I saw this (non religious) video on Facebook and it made me angry

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

To be arrested does not automatically lead to incarceration. Only a trial by jury or a guilty plea leads to imprisionment. therefore encarceration is not a direct result of profiling.

Is it completely incomprehensible to you that jurors may profile a defendant as completely as does an arresting officer?

A cop sees a young black man on the street and thinks, 'Young black men commit a large percentage of the crime in this area, I'd better come up with a reason to take him in, just in case he's done something.'

A juror sees a young black man in a witness box and thinks, 'I read that a lot of young black men are in prison for this sort of thing, so I'd better vote "guilty" just in case he did it.'

How is what the cop does 'profiling' but what the juror does is not? I'm sure we'd all like to live in a society where defendants are judged solely on the basis of the evidence presented, and not on the defendant's skin colour (or age or religion or gender...) but that's not the way the world wags. People are human, with human foibles and the human potential to judge partially (as opposed to impartially).

If you believe for the briefest instant that there are not innocent people in prison who are there due to the colour of their skin, then you're living in a delusional fantasy of great enough scope to make the collected fairy tales of CS Lewis seem like a travelogue by comparison.

Boru