CRM 2305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Visible Minority
24 Apr 2015
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Bias free policing is when police services make a decision based on evidence, reasonable grounds, and suspicions rather than stereotype, race, gender, religion, or ethnicity. Define racial profiling and note why this is an important consideration in any study of the police and visible minority. Racial profiling is when law enforcement inappropriately considers race or ethnicity in deciding with whom and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity. Also, it is the targeting of individual members of a particular group, on the basis of the supposed criminal propensity of the entire group. Studying the effects of racial profiling and observing the amount it is used in a police service can bring distrust to the law enforcement services and can also make the police service in that community unreliable. There are two types of policing associated with racial profiling: overpolicing and pretext policing. Overpolicing is when the police focus disproportionately on a racialized population or neighborhood.
