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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Profiling is always defended as "for the greater good". Doesn't make it right, and if you were on the receiving end of the profiling, you'd be saying the same thing.
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It is for the greeter good, even for the people being stopped and checked that did nothing wrong. Does it make it right? I guess that depends on how uptight the person is that is being stopped. If they have a "fuck the police you can't stop me with out cause attitude" then i guess you think it isn't right. If you can see that it isn't anything personal to you, that they are just trying to help you then you can understand that a couple minutes of your time is better for your overall safety. Do you want to live in lala land or do you want results with the least intrusive means necessary?
Do you want to prevent crime or live with it. I don't think anyone can disagree that profiling (aka using statistics to see what demographic is committing the most crimes in a particular area and actively checking them) is an effective and proactive way to prevent crime and it produces results. Almost all other crime prevention is reactive, the police showing up after the crime and then investigating trying to catch the people who did it. I would rather have a lot less crime and be checked from time to time vs being a victim of crime because people had a chip on their shoulder and didn't want to be stopped by the police. People always bitch about crime being high but the handcuff the police from being able to prevent it. People hate the cops until they need them.
I have no problem what so ever being stopped and checked by profiling. To a certain extent it happens with DWI checkpoints. They check late at night and more often then not flagged the younger looking people going through them. That is profiling. I've had to go through more than my fair share of them and was GREATFULL that the cops were out there taking the drunks off of the road because the more they took off the road the less chances I had of one of them hitting and killing me.
If there was a lot of theft/crime in a particular area I would have no problem with them stopping me if I fit the profile. I am doing nothing wrong, have nothing to hide. I am not a dumb ass and can see what they are doing is helping me, so I have no problem taking a couple minutes of my time to show them I am not one of the bad guys, so they can actually catch the bad guys BEFORE they commit a crime and get them off the streets.
I majored in criminal justice in college. I am well aware how profiling, using statistical data, law enforcement works etc...
What about you, where do you live, are you mexican, do you just hate the police, or are you a bleeding heart liberal who thinks the govt/police should leave us the fuck alone ?