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Arguments Against Racial Profiling

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Is it ever justified to use racial profiling? Racial profiling is a progressing issue used incorrectly in determining if a person is a threat to the community of nation. In some cases it is claimed to be justified; when making potential threat assessments. The rest of the time, it is not justified to use racial profiling and it is just considered racism and stereotyping. Can we all live in a world where our appearance determines if we are a criminal, educated, a threat, ect? We live in a post 9/11 world where we rely on racial and religious profiling to determine if someone is a criminal or terrorist.
Racial profiling is where people determine based on your ethnicity, your character. It can also be called stereotyping because it is about being …show more content…

Nomani and Hassan Abbas (“Is Racial or Religious Profiling Ever Justified?”) they expanded on the topic of racial profiling, claiming it is necessary for making practical threat assessments. "That's racist!" He responds: "I stereotype, it's faster." is a comment that was included in article by Nomani and Abbas, broadened the idea of stereotyping/racial profiling being a faster way to determine who someone is, and if they are a possible threat or not.
Sunil Dutta wrote the article “No Race Alone” revealing that the LAPD has been accused many time of racial profiling. He elaborated this by adding a comment from none of the LAPD officers who claims that their supervisor couldn't do his job without racially profiling. Dutta clarified that racial profiling is a difficult charge to substantiate and that no LAPD officer in his department has been found guilty of racial profiling.
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Racial profiling is not acceptable in any aspect, its is just racism. In an article by Ben Hartman, he said “Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump drew flak for saying that America should adopt racial profiling in its fight against terrorism because "you look at Israel and you look at others, and they do it and they do it successfully.". We are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but with racial profiling, you are just guilty for your

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