How common is racial profiling?
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Extemly, it is unavoidable. hey lets face it, people from similar backrounds occasionally exhibit similar traits.
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Unlike most, who will give the standard politically correct answer you probably expect, I will tell you the hard truth.\n\nStereotypes and generalizations are based primarily on group traits, based on years and perhaps centuries, of common reactions to different situations.  In short, there ARE traits exhibited by different ethnic and racial groups that are typical to that group.  I am not talking about skin color but rather common traits found in slang speech, clothing choices, even vehicle choices.  It is based on cultural values and experience that goes to the root of that particular race or ethnic group and has been cultivated over thousands of years.  Thats why you will find Jews heavily in finance, Germans tending towards advanced engineering, the Italians having a sharp sense of style, etc.
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actually yes I know some are.\n\nI interviewed with a drug task force some years ago, when I was in law enforcement,  I was not given the job because I was not black,  they wanted someone to work in the projects.\n\nI tried to explain that many drug dealers, often larger ones were white and not in the projects.  They did not care, they wanted to make alot of little arrests for the news.
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Here's a sincere answer:  No.  It has nothing to do with race.  Don't believe generalities like that when you hear them.
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i asked some friends and they said some police check harder on other people than some. theyt have never arrested someone just because of race.
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doing their job defending their country.   A person's race is not generally listed in open source materials, unless you get lucky and happen to find an article with a picture.
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In the post 9-11 world, fingerprinting and background checks are becoming the norm instead of the exception.  I had to have my fingerprints taken and an F.B.I. background check to get my job.\n\nI don't think you get fingerprinted for traffic tickets, unless of course the violation was an arrestable offense.  \n\nShould people entering our country be fingerprinted.  You bet.  Its high time America had some type of control over our borders.
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Yes to an extent, what is commonly refered to as racial profiling makes sense (when not abused). For example: \nA car load of black or hispanic kids are rolling around a lets say mostly white upscale neighborhood at 3 am,plates get run, and it's pretty obvious they don't live in the area and may be up to no good I believe is an acceptable type of profiling.\n I will say the same for a car load of suburban white boys driving around the hood,in high drug areas etc. That contrary to popular belief is also profiling.   Crime needs to be controlled and I dont personally see it as a violation of ones right's to be stopped when they are deemed to be suspicous.  Of course people will call me racist etc, but to an open mind what I just stated makes sense and is fair.
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They are raised and taught to think that way. Also, their experiences may make them racist as well. I must admit that there are certain racial groups taht I am cautious around because of my experiences with them. I won't discriminate against them, but I do keep my guard up at times.
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Categorizing people by their heritage or race is not racist. There is a right way and a wrong way to refer to ones race. Common sense should tell you the difference between a racial slur as opposed to a description.
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Stereotypes usually contain a wee bit of truth,  but have been highly exaggerated and then stretched to apply to the entire race in question.\nStereotyping is a bad idea, because it causes you to generalize about an entire race, just based on what a few individuals may do.\nI love curry, and often I smell like it because I'm cooking with the spice, that doesn't make me Indian, now, does it?\nI've got a friend who used to be a crack addict, is she black or white? (she's white, by the way).\nThe Dog Whisperer on National Geographic, used to be an illegal from Mexico. Now he makes more money than you and me, combined.\nDoes this help you any?
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its not often white people. most of em r black, ok?
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if race shouldn't matter, then race shouldn't be on the application.\n\ncan you imagine if they asked what polital party you belonged to?\n\nto me, asking for someone's race on an application is clearly a form of racism, and one that doesn't always harm or benefit the race of the person being asked.\n\n//
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I completely agree. It has nothing to do with racial profiling, its about securing the border and having a little more authority over those coming here. But, unfortunatly no matter what case may be someone has to turn it to a racial issue.
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well, in essence, they are the same..."Profiling" is just a prettier word, and something we let slip by for a sense of security.\nIt's made possible by statistics, certain races, and classes commit the same crimes over and over...so, hence your stereotyping...sometimes people fit the mold too well, this is who the media throws in the spotlight often enough to make the majority believe.
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Why do we need to get into more race things? You know there are plenty of racist on this site:\n\nHeres a couple\n\nThey are lazy. Not true\nThey are all on welfare. Not true. Actually white's outnumber blacks by an overwhelming majority.\n\nForget the movie and television stereotypes. Black youths are less likely to smoke, drink alcohol and use drugs than whites and Hispanics, a study shows. \nBlack youngsters, nonetheless, mistakenly believe their peers smoke, drink and do drugs more than other groups. \n\nThe study in the journal Health Communications was written by Michelle Miller-Day, associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State University, and Jacqueline M. Barnett, assistant professor of communication studies at Bloomsburg University in Columbia County. \n\nIn a sample of 67 seventh-graders from Memphis, Tenn., they found that 16 percent of the black students had used alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, compared to 24 percent of the whites. \n\nStephen Thomas, director of the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh, said the study exposes "the big lie." \n\n"If we were to go on the streets of Pittsburgh and stop 100 people, I'm going to predict that 90 percent of them would agree with the statement that black teens are more likely to be involved in alcohol and drug abuse than white teens. \n\n"And the reality is black teens are less likely to be abusing drugs and alcohol and tobacco, and that has been the case since the time this data has been collected." \n\nOne such study, the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future Survey, shows that blacks in grades 8-12 rank lowest in using substances. \n\nBut almost two of three blacks in Miller-Day's study perceived that black adolescents take more drugs than white or Hispanic youths. \n\n"That's one thing I'd like to pursue further," Miller-Day said. "I speculate it's because of media portrayals of blacks."
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Dear Friend,\n\nI'm not sure I agree with the premise of your question.  Racial profiling consisted of a systematic suspicion of particular minorities as inherently criminal.  If insurance companies were to charge all, say, black customers more than white customers on the suspicion that black drivers get in more accidents, I'm quite sure they would be subject to suit.\n\nBut, in any event, law enforcement personnel carry and use guns and handcuffs, send people to jails and prisons, have the capacity to ruin the lives of innocent people who happen to be of a particular minority.  Insurance companies... sell insurance, which you can get from hundreds of competitor companies.  Discrimination in law enforcement just matters a whole heck of a lot more than discrimination by insurers.\n\nYour Friend,\nFrancesois