The Stop and Search

Stop and Search
Student Credentials
University
30th December 2019

Stop and Search
 Racial profiling or ethnic profiling of an individual is
when people from a particular community are targeted
and upon a suspicion just based upon an individual’s
ethnicity or race is stopped and searched
(Commissioner for Human Rights, 2019).
 Though it is a necessary law or authority so as to
provide timely information in certain cases, there have
been several cases where this law is misused by the
authorities.

Why does this discrimination exist?
 As per the data collected by various leading
organizations, this ethnic profiling dates back to the
time when discrimination was quite prevalent. Where
people who were white were considered superior to
other minorities and slavery was quite common. Police
was provided authority to stop slaves if doubtful at any
checkpoint in order to search(Balko, 2019).