I would like you to read the following and tell me what you think…
A few weeks ago, what seems to be a gang war has erupted in Toronto. People are getting shot and killed on daily basis. Most of the violence is taking place in downtown Toronto, mainly within the Jamaican community. The police have been quite involved in the gang war now. More and more police men are being deployed to the area, and the violence hasn’t slowed down yet.
Today, a plan was put down by a city councillor called for “police to be allowed to stop and search cars driven by young black men in troubled areas, to see if they have guns.” As soon as the suggestion was made criticism erupted saying his plan is just a form of racial profiling. The councillor argues his plan is criminal profiling rather than racial profiling. The councillor is black himself.
I personally don’t think it’s such a bad plan. The majority of the victims have been from the Jamaican community. If there’s suspicion that someone maybe a carrying an illegal weapon, then why not stop them? At the same time I think no matter what the colour of a person is, as long as they are suspicious they should be searched.
I believe what the councillor is going after is a special focus on that area of Toronto and on members of the gangs. If anything, this will benefit the Jamaican community, since most of them are sick of the violence and sick losing loved ones. I have no problem imagining the Jamaican community supporting an idea that would result in a safer community.
Is everyone opposing this idea just to be politically correct? What do you think?
Technorati Tags: Racial Profiling, Gang War, Toronto, Police, Gang
8 Comments:
At 8/17/2005 10:57 AM,
michelle said…
Hello Omar, well I used to live in TO and well, I really don't believe in Racial Profiling...I get Cultural Prof. all the time...because I am Newfi. So, being used to this teatment, I really don't approve.
I mean it takes all kinds to do this, just not one.
At 8/17/2005 1:32 PM,
مترجم سوري said…
ma b3ref
it doesn't sound a right idea to me
maybe what justifies it to u is that who put that decision is a black one too
At 8/17/2005 1:42 PM,
Bubidu said…
It's asian gangs here in Calgary, and 5 asians were killed this year so far. This is a tough question. But when they do racial profiling, then there might be a security gap since they concentrate their focus on Jamaicans and ignore other races.
At 8/17/2005 9:03 PM,
x said…
Jia li, I think your case is different than this one here.. and I agree with you that profiling is bad when unnecessary.
3abla, all the people killed were black, and they're being killed by blacks.
Ahmad, good point. I think we've had 30 odd murders so far, and the number is on the rise. Some clubs have even cancelled "hip hop" night to prevent anything from happening
At 8/18/2005 6:00 AM,
Unknown said…
Hi man, hadn't come see your blog for a long time, but now it'll be different. Right in my opinion is politically incorrect. But this is a matter of probability, maybe they compared how many people and how they were coloured and how much they were involved. I think this violence came from The united states, cos' torronto is near from the border! and if u saw bowling for columbine, this is an example!
to summerise, it's pollitically incorrect but it's better than nothing. Here in France, weapons are not used, but Arabic (marocco, algeria, tunisia) and black people are more checked by officers than white people, cos' there are more problems with them than with white people! sorry about saying, black, white,...
At 11/12/2005 3:31 PM,
Anonymous said…
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCE shall RACIAL PROFILING be accepted. If the police think it is right to racially profile certain groups, then I think those same groups have the right to turn the guns on anybody who feeds into this racism.
So every Black male must be stopped and searched because of the actions of a small number?
If this is true, then we might as well stop all White males because a few of them molested children.
Might as well stop all Arab males because of September 11.
Let us profile and stop all Asians because every once in awhile a vietnamese gangster gets gunned down.
In order to prevent the sort of violence that flares up in India, we may as well pull over any South Asian men too.
Come on you idiot! Get a life. You should just be glad that you are not involved in the war. Profiling and rampant discrimination will lead to civil war, one that I am more than ready to die for.
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