What are the benefits or positive aspects of government racial profiling?
91118
Racial profiling has no benefits. The statistics may be very useful but "profiling", NOT!
830316
I haven't made a study of it nor looked up any, but if it were a factor, investigators/statisticians would look for a statistically significant difference in the rates at which people of different races are sentenced to death in capital punishment cases.  I believe such studies do exist that indicate such bias, though I haven't seen them myself - but they do get covered in the papers when they are released.\n\nYou sound skeptical.  I'd be curious to know why.
671299
Pros:\n\nYou discover that all humans, regardless of race, have the same wants and fears in life, to love and be love in return, success, integrity, acceptance and to be appreciated.  You learn although we have cultrual differences we are the same.  You soon forget when looking at your mate that they are of a different skin tone.  You just see the person you love.
814322
Civil rights- we are innocent until proved guilty, and having everyone on a database would be taking the opposite stance- like, 'you are a criminal waiting to step out of line'- terrible! It could even have a reverse effect- like, 'they reckon I'm a criminal already, so why not do crime?' We still have the right to privacy to an extent, and having all our details on a database, microchipping us when we haven't done anything wrong, that be a huge violation of personal rights.\n\n Still, the biometric ID card will be similar to the system you are suggesting. We'll see if the crime rate goes down... Even if you have everyone on a database, who will monitor the people who monitor the database?
503171
I'm guessing that you are referring to color as in a person's skin color.  That's the only aspect of color I'd imagine you would want to ignore, and I applaud you for trying.  But...\n\nWe all see color, and we all profile because of it.  It's a natural part of how our minds work.  When we first meet someone our brain automatically profiles them using associations with people we have seen and met before.  The purpose of this automatic profiling is to help give us an expectation of how that person might act.  In the wild this type of profiling is why animals know to run away when a predator comes around.\n\nBeing human, though, we have the ability to push past that initial impression we get of people.  So don't worry if you always see color, that's fine.  Just as long as you give people a fair chance to show you who they really are.
425303
The laws of the 1960 help race relations because finally the mainly white ruling class of our government heard the cries of  injustice and acted to help its citizens. The laws made it a policy that the US would no longer treat a portion of its citizen as second class forcing the culture to adapt as well.
274568
Absolutely not. racial Profiling is illegal by all means, but that is not to suggest that is does not happen every day, in the U.S. and Canada. it truly is a big problem. But i see more and more now-a-days that the profiling is based on actions and lifestyles rather than on race. I guess the bozo's in law enforcement finally realized that it's what people do, not the color of their skin, that would have weight on whether or not they were going to commit a crime.
390266
Yes, they get benefits. They steal people's identities and ss #s as well.
665699
Not while the government institutions make distinctions between the races and give preferences based on racial differences.\n\nThis means affirmative action, quotas, set-asides, lowering of college entrance requirements, etc.\n\nEvery action of government that differentiates between races keeps racial divisions alive.
8235
I disagree. Though it has had positive results, if our target is true equality then affirmative action wont get us there. Equality is not going to be found in concentrating so hard on who is black, who is white, and who is in between. True equality is going to be found when we finally learn not to care about race. Equality will come when people finally decide that race doesn't matter. With affirmative action race DOES matter. Race is a big deal. Race is everything. That isn't equality.
403068
First of all it is unconstitutional to make status a crime, that is someone cannot be lawfully detained unless there is proper cause or there is presidential authority under times of war. Only lately have decisions come down in Supreme Court which give basic rights to those detained in the US base in Cuba (Guantanomo Bay). \n\nThe problem with racial profiling is that it can lead to unconstiutional arrests and basic harrassment of minority groups simply based on skin color. This gives too many people, even those who are not racist and have good intentions, too broad of a license to police. \n\nThe question is: Once we start eliminating the constitutional rights of some, how long before our own rights are eliminated for what we think is a valid reason at the time. The whole point of the constitution and bill of rights is that those rights are inalienable, meaning they cannot be taken away or given away no matter what we think. Our founding fathers realized there will always be times when it seems our rights should take second to our needs, however, they also realize that certain rights are never worth compromising. Racial profiling leads us down that same wrong path of compromise.\n\nIt does not legally exists, but is still a policy used by certain police departments in urban areas and is used grossly by the FBI.\n\nThat is the jist of the controversy.
344488
I believe that it does.  Even in states where there are a ton of ethnicity's like New York it happens.  I also be live that there is profiling against teens.  I am also not sure that this profiling is just black.  I believe that more and more people of middle eastern back-round have been experiencing profiling.  I would hope that many police do not do it on purpose while I know many do.  Ignorance is bliss and I believe that these people of authority need to be enlightened that there are many different people in this nation... . That is what makes this the USA.  Perhaps some training on a bi-annual basis would help, but I do not think it is something that will ever be eliminated.  Sad as far as I am concerned!
117305
pro- good for crime solving. If someone left a hair folicle you can automatically look in a database of people. \n\ncon- if that information is released, health insurance companies might discriminate against unhealthy individuals based on their genome\n- it might be playing god by assigning people numbers instead of instrinsic value
657035
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
286848
To discriminate is to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit. Examples include social, racial, religious, sexual, disability, ethnic and age-related discrimination. Some distinctions between people which are based just on individual merit (such as personal appearance) may be inappropriate (or even illegal) in some situations, but they are not discriminatory.\n\nExamples of discrimination within countries include: apartheid in South Africa; institutionalized racial segregation in the USA from the Civil War through the 1960s; the "Jewish problem" in Nazi Germany; and reeducation camps in some communist countries.\n\nMany governments have attempted to control discrimination through civil rights legislation, equal opportunity laws and institutionalised policies of affirmative action (called reverse discrimination by its opponents).\n\nEven in western, secular countries, governments practice discrimination. For example, governments may provide better treatment to citizens than to non-citizens. Unemployed citizens may receive welfare benefits funded by taxpayers, while unemployed non-citizens may be denied such benefits. Governments often have the power to forcefully expel non-citizens but cannot expel citizens. Discrimination based on citizenship status is not generally considered illegal.
327577
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.
766490
Better than the racial minorities treat the majority.