Racial profiling and cumulative injustice
Many people believe that racial profiling is wrong. A 2004 Gallup poll of public attitudes on racial profiling found that most Americans regard it as unjustified for each context about which respondents were surveyed. For example, 67% expressed the opinion that police may never treat race as a predi...
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Wiley
2017
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| Sumario: | Many people believe that racial profiling is wrong. A 2004 Gallup poll of public attitudes on racial profiling found that most Americans regard it as unjustified for each context about which respondents were surveyed. For example, 67% expressed the opinion that police may never treat race as a predictor of crime when deciding whether to stop motorists on roads or highways. <br/> What exactly is it that makes racial profiling of this kind wrong? I believe that philosophers working in applied ethics and in legal and political philosophy have yet to work out a fully satisfactory answer to this question. |
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