Racial Profiling In Our Society

The use of race or ethnicity are the grounds and base for suspecting someone of having committed an offence. This can be problematic because of humans race, national origin, culture and ethnicity.

Racial profiling a way of identifying people who were a part of criminal activity. Stereotyping is known as the practice of when people assume characteristic attached to specific type of people. This is often mistaken for profiling in today’s society. The problem with the assumption is introduced when profiling occurs for inaccurate stereotypes. In 1996, approximately 26 percent of minorities citizens surveyed reported these people had minimal to no confidence with the police, comparing to the only 9 percent of white respondents at the time (Bureau

Their opinions are starting to become affected by their surroundings and influenced by social media and people. Certain thing that teenagers see, they may think it’s okay to do since everyone else does it. Same thing goes with someone who has a higher power. Humans naturally tend to follow those footstep and think, “If they can do it, so can we.” and then they socially accept. Several articles and studies show that citizens, especially the blacks, are much more likely to obey the officers when they are given a reason for the stop. But can racial profiling and stereotyping be a good thing? Racial profiling has become a structure to prevent future terrorist. It’s almost like an effective tool in the policing industry. Profiling and stereotyping narrow down the number of suspects which gives protection. This society is strongly impacted by the social group who dominate in order to maintain social structure and what benefits them. The power of social groups tend to dictate the social order in the powerful group not just the interests of the privileged. In the society's authority, the complementary social norms do exist for each groups such as domination, development and decision