Is There A Sound Basis For Racial Profiling?

[cronus]

Is There A Sound Moral+Rational and so Forth Basis For Racial Profiling?

[rainbow]

No but people that believe in racial profiling should be treated with suspicion.

[cronus]

No but people that believe in racial profiling should be treated with suspicion.

Report them to the authorities?

[pErvinalia]

No but people that believe in racial profiling should be treated with suspicion.

ISWYDT

Can you more explicitly define racial profiling? Does that mean something like blacks commit more crimes, therefore if a crime occurs we should focus more on black suspects rather than white suspects?

I guess a prominent version of this has been happening to muslims since 9/11. It's a tricky one, I guess. Logically and statistically, it makes sense. Whether that is the best approach for a society to deal with crime/terrorism is a bigger question than just statistics. I guess it depends on how far it is taken. How's this for a non-committal answer? - A tiny bit of racial profiling is probably ok, but a lot isn't.

[FBM]

Pleeze fer chrissakes, nobody start a debate about whether or not race really exists.




( That one's for rEv.)

[pErvinalia]

I'm inviting Galaxian and PinkHarrier here forthwith.

[Audley Strange]

No. Cultural profiling yes. Some cultures do have common behaviours that other cultures consider dangerous and criminal, so if some group come into your culture and start breaking specific laws commonly, one can look at that community and say... "check those fucks out first."

[Audley Strange]

No. Cultural profiling yes. Some cultures do have common behaviours that other cultures consider dangerous and criminal, so if some group come into your culture and start breaking specific laws commonly, one can look at that community and say... "check those fucks out first."

[Audley Strange]

No. Cultural profiling yes. Some cultures do have common behaviours that other cultures consider dangerous and criminal, so if some group come into your culture and start breaking specific laws commonly, one can look at that community and say... "check those fucks out first."

[FBM]

I'm inviting Galaxian and PinkHarrier here forthwith.

Pleez, noes!

[Tyrannical]

Is There A Sound Moral+Rational and so Forth Basis For Racial Profiling?

There would be a rational reason if there was a statistically significant difference.

[charlou]

No. Cultural profiling yes. Some cultures do have common behaviours that other cultures consider dangerous and criminal, so if some group come into your culture and start breaking specific laws commonly, one can look at that community and say... "check those fucks out first."

Maybe .. Certainly makes more sense than "racial" profiling ... but even then, I think a policy of cultural profiling would potentially be founded, promoted and implemented more in bigotry than pragmatism.

[Audley Strange]

No. Cultural profiling yes. Some cultures do have common behaviours that other cultures consider dangerous and criminal, so if some group come into your culture and start breaking specific laws commonly, one can look at that community and say... "check those fucks out first."

Maybe .. Certainly makes more sense than "racial" profiling ... but even then, I think a policy of cultural profiling would potentially be founded, promoted and implemented more in bigotry than pragmatism.

I completely agree it would be implimented by bigotry, bigotry of one culture's superiority over another, which in your own culture, if another is causing problems within it, is a fair enough assumption.

Everyone is bigoted, no one is totally open and inclusive.

[charlou]

Pragmatic bigotry? Interesting concept ...

[charlou]

and, I realise, not new ...