Q "African American and Hispanic minorities are more likely to be shot by the police than are whites. One explanation for this disproportion is that such disparities in shooting incidents simply mirror ethnic and racial involvement in criminal activity. When compared with rates of police-citizen contacts, arrest rates, and resistance to or attacks on the police, there is no apparent racial disparity in police use of deadly force. That is, in communities in which blacks are shot at a high rate from the percentage of contacts with police, their arrest rates and the likelihood that they will resist the police tend to be similarly high (Fyfe 1988; Geller and Scott 1992). Yet Fyfe, for example, found that police officers in Memphis were 15 times as likely to shoot at African American offenders who had committed property crimes as at white property-crime offenders. Another explanation is that stereotypes portraying ethnic and racial minorities as dangerous may heighten officers' fear and influence shooting decisions (Holmes and Smith 2008). " You should answer the following questions and answer to at least two of your peers (150 words): a) What are the reasons for racial profiling? and why does it matter to discuss about racial profiling? b) What should police departments do in order to ending racial profiling?

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