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Crime, Mistrust and Racial Profiling

She was being threatened to jail time and was subjected to an obscene racial taunt by a police officer. The only reason why she felt this was happening was because she is black. Does being black naturally mean you are guilty?.
             Unfortunately this is happening more often than not. Distrust, anger, fear, and suspicion are some of the very many words people us to describe their relationship with police. Another serious problem with using racial profiling is that it creates mistrust. As racial profiling continues to happen mistrust begins to form on children and adults towards our key institutions such as police officers in which compromising the future. Racial profiling creates mistrust within the community, the law enforcement, criminal justice system, store and mall security, and society in general. Policing relies on people of the community to trust them and for us to be safe around them. Most now a days fear their encounters with the police feeling unsafe rather than feeling safe in their presence. In Toronto, the police force has been using a strategy called "carding". Carding is a controversial street check program that is used to stop, question, and document people who are usually innocent of wrong doing. People look at this as a form of racial profiling. In an article published in the Toronto Star statistics were given on the percentages of those of different races that have been carded: Under Young males (15-24) the per cent of young males by skin colour carded by police in the patrol zone where they live is: Black 123%; Brown 56%; Other 11%; White 30%. That's a total of 220%! This means that for every 100 people carded (percent is out of 100) there were 220 people carded! Looking at these statistics 123% instantly grabs your attention looking like that cannot be possible. Parents are now starting to restrict their children's actions to minimize their chance of being profiled.


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