The Pros And Cons Of Racial Profiling

Racial profiling by police has been in the news more than it has ever been before. People have been shot and killed by police only because on how they look suspicious and they haven’t caused any harm to any one around them. Racial Profiling by police is wrong because it has been ineffective and it has led to deaths of people of color and has also lead to arrests. Racial profiling is ineffective and it abuses practices that target innocent people based of how they look, and a strategy that shouldn’t be used in law enforcement. In a recent incident two men of color were arrested in a “Philadelphia Starbucks, waiting for a business meeting and when they asked to use the restroom they were denied, and later on arrested for not wanting
Even though racial profiling is illegal in most states, law enforcement still chose to do it but always say that they don’t discriminate someone who has no reason to be stopped or asked for identification. Earlier this year “Stephon Clark was shot and killed by police because they thought that he was holding a gun when he was actually holding his phone” Lockhart). This shows racial profiling because police were told that just because they were near a black person, that it was him who they looking for and shot him without trying to ask Clark questions and without further explanation. In most cases when police shot civilians they don’t get prosecuted for killing an innocent person, and instead the civilians family need to live without their loved one. I do believe that racial profiling is ineffective because it's it only targeting people of color and civilians having to distrust the police because they also fear that they might start to question them and when people start to distrust the law enforcement people believe that the law is not being enforced equally across all communities and start to also distrust the government. Other people do seem to think that racial profiling does work and that it should be used by the police to “get the job done” (“Racial
And the use of profiling someone should be prioritized and used by all of the law enforcement. The opposition side also believes that racial profiling is not only used on people of color but to everyone, and yes it is used on mostly everyone but the people who get the most hurt or killed are people of color. They are the ones who have to get stopped,searched or prosecuted by law enforcement for sometimes doing nothing or reaching for their pocket. Racial profiling is a big issue and having the police say that they treat every civilian equal is not right because they don’t and it shouldn't be