Racial Profiling

And now my rebuttal, Yes,it does seem that L.A police officers do use ethnicity for their criterion for criminal activity.And yes, I do believe description of race when a crime has been committed is a useful tool for law enforcement. But your article,your source, even in its Subtitle is against racial profiling stating "LAPD officers will utilize crime data, including ethnicity, to identify possible suspects. But there is no place for racial profiling in law enforcement." See in the article it states that the officers were using Criminal profiling which is indifferent to racial profiling.The definition of criminal profiling is [1]"Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is a behavioral and investigative tool that is intended to help investigators to accurately predict and profile the characteristics of unknown criminal subjects or offenders".While racial profiling's definition is [2] "Government activity directed at a suspect or group of suspects based solely on race". Your article also supports the points I laid down earlier,and their opposition to racial profiling as well stating,"Racial profiling has consistently been one of the most confounding, divisive and controversial issues the police department confronts. A perception that police target members of specific ethnic or racial groups creates a deep divide between the police and the communities we serve. But as an officer who has spent a lot of time patrolling the city's streets, I just don't think the perception is accurate. True racial profiling, in which people are targeted solely because of race or ethnicity, is both illegal and immoral. It destroys public trust and reduces the effectiveness of the police. There is no place for it in law enforcement. And I firmly believe that most LAPD officers support that viewpoint." My Graph: I will stand by my graph,as a useful tool for my argument,and I will explain in greater detail the usefulness of my graph towards my argument.My graph shows the actions that law enforcement took to apprehend the suspects,Which include the following criteria: "order out of car,Frisked,Asked for consensual search,non consensual search,and to opposition to my opponents claim arrested." The percentage for whites remain at a constant level at bout 100%,but as you can clearly see if you were to look at my graph for blacks it is 116% and Hispanics 132% who were ordered out of their car.And my graph also shows more Blacks and Hispanics being Frisked,ask for consensual search,non consensual search,and again contrary to my opponents claim being arrested more often than Whites.Now,in the second graph it is titled "Were Officers' Suspicions Justified:Likelihood That a search Turned Up Evidence".In this graph Whites again remain at a constant level,but for the wrong reasons.Blacks and Hispanics drop down their percentages dramatically,for Evidence of weapons by frisking Blacks dropped to 42% and Hispanics to 32%,for evidence of weapons by consensual search Blacks 37% and Hispanics 33% etc.As for your graph I couldn't find any information seeing your link may be broken. Cited Sources: 1.http://en.wikipedia.org... 2.http://dictionary.reference.com...