Persuasive Speech Outline
Introduction
Attention Getter: Racial profiling persists as an intensely distressing glitch in our modern sociopolitical structure despite assertions that the U.S. now operates in the post-racial era. Inarguably, racial profiling has entailed stereotyping people based on their diversity attributes.
Motivation for Listening: You will ask why all this matters. Essentially, these facts make you look around and realize that at least an individual among us has been a victim of racial profiling.
Establish Credibility: Racial profiling is an ineffective police practice that we should oppose because it is an outright breach of constitutional rights, contradicts the fourth amendment, fuels hate crimes, encourages unethical stereotypes, and cause executions of innocent people
Thesis Statement: Today, I want to discuss why I believe racial profiling in law enforcement contexts is ineffective and unethical
Preview of Speech: Many of us might think racial profiling is a contemporary problem associated with significant fatalities, but that is not the case
Transition to body of speech:
Body
Establish the Problem: Let me begin by stating that racial profiling is hazardous and constitutionally unethical because it leads to the death of innocent victims
Analysis and Research: Law enforcement offices have used racial profiling for decades as a source of determining who crime suspects are rather than genuinely establishing their ethnic and racial identities. For instance, you may all be familiar with George Floyd, the African American man who died on May 25, 2020, after being kneeled on the neck by a Minneapolis officer
2. Establish Secondary Problem: Racial profiling is unethical and ineffective because it violates civil and human rights. Specifically, it encourages law enforcement officers to endorse and act upon stereotypes, beliefs, and attitudes that associate colored minorities and their racial identities with augmented crime predispositions.
Analysis and Research: Balko (2018) corroborates my point statistically, affirming that in 2019, Cincinnati-based African American motorists comprised 76% of arrests following traffic stops and searches despite constituting 43% of the city’s population. More than 50% of patrol officers engaging in such stop-and-search practices are unsuccessful in finding anything non-guilty to implicate the suspects.
3. Establish Final Problem: I see racial profiling as ineffective because it erodes community trust with law enforcement.
Analysis and Research: I have observed the social cost of this perceived racial profiling is significant mistrust of law enforcement agents by the community, particularly the minority community. Essentially, no one would refute that public faith in law enforcement institutions remains the cornerstone to societal harmony, democracy, and social order when the institutions’ practices become untrusted
Transition:
Establish Opposing Views (Research that disagrees with you): I am conscious that some will see nothing wrong with racial profiling
Build-up and Breakdown: They will argue that it offers an efficient tool for curtailing and lessening potential crimes
Build-up and Breakdown: The proponents of racial profiling will also associate it with cost cutbacks in tracking down crime-related leads
Build-up and Breakdown: Proponents of racial profiling act as though they were oblivious that it is entirely ineffective in curbing unlawfulness
Transition:
Call to Action
Visualization/Solution: We all ultimately have to deal with the chronic pandemic of racial profiling in law enforcement that does not seem to end soon
Specific Plan of Action: Though still a topic of controversy, my unwavering stance is that racial profiling is a morally incorrect practice that needs to stop
Transition:
Conclusion
Summary of Main Points: Racial profiling is wrong and should not be practiced anywhere in law enforcement because it risks lives daily and jeopardizes the overall social welfare of minority groups. It sends a straightforward message to all people in our country that skin color rather than pure criminal facts is the basis of criminal felony judgment
Reiterate Call to Action: we all ultimately have to deal with the chronic pandemic of racial profiling in law enforcement that does not seem to end soon
Throwback to Attention Getter: such actions violate civil, human, and constitutional rights, justifying why I am against racial profiling.
