Summary
This distrust will hinder the government's success in Founding up foreigners simply on the basis of their ethnicity. A dragnet of this type opens the door for the type of "guilt by association" we experienced during the McCarthy era when we allowed our civil liberties to be eroded for the sake of fighting communism.
Terrorism did not start on Sep. 11. No amount of profiling could have stopped this event. Why? Because profiling doesn't work. (See Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work, by David A. Harris)Many criminals escape notice because they don't fit the profile. The statistics show that appearance alone, particularly based on race and ethnicity, are very poor indicators of criminal behavior. We don't know what the next terrorist will look like.Statistics from "A Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collection Systems" by Deborah Ramirez et al.See the full content of this document
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Racial Profiling Doesn't Work
Many see racial profiling as the key to protecting ourselves against terrorist acts. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Racial profiling has be...See the full content of this document
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