Racial Profiling Persuasive Speech

Good afternoon Mr.Teo and judges. Today, i would like to talk about why racial profiling should be used by submitting a statistical case to prove that it should not be too quickly dismissed. Allow me to start with a question: “If a witness to a crime gave a policeman a description of a robber, the policeman would be doing a good job if he looked for suspects that matched the description. Why does the same not apply to other instances?” Racial profiling is based on reasoned assumptions that it is a certain group of people who are most likely to be the cause of a certain crime committed, and is therefore reasonable to be acted out. My first point is, just because this form of profiling involves races and ethnic groups should not mean that it
To my next point, that the pros of racial profiling outweigh its cons, with the bad side of it being that it is racist and could be unfair judgement, and the good side being that it could save and improve lives on large scale, far more than the harm it could possible cause. In two specific examples, this is very evident. In the case of illegal immigrants, racial profiling is seen to be the most effective solution, as seen in USA’s Operation Wetback, where they intended to 1 million illegal immigrants through the use of racial profiling and they did achieve that. This may have caused anger in certain races and shown heavy acts of racism, but, it helped many more Americans. If they did not use of racial profiling to remove illegal immigrants, many Americans would have been affected negatively. It is shown that 40 percent of the illegal immigrants in the US had a history of violent crime.” Other issues such as kidnapping have also increased in a direct proportion with the increase of illegal immigration. A clear example of this is Arizona. Imagine, for the case of terrorism. If you know that racial profiling could prevent a huge devastation, what choice would you make? Is it then more morally wrong to practice racism or to cause the deaths of many people? Here’s a question for the proposition. In these scenarios, do you then, put majority of the population at stake, or would you choose to practice racial profiling? Therefore, i would like to question the proposition what the need of a full ban of racial profiling is, why not a partial ban or maybe limiting the extent of profiling, which could enhance the security system, cause it to be more flexible and applicable to more