{"id":713,"date":"2011-05-16T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T19:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=713"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:18:57","slug":"racial-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/05\/16\/racial-profiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Profiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by OfficerGreg on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/75162280@N00\/5538895653\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5020\/5538895653_5cf1065abd_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DUI Checkpoint\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPair the following questions and activity with the article<em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/spring-2009\/explaining-and-eliminating-racial-profiling\/\">Explaining and Eliminating Racial Profiling<\/a> by\u00a0Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Patricia Warren in the\u00a0Spring 2009 issue of\u00a0<em>Contexts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You (and your students) can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/spring-2009\/explaining-and-eliminating-racial-profiling\/\">full text online<\/a> on contexts.org!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you think racial profiling is a problem in your area? Have you witnessed or experienced what you would consider racial profiling?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How are systematic, individual, and unconscious bias related? Is one type more damaging than another? Use an example other than racial profiling to discuss how all three types of bias can work.<\/p>\n<p>3) \u00a0 \u00a0Based on what you learned, how can sociological research help reduce racial profiling?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ACTIVITY: Imagine you are the chief of police. Design a five-point program your department can implement to combat racial profiling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pair the following questions and activity with the article Explaining and Eliminating Racial Profiling by\u00a0Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Patricia Warren in the\u00a0Spring 2009 issue of\u00a0Contexts. You (and your students) can read the full text online on contexts.org! &nbsp; &nbsp; 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you think racial profiling is a problem in your area? Have you witnessed or experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12882,14],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-policing","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}