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Racial Profiling: Practices
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Racial profiling is not an acceptable practice under Canadian law. It is a violation of the right to the equal protection of the law without discrimination guaranteed under s. 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The problem is that racial profiling is difficult to prove absent the collection of data proving a disparate impact on certain communities or groups.
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Racial profiling is the practice of using certain characteristics, such as a person’s sex, age, car model or physical appearance, as indicators of criminality. (Issues & Controversies on File) May 7, 1999, p,194C
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This Report compares the practice of "traditional" street-level racial profiling with the post-September 11 profiling of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians. It concludes that profiling is just as wrong now as it was before the war on terrorism began. The same arguments that led President Bush and Attorney General Ashcroft to condemn racial profiling before September 11 should lead them to abandon it now.
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Racial profiling is based on the assumption that members of certain ethnic groups are disproportionately more likely to be involved in certain criminal activities. If this practice is widely entrenched or officially sanctioned, it ... follows that members of non-targeted groups can also expect less police scrutiny.
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Some racial profiling defenders agree that the drug war bears a large part of the blame for racial profiling. "Many of the stop-and-search cases that brought this matter into the headlines were part of the so-called war on drugs," writes Derbyshire. "The police procedures behind them were ratified by court decisions of the 1980s, themselves mostly responding to the rising tide of illegal narcotics." But Derbyshire dismisses the argument that racial profiling is chiefly a byproduct of the drug war. He contends that even if drugs were legalized tomorrow, the practice would continue.
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Small defined "racial profiling" as the practice by law enforcement to detain people for no other reason than their ethnicity. He said "black people and brown people" are the adult victims of profiling — "DWB," or "Driving While Black" or "Driving While Brown," — and that profiling happens to young people too —"LWB," or "Living While Black or Brown."
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