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Racial Profiling Persuasive Speech

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Furthermore, the impacts that racial profiling does to people led them to start what is called “The Talk” which will teach young African-Americans about a surviving a world full of people feel fear or distress if brown is in their skin. There comes a time for an African-American child to look adorable at one point for awhile and then as soon as they hit the age limit 12-13 that’s when you start looking more threatening to people who don’t really know who you’re. That is when your parents sits you down and explain to you how to be safe and what living in America is going to be like for you for the rest of your life. There will be conversations around the kitchen table, in church, synagogue and mosque basements, and classrooms around the country. …show more content…

Technology is changing our relationship to the law. There is a new software, Pre Poll which is supposed to help law enforcement agencies reduce the amount of crime, by predicting crimes that will happen and directing them towards those areas with the help of algorithm. These predictions are turned into 500 foot by 500 foot red boxes on a map, showing the areas that police officers should focus on when they’re not actively responding to a call. Police officers say that it reduces crime by up to 30%. This method is called ”predictive policing” which is being used by plenty of police departments already. Predictive policing is something that will be common in the future but is that something that they should rely on? African-Americans are already targets to police officers so will this lead too even more profiling? African-Americans “worry that police could feel even more empowered to spend time looking for crime in neighborhoods populated by minorities.” (Madrigal) Blacks worry that racial profiling will actually increase because of the high crime rates in there communities.It’s “not just whether it helps reduce crime, but how it helps reduce crime, and whether the system could serve as an algorithmic justification for old-school racial profiling by placing more police in minority-populated neighborhoods.”(Madrigal) Instead of trying to end racial profiling this app is actually doing the opposite by making educated guesses on a crime that could happen. How can we trust a software to tell us when a crime will happened? Can racial profiling get worse because an “artificial intelligence” is so good at being able to predict when crimes will

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