Dan White makes an argument based around the protection and right to surveillance individuals in business settings to ensure that they don’t steal anything from the store, and had it not been for such surveillance, more than the already staggering amount of money stolen from stores and businesses would be much larger. Although the surveillance of customers can benefit a business it is not always necessary, business owners can of course do as they please within the confines of their own private business. This includes the surveillance of individuals, however is it unjust to target surveillance towards a racial or ethnic group through due process of racial profiling. The benefits can be argued to outweigh the negativity. There are also better …show more content…
However, there are many preventive measures that can be taken besides putting potential customers under personal surveillance. For instance, instead of having a worker follow someone around in a store to make sure they don’t steal anything, a set of well placed cameras will work magic. This also replaces the negative possibilities that can come from personal surveillance. These include things such as the acquisition of a bad reputation amongst customers for crude surveillance, personal offences taken from customers, as well as something much more sinister that can be rooted in this, racial profiling. The fact of the matter is many of the individuals being put under surveillance by store owners or employees are targeted by a prejudice held against their racial or ethnic group. This issue of racial profiling extends way beyond the use of racial profiling in theft of merchandise. So much so that it takes root in the way our justice system works, perceives and treats different racial and ethnic groups, as well as many federal agencies. Racial profiling, since long ago, has been an issue in our modern society that affects the lives of many racial and ethnic groups, both young and