Racial Profiling

RACIAL PROFILING
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Political leaders need to be convinced that practices involving racial profiling at airports and highways are harmful not only to the particular individuals but to the whole nation. Racial profiling is not only “racially insensitive” or “politically wrong” but also ill conceived, destructive and has over time proved an ineffective method of curbing criminology (Head, 2013). In determining the wrong aspects of racial profiling, leaders need to a ascertain what racial profiling does and what it is not doing relative to the law enforcement systems of the country. In accordance to the Fourteenth Amendment, the government or state should not deny any individual, irrespective of race or status the right to equal protection. Racial profiling is typically based on the framework of unequal protection. In these systems, blacks, Arabs and Latinos are likely to be searched by law enforcement officers and therefore, receive lesser dignity than their white counterparts. This aspect does not go in line with the equal rights provision of the Fourteenth amendment (Harris, 1999).
However, supporters of racial profiling have been arguing that this aspect does not show racial prejudice or favoritism. According to them, minority groups such as Arabs, Africans, and Latinos and so on have been prominent in terrorism activities and other crimes in comparison to their white counterparts. They continue to pose that, security personnel at airports...