Racial Profiling

• Racial Profiling is, in short, assuming certain races will commit crimes or offenses or have bad characteristics about them
• In many countries, a high percentage of Back people are stopped while driving to be checked and searched. Although they are stopped 2 to 3 times more than white people or other races, they are no more likely to commit crimes than white people.
• Also, because of stereotypes, races such as African Americans are seen as people carrying drugs and being violent. Now, because of this stereotype, people walking down the street may be careful around Black people. That would be considered racial profiling.
• Racial Profiling occurs in many ways such as Criticism, Discrimination, Crime, and Medical Care
• In clinics and hospitals, statistics show that certain treatments are less effective on Black people than on Caucasians, Black people tend to metabolize antidepressants slower than Asians and Caucasians, Asians tend to have a greater reaction to narcotics, and many more. Most of these examples of racial profiling is not necessarily bad and could be helpful to doctors.
• In general, some Caucasians are discriminative against black people, just because they are black. They think they are better than black people, they see themselves as better people. As well as, Caucasians used to stereotype Métis as dirty, drunken, poor people. Racial Profiling not only hurts single people, but when used as a stereotype, can hurt a whole group of people. In some ways racial profiling is good, and in some ways it is unnecessary.
• Some Critics argue that the race of a person should never contribute to punishments or should never be brought up in police action. Race should only be confronted if the person is wanted or being searched by the police.
• Some people think racial profiling is good, that it will help lower crime rate, and they think it doesn’t insult people. They may think it doesn’t insult people but guaranteed that if they’ve ever experienced Racial Profiling or stereotyping against them/their race, it would not make them feel happy.

Works Cited

CBC News. “In Depth: Racial Profiling.” CBC.

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Ronald Weitzer and Steven Tuch. “Racial Profiling.” Wikipedia.

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