RACIAL PROFILING
Racial profiling is the use of race/color of skin to suspect someone of an offense/crime.
Watch the PowToon below to have a basic understanding of different topics that involve racial profiling (pause if you need more time to view charts/graphs).
Look at the chart below to see the pro-con list to see if racial profiling is still prevalent today.
Racial profiling is still prevalent today because of all of the evidence and arguments that go on about racial profiling. If there were no arguments, there would be no question. The fact that there is so much information about racial profiling only leads to the conclusion that racial profiling does exist today. The question is, how can racial profiling be fixed? Racial profiling is a tricky subject, because security agencies want to protect the rights of people without discriminating. There might not be a definite solution besides letting security officials stop someone based on if there is evidence of suspicious behavior. Officials however, should not be stopping someone strictly based on the color of someone's skin. Racial profiling has heightened after 9/11 attacks and other various events. Although it may seem racial profiling has increased over time, it has always been a problem, but is noticed when social events erupt overtime. (Jost).
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Listen to the student (on the left) talk about race and his family's experience with racial profiling.
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