Racial Profiling Comparison

Racial Profiling Comparison

Racial profiling involves the use of ethnic backgrounds and prejudices when deciding on matters pertaining to the actions of ethnic cultures. The traditional or older dealings of ethnic matters were differently conducted in comparison to the existing racial distributions. The older racial profiling was more adverse, which mostly affected the minority and low-social class groups within the communities. In comparison, the current practices have developed human rights and ethnic equality, which has led to a balanced assessment of matters despite ethnic backgrounds. The profiling can, therefore, be explored based on the older and contemporary treatment of racial and ethnic matters, which are applied by the use of the current policy issues.

The existing policy measures mainly favored the majority groups and the high-class families, which mostly constituted of the whites (Harris, 2003). The minority groups were considered to be less fortunate and less contributive. Hence, the Black-Americans were mostly considered on the wrong side in most criminal matters as well as during the search activities. Being African-American was enough evidence to act as a suspect while the whites were set free.

However, contemporary times have brought about differences in racial profiling. The current policy laws have contributed to equality in profiling and hold everyone as a suspect depending on the situation despite color, cultural and family differences. Hence, the blacks have also been identified as part of the society in regard to the equality applications. Therefore, there is a significant contribution of human rights activists within the judicial commission, which has led to a change of laws and inclusion of the discriminated generation within the system (Risse & Zeckhauser, 2004). Racial profiling has been a contributing factor to social injustices restricting the participation of the less-advantaged group. Hence, the current policies have helped in equality and achievement of justice as almost every culture, society, or even social class is heled accountable for the committed practices as compared to there before when the ethnic backgrounds were considered during the assessments.

References

Harris, D. A. (2003). Profiles in Injustice: Why racial profiling cannot work. The New Press.

Risse, M., & Zeckhauser, R. (2004). Racial profiling. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 32(2), 131-170.