SOC326H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hamilton Police Service, Racial Profiling, Offender Profiling
Document Summary
Depictions of police work in popular culture do not match up with the reality of police work. Implications: ideas about forensic evidence; diminishing symbolic power; shapes how police do their jobs. Complicated relationship between police departments and media outlets. When police and private security agents target people of colour without any evident of criminal activity. Have been stopped in the previous 2 years. Have been stopped 3 or more times in the previous 2 years. Have been searched in the previous 2 years. Have family/friends who have also been racially profiled. View the random stopping and searching of people known to be arrested more often in certain neighbourhoods as a legitimate practice. Canadian research is limited on racial profiling. Because of lack of data, research has only been qualitative. This qualitative research has been criticized unreliable. In these critics minds, peoples voices and experiences of racial profiling are not enough.
