Racial Profiling vs. Criminal Profiling

Abstract

Psychology could be used and applied for identification and catching the criminal with the help of criminal profiling methods. A perpetrator doesn't only leave physical cues at the sight but the clues about his/her personality as well as behavior. Initially, profiling was introduced for investigation of the violent serial killers, where perpetrators were supposed to be catch on priority and urgency. Racial profiling is a law enforcement practice of stopping and interrogating persons, inspecting or searching vehicles driven by such persons, or initiating investigative procedures against such persons, who because of their race or ethnicity share a particular statistical profile with actual and suspected criminal offenders. At the early age, children must be learning to understand each other. In addition to this, children must be educated over the cultural history and culture of other students as well. Due to this, children would be accepting the difference that they are able to find among their social groups and peers. Once the people are conscientious and educated about the problems associated with cultures and races, there will improvements in the problems of cities. Humans must be considered as one race and once this is realized by people, all the racial and cultural problems would disappear. Additionally, poverty and crime rate will be declining. There has been a lot of change over the past 200 years in the American culture, and this is the time for changing the views of people as well. There are situations when criminal profiling is utilized and misunderstood by the people who are not aware how enforcement officers are investigating and suspecting the criminals law. In the end, irrespective of profiling, the courts are responsible for deciding who is innocent and who is guilty.

Racial Profiling vs. Criminal Profiling

Introduction

At the very early age, every one taught us that justice should be, and is, blind. The scales associated with justice must not be tainted or violated by immaterial stuff. Eventually, court is responsible for ensuring that justice should prevail. But, when one talks about the event happening prior to the proceedings of court, when the process of investigation is in progress, profiling could be the best available tool. It is worth the implementation, by the investigators who are putting in efforts for understanding “why, what, when, where, how and who” as they are relating to the crime (Carmen, 2007).

Before any legal or regulatory authority could detain a person lawfully, the authority should consider providing reasonable suspicion for believing that a crime has been conducted, about to be conducted or it is in the state of occurrence (Sandy 2003). The standards of reasonable suspicion varies from regulatory authority to another but it is usually coming down to the believes of officers that the criminal activity has been done and the detained person has useful information regarding crime that has been suspected.

Literature Review

The war on drugs has been identified particularly as the single most important factor that explains the prevalence of blacks and Latinos among criminal ...