There is always fear of crime and fear who will commit those said crimes. The world or the government, I should say, lives and strives off of fear. Without fear they can not make laws to ‘protect’ their people or take ‘necessary’ measures in order to keep everyone safe. One of the measures I speak of is, profiling. Profiling is the monitoring of habits or even, sadly, certain demographics. By monitoring these things the government/law enforcement agencies are able to, most of the time, prevent crimes. This sounds good and it absolutely is, but at what cost? Profiling has its ups and downs, along with every hard choice.
First of all, I will start with what good profiling does. Using profiling it provides victims or potential victims even more
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To start off, profiling, especially on foot, uses a lot of manpower and can take up to months at a time. This is a big problem for smaller forces trying to tackle and protect big cities full of people. This, after a while, may cause the officers to miss their families and they would begin to be distracted from the task at hand. In addition to that, it also relies on possible untrue facts and stereotypes in order to know where to start. These stereotypes lead to the next problem with an extremely controversial view, racial and ethnic profiling. This is not always a bad thing by any means, but only if used correctly. Some officers may be suspicious of a young African American male walking down the sidewalk with a backpack right after school hours. This would be wrong to just automatically assume the teen is up to no good. However, if this same teen was looking around nervously and has his hands in his hoodie holding something, then it would be perfectly okay for the cops to stop and talk to him. If they stopped him they would just be doing their job and there would not be any discrimination about it. Could the negative ‘side effects’ really be that bad with what good we get out of