The End

In today's world of manifold negative peace, created through the perpetuating binary of winners vs. losers, two opposing sides of an argument will continually struggle for a dominant position resulting in a win/lose situation, soon to be overthrown by the moment losers. However, to create a win/win scenario in which the conflict between sides is permanently resolved, differing sides must be united without compromise or conformity. The only way to truly end an argument forever, short of killing everyone who opposes your viewpoint, is to create a larger problem that encompasses both sides of the argument and ultimately unifies all parties involved through their opposition to the new problem or to remove the fulcrum on which the controversy hinges. Both sides must abandon their focalized viewpoint to go above the argument and see the controversy from every perspective. Thus the final solution lies in either the creation of an environing greater implication or the removal of the fulcrum.

In the example of racial profiling, primary players can be defined as; those who believe racial profiling is a constitutionally legal and effective law enforcement method that should be used by the United States executive system and conversely, those who believe racial profiling is not constitutional and should not be used as a method of law enforcement by the United States executive system. This binary could be eliminated if the fulcrum of ethnicity (the whole controversy hinges on characteristic differences generated by ethnic diversity) were eliminated. In order for officers of the law to see past the racial stereotypes that they have formulated, they must see no difference of skin color.

While this scenario is difficult to create, the premise remains that ending the controversy is achieved by removing the primary implication of the argument so that each side has nothing to fight over anymore.

The Fulcrum

Humans use their powers of association to judge the world around them through their knowledge of previous experiences and their subscription to the beliefs of others. The analytical skills of humans are always at work, extrapolating known information to make assumptions about things which they do not, or cannot, know for sure. Thus, in the case of racial profiling, one calls on either what they have learned through others about the characteristics of a certain race or what they have observed themselves. In essence, the controversy over racial profiling hinges on action in response to assumption. Regardless of whether racial profiling occurs in American society today, regardless of whether racial profiling is morally wrong, the ethos of the matter relies on the power of assumption that an individual will exhibit whatever stereotype one has developed in their mind.

Academic Research

After in depth research of academic sources, I have begun to see the implications of both sides of the racial profiling binary. Academic studies have shown that racial profiling in general is rooted in psychology. Psychological research has shown that the ideas and beliefs of ones peers are largely adopted by the individual, through subconscious conformity. This phenomenon, combined with the social respondent conditioning of an individual (phenomenon in which the experiences and observations of an individual are extrapolated to stereotype a person, situation or occurrence) ingrains in an individual, a perception of the world. This specific perception causes a person to extrapolate previous experiences to develop stereotypes of certain people or situations. This suggests that a police officers previous examination of his environment along with the views of his peers shape his judgments of individuals. It has been statistically established that minorities are “stopped” by law enforcement officials more than is proportional to the ethnic breakdown of America’s total population. However, the number of minorities stopped due to suspicion is very close, in proportion to the number of minorities in prison as compared to the number of incarcerated Caucasians. This may seem to justify racial profiling; however this raises a large moral dilemma. Many will argue that it violates moral code and more objectively, the constitution of the United States to impose judgment on an individual because of the stereotypes surrounding a certain race.

Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement

In a society where racial stereotypes exist, through the identification and realization of social traits that tend to characterize certain ethnic groups, individuals may use preconceived perceptions of a particular race to impose judgment on an individual before objective evaluation of the individual. A specific example that exemplifies this scenario is the issue of racial profiling by law enforcement officials. In particular, law enforcement officials have long been accused of stopping African American motorists on the premise that they fit the profile of most drug traffickers or law offenders. There is no solid statistical evidence to support the stereotype that African Americans proportionally break the law more often than Caucasians (although they may get caught more often because they are more heavily watched). Thus, while profiling may lead to more arrests by law enforcement officers, one must ask if the method is morally, or even constitutionally, sound. When it comes right down to it, an objective standard for police suspicion of an individual must be established. Even though law enforcement may be more effective if racial profiling is incorporated, the use of a stereotype as a basis for criminal suspicion cannot be deemed probable cause for suspicion as stated in the United States Bill of Rights.

A Specific Demonstration of Causality

In a world of genetic diversity, arising from the independent assortment of chromosomes, crossing over, and genetic mutations, variations arise in the human genome. In this realm of dissimilarity in the human form, different races emerged by way of geographic isolation. As genetic distinctions became prevalent for each ethnic group, certain genetic characteristics arise to demarcate each race. These attributes, which perpetuate themselves through cultural segregation, create stereotypes which fabricate model, perhaps “ordinary”, individuals for each ethnic group. While no individual embodies every trait indicative of their particular race, the majority of individuals in a certain ethnic group create, through the isolation of their culture, a stereotype based on actual genetic tendencies.

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