The practice alienates the police from the community that they are sworn to protect and serve. In this case, or any other case, this is not a good thing, because if there isn’t a good relationship between the two, then residents are less likely to report crimes, cooperate, and admit to being witnesses. Also, it takes away the opportunity for community policing, the system of distributing police officers to particular areas to become familiar with local inhabitants, because the officers will already have established themselves as enemies, and there will be a lack of …show more content…
One of them includes the fact that it does, in a way, speed things up in terms of finding criminals. For example, past studies and statistics have revealed that the average serial killer is between the ages of 25 and 40, single, white, and in the range of middle to lower class. In this case, the practice would be entirely for the purpose of prevention. Another reason officials may practice it, is because it is much cheaper than the average overhead scanner/detector process, like at an airport for example. Instead of going through that lengthy process, officers just pick out the people who look like the ones who are usually tied to a certain crime, like hijackings and