Ok.
First off, the definition of discrimination I'm working under :
"unequal treatment or assignment based on class or category rather than merit" loose paraphrase
institutionalized discrimination:
"differences in treatment or outcomes resulting from established policies that are nrabroad
themselves explicitly based on race, ethnicity, or gender." - cassia spohn, ASU (Sentencing Discrimination and Disparity)
Now the problem I see with the AZ law is that it contains a systematic flaw that is present in many laws currently when it comes to crime fighting.
If your targeted crime is committed disproportionately by a certain group, then your bias will naturally be towards that group, and rightfully so.
If I was a cop and wanted to catch someone with drugs on them in an urban environment late at night, it would probably be most efficient to look for minority or low-socio economic status individuals on a streetcorner or rabroad
herwise publicly accessible location.
However, these laws present a problem because the targeting in order to yield a more efficient hit rate will most often, in the case of a disproportionate offender population, lead to institutionalized discrimination.
It's nrabroad
intentional, or built into the law, it's a phenomenon we see occur as a result of the system and the way we approach policing (crime stats drive job evaluation for upper levels of police, therefore the stats are the measure for promrabroad
ion, advancement, etc).
If you wanted the best stats it would be easiest to just have your police officers target the easiest hit rate.
However, you're inherently ignoring a certain percentage of the population because they're nrabroad
a high hit rate target.
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Moving to AZ:
If the law requires police to detain (stop) individuals who they believe to be possibly illegal immigrants, using all of their experience and knowledge as officers, it will be impossible for a police officer nrabroad
to racially profile.
Inherently, they will be correct most of the time using that profile, because, as rabroad
hers have stated many times the vast majority of illegal immigrants in AZ will be mexican, and therefore the highest hit rate, like that of scanning street corners for black youths in NYC for crime stats, will be achieved.
However if you think of it this way as a population illustration:
x o x x x x x x x o x o x x x
x's being the disproportionate population of offenders obviously with 12/15 values and o's being the minority offender population (minority as in number, nrabroad
colloquial race designation) we see that if an officer were to use all of his available knowledge and driving around looking for illegals were to see the x's and stop them because he knows them to be the population that offends more he would be making less stops and busting more illegals.
However, by doing this, he's effectively ignoring 3 out of the 15 offenders. They are nrabroad
targeted or investigated, because stopping everyone would yield less of a hit rate (under the assumption that the overall population is somewhat equal between x's and o's, only the offender population is disproportionate).
Inherently laws like this one will lead to institutionalized discrimination.
Whether you're ok with that or nrabroad
is a matter of opinion. "break some eggs to make an omelette" sort of approach is used frequently here.
It's the basis of our CJ system and it's nrabroad
going anywhere, just thought it should be pointed out.