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Racial Profiling as a Crime-Fighting Technique

article ôA Non-Racial Approach Towards the Understanding of Human Diversityö, where he argues against the harmful effects of using the concept of race (Brace 1964).

Humanity is a single, interbreeding species. While people clearly vary enormously in their physical appearance, perceived racial differences are only skin deep. ôThe most recent findings published in 2002 by scientists studying the human genome have concluded that any two humans on this planet are more than 99.9 percent identicalö (Marshall 2002).

Anyone who has read any history, or even watched TV or read a newspaper knows that racial, religious, linguistic, and cultural differences account for most of the flashpoints in human conflict throughout the world.

Furthermore, these divergences within nations and populations also serve to illustrate cleavages of class, income, property û and û to return to the theme of this paper û the relationship of any racially defined group to law enforcement.

It is important to take the long and wide view of the history of human cultures in dealing with this subject, because the racial landscape that we are used to in the United States is not necessarily that of other countries, or the societies of the past.

In the colonial period, African slaves were forcibly brought to North and South America to provide the labour for the invariably white-owned agricultural and mining interests that dominated the economies of that era. But in ancient Rome slaves were often white Caucasions from Gaul (modern France) or Britain.

The persecution of minority groups has also ironically been an equal-opportunity enterprise. The mistreatment of the indigenous inhabitants, blacks, and Asians (such as the Chinese laborers who were brought here to build the transcontinental railroad, and the internment of people of Japanese ancestry in World War II) in the United States is a well-documented blot on our triumphalist self-image, as is the...

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