Racial profiling has gone on for many years. It is a situation that has been called out on many different occasions. In the article “Surveillance is Necessary” by Dan White, it says “... the retail industry loses over 31.3 billion dollars every year, and shoplifting represents about one-third of that.” Then goes on to say that it is a smart business move to target those certain ethnic groups who are overrepresented in the arrest statistics when it comes to protecting merchant’s retail industries. I for one believe that it is not correct to racially profile anyone due to the harm that it may cause to the victims of this.
First of all, White states that we should racially profile people because of what the statistics say. What he does not realise is that most of these statistics are wrong. Most of these statistics try to throw Hispanics and African Americans under the bus by making them look like horrible people. Police constantly frisk Hispanics, Latinos, and African Americans more than Whites. In order for certain information to be accurate you need an equal number of groups. In this case, it is not possible because Whites are not followed by the police as much as African Americans or Latinos do. No matter what, we will always be given inaccurate statistics.
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In the article “The reality of Racial Profiling” it stays “racial profiling is unconstitutional… is “invidious,” “wrong,” “ineffective,” and “harmful to our rich and diverse democracy.”” We are all to be viewed as equals under the constitution, but that is not happening at the moment. Many have found it easy to racially profile others. Just as it is unconstitutional, it creates tensions between the different races. They try to compete to see who is better and others will hate each other because they either feel less or more than