Racial Profiling Pros And Cons Essay

Playing it safe or just being blatantly racist The United States of America is a melting pot for an abundant amount of cultures. The U.S is actually a country that was founded by entirely immigrants. This fact of the matter has seemed to have been forgotten after the events of 9/11 in which “Al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing everyone on board the planes and nearly 3,000 people on the ground. A fourth plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field, killing all on board, after passengers and crew attempted to wrest control from the hijackers.”
(9/11: Timeline of Events) After this attack the term “racial profiling” was given popularity within the U.S as it became an often
First off as stated in an article on Occupytherapy.com, “Racial profiling can help law enforcement find a possible suspect based on racial cues. Statistically certain ethnicities are more likely to commit certain types of crimes.”(Profiling Pros and Cons List) This fact has helped many police officers and investigators to locate the guilty suspect and put them to justice for their crimes. Another pro of racial profiling is that it in a way delivers a sense of belonging to one's own ethnic group. For example as a result of racial profiling African American’s have a sense of understanding of one another's struggle of “being black in America”. Although this fact is sad to say the least, many African Americans can share that when they are around police officers they feel a sense of panic and the urge to “act normal”, no matter what they’re doing, whether it’d be walking their dog or driving to the local convenience store. These pro’s of racial profiling are contradictory because in reality their are no pros to racial