Thread: Racial Profiling is not Wrong

Ethnic advocacy groups have seized upon the phrase "racial profiling" as a weapon to use against legitimate criminal investigation. They seek to equate the term "profiling" with "discrimination." Thereby crackdowns on crime that tend to follow racial lines will be subverted.

However, we all tend to profile, sometimes by race, when we think about potential perpetrators of various crimes. The profiling can take the form of probabilistic assumptions based upon: age, gender, education, income and, yes,...race.

If I asked you to picture a Wall Street criminal what comes to your mind? Or if I substitute "crack dealer" what do you think of. How about "cybercriminal?"

We all may have slightly different assumptions; nevertheless they are "profiles" because we think it is best to form some assumptions of what kind of person would commit such crimes.

Criminal investigation science has added to its toolbag of investigative methods over the centuries. Beyond "clues" at the scene, and later on, sociology of crime groups or "criminology," criminal investigation added in recent decades "criminal offender profiling." This method of making certain assumptions, though not always borne out, has helped law enforcement find the bad guys.

Don't let OBL groups undermine enforcement of our national security laws with charges of "Profiling." This is only a crafty, contrived subterfuge for what they actually want.

Greta post. I have always felt that profiling laws are in the same category as hate crimes. Is anyone less or more dead because they were killed for ethnic, religious or racial reasons?

I am asked to deny my own senses--when I see a short, dark man who is speaking a foreign language, I am supposed to pretend I did not see he was short?/ Or Dark? or I did not hear the foreign language??
Does a Zulu tribesman resemble a Tibetan soldier??

If I am a victim of a crime, how asinine that the last thing they want in a description is skin color or language. Profiling is major blunder that occurred to a do gooder group who believed that all the world would become a paradise if we fail to see what we see.

Throughout history, people of reason and maturity have paid the price of the dream world of the liberal. It is time to end it.

This nonsense about racial profiling is rediculous. What are 99.9% of the illegals in Arizona? They are not blonde haired blue eyed guys there illegally from Belgium. Proximity to the Mexican border and statistics dictate which groups should be looked at a little more closely than others.

i contacted the ACLU about discrimation against people from the philippines but they said that it wasnt discrimination because millions of hispanics are not let into the US. there are not 13 million ILLEGAL immigrants from other contries here, the vast majority hispanics. but say something or pass a law against a mexican and see how fast they want to file a law suit. I still dont know why the goverment or ACLU wants AMNESTY. i think the main reason would be that over half could not get a visa if they applied or a majority was denied a visa before. my wife is filipina and we married here in the US and we were to take a cruise and they said that if my wife went that they would deport her once we came back to florida, i am a disabled Iraq freedom veteran and i fought for this country, not for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. but why did they want to deport my wife so fast, when even illegal immigrants that are let out of jail only 25% are deported, why not 100%. GOODBYE AMERICA HELLO MEXIAMERICA

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Originally Posted by Captainron

Ethnic advocacy groups have seized upon the phrase "racial profiling" as a weapon to use against legitimate criminal investigation. They seek to equate the term "profiling" with "discrimination." Thereby crackdowns on crime that tend to follow racial lines will be subverted.

I aure do agree with you. In the case of the Houston media, each morning as I eat my breakfast getting ready for work, I see all of the reports in the mayhem that took place over night. Each time there has been a child raped or molested, bank robbed, drive by shooting, murder, or any of the other various serious crimes, the guilty party is Mexican. It is not being racist to suspect Mexican when there is a crime, it is instead a statistical probability.

For too many hears minority groups have gotten what they want by claiming racism. I am fed up with it. If you don't like it because your so called "race" is involved in crime than stand up and change that.