Rafaela Creamer, Chapter 5, Question #1

At the end of the chapter the author brings up a social issue that is present in our daily lives, racial profiling. The economics principle it references is marginal thinking. 'The costs of harassing ten or twenty or one hundred law-abiding people to catch one more drug dealer are not worth it." The cost implied is selecting specific people out of a crowd to search them, just because of their ethnicity. Although I don't recall this ever happening to me, I have seen  many instances where the police pulls over a more beat up car because the driver looks to be Hispanic. My mom works with many of these cases where the person is an illegal immigrant and are pulled over and then causes them to be deported. Another case that I read in this chapter was about airport security, where terrorism is an issue. This is a more difficult case to handle because of the severity of the consequences. It would affect all of us because of the airport regulations applied