Racial Profiling Should be Acceptable

Firstly, I am not arguing for prejudice. I am not condoning the abuse of racial profiling. However, I do assert that there are paramount civil liberties that in all societies take precedent over the lesser liberties. I find that the enforcement of security and safety, based on reasonable assessments of a situation, are necessary for the utility of society. Precedent for the deprivation of Civil Liberties: We can see clearly with freedom of speech, that it is not always observed. (. http://www.quora.com...) and it is both legal and deemed moral to not enforce it. Examples: Copyright law, laws against libel and slander, laws against verbal assault, laws against trading government secrets, laws against perjury in court. The reason that freedom of speech is not enforced is that in these instances there are conflicts of liberties. The conflict of safety vs. speech or national security vs. speech. Thus we have precedent for the reasonable deprivation of civil liberty. Now it is true that in the place of 'racial profiling' there is a distinct difference. The person profiled may very well be harmless. They may not be guilty of the crime they are suspected of. But suspicion does not constitute a breach of liberty. Efficiency and Common Sense: In some cases, if you try to spare peoples' feelings and observe poltically correct behavior, it sacrifices the higher liberties of safety and security of the majority. Examples: At an airport if you have a Muslim Terrorist threat, it makes absolutely no sense to suspect the protestant whites or blacks instead of the Arabian Muslims. You are not expected to pull aside the ten year old blonde girl, just to make the bearded, turbaned man feel good about himself, no matter how innocent. If you are on the lookout for a serial killer, chances are the killer is a white male. Eighty percent of serial killers are white males. (. http://www.psychologytoday.com...) Is it racist or bigoted to assume that the person you are hunting is also white? Or is it efficient to assume so and keep an eye out for white males when searching for the killer. How about in race crimes? If you have a racial killing of a black person in an only black, or white community, wouldn't it make sense to automatically profile the killer as white? It follows common sense that you can rule out 'blacks. ' Precedent For Profiling Based On External Features Racial profiling happens all the time. But so does gender profiling, income profiling, and tendency profiling. It comes down to probability. It is about efficiency. Males are more likely to commit rapes. When you are searching for a rapist, it is not 'bigoted' or 'sexist' to assume the rapist was a male. It is efficient. If somebody is robbed in an alley for one hundred dollars, it is not bigoted to assume the guilty party is 'poor. ' It is common sense to assume the person is not 'rich. ' If you are searching for illegal immigrants, it is foolish to be forced to pull aside the fluent-English-speaking whites. You can automatically assume the person who speaks broken English and is of colored skin is more likely to be an illegal than the former. It simply follows with probability. If you have a male rape victim, it makes sense statistically to search for a homosexual rapist, rather than a heterosexual one. It is not bigoted. It is common sense. Racial profiling isn't picking on a specific race. It is excluding and ruling out the other races. In a judicial system that constantly places certain civil liberties higher than others and needs efficiency, it follows that suspecting someone based on race is the same as suspecting them based on gender, age, or tendency. There is an entire profession devoted to racial profiling in the FBI known as the behavioral analysis unit. Sure, a few people will be pulled aside at airports who are innocent. A few people may be taken into questioning due to their skin color. But this is a necessary step in ensuring the safety of many. Racial profiling is not a conviction based on skin color, it is suspicion. And it should be expected as well as reasonable.