detectable characteristics) of a criminal or a suspect. When asking for a description of an assailant or thief, police nearly always ask about skin color, along with height, weight, clothing, scars and tattoos because this helps them identify and apprehend them. Problems have arisen, however, when generalizations about race are abused to harass innocent people (see [[racial discrimination]]). In reaction to discriminatory abuse of racial profiling, some states and federal agencies have refused to consider race at all when constructing offender profiles, sometimes with absurd or tragic consequences.
==Activism==
* The ultimate question in the profiling controversy is whether the disproportionate involvement of blacks and Hispanics with law enforcement reflects police racism or the consequences of disproportionate minority crime. Anti-profiling activists hope to make police racism an all but irrebuttable presumption whenever enforcement statistics show high rates of minority stops and arrests.<ref>[http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_2_the_myth.html The Myth of Racial Profiling]</ref>
[[profiling]] a suspected criminal. Wherever police have served a mixed-race population, the race of suspects has always been used, because race (or [[skin color]]) is one of the most prominent characteristic of a person, along with sex and age.
[[profiling]] a suspected criminal. Wherever police have served a mixed-race population, the race of suspects has always been used, because race (or [[skin color]]) is one of the most prominent characteristic of a person, along with sex and age.
==Links==
==Links==
[[Category:Criminology]]
[[Category:Criminology]]